Saw a really cool motorcycle collection yesterday

[Ludicrous Speed]

Went to this friend of a friend's house today. I was told that he had a bunch of motorcycles. I was expecting 30 or 40 bikes. Nothing like what he has! This dude has stuff from every make and manufacturer, of all years from the 40's up to 2004. He had about 200 more in another storage building that was destroyed in an arsonists fire. No insurance on those bikes..... This is about half of his collection

Old Harley he bought from a guy when he was unable to kick start it any more

Bultaco dirttracker he just finished this spring. The thing looks brand new!

Old 1950's BMW that is absolutely perfect

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

These were REALLY cool.... They are called "stowaway scooters" A guy built these prototypes for himself and his wife to ride. Got them patented in 1955 and was going to produce them, but Honda released their revolutionary motorcycle, so he decided not to produce them. He has the patent certificate, the titles and license slips, and an article detailing these scooters.

Oh yeah, these are the only two in the world:

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

Old Triumph he was working on when we got there:

One of my favorites: 1971 CB750 Four

Another rare bike. Whizzer made two prototypes of an electric Whizzer. But never produced them. Guess who has both of them? Here is one:

Honda NSR 50, and a replica racer that Honda built in 04 to duplicate one of their 60's model race bikes behind it

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

RZ 350

He had a couple Bultacos

Three Honda CBX's, including this raked, lowered, and stretched one:

A yankee? I can't remember the story on this one

An Excelsior-Henderson from the only year they made a late model bike:

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

An old Honda that looks like new

Really cool old Zook: GT750 Three cyl, water cooled, two stroke. He called it a Water Buffalo:

KZ 750

Harley dirtbike

An old Sears bike. Thought I had a pic of the entire thing, but can't find it

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

Honda Rune

A Bultaco that someone designed a jack shaft on. No matter where the suspension is compressed, the chain tension stays the same. Whoever he bought it from machined all kinds of different parts for it....

An old 68 BSA

He has another BSA, just like the one my father used to have. Same color and all. I mentioned to him that he did not look like the type of guy to ever get rid of anything, but if he wanted to sell one of the BSA's, to LMK, as I would love to give it to my dad. He had to sell it when we moved to Illinois, and has talked about it ever since. He told me that he would sell the one that was the same color as dads! I talked to the wife about it, and she said that we should buy it and give it to him for Christmas. The guy said it would just need cleaned up, carb cleaned, and a new battery. Said he guarantees I would never find one as nice. I need to go look at it, as it was at another location.

Only problem is that my dad is 78, and mom doesn't want him on a motorcycle....... I am probably going to do it anyway, lol

Those of you that know my dad, PLEASE DO NOT MENTION THIS TO HIM

 

[kromdom]

thanks a million for sharing the pictures

P.S. Did he have a Busa somewhere in there? ???

 

[fallenarch]

Awesome. I love those sorts of places.

 

[Tiller]

That is awesome

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

What is amazing is that he has a story behind every one of these bikes, and can tel you how much he paid for every bike! And every one has some sort of significance to him. He rides most of them, too, but the ones in the back rows get ridden less

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

@Krom: No, but he rode my friends while my buddy rode the Rune, and he loved it! He just likes the older bikes

 

[vailes3705]

That is an AWESOME collection Thanks for the pics.

 

[Blanca BusaLess]

Wow! Thanks for the memories. Are they for sale? I had an 85 but maybe interested in that 84 Rz350.

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

As far as I know, they are not for sale. The only reason he was going to sell the BSA to me was that he had two of them, and didn't ride the other. And because it was the same as my dads old bike. It just sickens me to think that over 200 more were lost because of some scumbag that set the fire...

 

[Sous]

Even if your dad cannot ride it, the gift would still be a great one.

 

[card16969]

collecting or hoarding... either way its badass!!!!

 

[1 wheel peel]

Wow! Very Cool! I love the red sign in the back ground "Christmas layaway" LOL!! That's what i would want to do there.

 

[dadofthree]

Sounds like a great find. I'll try later. Pix not loading


Just saw the pix

 

[sanket_420]

wow what a collection, man

 

[BigBSBusa]

Very nice stable of bikes! I think I would like to have something like that one day.