The gleaming entries at the Hammer & Tongs VINTAGE BIKE SHOW Renton WA, January 2010

SHOW PHOTOGRAPHS ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN TWELVE

These race bikes were at the SEASON AWARDS BIKE SHOW along with many others.
Our great thanks to Greg Fisher & DOWNTOWN HARLEY- in RENTON for hosting our Bike Show and Awards Banquet.

Piles of Awesome Bike Show Photos from Britt Boyette Steve Clark Stu Osborn Dave Kramer Scott McAllister

The philosophy is simple.
VINTAGE MOTOCROSS should be CHEAP, EASY AND FUN
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Also it should keep changing; stay fresh. This means incredibly cool competition for Vintage & Evolution Bikes. The Hammer & Tongs Motocross Series started in 2003 as a spinoff of VDR winter series for the summer months. Each Race is produced & presented by the Track Owner. Our Race Courses are meant to be good racing without having to "separate the men from the boys" - no doubles, no whoops or idiotic supercross stuff that wouldn't be suitable for an older racing machine. (Matchless, BSA, Greeves, etc.) Hammer & Tongs is autonomous ; We are not run by anyone out of state. We don't require anyone to join a club, or have a Race License. We want to provide an alternative to, and a complement to the other great races we have here in the Pacific Northwest. Hammer & Tongs doesn't exclude any bikes from their era- Japanese Bikes are welcome in the Early Vintage Classes for example. • We have a kids XR Class, and a 100cc Class. We have healthy Classes for Evolution Bikes. For more details check out the Overview. Link in upper right

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The blacksmith has become a rarity & a curiosity, but this 17th century expression alluding to his art lives on. It refers of course to the brawny smitty taking
red hot metal from the forge with his long long handled pincers, or tongs, and vigorously beating into shape on the anvil with his hammer.

definition from THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS, Robert Hendrickson • Facts on File • 1997

 

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