Leather jackets and long beards were the “norm’’ at the Murphy family’s Moore Street Rochester Motorcycles business on Saturday morning. The inaugural Classic Motorcycles Display attracted a ”larger than expected’’ group of bike owners and one particularly unique vehicle — an 1899 French-made De Dion Bouton, the company once considered the world’s largest automobile manufacturer.
Adam Auditori, who has recently purchased a home in Rochester, is a collector of veteran vehicles and said he considered the De Dion Bouton a bike, because it was powered by a motocycle engine. He has four cars, all pre-1910, and attended the event with his children Lucia and James — sister Jodie Nyberg also on board with her dog, Nellie.
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