{"id":1242,"date":"2017-10-04T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2017-10-04T13:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T18:46:30","slug":"barber-vintage-festival-lets-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/barber-vintage-festival-lets-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Barber Vintage Festival &#8211; let&#8217;s go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going back down to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbermuseum.org\/events\/barber-vintage-festival\/\"> Barber<\/a> again this year &amp; I couldn&#8217;t be more excited!!\u00a0 This 3 day festival in Birmingham, AL is everything I love about motorcycles!\u00a0 Here are\u00a0my top 10 reasons (in no particular order) to visit the Barber Vintage Festival &#8211; feel free to add anything that I may have missed!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1250\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cb500_4-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cb500_4-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cb500_4-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cb500_4-1024x657.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honda CB500 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbermuseum.org\/events\/barber-vintage-festival\/in-the-museum\/hours-and-admission\/\">The Barber Vintage Museum<\/a> &#8211; the layout alone is impressive but the bikes they have here are amazing!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/barberracingevents.com\/ace-corner.php\">Ace Corner<\/a> &#8211; even more fun things to do at this primo spot at the track.\u00a0 Check out the preview video <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/233773470\">HERE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbermuseum.org\/events\/barber-vintage-festival\/in-the-park\/swap-meet\/\">The swap meet<\/a> &#8211; you can pretty much find anything you want (I mean NEED!) at this swap meet!\u00a0 My wife is gonna kill me, lol!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Picker of the Year&#8221; award &#8211; this is\u00a0awarded to the swap meet vendor with the most unique piece or part for sale<\/li>\n<li>The Racing:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrma.org\/\">AHRMA<\/a> vintage road racing &amp;\u00a0Vintage trials competitions and cross-country racing through the woods<\/li>\n<li>Cool Attractions like the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanwallofdeath.com\/\">Wall of Death<\/a> &amp; the <a href=\"http:\/\/uriasglobeofdeath.com\/\">Globe of Death<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The motorcycle shows &#8211; the best of the best comes out to show off what they&#8217;ve created.<\/li>\n<li>Educational Seminars &#8211; I did one last year on classic electrics.\u00a0 You can always learn new things!<\/li>\n<li>Networking with fellow enthusiasts &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t love to talk motorcycles?!\u00a0 And you can talk to someone who&#8217;s 18 or 68 about the same really cool stuff.\u00a0 The mix of people is incredible &amp; motorcycles are bringing them together<\/li>\n<li>THE MOTORCYCLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbermuseum.org\/events\/barber-vintage-festival\/enjoy-the-past\/10th-annual-photos\/#\">HERE<\/a> to see all the official photos from years past.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1244\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1244\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elr-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elr-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elr-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Lawson Replica in the museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1245\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cl77-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cl77-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cl77-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cl77-1024x738.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honda CL77 at Barber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1247 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/benly-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/benly-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/benly-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/benly-1024x592.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CB92 Honda Benly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going back down to Barber again this year &amp; I couldn&#8217;t be more excited!!\u00a0 This 3 day festival in Birmingham, AL is everything I love about motorcycles!\u00a0 Here are\u00a0my top 10 reasons (in no particular order) to visit the Barber Vintage Festival &#8211; feel free to add anything that I may have missed! &nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,109,78,88,77,11,89,31,74,79,75,81,90,76,15],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-from-ricks","tag-barber","tag-barber-vintage-festival","tag-barn-finds","tag-cafe-racer","tag-classic-motorcycles","tag-honda","tag-kawasaki","tag-motorycles","tag-restoration","tag-restoration-projects","tag-vintage","tag-vintage-honda","tag-vintage-kawasaki","tag-vintage-motorcycles","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}