BABBITT VINTAGE BIKE SHOW

Puttz and I have been looking for a vintage bike show that we could enter our every day bikes. We found one in Babbitt Minnesota on Saturday June 27. The criteria was simply bikes 25 years old and older. The cost to enter was $0.00. Now that was a bargain theses two Norwegians could not pass up.








I rode up to Puttz the night before so we could head out early on the 36 mile trek to Babbitt.

Jawa The Puttz was trashing me all night about how his Nighthawk was going to get more votes than my CX. We put a wager on the thing. The loser would need to lick the sole of the winners motorcicle boots!

There were 24 bikes entered in this first year event. It was one of may events going on during the town's Peter Mitchell Days. Peter Mitchell was the fellow who developed the process to concentrate low grade iron ore into pellets (taconite). Babbitt has a very large low grade ore deposit which will be mined for at least the next 75 years, so the town is forever grateful to Mr. Mitchell efforts.

It was held at the community park where there was also a snowmobile show of classic sleds and a bocce ball tournament. Puttz and I should have entered the bocce ball tournament where we would of had better odds of winning. Oh well, we still think our bikes are fantastic.

Nice Trail 90 that is well equipped for hunting excursions.

A every day bike.

This chopper has not been restored, but showed a lot of promise. It has an Amen Frame and the traditional 750 Honda in line four. The bike won the Most Potential award.

Yup there is my CX and Puttz Nighthawk.

This is the bike a voted for in the category The Bike I Would Like To Own. The fellow in the picture is the owner and the one who customized it. This 1979 Suzuki GS 850 was striped down to a mere 400 and some odd pounds and had it's frame shortened and donned a different rear fender. It had custom exhaust and electronic ignition.

A Kawasaki LTD 750 that was in very nice shape. Eat your heart out Gutts!

Side view of the Suzuki 850

The one and only dirt bike present.

This is a Honda CX 500. It was in nice shape.

This Goldwing was a very nice bike. Again it was just an everyday ride.

There were about 8 or so restored bikes at the show such as this Honda 350.

This restored Honda 175 won the Best Bike Award. The owners (two brothers) had before pictures of this two year project bike.

Jawa The Puttz was piping mad that I got 4 votes for my bike and he got zero! He out smarted me on paying up on the bet, to lick the sole of my boot. Putts first scrubbed the sole nice and clean then put peanut butter and honey on it. He took one good lick then demanded I put the boot on and ride my bike off his property.