South Texas Motorcycle Show.....

....or Exhibition or whatever they called it.

Over the past few years the above mentioned has been held annually to display and show off motorcycles and associated trinkets and baubles.

Bodger attended once several years back with his youngest sprog. The show itself wasn't to bad considering that at the time it was still in it's infancy then.

That particular day didn't start well as Bodger was stopped by the local Sherriffs patrol while driving 55mph down a road that one or two other cars on it at the time. The crime against humanity was that the 55mph was in excess of the 30mph that was actually posted for that bit of road.

But that didn't put a dampers on the days festivities as we got to the show and before entering, had a gander at some of the bikes parked outside.

No Britissh bikes other than maybe a Hinckley Triumph though there were the usual suspects of crotch rockets and Milwaukee's best. There was one of those Honda 1500 Goldwing things and then an ancient looking Honda 1000 Goldwing from the 70s.

Inside vendors were set up selling and displaying all that was motorcycle related. For the most part it didn't look to bad.

Fast forward to yesterday when Bodger and Teri attended. Due to this show always being on days Bodger has to actually work for a living, Saturdays, and there's not much in the way of publicity, it largely goes un-noticed by Bodger each year.

But this time Teri mentioned it on Saturday night so we made plans tpo go have a look see on Sunday.

What a difference a few years makes. After paying the price of admittence, we were greeted with a sight of motor vehicles of the four wheeled type more than anything else.

This event has transformed from motorcycles only to an "Autorama" with more cars/trucks on display than motorcycles.

What motorcycles that were there were mainly V-twins, mainly HDs. The swap meet/autojumble was tiny, the vendors were selling trinkets to give riders more "street cred" and some were no where even motorcycle related. I mean, what business are player pianos being flogged at a show such as this????

Outside there was a "trick" riding diplay to entertain the masses. Luckily we couldn't see it to well and as Teri isn't to fond of motorcycles, it was just as well. Even though she thinks they are dangerous, she dosn't lecture or nag, but seeing the trick riding would reinforce that view.

After attending yesterday, Bodger has given this some serious consideration and has come to the conclusion that future attendance isn't do-able.

If it was just motorcycles maybe, but to have cars/trucks, player pianos and other such things is a bit much.