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    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation - See For Yourself!: Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Road Trips, #38
    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation - See For Yourself!: Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Road Trips, #38
    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation - See For Yourself!: Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Road Trips, #38
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    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation - See For Yourself!: Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Road Trips, #38

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    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation includes -

    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 15) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections
    These nine published magazine articles document some of the finest public museums and private collections in the United States. While traveling by motorcycle for the past forty years, I've taken every opportunity to check out museums and collections, even though I have a love/hate relationship with them. I think the best use for a motorcycle is to ride it and for me the worth of any motorcycle is measured by its odometer, not its shine. I can appreciate motorcycles as art, but let's not forget they're motorcycles not sculptures - they were meant to be ridden.
    I've found the most interesting things about museums and collections is not the motorcycles contained in them - it's the story of the people who put them together. The public museums are usually an outward expression of an individual who loves motorcycling and wants to share their passion for the sport with as many enthusiasts as possible and what's not to like about that? The private collections are usually an inward expression of an individual's desire to own the motorcycles that were unobtainable in their youth and what's not to like about that either? Keep your eyes open for opportunities to see a private collection. You never know when or where they will present themselves. At each one of these museums and collections I learned something new about motorcycles and I've been around them for fifty years. I hope they'll do the same for you.

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    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 27) More American Motorcycle Museums & Collections
    These five magazine articles document some of the finest public museums and private collections in the United States. One of the newest transportation museums in America (America On Wheels) includes motorcycles from the teens to the nineties, the country's premier antique automobile club (Antique Automobile Club of America) also houses motorcycles at its museum. Who knew?. A man's love of '70s twin-cylinder motorcycles lead to a modest collection that he's turned into a true living museum by allowing you to rent them for weekend rides (Retro Tours), a racing sports car museum with a motorcycle exhibition (Simeone Museum), and a motorcycle-friendly, acid-tinged rock and roll museum with choppers (Museum At Bethel Woods a.k.a. Woodstock).

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBackroad Bob
    Release dateMar 16, 2016
    ISBN9781393635499
    Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation - See For Yourself!: Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Road Trips, #38
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    Backroad Bob

    About the Author: Qualifications - Forty-five years and over 250,000 miles as a licensed motorcycle operator. Forty years and 190,000 accident-free road miles. Thirteen years and 45,000 miles dual sport riding. Four years motocross and road racing support in AMA and WERA competition. Forty years off-pavement riding. Completion of Motorcycle Safety Foundation Beginner and Advanced Rider Courses and Keith Code's Superbike School. A.A.S. - Mechanical Engineering with over 25 years professional mechanical experience. Road Riding - Thirty-seven of 48 contiguous states with extensive knowledge of the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and Southeastern states. Five Canadian provinces, Isle of Man, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Spain and Portugal. Dual Sport Riding - Mid-Atlantic States, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Tennessee. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Monongahela, Wayne and Allegheny National Forests. Ten Pennsylvania State Forests. Enduro Riding - ten years of East Coast Enduro Association competition. Leadership Positions: President (1995-2011) - Turbo Motorcycle International Owners Association (TMIOA), North Eastern Region Director (2000-2009), and Pennsylvania State Director (1994-2009) - Honda Sport Touring Association (HSTA). Dual Sport Route Coordinator - Honda Sport Touring Association Rendezvous 1996. Rally Coordinator - The Thumper Humper (THE) Rally 1998-2002, PA Adventure Rally 1994-2007, Pennsylvania 500 Dual Sport Ride 1995-2007, Pennsylvania 500 Road Ride 2005-2007, and Turbo Rally '95, 00, 10, and '11. Organizer - 2001 Honda Sport Touring Association Rendezvous - a 400+ participant 3-day international event. Contact the Author: bob@backroadbob.com ###

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      Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation - See For Yourself! - Backroad Bob

      Backroad Bob's

      Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 38) -

      American Motorcycle Museums & Collections Compilation

      First Edition

      Copyright 2016 RHM Co. Intl.

      Backroad Bob's

      Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 15) -

      Museums & Collections

      by Robert H. Miller

      Published by RHM Company Intl.

      First Edition

      Copyright 2012 Robert H. Miller

      Copyright and Trademark Notices

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including unauthorized reproduction, and/or distribution without monetary gain, is a Federal offense punishable for up to five years in Federal prison and a $250,000 fine. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system without written permission from the author. Copyright exists automatically even if the work is not published or has not been formally registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Backroad Bob is a registered trademark of RHM Company Intl.

      First Edition - License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold without written permission from the author. Thank-you for respecting the effort,  knowledge, and intellectual property of this author.

      CONTENTS:

      A FULL HOUSE

      AMA HEADQUARTERS

      BACK TO JAPAN

      BARBER'S MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM

      BILL'S OLD BIKE BARN

      CHADD'S FORD AUCTION

      LOGUE'S CLASSIC HONDA MUSEUM

      MOTORCYCLEPEDIA

      WHEELS THROUGH TIME MUSEUM

      Foreword to Backroad Bob’s

      Museums and Collections

      By 1990, I had ridden motorcycles through every state east of the Mississippi River, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and five Canadian provinces, but I wanted to do more. I wanted to explore the back roads across America, see the Isle of Man TT Races, examine everything that's foreign at a European Grand Prix, and experience the canopied forests, cascading streams, and towering mountains of Pennsylvania's state forests.

      Over the forty years I've done all this and taken thousands of photos of the places I've been and made millions of memories of the unforgettable people I've met. Along the way, I've recorded my experiences in hundreds of magazine articles, and traveled hundreds of thousands of miles by motorcycle in the pursuit of my dreams. If this sounds like something you'd like to do, then these articles are a valuable tool to assist you in fulfilling your dreams too.

      The resulting articles have appeared in American Road Racing, Backroads, Blue Ribbon Coalition Magazine, CC Motorcycle News, Cycle News, Motorcyclist, PowerTech Quarterly, Rider, RoadBike, Sport Touring News, STAReview, Thumper News, Thunder Press, Turbo News, Trail Rider, Twistgrip, Winding Road Motorcycle Times, and the book Turbocharging, Supercharging, and Nitrous Oxide.

      These chapters are the fruits of a trial and error tree planted decades ago. The bad roads, the dead end trails, and the nasty places have been left out. What remains is a five-decade distillation of motorcycling in 38 American states, five Canadian provinces, five national forests, ten Pennsylvania state forests, and eight foreign countries. These chapters contain valuable information that will save you time and money and enable you to efficiently plan your own adventures while avoiding the mistakes I've made. - BRB

      Acknowledgments

      I’d like to thank everyone that ever rode with me, invited me on a ride, gave me an idea for a ride, helped me when I’ve been stranded alongside a road or trail, or struck up a conversation with me when I’ve been on the road or the trail. There are thousands of you, but the ones I remember the most are: Joe, Robert, Paul, Ron, Barry, Bob, Tom, Sydney, Stewart, Sam, Oop, Moose, Cong, Lucas, Rock, Randy, Mark, Gary, George, Allen, Steve, and Dad - great riders all. The editors that thought I had something to contribute deserve a tip of the hat too.

      I’d also like to thank everyone that ever fought for this great country. You have done, and are doing, a job that many Americans don’t have the nerve or the will to do. We should all be thankful for your sacrifices. I’ve had the good fortune to travel outside the United States and I’ve enjoyed immensely the foreign places I’ve been, people I’ve met, and things I’ve done, but there is no better feeling than returning to the land of the free and the home of the brave.

      Spending weeks on the road or days on the trail can be surprisingly isolating, but I’ve managed to make hundreds of new friends along the way. Get out there and make a few new friends of your own. - BRB

      Introduction to Backroad Bob’s

      Museums and Collections

      These nine published magazine articles document some of the finest public museums and private collections in the United States. While traveling by motorcycle for the past forty years, I've taken every opportunity to check out museums and collections, even though I have a love/hate relationship with them. I think the best use for a motorcycle is to ride it and for me the worth of any motorcycle is measured by its odometer, not its shine. I can appreciate motorcycles as art, but let's not forget they're motorcycles not sculptures - they were meant to be ridden.

      I've found the most interesting thing about museums and collections is not the motorcycles contained in them - it's the story of the people who put them together. The public museums are usually an outward expression of an individual who loves motorcycling and wants to share their passion for the sport with as many enthusiasts as possible and what's not to like about that? The private collections are usually an inward expression of an individual's desire to own the motorcycles that were unobtainable in their youth and what's not to like about that either? Keep your eyes open for opportunities to see a private collection. You never know when or where they will present themselves. At each one of these museums and collections I learned something new about motorcycles and I've been around them for fifty years. I hope they'll do the same for you.

      A Full House: Three Aces and a Pair of Fours -

      One Man's Re-Creation of Motorcycling History

      by Robert H. Miller

      © 1998 RHM Company

      ALL OF US HAVE FANTASIES. Some of us are lucky and get a chance to make them reality, but few of us recognize that opportunity and do something about it. Few people ever have the opportunity to buy an award-winning example of early, two-wheeled Americana and only a very few can re-create it.

      One of these very few is Dr. John Patt. A practicing veterinarian for forty-five years and a collector, re-builder, and fabricator of rare antique motorcycles for the past thirty, an afternoon with Doc Patt will let you see and hear internal combustion engine history. You'll witness early two-wheeled applications of singles, twins and, fours, as you are overloaded with data downloaded from Doc's memory banks. It's a few hours you won't soon forget.

      Doc turned from rider to collector in 1956, six years after he began his practice in rural Pennsylvania. He started with a 1928 Schwinn-built Henderson four-cylinder which he displayed at local events. At the time, the Antique Motorcycle Club of America (AMCA) was only two-years old and there was no national competition for antique motorcycles, but that didn't stop him because he never collected to win awards, prestige, publicity or notoriety. He collected for himself.

      After learning to ride on a CZ 125, he moved up to a 1947 Douglas (350cc opposed twin) and toured the mid-west with his wife in 1950. Ten years later he joined AMCA and received a

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