by Randal Birkey | Oct 19, 2014 | Motorcycle Rides, News, Video
Every year in October, Triumph Motorcycles America hosts and sponsors the Barber Vintage Festival at the beautiful Barber Motorsports Park near Birmingham, Alabama. 2013 was my first experience, and it was so good, I went again this year on the 10th Anniversary of the...
by Randal Birkey | Oct 8, 2014 | Motorcycle Rides, News, Video
I took a weekend road trip recently with my buddies Dave and Chris to the southwest region of Wisconsin that included the New Glarus Octoberfest. Dave and Chris were part of the spring trip we took the the Tail of the Dragon. Chris put together this cool video of our...
by Randal Birkey | Oct 5, 2014 | News, Video
I had a strange experience this past week. I got an envelope in the email from the City of Chicago. Here is what I found inside: So, I went online to the www.cityofchicago.org/finance site and found the section to look for speeding camera images and videos. Then I...
by Randal Birkey | Aug 22, 2014 | News, Racing, Video
Here is an update video on the ongoing Triumph Castrol Rocket pursuit of the land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. My understanding is that the August Speed Week had to be cancelled due to weather and poor salt conditions and is being considered for an...
by Randal Birkey | Jul 26, 2014 | News, Racing, Video
I ran across this short video on Facebook, taken this past week at the Bonneville Salt Flats. It was posted by Jason DiSalvo who was actually riding that blurred thing in the video. Someone with the Carpenter Racing team took it…. I love the sound track! If you...
by Randal Birkey | Jun 26, 2014 | News, Racing, Video
How can you not admire a 73-year old man from New Zealand, who went for and set the land speed record for motorcycles under 1000cc, on a 47-year old Indian Scout that he purchased new? Simply Amazing! If you want to learn more about Burt and his life, I highly...
