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General Category => General Banter => Topic started by: vince on November 24, 2012, 11:18:02 AM
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I stopped into this place the other day to take a look around. There are more motorcycles in there than anything else. The second most toys are these side by side ATVs that you ride like a truck. They look like a lot of fun but don't crash one. It looks like when they roll over there is a lot of damage to just about everything on it. A lot of them had front wheel and suppension damage. Completely riped off the machine. Which ripes out the gear case as well. It looks like you got to get a pretty good deal to come out on something likes this just to break even. And your labor would be free.
Of the bike you might say that there was two types there. Sportbikes and Harley's. I think the number was about equal. But it is what I notice about the two that is alarming to me. The sportbikes really had a lot of plastic damage. Some bent wheels and forks. The rest of them looked like they just slid off a turn because the y were going to fast.
Now those Harley are much different. All of them had front end damage. Yes there were some that had saddlebag damage but this was not really part of the main part of the crash. It was something do after the cause of the crash. Just falling over after it stopped.
It is the front end damage. All of them the front forks are snapped clean off. Clearly these bikes are running into something that doesn't give. And the other alarming thing is you know that they weren't wearing anything but sunglasses. It just looks like most of them died.
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They had to "lay it down". (Sarcasm)
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Tougher to see in front of you when you're blinded by the wind in your eyes
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Bike Purgatory before the Perdition of "SPORT WHEELS"!
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Heh, Sport Wheels get the bikes that were restored, then crashed again, after CrashedToys.
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There was a whole section of "sold" bikes too. Who buys these things with that kind of major damage?
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There is a market for crashed bikes for the parts. I know a guy who owns 7 ST1100's he bought from insurance companies. Everyone goes to him first for parts.
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For a wanne be ricky racer, if you can turn a wrench, look no further.