The Old American Bike Barn: Take A Motorcycle Ride Back In Time In Ortonville

By John Lauritsen, CBS Minnesota

September 8, 2022

There's an old motorcycle proverb that says a bike on the road is worth two in the barn, unless of course the barn belongs to Kevin Backstrand.

"That bike would pull into the curb in a little hill there by Dad's, and just the way it cackled. Even that young I knew someday I was gonna have one of them," Backstrand said.

Today, Backstrand doesn't just have one – he has dozens. His collection has gone full throttle, to the point that he and his business partner, Tina Richards, took down a century-old barn and rebuilt it five years ago to give his motorcycles a home. They call it the Old American Bike Barn.

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