During Monday's lunch break in the vintage racing action at Daytona International Speedway, the classic handshift motorcycles took to the high banks for a one-lap parade around the famed track.
It was an international affair, with roughly 20 Australian handshift machines participating in the parade along with the U.S. riders.
Sure, handshifts might seem wacky to most riders, but Steve Allen Coe, a Daytona native, says you get used to it.
"Hey, it's different, but that's what they had in the original days," Coe says. "It looks hard, but that doesn't mean it is. After a while it just comes natural."
Coe, who is participating in his 19th year of racing at Daytona and will race in the Class C Handshifter class today, rode a 1939 Harley-Davidson WLDR in the parade.
