The Seattle Cossacks Motorbike Stunt and Drill Team end a performance by slapping hands with the audience at the fourth annual Vintage Motorbike Festival at LeMay-America’s Car Museum in Tacoma on Saturday. Peter Haley Personnel photographer
Saturday dave Secrist had a beautiful 1964 Ducati to show off at a vintage motorcycle festival, but it wasn’t his bicycle that stoked jealousy among the people who dropped by to meet him.
What made them envious was the complete story of how Secrist came to own the classic motorcycle.
It had been found by him in a barn, he’d tell other collectors.
Then, underscoring his fortune, he’d add that its original owner “virtually gave it” to him.
His tale was the kind of story that inspires enthusiasts to scavenge garage sales and antique shops looking for valuable finds.
It also was one of the highlights at the fourth annual Classic Motorcycle Celebration at the LeMay-America’s Car Museum in downtown Tacoma. The function brought collectively more than 2,000 site visitors who checked out about 250 motorcycles that dated back to 1909.
The festival continues Sunday with a 74-mile motorcycle road trip hosted by the Vintage Motorcycle Enthusiast Golf club that begins at the museum at 9 a.m. (Sign up starts at 8 a.m.)
This year’s festival had a few familiar attractions, such as a series of stunts by the Seattle Cossacks. Associates of the motorbike stunt and drill team linked hands as they drove across a grass field and shaped pyramids on moving motorcycles.
It also featured a competition where collectors asked judges to rate motorcycles in a mix of categories, such as antique American and classic Italian.
Judges toting dark brown clipboards looked focused as they moved from bike to bike, inspecting restored and original machines.
“We’re looking for the best of many, many really good bikes, and that’s hard to do,” said Terry Kellogg, a judge visiting from Seattle.
The festival is a partnership between your museum and the motorcycle club. Its chairman this season was Mark Zenor, 58, of Graham, who is the owner of five vintage motorcycles.
“It looks like once you start (restoring) one, you get another one always,” he said.
Secrist, 48, of Edgewood, programs to leave his Ducati almost as it was found by him two months ago in a Pierce Region barn.
“It’s going to be original,” he said. “It could only be original once.”
He’s a glazier who moves for work often, conference customers at their homes. He loves to get them speaking with see if they have any distributed interests.
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He jokingly calls those conversations “fishing, or trolling.”
It pays off. It once led him to a classic 1941 Willys-Overland coupe.
“I’m turning over rocks,” he said.
Earlier this full year, one of his customers mentioned that he had an antique Ducati stashed away within an old barn. They kept talking, and Secrist got a glance at the device eventually.
The previous owner “felt bad about it sitting in the barn,” Secrist said.
He carried it from the barn and discovered that it didn’t need much work to get working.
Secrist’s display at the event inspired one apparent question from other collectors: “Everybody’s asking, ‘Where’s the barn?’”
He wouldn’t tell.
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