 This atypical concours d’elegance was established to create a competitive event for motorcycles that previously had been associated with fine automobiles.The Concours exhibited up to two hundred motorcycles on the lawn of the Ritz-Carlton golf course, and represented motorcycle history from its origins in 1869 (with a replica of Sylvester Roper's steamer present), to the present, with factory prototypes and custom motorcycles.Each year a different motorcycle factory was specially featured, including Vincent, Excelsior-Henderson, and Crocker.