Roger Smith, President

Roger Smith has been involved in motorcycling since 1964 when, as a young teenager, he rented Honda motorcycles in Ontario, Canada, for 25 cents an hour.

Today, he is a retired Pontiac, Michigan, police detective, having served the community for 25 years, focusing much of that time on crimes against children. He states, “Being retired, I am prepared to offer all the time necessary to support the Antique Motorcycle Foundation and help it perform to its maximum potential.” Roger's past service includes having been a board member of the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club for many years (where he still maintains a founding membership number of #135) and served as its public relations officer. For a time, he also was the Vice President of the Vintage Motorbike Club. Roger joined the AMF board in 2009 and over the years, has served as its Secretary, VP and now President.

He has restored vintage motorcycles that have reached the AMCA Winners Circle and earned a Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum Concours Championship with special recognition along with the prestigious Cycle World Magazine Excellence in Restoration Award. While he enjoys all motorcycles, his main focus is on vintage import motorcycles and helping those enthusiasts become more involved in the Antique Motorcycle Foundation and the AMCA.

Mark has had an interest in the motorcycle since his first ride on a mini-bike back in the early 1960s. Within a year he purchased a used Honda Cub and like most early enthusiasts moved up to larger machines over the years.

Back in the 1980s Mark began studying the motorcycle and started building a library of books, magazines, and documents related to the motorcycle. Around 2000 he put together a course on the history of the motorcycle and was able to teach the class at a local university, through motorcycle clubs, and even at a few motorcycle dealerships. This material was the foundation of his first book titled: An Overview of Motorcycle History in America: A Topical and Social Narrative. His second book was titled: Significant Motorcycles That Have Influenced the Sport: Motorcycles from before 1900 to Today. Mark continues to write and has his next two books planned and currently in process.

Mark has been involved in numerous motorcycle clubs and has served at times in numerous leadership positions. He has been a long time member of the AMCA and VJMC motorcycle clubs as well. Mark has written many articles for various magazines on vintage motorcycles and has been involved on planning and developing over 100 motorcycle events and rallies. He holds a Doctor of Education degree and his greatest passion is to continue his studies related to the motorcycle and to make its history available to the public.

Within the last 14 years Joe has been a member of the AMCA and two of its chapters: the Maumee Valley and the Sunshine chapter. Joe has also served as an AMCA Judge for the last 13 years and a Chapter Deputy Judge the last five years representing the Wauseon Coalition for the AMCA Nation Meet.

As a 30-year retired UAW Daimler/Chrysler Community Services Counselor, Joint Education and Training Facilitator, Quality Assurance Auditor, EAP Representative and a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor, Joe was privileged to serve on several community and national boards. Joe has developed the ability to analyze, resolve and follow through on numerous complex employee behavior risk management systems and human resource prevention policy and procedures projects and services for business, industry and community service organizations.

Over the years while building Jeeps at the Toledo Assembly plant, Joe found his way into recovery. With much assistance from his fellows and the EAP professional community, Joe went on to complete his BA and MA degrees. Finally, Joe completed his professional work as a Cooperate Education and Training Facilitator for UAW Chrysler Jeep Plant Toledo Ohio in 2004.

Joe's affiliates as an adult educator and fellow are: The Department of Labor and his memberships with the National Council on Alcoholism, National Labor College at the University of Maryland, Western Michigan University, The Ohio State University, the AFL-CIO and UAW. Joe also served on The Ohio Governor's task force on Substance abuse. Joe also served several roles on the, Employee Assistance Professional Association, the Ohio State Certified Alcohol Drug and Mental Health Services Association and the Ohio Lucas County Regional Counsel on Alcoholism.

Joe has been an active motorcycle enthusiast, mechanic and custom motorcycle builder and restorer for over 50 years and brings his passion for people and motorcycles to the AMF.

Jan Ringnalda is based in Ohio. His interest in motorcycles began when he was young, and he saw his first CBX wheeled into the showroom in 1979. Over the years, he has restored, recommissioned, repaired and reassembled many of the six cylinder beasts.

Jan has a PhD in Materials Science and still works with researchers at The Ohio State university on Electron Microscopy for his daytime occupation, where he works with leading scientists to discover what makes the nitty, gritty. These microscopes magnify to the level of atomic resolution, which needed for researchers looking at virus particles like COVID-19 as well as semiconductor and advanced materials research.

Ringnalda has been the president of the International CBX Owners Association since 2009 and with his son Robby is actively involved with racing a CBX in WERA and AHRMA associations. He has a collection of vintage Hondas and offers restoration and recommission services at the www.mrcbx.com company he runs with Robby. They have recommissioned and restored many CBX’s to get them ready for the next caretaker, and they take the motto “dedicated to the preservation of the CBX” very seriously. Jan enjoys the large displacement motorcycles; it needs to be 750cc or larger to get him going at acceptable rates of speed.

Ken grew up in a small country town in northwest New Jersey. Always intrigued by how things worked, he earned a reputation even as a child for disassembling and studying anything he could get his hands on. At ten years old he bought his first minibike, progressing to several dirt and street bikes. At nineteen he acquired a WW2 Indian, launching his lifelong journey with vintage motorcycles. He joined the AMCA in 1978, followed by the NJ Colonial Chapter, where he served for decades in multiple leadership positions including President. He served as Curator of the AMF/AMCA Winners Circle Exhibit at the Motorcyclepedia Museum.

Ken’s working career in precision manufacturing began as a tool maker, and he is currently owner and President of General Wire & Stamping Co. in Randolph, New Jersey.

Ken has a great appreciation for all vintage motorcycles, and owns, or has owned many makes and models. His primary passion lies with early Indians, having several examples ranging from 1908 to 1952. He also has a strong passion for history and preservation, and enjoys researching and discovering new things about old bikes. Ken loves sharing his passion, and never grows tired of seeing the excitement in people’s faces when he is able to do so.

Brendan first fell in love with riding on two wheels on his Schwinn Stingray way back when. Not too long after that he added gas and oil to the mix and he was zooming around the vacant lot behind gramma-and-grampa's house on his uncle's 1970s Benelli minibike. 

He officially entered the vintage motorcycle hobby in the early 2000s as the founding editor of Vintage Motorcycle Price Guide for Krause Publications (as a sister publication to the long-standing Old Cars Weekly and Old Cars Price Guide magazines). VMPG, soon became Vintage Motorcycles, and since then Brendan has helped write for or edit with several vintage bike clubs in one way or another, including AMCA, Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club, International CBX Owners Association, Vintage Motor Bike Club, and others. 

After his long career in publishing, Brendan recently completed his Masters of Library and Information Science specializing in archival and reference work. This is actually his second tour of duty with the Antique Motorcycle Foundation. He hopes to help expand and enrich the Vintage Motorcycle Library and its accessibility to the best of his abilities in the time he's able to give to the AMF. 

Ken was raised with Whizzer motorbikes in his blood. His grandfather co-founded Whizzer Motor Company in Pontiac, Ml. He still has his original factory prototype Whizzer, one of the last to come out of the factory in 1964. While his experience is limited to Whizzers, Ken is dedicated to encouraging younger generations of enthusiasts to preserve all vintage motorbikes.

Ken is a retired surgeon, trustee and board member of the Jamie Daniels Foundation and enjoys restoring and maintaining his many Whizzers and several vintage cars.

Peter MacMurray was born and brought up in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. He was smitten by motorcycles before the age of 10 at which time he was mounted on his older sisters JC Higgins bicycle which took a high level of imagination to transform to a multicylinder speedster.

Following high school and still without a motorcycle, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps where he was trained in aviation electronics; communication, navigation and electronic counter measures. There he also found Motorcycle #1, an early 60’s well-worn Ducati 250 single.

Following military discharge, he undertook an 8000-hour apprenticeship as a machinist and began attending college evenings at Northeastern University majoring in mechanical engineering. He was subsequently hired as a Mechanical Technician by Bird-Johnson Company which served the ship construction and ship services industries offering design & build to specification solutions for marine and naval propulsion and power systems up to 50,000 shaft HP.

Peter continued his education beyond Mechanical Engineering, subsequently attaining degrees in Industrial Technology, H,S and E Management. He retired after 33 years of service at Bird-Jonnson which at this time had been under the ownership of Rolls-Royce in the UK.

At this point Peter was taking care of 20+ motorcycles of widely varying marques, purposes and displacement. It was during a weekend camping ride when he serendipitously stumbled into the AMCA Grand National Meet in progress at the Rhinebeck, NY Fairgrounds. He promptly became a member of AMCA, and it was there that he also promptly began the process of learning the AMCA Judging Program.

Peter’s other interests beyond motorcycles include antique machinery and tools, carpentry and woodworking, forestry management and sustainable farming.