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Now I am fairly confident my fellow Hoons are aware it is Bike Week down here in Daytona Beach. Well this olelongrooffan has been trying to gather as much of the cool shit I could find to share with ya’ll. I think you will agree this show qualifies for that last statement.

It is the Old Skool Road Show and it is comprised of about 15 or so Harleys and Indians dating from 1914 to 1957.

The first one I shot was this one, the only one that didn’t have a name placard on it. It was, as they all were, super cool and look Ma, no mirrors.

It is amazing in its simplicity. Not being a wrench or a bike dude, I can’t really describe in detail what is going on here but it has only two spark plugs so I am presuming only two cylinders!

This ’25 is interesting as it is one of the two that had the sidecar located on the left side of the bike whereas the others had theirs located on the right side.

And trust me, the suspension for that side car is extremely simple.


This blue ’48 looks much like the ones offered new today I spotted at the Harley dealer during Biketoberfest last fall.

And this is the dashboard, if you will, of that sidecar bearing motorbike. Note the simplicity of the transmission shift pattern. As I was checking this out, I struck up a conversation with a couple bike dudes who knew what they were looking at. One of them mentioned the reason Harleys possessed a “split tank” was that the right side of it carried gasoline while the left side carried oil. “And the Coleman lantern type pump you see there, that needs to be pumped on a regular basis to get oil into the engine.” Primitive technology but it works!

I really like this Indian Dispatch. I reminds me of an old “meter maid” ride I used to see when I would visit my grandmother as a kid. The meter maids used to drive up and down the streets in south St. Louis and chalk the tires of cars parked along the street. Three hours later they would drive by again and ticket the cars that exceeded the two hour parking time limit. Ah, the memories this olelongrooffan can come up with by merely sighting this cool ride.

This is the other bike I saw with the sidecar on the left. Dual headlights on a 1929 motorcycle, no less.

I then checked out the dashboard of this one and spotted the speedometer measured in kilometres so possibly these leftsidecar bearing motorbikes were destined for export.

And hell yeah my fellow Hoons, the get around town car for the owners of the Old Skool Road Show is a ’57 210 longroof!

And, although nice, not every one of these bikes is a restored trailer queen as this rusty 34 demonstrates.

This 1920 red and white Harley Davidson is a 10-footer.

I mean check out the gas tank on it.

This ’48 Model EL was in very nice condition and sports a bicycle type single seat.

This one is a 47 Indian Chief in even better condition.

And the dashboard of that Chief.

A couple of the oldest bikes were in semi tents. This one didn’t have any details about it but

I was able to gather a grainy image of the leather clad brake on it. Yeah, that bike dude told me the brake was wrapped in leather as back in the day as the synthetics used today had yet to be invented.

To me, the sidecar on the right hand side bearing bike looks like it could have been constructed from an old bomb much like a belly tanker salt flats race car.

Finally, I spotted this white 1914 in another tent. It had only one huge spark plug protruding nipple-like out of the front of the engine so I am going to suggest that a one cylinder motorbike, no matter how light weight it might be, is not the fastest bike around.
Well my fellow Hoons, that concludes this edition of Two-Wheeled Tuesday and as always, many more images of the show are located on my flickr page.
And this olelongrooffan has to revisit that 56 Nomad and check for stretch marks and drop by Robison’s for more on those sportbikes so if there is anything more you might be interested in from the Old Skool Bike Show, drop a comment as the show continues on through Sunday.