Nice display complete with a stuffed tiger! |
Check the custom paint job on this bike... |
... with the helmet to match! |
One g-r-r-eat car! |
Tony in his g-r-r-reat Camaro! |
Plate attests Tony's ownership! |
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This bike show was quite
amazing. Young kids, barely out of their teens, if that, doing acrobatic
stunts on BMX bikes. Riding up a steep slope, even doing a flip in
the air and amazingly landing upright (well, there was a couple of minor
mishaps). I've never seen anything quite like it. I wonder
how these kids got this good?!
It's too bad I couldn't get any "action shots" in mid-air. My digital camera isn't quick enough, and if I did manage to get any, they were too blurry to use. |
Moving
on to the motorized version, here are some amazing motorbike trials, by
a guy from Finland (a name I can't pronounce). He rides a special
trials bike made by Gas Gas, a Spanish company. At the end of his
act, I got an autographed poster. Cool!
This guy's brave! |
 
As you can see, this is quite a climb! |
An act well done! |
Besides
getting to look at the cars and bikes, I also came to look for license
plates in the vendors' area. That was pretty much a waste of time.
All of the sellers of license plates were dealers catering to the car people.
Texas has a YOM law (allowing old plates to be registered to the old cars
- and I saw quite a few cars with such plates). This makes the plates
expensive for collectors. Texas plates are common, yet pairs in the
60s will go for $40 to $50 a pair and it goes up from there as they get
older. The only "deals" I found were at Joe Chris Sullivan's booth
- who had non-Texan plates for sale. Joe drove all the way from New
Orleans to sell his stuff, some of which was still wet from his trip!
I bought a few plates from him at reasonable prices.
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