Every year vintage motorcycle nuts, gear heads and assorted “enthusiasts” gather out in Ohio for the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days festival. Part carnival, part swap meet and pure good times, VMD plays host to all kinds of sweet stuff..vintage class races (on and off road), old metal beauty contests, the biggest motorcycle related swap meet you can imagine, bike and gear auctions and the sort of beer drinking and tall tale tellin’ that happens when old gear heads get together.

Every year VMD chooses a particular brand of old sweetness to highlight. This year triumph takes the cake and the whole scene is sure to be bursting with awesome old Bonnies, thruxtons and toothless Britts ‘ carying on about the superiority of British combustion power and insisting that Lucas wasn’t The prince of Darkness. Needless to say I’ve been itching to gussy up the Superbad and get out to VMD for years. This year presents an almost to-good-to-pass-up opportunity to ogle the beautiful old Triumphs while showing what wiped the slate clear and issued in the era of awesome Japanese performance engineering and reliability. Heh.

Sadly, I recon I’ll have to pass with all that Baja prep requires; maybe next year.