[Ducati] Italian Motofest report

[Steve Abramson]

Those bikes are so pretty. Big Wows.


Steve







>I had a chance to spend the weekend in West Virginia for Bill Freeman's
> wonderful (and wonderfully low key) Italian Motofest.  Held in a history 
> steeped
> town in West Virginia called Shepardstown, (about an hour and 1/2 from
> Washington DC), this event is in it's 7th year but it's the first time it 
> fit in  my
> schedule and I was looking forward to going.  Saturday's weather was 
> iffy,
> with rain on and off so some people rode and some spent the day exploring 
> the
> area.  It's near several Civil War battlefields (including Antietim and
> Gettysburg) has about the best bakery/coffee shop I've experienced outside 
> of
> Italy and in general is simply charming. So unlike most rally's of this 
> kind,
> rain didn't ruin the day. Sunday's weather was better, no real rain but 
> overcast
> and cloudy, which made for pretty good standing around admiring bikes and
> telling stories weather. The event is held in a beautiful park which makes 
> a
> nice backdrop for the bikes. This year they set the show up in a pavilion 
> which
> worked well because it was about 10 paces to the Sons of Italy food 
> kitchen.
> Great food, lots of door prizes (I think most people got one), a few 
> vendor
> displays and the whole thing cost's $10 for admission and $10 if you 
> wanted a
> t-shirt (which I did because they were very nice).  The Son's were serving
> bags of homemade sweets for $1 a bag, peanut butter fudge was my personal
> favorite but the cookies were a close second.
> If I had to guess I'd say there were a little more than 50 Italian bikes
> there (some people drove in because of the weather) and while the mix was
> heavily Ducati there was a Morini 500, a 750 MV, a Guzzi Sport, a 
> beautiful
> Aermacchi HD, and a number of other bikes worth a long look. There was a 
> valve
> adjustment seminar and a couple of sound contests, and of course the  bike 
> show.  I
> highly recommend this event for anybody looking for a family  event, dogs 
> and
> kids are welcome.  I found the whole weekend to be really  enjoyable, 
> totally
> relaxing and well worth what we spent to travel there.
> I took some pics, not to document the event so much but more  because Rich
> and I brought a couple of bikes I think are pretty and  they were fun to 
> take
> photos of. (an early '60's Ducati 125 Sport and a 1950  Mondial that 
> recently
> came back from Italy after we used it in last years  Motogiro).  Here's 
> the
> link: _http://www.ducati.smugmug.com/gallery/1932522_
> (http://www.ducati.smugmug.com/gallery/1932522)
> We did get to ride them some including to the event on Sunday morning.
> Anyway, it was a really nice event and we are already talking about what 
> we
> will enter in the show next year....
> Vicki
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