Came home Monday(today). Wife and I make a weekend out of it. We stay in Westminster. We eat at Baughers, go to a few other local resturants/bars. I go to the Swap meet on Sunday for a few hours, she gets to sleep in. A lazy weekend.

The line was forming at 0800. After watching vendors with full arms struggle to open the front door I decided to be a door man instead of waiting in line. Great weather, no pandemic. And people selling/buying bicycles and bicycle stuff. One cool buy was a Schwinn (Stingray?) with coaster brakes for $100. Looked great, like it sat in a garage for 50 years. Just that layer of dust. Lots of bicycles got moved.

I had nothing to sell, nothing to buy and was basically a tourist. Got to meet a few friends. Looked at lots and lots of stuff. Bought a bunch of tubes, they were 10 for $12. Bought some new gloves and wired computers for $5 each. I knew to carry $500 in cash in case something caught my eye, but nothing did. Wife was surprized I came back without a bike.

Many vendors, many specialties, many people people dumping their treasures. A few tables that looked like they bought out a shop that went under and they were dumping the stock for whatever they could get.

You know, this 'meet' reminds me of what they used to call the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, but with bicycles instead of animal skins.

And all that for a $10 entrance fee.