Make plans to see Dania motorcycle show

Bruce Gipson will bring his wartime Royal Enfield to the show. 

 The Dania Beach Vintage Motorcycle Show is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at Frost Park, 300 NE Second St., Dania Beach, Florida. 

More than 300 antique motorcycles (35-years-old and older) will be on view. 

It's FREE and open to the public. 

If you'd like to enter your 1989 or older motorcycle in the judging, the fee is only $10 cash. To compete, be at the park to register from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (sharp). There is on online registration. 

Fifty trophies and one Best of Show will be awarded.

Royal Enfield proudly served in World War II.

Bruce Gipson, of Boca Raton, plans to show his 1942 Royal Enfield  WD/CO. He says it served the Royal Corps of Signals (communications) in World War II.

"The original panniers and water bucket are attached," Bruce said.

He brought the wartime motorcycle from England last year, did some restoration, repacked the gearbox and reset the timing. It runs well, he says.

Royal Enfield's overhead-valve WD/CO served during the war with many branches of Britain's military and civilian services.

Tax disc shows wartime status of WD/CO.

Military history is interesting to Bruce. I wrote about his wartime Norton 16H.

And then there was the time he converted a 2014 Battle Green Royal Enfield and sidecar to carry a surfboard!

The Dania Beach Show is my favorite vintage motorcycle show, not least because admission is free. The 2025 show is its 18th year. I never fail to discover motorcycles I never knew existed