I started my trip in a snow storm and headed to Pittsburgh to meet up with John Majors and head out to Richmond Va. for the North American Handmade Bike Show, as it turned out not and easy task. We left Pittsburgh Sat. morning a little after 8:00 AM in a snow storm and a trip that should have taken 6 hours took 12. We got trapped in traffic due to a twenty car accident just out side Frostburg Md. for almost four hours.
We missed the Friday show but got to swap our tickets for sat. and sun. Got to the show on sat. morning and spent the day looking at some of the most beautiful and creative bikes and accessorys I've every seen. There was a lawn mower that you could pedal around your yard, looked like my kind of machine.
The coolest bike I saw was a wooden laminate frame with steel lugs.
Sat. was packed with people and it was hard to talk to the builders, they said Sunday was a better day, less people more access to talk to the vendors. There was so much to see and to hard to explain it all, so I took some pictures and Tom said he would put some of them on the web site.
I had a great time and would go again if it is a little closer to home. The old man, A.K.A. Pa Pa Smurf
