Wrecking yard find

[andreashweiss]

There was /is a large bike wrecking yard closing near where I live. About 80 miles away.Was a very old established yard with dirt/street bikes mostly japanese. I have known the owner for 20 plus years and he has always put the xs1100 bikes aside for me. I have gone up several times this year to clean out any xs1100 stuff that might be left. He had acres of outside parts.But several semi trailers with long forgotten inventory, to full to walk around in. As he has been cleaning them out I optained several xs1100 engines and misc electrical, etc. I thought that this source of used parts was done as he has sent 500,000 pounds of steel to the recyler and 200,000 pounds of alum engines. The yard is a empty lot now, no trace of what it once was full of. Anyway there sitting in his office was a complete clean xs1100 engine. He mentioned he had found it at the very back of a semi trailer and kept it from the crush pile for me. Mileage unknown, His best guess is it was put in the semi early 80's. I will check serial numbers and do compression test to see what I have. I never felt bad about tearing stuff down that was in the boneyard. There is now no wreck yard within 250 miles that has just bikes. Maybe it is time I started one... thanx andreas

[ossjughead]

it is tha same way for cars now well old cars 50's 60's all the yards have been crushed with last years big price on steel. its to the point now that if you want any old stuff you better have it or pray someone has one in the backyard cause the yards are almost gone.

[bikerphil]

secret mustang junkyard found!

Link...

http://jalopnik.com/5102534/massive-...-island-forest

[wa407mpp]

I used to haunt the motorcycle junkyards in Spokane before moving out here, but they never seemed to last very long, always moving on to something else,or closing down altogether. To me walking through a junkyard with all the rows of old bikes is like going to a museum. I remember shortly after the first Plunket's burned and seeing all their new BMW's setting in a row, burned to a crisp. That reminds me I need to make a run over to Bent Bikes one of these days.

[CatatonicBug]

I think a lot of the problem is that people nowadays just don't spend the time to get their hands dirty and fix stuff anymore. Everything is disposable and people have lost both the skill and the drive to make use of places like junkyards anymore. I was raised with the idea that you don't throw something away just because it's broken. You try to fix it until there is no possibility, then you just use the carcass as a solution to fix some other problem later on. I told some of the motocycle guys at work about the small things I've done to my bike so far, and they marvel at my bravery. I don't get it... It was broken, so I opened it up so see what was wrong.