Classic motorbikes in Utrecht.

To see them, we must find our way through huge amounts of modern new and used engines, but still.

If you want to see all that new or reasonably experienced used one to keep up to date, that's a bonus. But rather go by train, because a lot of crowds are expected again. And crowds guarantee bottle and parking problems. And possibly stolen motorcycles. So take the train. At the weekend it doesn't matter that those things don't run on time. There isn't one showpiece at Gert Brouwer's stand in the corner of hall 10, there are forty of them. One even more beautiful and more special than the other. An Eysink from 1937 is the oldest.

Unique collection
Because of the thirtieth anniversary of the fair, Gert Brouwer took part of his collection to Utrecht and it is a delight. Air-cooled 70s Yamaha racers, Nortons, Triumphs, a cute 53-year-old blue Hondaatje, an original Lucky Strike Suzuki by Nico Bakker, a 40-year-old Benelli who has never ridden a meter - the 11 kilometers on the clock are from running with the machine - an MV Agusta 500cc Grand Prix machine from 1964, another one long before the first MOTOR fair with which Brouwer will drive from Milan to Taranto, at the tip of the boot, next summer.

Brouwer himself is just as shiny among them. “These are real engines for me. Not that new stuff, I don't like that much. No, there are no price tags attached to this, "he says. "I am not saying that they are not for sale, but they are not here for that." It is only a small part of the collection that Brouwer has in Nijkerk. “You don't even notice that there are forty days off. But yes, I can't take them all with me. "