Riding into History 2011

[jb44]

World class golf courses, hotel, condos, Imax theater, Golf Hall of Fame, and about 300+ show quality antique and classic motorcycles make for a wonderful day.

World Golf Village is a resort development just north of St. Augustine, FL. This is the twelfth year of the Riding into History event. Proceeds of the event go to the Wounded Warrior Project.

The central lake with an encircling sidewalk was the display area for the motorcycles.



Here’s a small sampling of what was on display:

Abingdon King Di*k (nice name,eh!) name censored by forum software.


Allstate


Antique bicycles


BMWs













BMW continued:


Ariel 4 Square


BSAs






Bultaco


Ducati


Harley Davidsons

[jb44]

Henderson


Hodaka


Hondas




A bike like this 350 4 cylinder was my fisrt “new” motorcycle purchase… I should have kept it.






A Honda Cub, in red, was my ride in college:


Indians




Indian


Kawasaki


My first bike ever was a Maico dirt bike. It didn’t look anything like this Maico:


Marsh


Moto Guzzi


Moto Morini


Nimbus


Nortons






NSU


Ossa


Penton


Pierce Arrow


Royal Enfield


Tricati


Triumphs








Anyone know what this one is?


Ural


Velocette


Vincent


Wassells


Whizzer


Yamaha


Yankee



After looking at these beauties until my head nearly exploded, it was a short ride to Flagler Beach for lunch at Snack Jacks on the beach.





Shrimp Tacos


Then a short walk on the beach…


…before we watched these guys sail off into the sunset:


jb

[nylife]

amazing pictures and bikes

[angellr]

+1 Amazing bikes. Thanks for sharing.

[Buckster]

Awesome display of bikes. My Dad lives in Flagler and that may have been his red /2 in your pictures. His friend owns a grey /2 so that may have been his....I'll have to ask him if they were there!
Thanks for sharing!

[sjbmw]

What an incredible report! Thanks for posting.

[GypsyRR]

Wow - what a cool place to be! And topping it off with the beach as well. I would love to attend that some day. Thanks for the post.

I loved these, even without knowing a thing about them!

[Ric]

Huh...nice pix....ThX.....
Were there no Kawasaki Triples ?

[jb44]

Huh...nice pix....ThX.....
Were there no Kawasaki Triples ?

There may have been. There were too many show quality bikes to see them all, and sometimes it was difficult to get a clear picture of a bike without people blocking the view.

jb

[jb44]

Wow - what a cool place to be! And topping it off with the beach as well. I would love to attend that some day. Thanks for the post.

I loved these, even without knowing a thing about them!

Gypsy,

Glad you like the old Whizzer. It's really just a bicycle with a motor, but a lot of fun putting around the neighborhood.

Here I am on a newer version of the Whizzer a few Christmas's ago:



jb

[GypsyRR]

That's great JB! What a fun neighborhood bike. There were really a lot of bikes in that post that I liked. I wish I had kept my first bike (at age 13); a yellow Kawasaki 100.

[mnnden]

That's great JB! I wish I had kept my first bike (at age 13); a yellow Kawasaki 100.

GypsyRR, We all do!!!! I would even settle for some pictures, but I guess we thought it would never end, we had a lot of "Iron" but nobody owned a camera (and maybe that was a good thing). JB, Thanks for the post, I really enjoyed it, mnn

[jb44]

.... JB, Thanks for the post, I really enjoyed it, mnn

Good to hear from you, Den. We've been missing you in that other place.

jb

[Witch Doctor]

But not a single Laverde to be seen around the lake. I was disappointed with that, but there was a good Guzzi turn out.

[OU812]

What a fantastic collection of bikes in one spot! Nice pics JB!

[DSKYZD]

JB, I think this is a "Ner-a-car".

The picture in the wikipedia entry isn't good, but an image search produces a lot of results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ner-a-Car

[Boxer]

I like that Whizzer too. The "Nerd-A Car" looks like a big bug.

[OU812]

I like that Whizzer too. The "Nerd-A Car" looks like a big bug.

True, but still super Cool!

[CycleRob]

I remember riding my cousin's beat up rust colored Whizzer when I was 13 or so, on a dirt road around a lake. Handling was terrible! Engine had a lot of flywheel mass and a cool sound (for a young teen's ears). The gearing was pretty tall to, like 2nd gear of any M/C. Pedal to start then let go of the compression release to start the engine. Ahhh . . .the formative years.