AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio 2025

Hi all - it's that time again: the AMA's Vintage Motorcycle Days event is just around the corner!  From 25-27 July, the Mid-Ohio race complex in Lexington, Ohio will host vintage road racing, hare scrambles, vendors, and an enormous swap meet. According to vintagemotorcycledays.com/ , the swap meet now covers 80 (eighty; eight-zero) acres.   If you do go, bring a wagon or wheelbarrow or something so you don't need to carry all the stuff you'll find. 

I'll be the infield coordinator for the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club again this year, so if you're in the area, please stop by the VJMC tent and say hello. 

Also if you're a member of the VJMC and would like to volunteer to work a two-hour shift in the infield location, please email me at midohioinfield@gmail.com.

Who is planning to attend?

I’ll be there again this year, trolling the swap meet on Thursday and Friday and corner working the road races on Saturday and Sunday. Always in the market for KZ and GPz goodies. 

We'll be in swap spaces 178 & 188. 

For more than 22 yrs., we partnered double swap spaces with the late Roy Smithson   For many of those years we were also neighbors immediately adjacent to the Z1 Enterprises swap meet spaces when Jeff & his crew were there.

It was a sad scramble this year after Roy died last March to fill his swap space.  We're pleased to announce that this year we're guest hosting Retro Wrench / Louisville Vintage Motor Works in what would have been Roy's swap space.

The Lovely Z1BEBE will be volunteering at the VJMC site in the swap area on Fri. 25th. from 3 - 5 PM.

Good Ridin'
slmjim & Z1BEBE

Don't know if they attend, sure they used to, Bill Brown and Mark Bayer. Kansas and Missouri Field Reps for the VJMC. Both fellas are getting older so don't know? 

And explain "enormous" swap please. Used to be a lot of Asian parts to be found at the "Drive-in Jeff Williams" swap-shop meets here local. Turned out to be more Harley stuff then anything, quit going 30yrs ago. I'll give You a bucket list and credit card number Nerdy if so, ha!

asphalt900 wrote:

And explain "enormous" swap please. Used to be a lot of Asian parts to be found at the "Drive-in Jeff Williams" swap-shop meets here local. Turned out to be more Harley stuff then anything, quit going 30yrs ago. I'll give You a bucket list and credit card number Nerdy if so, ha!
 

Cash is king, though some sellers do take cards.   Send me a pile of cash and your list! 

I don't really see much Harley stuff. If I had to guess, in terms of volume I'd say most of it is Japanese, followed by British, European, Harley, and other (tools, minibikes, magazines, etc.). 

There is usually at least one notary there, too, which I think is smart. 

So you want a Pile/Lump or Spot? Let me see how much ink i have in the copy machine, haha. Is Tom Lolenko still the President of the VJMC? Has been a while since i've seen Mark Bayer nor have talked to him in a while. His sister lives down the road from me. Worked on a Honda Foretrax for her and she was looking for a source of Square manageable Hay bales for her horses the last time i talked to either of them. Gave Bill a FREE Honda a couple years ago when he was out, haven't talked since.  

Tom Kolenko is Prez. of VJMC.

   Nerdy's percentage descriptions are accurate.  We've seen overall diminishing availability to some extent with online competition from fleaBay, fakebuuk et.al. over the years.
   Mid-OH is an event on many levels; vintage racing of all sorts, retail vendors, the controlled chaos of acres of swap vendors, the unofficial 'swap' shenanigans in the camping and overflow parking areas, the 'wild west' environment in the nether regions of the general camping area.  The 'family camping' area is more civilized, for lack of a better term.
  Then there's the social aspect.  We've made friends from all over the U.S. and elsewhere in the world the world that we only see at Mid-OH.  We and Roy have hosted friends from Japan and Australia in years past who attended Mid-OH to buy bikes & parts for export.

Good Ridin'
slmjim & Z1BEBE

wrote:

... Let me see how much ink i have in the copy machine,
 

   slmjim was a Tech in the high-end color printer industry for many years.  A little-known aspect of color copiers & printers is that they encode every page with an 'image' unique to that device, not unlike the MAC address of network nodes.  That image can only be clearly seen with certain visual tools and, once identified, can only be decoded with a classified 'key', not unlike the key to a printed road map.  Some SOHO and corporate-grade copiers & scanners are sophisticated enough that they will 'recognize' currency, T-Bills, stock certificate etc. images & refuse to further process the image in any way.

   / hijack

Good Ridin'
slmjim & Z1BEBE

slmjim+Z1BEBE wrote:

wrote:

... Let me see how much ink i have in the copy machine,

 

   slmjim was a Tech in the high-end color printer industry for many years.  A little-known aspect of color copiers & printers is that they encode every page with an 'image' unique to that device, not unlike the MAC address of network nodes.  That image can only be clearly seen with certain visual tools and, once identified, can only be decoded with a classified 'key', not unlike the key to a printed road map.  Some SOHO and corporate-grade copiers & scanners are sophisticated enough that they will 'recognize' currency, T-Bills, stock certificate etc. images & refuse to further process the image in any way.

   / hijack

Good Ridin'
slmjim & Z1BEBE

Very true, we wanted to make some "fake" currency for an activity with the apprentices at my work and our copier would only print currency in "grey scales" (no colour copies allowed !!)