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I have been twice and the wife and I spent 3 hours the first and two and a half the second time. Could go back again and still spend more time looking at detail items like old specs, racing memorabilia and the cars. As others have mentioned, if Dale and the other folks on his team are not tied up, you could spend hours just focusing on three or four bikes :-) I think 3-4 hours is plenty without overloading while still getting a chance to get a feel for things and watch a couple of bikes get fired up etc. Rocker brings up a good point, definitely check the hours of operation when you are there. Typically, beginning of week is closed. Below is the published 2017 schedule but call ahead when you get near your trip time. Go to Joeys or Country Vittles early for breakfast then boogie over. Early is good (at least it was for us)
The museum is closed for the winter season between November 30th and March 31st, 2017.
opening day – April 1st, 2017!
2017 Museum Operating Schedule
Open: Thursday-Monday
Hours: 9:00am -5:00pm
*Closed Tuesday & Wednesday
The Wheels Through Time Museum is the only place where you can see the wildly famous (cough cough) Amazing Custom Motorcycle Waving Arm on public display. There are only 4 in existence. One in my garage/on my bike, another somewhere in Tennessee, a third in Amsterdam (capital of the Netherlands,) and the fourth in the museum.
I got to know Dale a little bit over the years and I told him about the Waving Arm. He offered to put one in the museum, so I yanked it off my bike right there and gave it to him. He was gracious enough to humor a crazy person like me and put it on display. It moves around in there. Every year it's in a different part of the museum.
The Wheels Through Time Museum is the only place where you can see the wildly famous (cough cough) Amazing Custom Motorcycle Waving Arm on public display. There are only 4 in existence. One in my garage/on my bike, another somewhere in Tennessee, a third in Amsterdam (capital of the Netherlands,) and the fourth in the museum.
If you do run into Dale Walksler, try to stay as long as you can with him. He is full of history on all the bikes. I carried my 10 year old son in there the last time i went and Dale hired him to clean one of the bikes. He paid him with a museum shirt. He took up time with Luke and that made his day. Luke and I would watch Dale on What's in the Barn show so he was really keyed up about going to the Museum.
Dale and the group are some kind of people. You want to hear it start, ask him and he'll fire it up. We had the good fortune to watch his son work on that years' raffle bike. We talked for a couple of hours, didn't win the bike but knew a lot about it when we departed. Somebody cruised in on a big block V8 bike while we were there and Dale just had to ride it, with the owners blessing of course. Just great people.
Dale and the group are some kind of people. You want to hear it start, ask him and he'll fire it up. We had the good fortune to watch his son work on that years' raffle bike. We talked for a couple of hours, didn't win the bike but knew a lot about it when we departed.
Couple years ago Dale asked me and a buddy to move an old Knucklehead to his shop. We did, of course. I had no idea what he had planned for the bike, but it ended up being the 2016 raffle bike.
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