Meet Myron
The Bob Logue Motor Sports Honda Museum is proud to feature our in-house motorcycle artist, Myron Schroeder.
At eighty-two years old, Schroeder’s competency at disassembling, cleaning, shaping, sanding, painting, spoking and truing wheels on any motorcycle is truly remarkable. Schroeder’s finished work is truly delivered through an honest labor of love.
The Bob Logue Motor Sports Honda Museum acknowledges Schroeder as a motorcycle artist as he has relentlessly worked over the last 15 years to ensure our museum presents its Honda motorcycles reconditioned to their original state, rather than inaccurate works of restoration.
A patriot who served our nation in times of war, Schroeder proudly wears his Armed Forces hat to this day. “I was in the Army Air Corps as a Crew-Chief Aerial Engineer, flying Boeing B-17s and B-24s,” says Schroeder. “During the war I used to transfer new military aircraft from The USA to Ireland.”
Schroeder takes pride in his hands-on approach both at his work and in his life. He is very vocal about the importance of a work ethic and professional loyalty. “ I retired from National Cash Register Corporation after forty-five years,” says Schroeder. “I retired as a branch manager after escalating through the career path offered by NCR Corp. during my years as an employee.”
Schroeder’s loyalty to his career path continues at Bob Logue Motor Sports. Schroeder’s retirement pastime work at Bob Logue Motor Sports dates back to 1990. “I purchased a new 1988 Honda VLX600 at Bob Logue Motor Sports and that is how I came to know Bob Logue,” says Schroeder. “During that time I was detailing motorcycles for a local dealership that closed their doors.”
It was not long before Bob Logue asked Schroeder if he would be interested in having his own space at Bob Logue Motor Sports.
“My time spent at Bob Logue Motor Sports is very informal,” Schroeder affirms. “We work by mutual agreement. I don’t have a set schedule, no promises and no deadlines,” says Schroeder. “This agreement is based on my request to be free to ride whenever I feel like doing so. I just come in the morning and do what I love doing for as many hours a day as I can bear. I love to work on motorcycles, old and shoddy, and bring it back to look as new as possible. For me it means total self-satisfaction,” Schroeder enthuses.
According to Bob Logue Motor Sports founder and owner, Robert B. Logue, Schroeder’s mature and wise approach to situations at the work place and life in general is invaluable. “Myron is a lot more than an employee,” said Logue. “Myron is in many ways the strongest reason why I want to show up to work,” affirms Logue. “He (Schroeder) is only here when he wants to be, and that seems to be most of the time,” said Logue.
An avid motorcycle enthusiast throughout his life makes Schroeder an authority on the subject. “I have been riding motorcycles for 65 years,” Schroeder remarks. “That’s more than most people have had the pleasure to live.”
Despite his time-consuming work for the Bob Logue Motor Sports Honda Museum, Schroeder is not interrupted from enjoying his strongest passion yet, which is to ride his motorcycles anytime he has a chance. Schroeder will ride twenty thousand miles in any given year, even considering the short motorcycle season in north central Pennsylvania.
Myron’s Bikes
Schroeder has owned and ridden hundreds of motorcycles over his lifetime.
“The first bike I ever rode was a 1937 Indian Four,” Schroeder nostalgically notes. “I remember the Indian Four being the bike that I learned to fall down on,” he humors.
“The first motorcycle I ever purchased was a 1940 Norton 500 single, and I purchased it before WWII,” says Schroeder. (
Click here to see Myron Schroeder aboard his Norton 500).
Coincidentally, Motorcycle Diaries, the recently produced film based on the diary notes of the motorcycle travels of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in South America during 1952, features a 1939 Norton 500 single. This is the same motorcycle owned by Schroeder, in the previous model year.
Schroeder speaks about his past and presently owned models. “
My 1975 Moto Guzzi 850T had great power, such a macho machine,” exclaims Schroeder. “Italian character, sound handling, exciting to ride, a nice kick. I clocked over fifty-thousand miles on my Guzzi.”
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My 1976 BMW R75/6 has been a nice restoration project.
I bought it used with forty-two thousand miles in 1993. Twelve years and one engine rebuild later, I have logged over one hundred and eighty-four thousand miles on it.” “I have been to Northern Maine, the southern tip of the Blue Ridge Parkway, South Carolina, Georgia, and as far west as the Mississippi.”
Myron and Honda
“The BMW is now semi-retired, and it has been replaced by a
Honda Pacific Coast 800, in which I have accumulated over twenty-five thousand miles in about six months,” said Schroeder.
Schroeder speaks enthusiastically about the Honda PC800. “It is so smooth that one cannot identify what kind of engine the bike is running, if it is a twin or a four. There is virtually no vibration due to its fully rubber mounted engine and fully enclosed fiberglass body.” “I have done some modifications to my PC800, like installing an extra GIVI trunk,” said Schroeder. “Another nice thing about the PC800 is that it gets fifty miles to the gallon of unleaded gasoline, independently of the riding conditions.
“I also purchased a
1986 Honda CMX450C, the Rebel 450. It was originally purchased for my wife and she rode over forty-thousand touring miles, accompanying me on my travels.”
I have also owned two 1962 Honda C110’s, a 1963 Bultaco Mercurio and a 1965 Honda C200.
Having owned many different brands of motorcycles, Schroeder speaks of Honda Motorcycles with a level of confidence and appreciation that inspires.
According to Logue, Schroeder’s exposure to all motorcycle brands has allowed him to experience the quality difference between Honda and the other manufacturers.
“I am a Honda man,” says Schroeder. “Honda’s overall quality responds better than any other brand to detailing and reconditioning. Honda motorcycles use no-nonsense engineering while applying the best technology and workmanship. Honda motorcycles are not complex or overdone and they work perfectly. Simply put, Honda motorcycles are more gratifying to work on,” Schroeder concludes.
When asked if there was anytime in these sixty-five years that he could not ride as often as he would like to, “My daughter Susan was born,” Schroeder responded with a smile. Today Susan works in Atlanta in the field of veterinary medicine.
Last but not least, Schroeder would like to remind our customers and visitors that his work on the motorcycles is not restoration work, but reconditioning. All motorcycles are one hundred percent original.
We at the Bob Logue Motor Sports Honda Museum would like to thank and honor Myron Schroeder for his dedication to preserving and perpetuating classic models of what we consider to be the best motorcycles ever made. For his ethics, loyalty and wisdom we are eternally grateful. Thank you, Myron.
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