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General Category => OFF TOPIC not Bridgestone related => Topic started by: RayK on July 02, 2014, 08:34:15 AM

Title: Huge Cache of motorcycles
Post by: RayK on July 02, 2014, 08:34:15 AM
From the VJMC site in Australia

I think that there is a Bridgestone 100 in there!! :)

This is a link to a DC Classic Cycles HTML page containing text, photos and links that describe how these guys found a warehouse full of old motorbikes.

dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html
Title: Re: Huge Cache of motorcycles
Post by: SR-175 on July 02, 2014, 10:46:27 AM
Good Lord .... a small world. I was in that building around 2002 / 2003. We pulled a few bikes out it at the time. One I missed because we could just not get it off the first floor as it was just toooo damn dangerous, floor boards & joists rotten, was a Triumph 200 Cub with the snow tracks on the rear & skis where the front wheel would have been. This was a kit you could buy back in the late 50's / early 60's.

later  ... ray
Title: Re: Huge Cache of motorcycles
Post by: dcr on July 02, 2014, 11:11:18 AM
Wow!! What a shame to see all those bikes and parts sent to the scrap yard. Im sure there was more than 1 Bridgestone in that building.
Title: Re: Huge Cache of motorcycles
Post by: moonpup on July 02, 2014, 11:18:02 AM
Here's a video of it later burning and collapsing......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HajzikSuKM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HajzikSuKM)
Title: Re: Huge Cache of motorcycles
Post by: slawsonb on July 02, 2014, 11:32:22 AM
The picture of all the bikes in the dumpster made me sad. I am way to sentimental an old dude.
 :'(
...bert

Upon further reflection, since almost everything on a motorcycle is recyclable, at least they didn't end up in a landfill...
Title: Re: Huge Cache of motorcycles
Post by: Jon Hardcastle on July 30, 2014, 11:10:47 AM
I live about an hour and half away on the other side of the border, this place was mythical.  I know there were a lot of guys sneaking in and out selling parts on Ebay.  I also feel sadness when I see history being sent to the scrap ovens.