Picture: Me and my Bullet
Henry picks me up a 7:30am, it is cold and rainy, I doubt that many bikes will be at breakfast and most will be driving like us. I am wrong, the weather was a little better in De Soto and there are 10-12 bikes there including a beautifuly restored older (50-60's) BMW.
Henry introduces me to a guy named Jim that restores old bikes and Jim invites us to his place for a look see afterwards. He has a great collection of older bikes including a 1918 Triumph, some BSAs, Nortons and Triumphs. He is getting some bikes ready to take to a show up in Iowa next weekend (see www.baxtercycles.com for info). Very interesting guy and his wife who also rides and restores, they have a motorcycle in the dinning room of their lovely home. I believe he told me he made his fortune making milking machines for goats. Next time I visit I will take the camera.
All in all a good motorcycle day and I didn't even ride.
P.S. We got home from Olathe early enough for me to take a 25 mile ride up Burma Rd. overlooking Salina from the West and then out toward Rolling Hills Zoo then back. Yes, it was a good motorcycle day.
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