Loaded the Triumph Trophy's bags on Friday then Pretty Wife and I headed north across the Red River into the former Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Destination, the Seaba Station on Old Route 66, the historic Mother Road.
http://seabastation.com/ The link provides a history of this 1921 service station constructed five years prior to the final certification of US Route 66. Check it out for some vintage photos. The building's restoration, along with many vintage bikes and period memorabilia, creates a time travel machine as soon as you walk in the door.
The Shawnee OK Football Booster Club was conducting a five-stop poker run
and the Seaba Station was packed with bikes. After the gamblers rolled out,
I was able to snap the Trophy with a older Cushman scooter like my JrHi buddy's ride.
Once upon a way back time, I enjoyed good fortune racing cross-country events
on a Penton -think KTM, now. This little 125cc Sachs-engined bike is in fine fettle. After several days of serious rain and thunder bumpers across North Texas had moved on east, our weekend ride was CAVU all the way. Spring rains had helped turn the hills and fields of Oklahoma a brilliant green. Little traffic on the excellent state highways permitted a nice 75-80 mph cruise which netted an overall fuel burn of 42 mpg.
The link to Photobucket has some 46 snaps of the museum. I'm in the process of tagging the pics to identify some of the images and subjects. Not all completed as of this posting date. Workin' on it...
http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa1/montmil/Seaba%20Station%202012/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ16A side bar note:
Hot Rod Magazine was conducting their annual, week long Power Tour across the country. As luck would have it, OK State Hwy 77 was partially closed for repaving. The detour took the rolling car show right past the front door of Seaba Station. I quit counting after fifty something cars rolled by. Heck, there's motorcycles to ogle inside.
