Triumphrat

richleasure · 08-07-2007, 06:01 PM

I took a trip to the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham. The Trip Reports thread is here. My Ride Log is here and 269 pictures are here.

FlatFourOne · 08-07-2007, 08:24 PM

WOW! Amazing. So many cool and rare bikes and so much history. I'm very jealous. Maybe I'll get there someday. Great job on the labeling of the pictures as well!

road dog · 08-07-2007, 08:27 PM

Awesome place... awesome bikes... awesome pictures!!! There's something for everybody... awesome! Thanks for the awesome posting Rich. Did I mention that was awesome?

10860 · 08-07-2007, 08:41 PM

What's really cool about Barber's museum - they have just about as many bikes in storage as they do on display and they constantly rotate them out for display. If you wait long enough between visits - you'll see something new you missed the last time you were there. Oh, that and EVERYTHING he has on display RUNS!

Very cool presentation Rich.

LT · 08-08-2007, 05:30 PM

Bunch of us going in October for the Vintage festival. Camp there at track, see the races, museum, etc. Last year there were a number of vendors there, flea market style. The vendor area was as interesting as the museum. Anything you can imagine; old Indians, Nortons, jap bikes, parts, you name it. Looks like we're making it a yearly event.

barneys · 08-08-2007, 06:03 PM

Looks like a great Museum, I enjoyed looking at the pics. Is it a coincidence that the National Motorcycle Museum here in the UK is also in Birmingham? Took a trip to our museum in Birmingham last year, it was the biggest collection of bikes I had seen.
If you really want to see the best & biggest collection of British Bikes it's well worth a visit if any of you guys are in the UK anytime.
Here is the link to the Museums website for a taster http://www.nationalmotorcyclemuseum....seum/index.htm

Click the exhibits link to see photos of the bikes.