After hosting a gun show the week before in the same venue, the Day's Inn opened up early and by 6:30 the organizers were searching for more vendor tables. There's nothing else to do in January but grit your teeth and pedal, visit Kraynick's, and travel hours to the swap. It's well attended even in treacherous travel conditions.
Wedding Reception Chandeliers
It seems that many 'vendors' are more like private museum curators willing to pay a small sum to display their collections. The $3 charge is totally worth a trip to the museum.
Some have everything laid out in display cases
Others have more interesting organizational plans
The newer parts and frames seem almost out of place but that's where my money goes. Slim and I happened upon a table as they were writing up the sign "TWO ITEMS FOR $1." Too excited to remember to take a picture, I spent seven whole dollars and grabbed another stem since they didn't have the two quarter change for 13 items. Here are some other modern pieces.
Some two-wheelers seemed to have identity crises
Bamboo masquerading as carbon fibre A 6-cylinder bicycle
And some were almost motorcycles.
I need one of these for my kids.
If you want to set up a mobile hot dog shop like they have in Paraguay you could use this trike.
I loved it even though some of the smelly kids showed up just like at FreeRide Pittsburgh - cycling sometimes means never bathing and always wearing knickers. I might have even seen a classic Mercedes wagon in the lot with a "biodiesel" sticker on it - the hipster zipcar. Maybe they all shared a ride and condemned the American car culture while strumming a guitar and consuming local produce. But at least they've got passion for something.
Inspecting old bikes and talking to old friends is great. Next year in the depth of winter you must get out to the swap meet. You know you've got nothing better to do early on a Sunday morning in January.
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