While we question the need for a Brad Lackey retrospective, the first issue of Motorccyclist Retro will soon be on stands. image: thanks, mc retro

One of the hidden growth areas in motorcycling sport is from the vintage ranks. For example, (from the hard to believe but true file) Mid-Ohio's Vintage Motorcycle Days have been known to out-draw the Mid-Ohio Superbike event. The vintage scene seemingly everywhere in America remains very strong. And it's changing.

Fans who can't stand to look at another example of '40s tractor technology encased in a chassis that could double as rafter support in an Amish-built barn, all the while leaking oil on any surface unlucky to be under it, might want to take a second look at, um, the modern vintage scene. That old junk your grandfather wobbled around on is being moved aside. The original (and some might say coolest) GSX-R750 is legal to race in various vintage classes, and early 1980s 1024cc Superbikes and their replicants are now popping up all over. Soup' writer par excellence Jim McDermott was walking down a street in New York last weekend and happened upon a sano Moriwaki Kawasaki KZ1000 Superbike so clean you'd let your kids eat from the swingarm brace. Can a Rusty Bradley replica KH750 streetbike be far away?

Mitch Boehm's new magazine, Motorcyclist Retro, will focus on the modern vintage scene and bikes of the baby-boom era. It'll be on newstands soon.