From: | graeme staples | e-mail: | spydaman@ihug.co.nz |
Subject: | RE: The Henderson at Hillsborough Concours | Date: | Fri Jul 24 02:57:25 2015 |
Response to: | 5877 |
----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Last Sunday was the 60th Hillsborough Concours in Hillsborough, CA. We took the Henderson and ex-Joe Leonard Harley KR. The Henderson took second, to a Kawasaki H1 of all things. Seems at least the multis did better than the twins and singles but a Japanese bike of all things...... Got to do better. I thought the Joe Leonard bike would have fared better but during judging they said the bikes needed to run. Although the bike will run, we were not prepared to fire it up at the show. It should have been stipulated in the entry. :-( It was hot and humid, not very California-like at all but still a great event but primarily a car concours. Lot's of Italian cars which kept me really happy. why shouldn't a japanese bike take the win , i have bikes ranging over 100 yrs and the japanese bikes are way harder than older stuff to restore and keep running, there are so many different finishes and complex bits, together with the fact they are stamped out rather than hand formed that it's tougher. |