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Price Check at the VJMC Swap Meet

White Rose Motorcycle Club, Jefferson, PA, August 18, 2018

There are always bargains, always dreamers, and always (seemingly) rain over the three-day Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club Swap Meet. What prices are vintage Japanese bikes fetching these days? Getting there Saturday afternoon means the best of the litter had already been picked and half the vendors have retreated to higher - and dryer - ground. Still, I was able to record prices on what I thought were the best offerings of what was left (all in running condition).

The Kaw Z1 asking price - without it's original four mufflers - was puzzling, but the Yamaha YM1 below two grand was equally puzzling as to why in the hell it was still standing in the mud unsold.

"$2.50 Down Buys a Harley-Davidson..."

...and other cool finds in Pennsylvania

The Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club Swap Meet, Gettysburg, "Fantastic Vehicles and Where to Find Them," a bullet hole in an old Harley-Davidson showroom window, and more! — all in one road trip. For me, that's a full weekend.

The VJMC event is what it is. If you've never been, please make a point of it next August. Truthfully, for me the meet has just become an excuse to sightsee the Pennsylvania countryside west of the Susquehanna. There's lots of gearhead unusual between the river and Gettysburg, and I always manage to find new roads — asphalt and gravel — each time I venture.

Two of this Weekend's Motorcycle Meetups

Different States – Different Planets

Look at these flyers. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. Two pictures? — a million. I've boiled it down to a couple of hundred for you right here.

The Lot one-day event promises, well, a lot. On some level it has something to do with motorcycles. It takes place in Brooklyn (Greenpoint), so many of my fellow Hudson Valley riders are already entering Meserole and Multrie in their google Maps.