39th Harrisburg FALL Indoor Motorcycle Parts Swap Meet & Show

About this event

This is a swap meet for the wrong end of the year. It runs indoors, in November, at the Farm Show Complex on North Cameron Street — seventy thousand square feet of concrete floor with hundreds of vendors on it — and nobody who comes is going anywhere on a bike that afternoon. They are stripping projects down over the winter and need a part. Jam-On Productions has run it since 1987, the year of the first Harrisburg meet, and says only that it has been helping motorcyclists kill some time in the autumn ever since. It names nobody. The stock runs from complete machines down to vintage nuts and bolts, sold by professional traders and by men who have emptied a shed. There is a bike show alongside it with classes for vintage, custom and antique machines and no fee to enter yours, and mid-afternoon the promoter runs a parts auction with no reserves, which is the part worth staying for. A wall of death gets advertised at the Harrisburg dates. Face painters keep the children busy while their fathers haggle.