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Cruise into the Park this Saturday the 12th before 10:30 am with your Barber distinctive license plate on your car, and brace yourself for not one, but two incredible gifts headed your way!
✅ FREE admission to the Barber Museum – because we believe in treating our Museum supporters right!
✅ A lap around the 2.38-mile, 16-turn track, where every twist and turn promises an exciting experience that`ll leave you grinning from ear to ear.
We look forward to greeting you in the Museum lobby for this one-of-a-kind experience! See you Saturday!
Apr 10
Cruise into the Park this Saturday the 12th before 10:30 am with your Barber distinctive license plate on your car, and brace yourself for not one, but two incredible gifts headed your way!
✅ FREE admission to the Barber Museum – because we believe in treating our Museum supporters right!
✅ A lap around the 2.38-mile, 16-turn track, where every twist and turn promises an exciting experience that`ll leave you grinning from ear to ear.
We look forward to greeting you in the Museum lobby for this one-of-a-kind experience! See you Saturday!
For more than 20 years, the museum has invited guests who have made significant historical contributions to the advancement of motorsports in the U.S. and overseas to sign the concrete columns adjacent to the basement restoration shop. Many examples are dated, and several different languages are represented. Which names do you recognize? Who has the most handsome signature?
#BarberMuseum #motorsports #history #motorcycle #racing
Apr 10
For more than 20 years, the museum has invited guests who have made significant historical contributions to the advancement of motorsports in the U.S. and overseas to sign the concrete columns adjacent to the basement restoration shop. Many examples are dated, and several different languages are represented. Which names do you recognize? Who has the most handsome signature?
#BarberMuseum #motorsports #history #motorcycle #racing
Supersport racer Kayla Yaakov wore a Barber Motorsports Park-themed HJC helmet this past weekend at the MotoAmerica "Superbikes at Barber" event. The vinyl wrap produced by Kentucky-based GearHead Design & Graphics featured iconic park sculptures crafted by Ted Gall and Bill Secunda, including Kayla’s favorite: the ant colony.
Kayla, who considers Barber a “home” track, had two strong performances on her Rahal Ducati Moto Panigale V2, finishing fifth in race one and seventh in race two. The 17-year-old Pennsylvania native is fifth overall in the points standings. Good luck throughout the rest of this season, Kayla.
@kayla_yaakov @motoamerica @rahalducatimoto @hjchelmets @ghdgraphics
#BarberMotorsportsPark #BarberMuseum #KaylaYaakov #RahalDucatiMoto #MotoAmerica #TedGall #BillSecunda #GHDGraphics
Apr 8
Supersport racer Kayla Yaakov wore a Barber Motorsports Park-themed HJC helmet this past weekend at the MotoAmerica "Superbikes at Barber" event. The vinyl wrap produced by Kentucky-based GearHead Design & Graphics featured iconic park sculptures crafted by Ted Gall and Bill Secunda, including Kayla’s favorite: the ant colony.
Kayla, who considers Barber a “home” track, had two strong performances on her Rahal Ducati Moto Panigale V2, finishing fifth in race one and seventh in race two. The 17-year-old Pennsylvania native is fifth overall in the points standings. Good luck throughout the rest of this season, Kayla.
@kayla_yaakov @motoamerica @rahalducatimoto @hjchelmets @ghdgraphics
#BarberMotorsportsPark #BarberMuseum #KaylaYaakov #RahalDucatiMoto #MotoAmerica #TedGall #BillSecunda #GHDGraphics
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum restoration expert Chuck Huneycutt had the distinct pleasure of servicing and performing a raucous shakedown test aboard the Honda-powered Team Roberts KR211V that is now part of the museum’s permanent collection. Kenny Roberts Jr. finished sixth overall with two podiums in the 2006 MotoGP World Championship on this very machine, the only known running example in private hands.
Roberts Jr., whose world title-winning Suzuki RGV500 is also displayed in the museum, will be reunited with the 990cc KR211V during the “MotoAmerica Superbikes at Barber” race weekend, April 4-6, when he is scheduled to ride several exhibition laps on the Barber Motorsports Park road course. About his seven anxiety-filled loops on the V-five racer, Huneycutt joked, “I couldn’t wait for it to end, but I would do it all over again.” Sound up!
#BarberMuseum #KennyRoberts #MotoGP #MotoAmerica #Honda
Apr 2
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum restoration expert Chuck Huneycutt had the distinct pleasure of servicing and performing a raucous shakedown test aboard the Honda-powered Team Roberts KR211V that is now part of the museum’s permanent collection. Kenny Roberts Jr. finished sixth overall with two podiums in the 2006 MotoGP World Championship on this very machine, the only known running example in private hands.
Roberts Jr., whose world title-winning Suzuki RGV500 is also displayed in the museum, will be reunited with the 990cc KR211V during the “MotoAmerica Superbikes at Barber” race weekend, April 4-6, when he is scheduled to ride several exhibition laps on the Barber Motorsports Park road course. About his seven anxiety-filled loops on the V-five racer, Huneycutt joked, “I couldn’t wait for it to end, but I would do it all over again.” Sound up!
#BarberMuseum #KennyRoberts #MotoGP #MotoAmerica #Honda
Kenny Roberts was a special guest on the @MotoAmerica “Off Track” podcast at this weekend’s Red Bull Grand Prix of The Americas in Austin, Texas. In the interview, conducted @cota_official, co-hosts Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice asked the three-time FIM 500cc world champion about the road-racing debut of Team Roberts rider @kodykopp43 in the new Talent Cup class.
Toward the end of the podcast, Roberts answered questions about the “World Champions” display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum that showcases his family’s extraordinary racing history. “There is no better museum,” he said, adding, “It’s kind of nice to walk in there and see that exhibit. And we’re still adding to it; it’s just started.” Follow the link in our bio to listen to the entire half-hour show.
#BarberMuseum #KennyRoberts #MotoGP #MotoAmerica
Mar 31
Kenny Roberts was a special guest on the @MotoAmerica “Off Track” podcast at this weekend’s Red Bull Grand Prix of The Americas in Austin, Texas. In the interview, conducted @cota_official, co-hosts Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice asked the three-time FIM 500cc world champion about the road-racing debut of Team Roberts rider @kodykopp43 in the new Talent Cup class.
Toward the end of the podcast, Roberts answered questions about the “World Champions” display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum that showcases his family’s extraordinary racing history. “There is no better museum,” he said, adding, “It’s kind of nice to walk in there and see that exhibit. And we’re still adding to it; it’s just started.” Follow the link in our bio to listen to the entire half-hour show.
#BarberMuseum #KennyRoberts #MotoGP #MotoAmerica
Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary publisher in the U.S., defines “portmanteau” as a word or a part of a word made by combining the spellings and meanings of two or more other words or word parts. What does that have to do with the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum? Well, we’re glad you asked.
In 1973, when Valerio Bianchi, Giuseppe Morri, and Massimo Tamburini founded Bimota, they created the company name from the first two letters of each of their surnames: Bianchi, Morri, and Tamburini. For years, the Rimini-based company developed innovative chassis around engines manufactured by Aermacchi, Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha.
This 1976 KB1 recently acquired by the museum represents Bimota’s first collaboration with Kawasaki. One of 827 produced, frame number KB100030 is powered by an air-cooled 903cc inline-four—think KZ900. The swoopy perimeter frame and monoshock swingarm with their eccentric adjusters were formed from chromoly steel.
These photos show the stunning KB1 in its interim home at the museum, the Barber Advanced Design Center, where you’ll also find Pierre Terblanche, who worked under Tamburini at the Cagiva Research Center. Tamburini, of course, would create the legendary Ducati 916, while Terblanche penned the follow-on 999.
#BarberMuseum #Bimota #Kawasaki #motorcycle
Mar 27
Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary publisher in the U.S., defines “portmanteau” as a word or a part of a word made by combining the spellings and meanings of two or more other words or word parts. What does that have to do with the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum? Well, we’re glad you asked.
In 1973, when Valerio Bianchi, Giuseppe Morri, and Massimo Tamburini founded Bimota, they created the company name from the first two letters of each of their surnames: Bianchi, Morri, and Tamburini. For years, the Rimini-based company developed innovative chassis around engines manufactured by Aermacchi, Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha.
This 1976 KB1 recently acquired by the museum represents Bimota’s first collaboration with Kawasaki. One of 827 produced, frame number KB100030 is powered by an air-cooled 903cc inline-four—think KZ900. The swoopy perimeter frame and monoshock swingarm with their eccentric adjusters were formed from chromoly steel.
These photos show the stunning KB1 in its interim home at the museum, the Barber Advanced Design Center, where you’ll also find Pierre Terblanche, who worked under Tamburini at the Cagiva Research Center. Tamburini, of course, would create the legendary Ducati 916, while Terblanche penned the follow-on 999.
#BarberMuseum #Bimota #Kawasaki #motorcycle
Earlier this month at the museum, Kody Kopp swung a leg over the Krämer APX-350 MA that he will race in the inaugural 2025 MotoAmerica Talent Cup. The three-time American Flat Track Singles champion is transitioning from dirt track to road racing with guidance from none other than three-time 500cc World Champion Kenny Roberts.
“We always wanted to help Kody,” admitted Roberts, who won four world titles as a team owner in the early 1990s with Wayne Rainey and John Kocinski. “It’s probably going to be the toughest thing that he’s had to master since he started racing. This is the start of something that could be good for everybody.”
The MotoAmerica Talent Cup is scheduled to make its debut March 28-30 at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, in conjunction with the third round of the MotoGP World Championship. One week later, April 4-6, the Talent Cup rolls into Barber Motorsports Park for the second of seven rounds of competition.
#BarberMuseum #KennyRoberts #KodyKopp #MotoAmerica #TalentCup
Mar 25
Earlier this month at the museum, Kody Kopp swung a leg over the Krämer APX-350 MA that he will race in the inaugural 2025 MotoAmerica Talent Cup. The three-time American Flat Track Singles champion is transitioning from dirt track to road racing with guidance from none other than three-time 500cc World Champion Kenny Roberts.
“We always wanted to help Kody,” admitted Roberts, who won four world titles as a team owner in the early 1990s with Wayne Rainey and John Kocinski. “It’s probably going to be the toughest thing that he’s had to master since he started racing. This is the start of something that could be good for everybody.”
The MotoAmerica Talent Cup is scheduled to make its debut March 28-30 at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, in conjunction with the third round of the MotoGP World Championship. One week later, April 4-6, the Talent Cup rolls into Barber Motorsports Park for the second of seven rounds of competition.
#BarberMuseum #KennyRoberts #KodyKopp #MotoAmerica #TalentCup