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Title: Small private collection
Post by: motohorseman on August 11, 2013, 09:06:55 PM
We took a road trip this afternoon (08/11/13) to see a friends small collection of motorcycles. He had a couple of FJ1200's is decent condition, plus a few other motorcycles -

Down a long gravel road, out in the middle on nowhere, in a barn.....

Here, take look at the slideshow, pictures speak a lot louder than any of my words -

Enjoy!

http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/goeway2012/slideshow/Motohorseman/Candy%20Factory (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/goeway2012/slideshow/Motohorseman/Candy%20Factory)
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: movenon on August 11, 2013, 09:27:02 PM
WOW !!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo: Only in dreams....
George
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: Dan Filetti on August 11, 2013, 09:43:05 PM
"small"  Ha!  Really nice collection that man has. 

Seems a shame that they're clearly not ridden much though.

Dan
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: ken65 on August 11, 2013, 10:21:55 PM
wow all right, im showing this to the wife, if i could get just 1 more ,  :good2:
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: craigo on August 11, 2013, 10:35:21 PM
Wow, serious collector. We all only wish...... :good2:

I wonder how many out of the fleet are runners. And how old is the oldest tire out there.
There are some seriously nice bikes in there. Thanks for the share.

CraigO

Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: Tapartacus on August 12, 2013, 04:03:22 AM
Can you imagine how much carb cleaner that would take!
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: fjman on August 12, 2013, 04:14:13 AM
 :good2: imagine hearing them all start. sounds like you have a race track
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: Bones on August 13, 2013, 04:41:42 AM
Does he actually sell anything or does he just hoard it all away. There's quite a few gems amongst that lot. He's sitting on a gold mine there, and I reckon he knows it too.
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: motohorseman on August 13, 2013, 05:53:05 AM
Quote from: Bones on August 13, 2013, 04:41:42 AM
Does he actually sell anything or does he just hoard it all away. There's quite a few gems amongst that lot. He's sitting on a gold mine there, and I reckon he knows it too.

Yes, he buys and sells all the time.

Most of the bikes in his personal collection are being restored. When he buys them, they have generally been neglected and I do believe in many cases he is giving them a better home.

One of his goals is to open the "museum" to the public.

My suggestion to him was to get try and get the road paved!

I'm considering going to work for him, but, I'd almost rather keep him as a friend.......
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: fj11.5 on August 13, 2013, 04:26:03 PM
Be great if I could see them, all photobucket shows are random pics of  :bad:
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: airheadPete on August 13, 2013, 11:14:24 PM
Aww, man! Now I'm going to have to find some clean underwear! 
(And my wife thinks seven-ish are enough.) If I could only have those last four or five more, I'm sure that I'd be Happy. Maybe just one ZXR1200, and a VF1000R! Or an early GSXR-1000, Ducati 900SS, That GS-1000E in the blue & white, huh? Maybe? Please? Pretty please? Oh, it hurts bad.
I won't ask where it is, but that would make a heck of a rally location.
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: motohorseman on August 14, 2013, 06:46:21 AM
Quote from: fj11.5 on August 13, 2013, 04:26:03 PM
Be great if I could see them, all photobucket shows are random pics of  :bad:

That's a shame, it's a nice collection.

:blum1:
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: motohorseman on August 14, 2013, 06:47:49 AM
Quote from: airheadPete on August 13, 2013, 11:14:24 PM
Aww, man! Now I'm going to have to find some clean underwear! 
(And my wife thinks seven-ish are enough.) If I could only have those last four or five more, I'm sure that I'd be Happy. Maybe just one ZXR1200, and a VF1000R! Or an early GSXR-1000, Ducati 900SS, That GS-1000E in the blue & white, huh? Maybe? Please? Pretty please? Oh, it hurts bad.
I won't ask where it is, but that would make a heck of a rally location.

Southeastern Iowa -

I'd like to build a ZXR1200 as a modern Z1R T'C using a aerocharger lag free self container turbo  :good2:
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: Country Joe on August 14, 2013, 09:07:10 AM
Wow.  Just wow.  :flag_of_truce:

Joe
Title: Re: Small private collection
Post by: FJ_Hooligan on August 14, 2013, 09:47:08 AM
Did I see a few pics of the original '82(ish?) Suzuki Katana?
At the time, that was a really futuristic looking bike.