A Trip To Wheels Through Time Antique Motorcycle Museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina

If you live or are visiting anywhere near Maggie Valley, North Carolina, you need to visit Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum .  https://wheelsthroughtime.com/#/ms-2745/2   It is a very nice day.

Wheels Through Time is a nice day trip

Getting there is half the fun.  If you drew a map of fun motorcycle roads in western North Carolina , Maggie Valley would be on that map.  It is thirty eight thousand square feet of old motorcycles.  They have Harley and Henderson and Excelsior and Indian and Thor and Marsh.  They had three Harley Hummers. http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2015/07/motorcycle-in-living-room.html   That is a piece of my child hood that will never be forgotten.

Wheels Through Time had three Harley Hummers

If you want a fun interesting relaxing day, visit Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley.  You will stay longer than you think.  Take a picnic lunch.  The museum has picnic tables in the shady parking lot next to the river.  The show in the parking lot is not bad.

If you are not into picnicing, we had lunch at Legends about two blocks away.  Good wings!

I have never seen a Marsh before

Meeting old friends from Tennessee, Greg and Sandy Norris makes the trip better.

The show goes on in the parking lot

The Charlotte Easy Rider Motorcycle Show 2017

     The Charlotte Easy Rider Motorcycle Show on January 21, 2017 was super cool.  There were hundreds of ultra fine bikes.  There were thousands of bikers admiring them.  There was plenty of other stuff to look at. There were antique cars.  There were vendors selling everything from T shirts to attorney services.  There were several live bands and the " Perfect Angel" dancers.  There was plenty to eat if you like arena burgers and arena nachos.

Charlotte Easy Rider Motorcycle Show

     What a wonderful place to schedule a meet with a old motorcycle friend that you don't get to see often enough.   I saw my old friend Greg Norris.  It was nice to see him and catch up.

     I had my little 1961 Harley Davidson Super 10 in the antique competition.  I had no chance of winning against that 1946 Harley Panhead that looked like a new one.

     If you like motorcycles. put the Charlotte Easy Rider Show on next years list.

    

Charlotte Easy Rider Show was worth the trip

If you have a favorite event in the Carolina, leave us a comment here with a link.

Motorcycle In The Living Room

     When you buy a new Harley Davidson motorcycle and your wife says,"Let's put that in the living room.", you know you have done good.

     We went to Wisconsin on vacation last month.  I went to the Harley Davidson museum in Milwaukee .  They had a bunch of old bikes at the Harley Davidson museum.   They only had two Hummers on display.  One was Willy G's first motorcycle, a 1948 Harley Davidson 125.  The other was a 1955 Hummer.

This Harley Davidson Hummer has found a new home

     For the benefit of you that don't know, Hummer was a small 125 cc motorcycle that Harley Davidson manufactured from 1948 until 1964.  When I was a kid in Douglas, Georgia, I had a 1959 Harley Davidson Hummer.  My brother had a 1959 Harley Davidson 165.  They were both calypso red.

     After my visit to the Harley Davidson museum, I decided that I wanted to look for a Hummer.  I looked on Craigslist.  I looked on Ebay.  I went to a couple of antique motorcycle events like the one in Chesnee, South Carolina the last week end in July.  There was no Hummers for sale or on display.  I decided to expand my search on Craigslist.  When I got to Atlanta, I found one.  It was fully restored to like new condition.  It was only 550 miles away.

     I hopped in my pick up truck and drove to Port Saint Joe, Florida and bought a 1961 Harley Davidson Super Ten.  If you have never been to Port Saint Joe,Florida, watch the last scene of "Easy Rider".   I am pretty sure I was on the same road where that scene was shot.

A piece of my childhood that will never be forgotten

     As I was driving home, my brother called me on the phone and asked me what I was doing.  I told him I was driving home with a Hummer.  His first question was,"What color is it?".  Calypso Red.

     When I got home, Kathy said,"That motorcycle is too nice to stick in the garage.  We are putting that in the living room."   Life is good.  Do you think I can join the Harley Owner's Group as a junior member ?