Vintage Bike Show, Adventure Ride Included.

     I had been afflicted with the vintage motorcycle bug decades ago, but have since sold my collection off over the years in small lots here and there and moved onto other things, for the most part anyways, but I still love old motorcycles. A few years back a group of enthusiasts began to organize an event called Vintage In The Valley, a swap-meet, auction, and motorcycle show that has attracted much interest in the vintage community. The event is held at Chilliwack in BC's Fraser Valley area several mountain ranges away to the south of here.  The shortest route from here is down the Harrison West Road that snakes along the rocky outcrops on the west side of Harrison Lake.This sounded like a pretty good excuse to gas up the adventure bike and I talked my buddy Josh into coming along.

Josh and I got an early start, before the sun came up, and it was going to be a long day in the saddle
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An hour down the road we stopped at the log-sort yard at the head of Harrison Lake, the water was like glass.

Reaching civilization 3 hours later we pulled into an eatery for breakfast, or brunch as it turned out, then it was out on the freeway and into the Fraser Valley.

The event was held at the Chilliwack Heritage Park.

There were enough vintage motorcycles enough to fill two large buildings.

There were several there that I use to own, like this 1968 Honda CL-450.

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On the way back we stopped at the 20 Mile Bay Recreation Site partway up Harrison Lake.

It was hot and nice, and a bit tropical.

We stopped at the log-sort yard again for a break on the way back just as the sun was going down.

Arriving back at the Lodge at dark 372 hard kilometers later, considerably more wore-out than we were when we rode out that morning.