21st Annual Barber Vintage Festival

[Robert Wendl]

All,

Starting tomorrow, 10/6/2025 through 10/15/2025, Denise and I will be traveling to the 21st Annual Barber Vintage Festival which takes place from October 9–11, 2026, at the Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, just outside Birmingham, Alabama. Like normal, during our travels I will be using a Satellite GPS Messenger which will allow people to follow my movements in real time. I use a Garmin InReach and below you will find a link to my Garmin MapShare.

Garmin MapShare:

https://share.garmin.com/5HWCV

CPT Bob

[sfr4201]

Capt.Bob

On behalf of RMRAT,safe travels and enjoy the museum.l'll be following your progress.

BTW,the sales manager from Foothills is on his way to Thailand for the global Triumph dealer meeting and MX team launches.2027 Tiger 1200 anyone?

                  E-Steve

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[Steve Smith]

Safe travels, and may the weather be cooperative for your trip. 

Steve

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[Norman Wright]

Have a safe trip.  Barber is amazing, so many bikes, so little time!

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[Steve Smith]

I hope you guys are in a good place with that tropical storm heading your way. I also hope you have a safe space for your bikes, the winds look like they’re going to be blowing pretty hard. Hopefully Sunday will be a better day. 

To quote a line from the The Holy Grail, “Bloody weather!”

Steve

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[Robert Wendl]

Steve, 

We left the track when the wind started to pickup. The bike underneath the hotel coverd entry. We will be playing tomorrow by ear and see how it goes. If the we're lucky we maybe able to visit the museum tomorrow afternoon. 

CPT Bob 

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[Norman Wright]

Just a suggestion, take an Uber to the museum unless you are close.

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[Robert Wendl]

Norm,

We're only 15 minutes away the track. 

CPT Bob 

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[Steve Smith]

I’ll be thinking about you two and playing REO Speedwagon all day tomorrow. 

“Riding the Storm Out”

Steve

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[sfr4201]

I Goggled the weather forecast for Leeds on Saturday Oct.10th.Appears the worst should be done by 11am local time with light winds (13mph).Just hope the museum will be open today,be safe!

                 E-Steve

                     

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[Robert Wendl]

Steve, 

It never stopped raining today so we decided to take a day off the bikes and watch college football. The bike survived the storm with no damage.

CPT Bob 

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[Norman Wright]

So sad, NU did not survive damage.

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[robert sheehan]

NU?

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[Steve Smith]

Bob, 

Bummer about the rain but it could have been worse if the storm hadn’t weakened. You still have a lot of events scheduled for tomorrow and of course the museum is still there too. Glad to hear the bikes are good 👍 

Steve

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[Norman Wright]

Nebraska University, lost to Indiana.

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[Robert Wendl]

Steve, 

No worries, we planned this trip in July and who then that a hurricane would show up. 

We're at the museum now and what a museum it's. 

CPT Bob 

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[Steve Smith]

Bob,

Yeah, that’s how plans work out sometimes. As Shakespeare said, “the best laid plans of mice and men…”

 I have to admit that I’m a bit jealous of you in the museum. That’s the biggest draw for me, and probably the only thing that could get me to Alabama!

Steve

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[WAYNE EVERMAN]

'PLAY SOME SKYNYRD, MAN!'

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[Jim Kerick]

Here you go Wayne....
https://youtu.be/QkxTv9706XU?si=Y3xsTkjIa7QOySOe

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[WAYNE EVERMAN]

PARTY ON, DUDE!

 

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[Robert Wendl]

Guess what Denise and I stopped at today. 

CPT Bob 

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[Steve Smith]

I’m stumped. Where is that?

Steve

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[Robert Wendl]

Steve,

This is Meriwether Lewis monument which marks his burial site and is at milepost 385.9 on the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Meriwether Lewis Burial Monument, Milepost 385.9 (U.S. National Park Service)

CPT Bob

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[Steve Smith]

Dang, I’ve actually been there myself! It’s located by the town of Hohenwald TN if memory serves. There’s a free campground there, and I spent the night there back in ‘07. 

While I was breaking camp the next morning a state trooper came up and started talking to me. I was wondering what he could have possibly wanted to talk to me about, and it turned out that he was a BMW rider. He was super nice and gave me some good advice on which roads to ride on my way. 

Thanks for bringing up that memory from my travels!

Steve

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[Robert Wendl]

Steve,

You're welcome. We spent the night at the Home | The Dogwood Inn in Collinwood TN the night before which was awesome. Then visited the monument after we left the Trace to continue our way home. Overall the trip was grate and will be added to our memories from our travels.

CPT Bob

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