The Seattle Cossacks Motorbike Stunt and Drill Team end a performance by slapping hands with the audience at the fourth annual Vintage Motorcycle Festival at LeMay-America’s Car Museum in Tacoma on Sunday. Peter Haley Personnel photographer
Dave Secrist had a beautiful 1964 Ducati to show off at a vintage motorcycle festival Saturday, but it wasn’t his bike that stoked jealousy among individuals who dropped by to meet him.
What made them envious was the complete story of how Secrist came to possess the classic motorcycle.
He found it in a barn, he’d tell other collectors.
Then, underscoring his fortune, he’d add that its original owner “practically gave it” to him.
His story was the type of tale that inspires enthusiasts to scavenge garage sales and antique shops looking for precious finds.
It also was one of the highlights at the fourth annual Vintage Motorcycle Celebration at the LeMay-America’s Car Museum in downtown Tacoma. The function brought jointly more than 2,000 site visitors who checked out about 250 motorcycles that dated back to 1909.
The festival continues Sunday with a 74-mile motorcycle road trip hosted by the Classic Motorcycle Enthusiast Membership that starts at the museum at 9 a.m. (Enrollment begins at 8 a.m.)
This year’s festival had a few familiar attractions, like a series of stunts by the Seattle Cossacks. Users of the motorcycle stunt and drill team connected hands as they drove across a grass field and produced pyramids on moving motorcycles.
It also presented a competition in which collectors asked judges to rate motorcycles in a variety of categories, such as antique American and classic Italian.
Judges toting dark brown clipboards looked focused as they moved from bicycle to bike, inspecting restored and original machines.
“We’re looking to discover the best of many, many really good bikes, and that’s hard to do,” said Terry Kellogg, a judge visiting from Seattle.
The festival is a partnership between the museum and the motorcycle club. Its chairman this full 12 months was Mark Zenor, 58, of Graham, who is the owner of five vintage motorcycles.
“It seems like once you start (restoring) one, you always get a different one,” he said.
Secrist, 48, of Edgewood, plans to leave his Ducati almost as he found it two months ago in a Pierce Region barn.
“It’s going to be original,” he said. “It could only be original once.”
He’s a glazier who travels for work often, meeting customers at their homes. He likes to get them speaking with see if indeed they have any distributed interests.
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He jokingly phone calls those conversations “fishing, or trolling.”
It takes care of. It once led him to a vintage 1941 Willys-Overland coupe.
“I’m always turning over stones,” he said.
Earlier this full year, one of his customers mentioned that a vintage was had by him Ducati saved in an old barn. They kept speaking, and Secrist eventually got a glance at the machine.
The prior owner “felt bad about any of it sitting in the barn,” Secrist said.
He carried it from the barn and found that it didn’t need much work to get jogging.
Secrist’s display at the festival inspired one apparent question from other collectors: “Everybody’s asking, ‘Where’s the barn?’”
He wouldn’t tell.
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