Down to ‘69 T120R now a Tr6R tribute bike ‘70 TR6C “happy in the hills” ‘67 A65LA (now single carb) ‘93 K1100RS heavy metal (should be gone, still here…)
I don't think it's sad, at least they will be for sale and catalogued. Buying and selling old scrap bikes and cars has been going on for donkeys years especially out of the 'states. The market for that stuff is specialised and small, it takes a long time to make any money out of it. Plus the buyers are getting thinner on the ground now.
Not really a "barn find". During the move, how many fuels tanks got dented some more, cylinder head fins got broken, etc. Good that someone took interest in rescuing the lot.
1967 BSA Wasp 1967 BSA Hornet (West Coast Model) 1967 BSA Hornet (East Coast Model) 1968 BSA Firebird Scrambler 1968 BSA Spitfire Mark IV 1965 BSA Cyclone Competition Build 1965 BSA Spitfire Hornet Build
I'll take a stab at those being from Raber's and British Only.
nope Hitchcock motorcycles UK ... the go to place for Enfield
I think that Shane is saying that the stock came FROM Raber's and British Only to Hitchcock's, not entirely unreasonable.
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i originally got the link sent to me via my local BSAOC and the guy who sent me the link said it was AT Hitchcock's ... what u say about came from USA =====>UK makes sense but i wouldn't have a clue
but i sure wouldn't mind a weekend with a set of spanners and a very large trolley
"There's the way it ought to be and there's the way it is" (Sgt Barnes)
Now that all these bikes and parts are in England, American buyers can pay the extortionate British postal shipping prices to get the parts back here.
If the gear was so sought after why didn't any yanks buy the stuff? They wouldn't have had to ship it half way around the world.
Did anyone even know that the stuff was available? Was it advertised? Was it cataloged and listed by part number so a buyer could look it up or ask about it?
1967 BSA Wasp 1967 BSA Hornet (West Coast Model) 1967 BSA Hornet (East Coast Model) 1968 BSA Firebird Scrambler 1968 BSA Spitfire Mark IV 1965 BSA Cyclone Competition Build 1965 BSA Spitfire Hornet Build
These collections of bikes are normally sold as job lots--- not singly. So there might be a batch of 70-80 bikes with a purchase value of , lets say, $1000 each. So that is $75K. How many of us enthusiasts has: a) That sort of money to put out b) The space to store them ??? So the potential purchasers are few and mostly dealers. So someone like Hitchcocks hear on the grapevine that a batch is for sale, fly to US, do the deal, arrange transportation back to UK and --- voila--- there is a posting saying that Hitchcocks have a batch of US origin bikes for sale. At least that is the way that I see it.
I don't think it would be hard to amass that volume, or close to it, by spending a bit of time invested in searching out collections of older enthusiasts that want to pass it all on. There have been several in the last couple of years in The Portland area that would come close to 60 to 80 machines plus parts.
Also, I have heard that most of the British Only inventory has been getting sent in 40' shipping trailers to an East Coast EBay dealer.
I think my collection is now up to 58. The east coast guy who bought a lot from the British Only sell off is Dotler Motorcycles in Delaware. Sells on EBay. I just bought something from him for my 71 BSA A75RV. Good service.
I think my collection is now up to 58. The east coast guy who bought a lot from the British Only sell off is Dotler Motorcycles in Delaware. Sells on EBay. I just bought something from him for my 71 BSA A75RV. Good service.
Yes, Peter at Dotler is who I was referring to.
I was at about 40 machines four or five years ago. Got it down to about 25 last year and somehow it's crept back up to 28.
I'm not fond of the corruption of the term "barn find". It's like saying every scrambler that came to the West Coast is a desert sled.
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