This one goes to 11! The next Harvest Classic Rally is October 18th & 19th, 2013.

2013 Postcard

Planning for the next rally is kicking off now, the season starts with the selection and shooting of the new poster bike. This year, it’s William Twitchell’s unique rigid, bobber BMW.

The Harvest Classic is a european and vintage motorcycle rally held each fall in Luckenbach, Texas. The 2013 rally will be our 11th anniversary rally, and will be held on Oct 18 & 19 – so start making your plans now! Gearheads come from all around to enter their bikes in the bike show, participate in  or watch the vintage trials, eat home-cooked barbecue, win swag (or a bike) in the insanely good raffle, go big for the kids in the live auction, watch a big-screen outdoor movie, listen to great music, camp under the star, immerse themselves in moto-culture, and rub elbows with kindred spirits. The rally attendees, sponsors, and all-volunteer staff throw down hard to raise a ton of money for the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer program of Any Baby Can.

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2012 Galleries

David Omer took another batch of amazing photos at this year’s rally. We all love his work and support. He also shoots the poster bike every year!

2012 was good.

The 2012 Harvest Classic was our 10th annual rally and it was a riot! We were able to donate $60,000 to the Candlelighters Program of any Baby Can, which made 2012 a a record year! We’d like to give a big thanks to our sponsors and to everybody who came out to Luckenbach to participate in the rally. It was killer -we had a fantastic turnout of trials riders, the bike show had over 200 entrants, which is the bigest yet. The live auction featuring a restored GS750E donated by Randy Voet, a sweet custom cafe GS 550 donated by Killeen Power Sports, a lovely 1966 Suzuki X Hustler donated by Fred and Maggie Beck in memory of their son Charlie, and a sweet Gemini minibike donated by D&H Roofing. We also had a bountiful raffle featuring a supercool restored Yamaha XS650 donated by Mike Pawlowski, and tons of other cool moto-goodies. There was fantastic barbecue, an exclusive 35mm showing of Peter Starr’s TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT, awesome camping, a freaking SMITHSONIAN calibre Evel Knievel exhibit that we all loved, the joyous and hoped for blooming of the 100cc Fun Run, and way more. Thanks to everyone who came out and participated in the shenanigans! See you in 2013!!!

Saturday Night Moto-Movie

After dinner, stick around and watch a kickass motorcycle movie on a 20′ by 40′ screen, courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow! We haven’t finalized the 2013 film yet, but in 2012, we were all blown away by the sole 35mm copy of Peter Starr’s iconic movie ‘Take it to the Limit’. It will be hard to top that one, but we are beating the bushes….

The Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow

Imagine a drive-in movie theater that can go anywhere—The Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow combines a 20′ X 40′ state of the art inflatable movie screen—absolutely the top of the line in outdoor cinema screening with the industry standard in outdoor audio system, 2 dual JBL SR-X subwoofers and 2 full range JBL SR-X cabinets.

The screening starts about 30 minutes past the beginning of sunset. Think of attending a Rolling Roadshow as though you were going to an outdoor evening BBQ. Ride your bike in, or bring a camping chair, and settle in to fine film put on by our friends over at The Alamo Drafthouse.

Swap Meet

For 2012, we added a swap meet to the list of rally activities. It was a hit, so we are doing it again in 2013. This is a true swap meet, featuring used bits, pieces, tools, and maybe even complete bikes. Professional purveyors of chaps, do-rags, or sunglasses need NOT apply. However, if you have a tasty selection of old Ossa & Montessa parts gathering dust in the shed, have an old Triumph flat track chassis that yearns to be ridden in anger again, or want to thin down your collection of 70s open face helmets, – then we’d love to have you set up a booth. If you are interested, go to the Swap Meet page  for more information, or register online to be a swap meet vendor. 2013 Swap Meet registration isn’t open yet, but we’ll open it up well in advance of the rally.