Swap Meet Score

Ah yes, the Motorcycle Swap Meet. Where hoarders and pack rats come to sell their shit and buy more shit. Even the local chapters of various motorcycle "clubs" come to sell their various cycle parts along with a shirt that has their name on it (I always thought that you couldn't buy your way into a "club" or maybe they're just thinking it's an easy way to make a buck off of Joe Blow with too much money (note to self, print up some shirts with the blog address and sell at next swap meet)). Of course there is always going to be the people that are selling various knick-knacks along side a few old, crusty motorcycle parts. Thankfully, that was kept to a minimum on this particular day. So the Susinater and I went to the 'ol swap meet early Sunday morning hoping to find something cool. I was hoping there would have been more cool than what was there but it's Minnesota and not the world famous Long Beach Swap Meet (check out the various threads on Jockey Journal if you happen to be curious about these, one word rediculous). We were able to find a few cool bits that were worth buying though. If you can't tell from the picture (oh yeah, this is also the first blog pic from the new camera . . . more on that later . . . actually by the time you read this, you will probably have read about it . . . oh well) we picked up a sweet taillight for $5, not really sure when or where it's from but it does say Harley Davidson® on the inside but I really doubt it came from Harley® originally. Then we found the super skinny Z-bars for $20, even though they say $25 on them. The picture makes them look alot bigger than what they are but trust me, they are skinny (at some point I'll get a pic of them on the 500). Next item is a set of foot pegs for $5. Nothing too special about these but they do say Rocky on the bottom of them. And finally we picked up another set of pegs for $15. These are NOS (new old stock or new old shit) items, probably from the 70's or 80's since no bar code is present, just an old stamped number but they were made in Taiwan. So after a few hours of digging through various bins, we walked out of there $55 less in our pockets (the extra $10 was admission, in case you were wondering) and some old motorcycle parts in its place.