CONCOURS DE COMPETITION
It isn’t often that David Rutherford is invited to a new type of motorcycle event.
He has road-raced for decades, toured in the U.S. and Europe extensively on a variety of sport bikes, raced flat track occasionally, run the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb six times, raced the Baja 1000 and the Baja 500 several times, and has ridden the course at the Isle of Man. When he was approached about participating in a “new” kind of concours event he was somewhat skeptical. The idea of standing around next to your motorcycle was not exactly his kind of event.
The promoter invited him to apply to run in the Inaugural Concours de Competition at Barber Motorsports Park. David knew the facility well since he had raced there during the annual Vintage Festival with AHRMA for the past 14 years. The museum at Barber Motorsports Park is world-renowned for the largest, and arguably the best, motorcycle collection in the world.
The Concours de Competition was the idea of longtime motorcycle enthusiast and racer Ron Raven. The premise was simple: Race bikes were meant to be seen and heard at speed on a track. Collectors
