2014 Bike Show Winners
American Street
1st place-1911 Pierce-Tim Thoele
2nd place-1917 Indian Powerplus-John
Flora
3rd place-1973 HD XLCH- Clint Padgett
American Competition
1st place-1946 HD Fl-Bruce Silkey
2nd place-1973 Ironhead Fueler-Clint
Padgett
British Street
1st place-1960 BSA Catalina-Harry
Enyart
2nd place-1969 Triumph T120R-Jerry
Cobb
British Competition
1961 BSA Catalina-Harry Enyart
European Street
1st place-1954 Adler MB250-John Gary
Brown
2nd place-1971Bultaco El MontaderoAlan Downey
3rd place-1964 BMW R60/2-Jim
Johnson
European Competition
1st place-1969 CZ MX-Dave Wiebler
2nd place-1973 CZ MX-Dave Wiebler
Asian Street
1st place-1973 Honda CB 500-James
Smith
2nd place-1972 Honda 350-four-Tim
Dunham
3rd place-1974 Honda Cl200-Danny
Mantyla
Asian Competition
1st place-1975 Yamaha Dt400b-Dick
Wegner
2nd place-1973 Yamaha Mx360-Russ
Morgan
Special Interest
1st place-1969 Honda Mini-Trail-James
Smith
2nd place-1914 Replica Flying Merkel
Board track Racer
Roger Burmett
Café Racer
1977 Honda CB750-Tommy Ray
Special Racer
1st place-1971 HD XLCH-Rodney Noel
2nd place-1953 HD KR-Mike@Topeka
HD
Best of Show
19 46 HD FL-Bruce Silkey
Awards of Excellence
1973 Jawa 250 Street-Ben Campbell
1973 Husqvarna 360 WR RT-Alan
Downey
1965 Honda S90-Bob Peters
1968 Honda Cl125a-Bob Peters
1975 HD XR750-Dale Verts
Oldest Bike
1911 Pierce-Tim Thoele
Oldest Bike & Oldest Rider
1911 Pierce-Tim Thoele
President’s Award
1917 Indian Power Plus-John Flora
84 Wide Open
Santa Fe Trail Winter Antique
Motorcycle Show and Swap Meet
Coverage and Photos by Elizabeth Castillo
A fabulous bike show took place February 2 at
the Douglas County Fairgrounds building in
Lawrence, Kansas. The weather was cold but attendance was good and the great bikes in the
show gave the crowd some fine machines to look
at. This year’s theme was “race bikes “ or “competition” and the pristine bikes and their stories
came.
The winner of special Racer 1100 series was
Rodney Noel with his 1971 Harley Davidson
XLCH-HD. Also included in the nice display as you
entered the show was an XR-750, BSA, K model
and Jack Larson’s duel carb Knucklehead
racer……”It’s fast “ and more.
It was a really nice display of bikes. As you walk
further into the show over 13 different brands of
bikes were represented. A few less bikes this year
didn’t take away from the quality of the bikes.
The 1911 Pierce brought by Tim Thoele was
just amazing. I am a part of Santa Fe Trail and a lot
of people do a lot of hard work to make this show
happen. Thanks to all of them.
One of our members had a poster made from
the show poster and offered racers to sign it if they
had raced before 1980, (What a great idea) it just
drew the racers together.
It was so cool to see how many racers came to
the show. And a couple times I noticed familiar
faces from race history getting to see each other
again. This is a rare and close knit bunch of pretty
tough guys and gals, no matter if your racing was
dirt, scrabbles, track or speed.
Wow, what an excellent group in motorcycle
history to pay tribute to the bikes and the riders.
My late friend Rosie had 2 bikes in the show in
his memory and the black number 88 K-model
is always eye candy. Dale Verts, (Rosie’s brother)
traveled a good distance to bring the K model
and 2 other race bikes. Thanks to Dale and
everyone who brought a bike to the show. The
weather was questionable and the club members appreciate your support. The day before in
Sedalia, Yeager’s had to cancel their show due
to the weather.
Our t-shirt and poster design really rocked this
year and the food was even more amazing. Breakfast and lunch were great. Thank you to the girls
who make it happen. Your hard work really shows
in the quality of the food. And the awesome smell
of cookies baking while you’re looking at cool, old
bikes is pretty enticing. The winners list shows the
quality of motorcycles that attended.