Bicycle Museum/Graveyard

[tikiharl]

On Friday I went up to the mountains and on the way home I stopped in the little town of Rye.When I say little that is a understatement.It has a bar,a ranch,a realty office and the bike yard.Almost everyone in Arizona knows about the bike yard,it has been here for decades.The owner has always been pleasent to me on my visits but I have been told by many others that he was hard to deal with.He is a bit pricey on his bikes and parts and it sometimes seems he really doesnt want to sell but just collect.He knows everything he has and can tell you what pile it is in.The lot is probably 60 % motorcycles and the rest bicycles,cars and misc stuff.On the north end of the property there is three rows of piles 75yards long ,6 ' wide and 8' high :shock: The owner told me he has been collecting there for 38 years.The sad thing is that most of the stuff is rusting away.The picture is of the owner, not myself

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38927112@N05/show/

 

[KOTA]

To bad when he's gone, someone is going to CLEAN that all out, and it's all gonna get re-cycled........He looks like your brother from another Mother. :lol:

 

[Ed_Straker's_Rat]

Man, that kinda stuff drives me nuts... All those great bikes going to waste. How can people call themselves 'collectors' when they leave everything outside to rust away to nothing. It would be better to have each bike in someone's back yard where they would at least get some use once in a while.

OK, rant over, I'm just jealous 'cos I never find anything that good around Toronto

 

[KZ1000]

I can't wait to show my wife those pics, Show her that I am not that bad after all, it could be worse

 

[Danimal]

I can't wait to show my wife those pics, Show her that I am not that bad after all, it could be worse

Haha, I just show my wife yours and Glenn's stash to prove I'm not that bad.

 

[pjbaz]

Best pix of that place I've seen so far. This guy gets brought up on the BMX sites from time to time but those pix focus on the BMX-LOL

 

[SSG]

Some cool scooters and little motorbikes in there too! Simplex servicycles, sears allstate scooter, even a pair of pretty rare little dkw's.

 

[sensor]

i knew i saw a simplex in there!
looks like its somewhat organized :wink:

 

[dos cruiser]

This is the place I was asking about awhile back. I walked around in there for about an hour and I know I didn't see everything, but I did take a bunch of pictures. I'd love to have that old panel delivery on top of the stack up by the gate. I'm going to go back to that place when I get back to Arizona. This guy has a 1880's tandem, high wheeler and a coulpe of tricycles that he will not sell, says he going to start a museum and they are going to be some of the starter bikes. At least there in Arizona and not in Mo. where they would be rusted way by now. lol

 

[Uncle Stretch]

There was a guy in Houston that hoarded about 150 old Indian Motorcycles. Everybody knew where they were. He wouldnt sell anything. People use to jump the fence and steal his parts. He told a guy walking through there one night to stop and the guy kept walking and he shot and killed him. Turned out the guy was a deaf mute street urchin that just happen to get there. He was no billed but still sold everything to someone a year or so later and that guy spent a few years fixing up what he could and sold the parts of the rest.

 

[nosferatum15115]

omg is like heaven for me :mrgreen: