The Honda Collection Hall: Trey Canard Tours Japan's Motorcycle Museum
Hey there, everyone — it's your favorite bookish bike nerd Paige Turner, and I need you to picture this with me.
A quiet building in the Japanese countryside. Rows of red motorcycles stretching back decades. Dust hanging in the air like a prayer. And standing in the middle of it all? A man who nearly died on machines just like these.
Trey Canard. Former factory Honda rider. Broken bones. Comeback wins. And a heart still beating for two-stroke smoke and four-stroke thunder.
Motocross Action Magazine sent Josh Mosiman and Canard inside the Honda Collection Hall at Twin Ring Motegi. They filmed everything for an episode of "This Week in MXA."
I watched it twice. Then I picked up my phone and started calling people.
Here is what the video shows. And more importantly – here is what it doesn't.
What You See on Screen
Canard walks through that museum like a kid sneaking into a candy factory after hours.
He stops in front of a red beast from 1983. That bike changed everything for motocross, and he knows it. He grins at a MotoGP machine once thrown sideways by Valentino Rossi himself. He laughs out loud at the old seats – hard as a church pew, he probably remembers how they felt after 30 minutes of bouncing through whoops.