Article And Photos By: Adam Thompson
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he AMCA southern national (swap) meet was held at the Denton farm park in Denton, North Carolina October 16/17th. The meet had been rescheduled from May due to the you-know- what19. It seems that a lot of folks in the motorcycle world were chomping at the bit for ANY excuse to get outside and enjoy LIFE. I called ahead and got info about setting up as a vendor and decided that I needed to have a little adventure. I had the weekend free and had a bunch of leftover parts I wanted to be rid of. I pointed my overloaded E250 van South (300K+ on the odometer!) and made the trek from Virginia to North Carolina. W h e r e motorcycles are concerned, I am a Newbie, in the best/worst sense of the word. I know enough not to appear to be
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completely dumb; but at times I can be just ignorant enough to be dangerous. I have wanted to build a bike for many years, but other diversions absorbed
my attentions until recently. I am the quintessential JohnnyCome-Lately. Most of the parts I took to the meet were castoffs
from the two bikes I am currently attempting to build. ZERO experience isn’t going to stop me now. I can’t believe I found a place that I can take pieces of my projects, to trade for the start of a n o t h e r ! Somehow, I think there are a lot of you readers that can identify. I decided to camp out with my crap for the weekend and see what would h a p p e n . And am I happy I did. EVERYONE I encountered seemed to be elated to just get some social interaction with likem i n d e d devotees of all things Two Wheels. The Denton Farm Park is a fantastic outdoor facility, and the staff was friendly to the point of being suspect. I have been to a few different “biker”
