A Visit to the Triumph National Rally in Oley, Pennsylvania

I needed a new tire before going -- fear of rain.

Got it.

Up on the Skyline Drive the weather was beautiful. A bear trotted across the road

in front of us. After crossing the road he stopped, turned, and looked at us. 

Jack said, "Wolf at him, Bird." He gave my throttle a twist, I wolfed, and 

the bear went off into the woods. Jack says that's where bears poop. 

Jack poops there too.

It rained all night and we packed up and left in the rain. I heard Jack yelling 

at something in the night. It turned out a mouse had chewed a mouse door 

into the tent and woke Jack up. He didn't want the mouse in the tent and 

they had a tussle. The mouse got batted out the big door after Jack 

unzipped it.

It rained most of the way to the rally, but stopped for a while

after we arrived.

Jack said I need fenders like this. He's kooky sometimes.

When Jack bought his first motorcycle, he didn't know much about them.

He had only ridden a Harley Hummer and the paper was full of these

BSA 441 Victors for sale. But a fellow he knew, who rode a BMW, 

and knew something about motorcycles, told Jack to buy a Honda 

CB450 instead. Jack bought the Honda, but he always thinks 

about these old Victors.

This guy has been kind of stripped down like me -- and he's

got eyes.

A Royal Enfield club joined the rally and this was one 

of the grandfather bikes in that bunch.

Some people think Nortons were better bikes than Triumphs.

More kooks.

There were a lot of old flat track race bikes at the rally.

This is a Vincent. A lot of people think Lawrence of Arabia rode Vincents.

They are wrong. He had seven Brough Superiors built for him and called them

all, Boanerges. That's what Jesus called two of his disciples -- James and 

John. Boanerges means, Sons of Thunder. That's a good name for a 

motorcycle.

There was a motorcycle show and I was in it. I was entered as a 

Modern Modified, but I didn't win.

This Rocket 3 with sidecar won and he is a pretty cool bike.

With a nice paint job -- if you like women and rockets.

Here is an old timey Triumph triple with the Craig Vetter touch.

It was called the Hurricane.

I didn't win a trophy in the show, but I did win a plaque at the banquet.