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Ride4MS:
That is a place that I forgot about. Probably being I never worked at Barber MSP, but have visited several times through the years for other events. The museum is the best part of that place. It is called the World's Largest Cycle Museum. And, most cycles have very low mileage. The story that we were told, is every time a new model came out, George Barber would have it put in storage, and eventually he built the track and museum which has been added onto a few times. Also, we were told that George owned several cycle dealerships, so he could just have a new model taken out of the crate and put in storage.
Several years ago, we visited not only the museum, but in Birmingham the factory when they were building Motus cycles. Now closed as of 2018.

There are many great places to visit that have the history of cycles, and cars that if we tried to visit all of them, it would take more than a Life Time.
Guess I better start visiting some of them.

STLTHMSTA:
Step it up Carl, you're falling behind.  LOL ;)

Ride4MS:
I did watch part of the Formula E from Monte Carlo today. That brought back memories of our Viking Cruise last year when we had a port call there and spent a day touring the area and the track. This was during the week before the F1 race and they had a different race the weekend before, so the track was all set up yet,and we rode a tour bus on the track. But, the darn bus would not go over about 5 MPH, no matter how much everyone told him to roll the tires. We did get to see many of the F1 cars in the garages getting ready.
There are lots of sites to see and tour there also, even though not all are car or cycle related, including Princess Grace's Palace.

stevegrab:
Mid-Ohio is a great place. When I first got the riding bug attending WSB at Laguna with my brothers one of them mentioned Mid-Ohio and its "probably not that far". Later that year I was there for the SCCA runoffs and attended many events there over the years, had season pass a few years and would be there for SCCA regional rounds when the infield isn't even open.

The Vintage bike event is great, so is the Vintage Sports Car event, usually held in June which often conflicted with STAR.

And yes, the vintage bike event at Barber is great. Hoping to attend that this year.

Paco Bulto:
I raced vintage motocross a few times at Mid Ohio on my Bultaco Pursang and rode vintage trials on my Bultaco Sherpa T and I also took one of Reg Pridmore's CLASS road course schools on my 99 Honda Super Hawk. Neat place, but I agree with Carl that Road America has the best food, as several local organizations had their own setups, serving their specialties.

Fred Z.

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