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Applause to Herbert Wagner and the entire AMCA Magazine Team
I believe I am not alone in my following thoughts here.
Most of us as motorcycle enthusiasts subscribe to more than one motorcycle publication annually depending on our individual interest areas in the sport. The one magazine that I look forward to finding in my mailbox each issue more than any other is certainly The Antique Motorcycle.
Therefore... I wish to thank our "AMCA Magazine Team" and also Historian and Writer, Herb Wagner for an excellent article in the Fall Edition entitled "Nothing Scares a Young Fellow". I have owned a 39 WL and a 48WR for many years, both of which saw race action on the East coast in the 40's and 50's. I learned a lot more about the history of Class A and Class C racing through this article. Mr. Wagner filled in some empty spots in the history of the sport, added the very interesting "behind the scenes relationships" between the dealers and racers with the people at the factories whom had to make decisions whether to design and produce the next level of engineering to stay in the winners circle, as well as clearing up some old "wive's tales" relating to race rules during those times. Just a very informative and well written piece. The story on Thor also in this issue is written in a similar quality informative manner.
All AMCA Members worldwide should take a moment and reflect (hopefully in a similar positive manner) on the "value we actually recieve" in having a very high quality of magazine "included" in our "very affordable annual dues." If all we actually got for our $30 annual AMCA dues were the Magazine and the Community Forum on our website.... we are all getting great value for our 30 bucks right there alone. The information access we all have to suppliers, craftspeople, swap meets, bike shows, judging, racing, road runs and other events are all "essentially" free after that. I know of many other non-profit organizations with dues structures 2-10X higher than The AMCA whom provide their members with far less.
(Now please do not jump in here and nit-pik, wordsmith and/or money whip me that other events cost additional money... Sure they do. I simply believe you should understand my intended point here in the simple terms it was delivered in. We do have a very good magazine... one of the best out there. I just felt that someone should offer a well deserved "pat on the back" and "Thank You" to those who tirelessly search for and write articles and assemble content in the magazine each issue. Not an easy job to do to try to keep it relevent, interesting and try to meet the huge range of expectations of a very wide variety of interests within our extremely large membership (10,000+ members) over an extremely large geographic area (The World). Plus for Mr. Wagner to contribute articles is most appreciated.. at the very least by myself.)
Keep up the good work....
Most of us as motorcycle enthusiasts subscribe to more than one motorcycle publication annually depending on our individual interest areas in the sport. The one magazine that I look forward to finding in my mailbox each issue more than any other is certainly The Antique Motorcycle.
Therefore... I wish to thank our "AMCA Magazine Team" and also Historian and Writer, Herb Wagner for an excellent article in the Fall Edition entitled "Nothing Scares a Young Fellow". I have owned a 39 WL and a 48WR for many years, both of which saw race action on the East coast in the 40's and 50's. I learned a lot more about the history of Class A and Class C racing through this article. Mr. Wagner filled in some empty spots in the history of the sport, added the very interesting "behind the scenes relationships" between the dealers and racers with the people at the factories whom had to make decisions whether to design and produce the next level of engineering to stay in the winners circle, as well as clearing up some old "wive's tales" relating to race rules during those times. Just a very informative and well written piece. The story on Thor also in this issue is written in a similar quality informative manner.
All AMCA Members worldwide should take a moment and reflect (hopefully in a similar positive manner) on the "value we actually recieve" in having a very high quality of magazine "included" in our "very affordable annual dues." If all we actually got for our $30 annual AMCA dues were the Magazine and the Community Forum on our website.... we are all getting great value for our 30 bucks right there alone. The information access we all have to suppliers, craftspeople, swap meets, bike shows, judging, racing, road runs and other events are all "essentially" free after that. I know of many other non-profit organizations with dues structures 2-10X higher than The AMCA whom provide their members with far less.
(Now please do not jump in here and nit-pik, wordsmith and/or money whip me that other events cost additional money... Sure they do. I simply believe you should understand my intended point here in the simple terms it was delivered in. We do have a very good magazine... one of the best out there. I just felt that someone should offer a well deserved "pat on the back" and "Thank You" to those who tirelessly search for and write articles and assemble content in the magazine each issue. Not an easy job to do to try to keep it relevent, interesting and try to meet the huge range of expectations of a very wide variety of interests within our extremely large membership (10,000+ members) over an extremely large geographic area (The World). Plus for Mr. Wagner to contribute articles is most appreciated.. at the very least by myself.)
Keep up the good work....
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