Sunnyvale Motorcycle Retirement Home A word From The President of Sunnyvale Motorcycle Retirement Home Cotton Willie Your dearly departed bike Some hard knock stories This is not for the squeamish Are there parts all over the place. Can't remember where you put the crank case or the cylinder heads How did all your years of saving bike hardware end up outside in the rain until it all had turned into a single solid block of rust Are you spending more time on the side of the road with your broken down home built than with your girlfriend Is she spending more time with your buddy in his pickup truck, picking you up from the side of the highway Are you waiting until a new product is invented that you can just spray on and wipe the rust back to chrome. Good Neighbor Are You tired of listening to your neighbor complaining about how your old Honda leaning against the outside of your garage for the last 12 years looks so good when he looks out from his patio every morning while having a coffee with his wife. The Bike Builder OK. So you found this 650 Yamaha at a yard sale for $600.00. It would be really cheap on insurance and it would look really good chopped. I'll take it apart piece by piece and rebuild it. I'll turn it into a show bike. We know. We were all there at some time or another. Buy a cheap Jap bike and turn it into a Harley chopper. Great idea. I love shrooms. But 10 years later you've ended with less parts than you started out with. And some how that big idea you thought was great has dwindled and fizzled to rust. And it just seemed so much easier to go out and buy that brand new bike that made you look so good with your brand new chick on the back. Yes. It seemed so sensible. But no matter how much you cared and wanted to hold on. When the relation ship is over and you've lost that spark. You can't force it. It has to be a natural thing. An old mechanic once said to me as a boy. If you let it go and it finds its way back to the garage then it was meant to be. Just Kidding Are you sure your X was kidding when she said, don't think I'm fooling with you mister if you don't come over right this minute and pick up your shit, or she'd call the scrap guy and he'd be more than happy to pop by and pick up these shiny little chrome parts that say Harley on them. That was 3 months ago. You could have really used those parts now. Mom's Love You come home after serving six months. In the militia I mean. Your mom tells yah. Well son while you were away some nice boys came along and took away that red old rusted bike you had chained up against the old oak tree. Imagine that after all these years. Finally Gone. Mom says they offered her $50.00 for it. And she says to them, oh no no boys I wouldn't hear of it. You keep that $50.00 and buy something nice for your mothers. Slit it up between each other. It's the least my son can do for you. Especially after seeing how hard you boys worked trying to get that chain off the bike. And all those parts. You boys work so well together and so fast she says to them. Mom says it took them only a half hour and it was all apart and loaded into your van that I left rotting, blocking the garage entrance. Lucky I found the keys and ownership she says. You always said you'd like to sell it. So I did but that nice boy Tony said it wasn't worth anything. Too much work and that he'd do us a favor and just take it to the scrap yard after they were done moving the parts. I've never seen such concentration and team work. It looked like they've been doing this forever. And then she says to me you should work so hard. If only you were more like them when you were younger you'd never had gotten in so much trouble. You and your friends. She reminded the boys to make sure they buy something special for their moms. All mothers need love too. They worry about you all the time. Buy you are all good boys. Not like my son the devil spawn. There is no love like a mothers love. Mom said they all had a big cry and then a group hug. She invited them all to stay for dinner but they seamed to be in a big hurry to leave so she gave them all veal cutlets in fresh Italian bread ready to go and they all promised to be back again soon to meet me in person. I said wasn't that nice of them. And mom says I should have been here so I could meet them and maybe learn something from them... They were such fine young good looking boys. Just like you used to be. But with a lot more hair and so thin she says. They were so very helpful while they were here. They also helped me clean out your filthy room. Oh and they also sold me a Rolex watch and said this was a very expensive make. I bought it for you son even though you don't deserve a thing. Still mother loves her little boy. She said she paid only a hundred dollars for it. I could see from across the room where it said made in Japan. Oh by the way son, they left you the frame and the chain still attached to the tree. They said they couldn't unlock it so I let them use one of your welding tools in your garage to cut through it. But half way through the tank thingy it ran out of a gas. The youngest fellow named Tony said he would return the welding machines as soon as he filled it with gas. He said he would be by next week after he gets out of rehab. She thought he said he'd come by after he calls a cab. No cab ever showed up here and the chain and Indian Chief frame is still against that damn tree. My mom also told me that Tony said if your not going to be using the frame he'd like it back at some point. He says no use having all these parts without the frame. Tony has never been back and my collection of early DC comics and playboys have never been seen again Sunnyvale Motorcycle Retirement Home Open Since 2001 can help you Even if all you have is just the frame and it's chained against a wall, call us we'll pick it up. Save a part save a bike We'll even pay if you think its worth something THE GOOD | THE BAD | THE UGLY
My Ride
1981 Shovel Custom
Update for 2007. Fuel TV' s Project Detention last month riding for a DVD called Detonation, Featured in the Bonus Section of Jay Schwitzer's "ON THE PIPE 3", pictured in a full page add for Innova Tires in Transworld MX, Jumped at the Georgia Dome for 68 000 and then Tampa Stadium for 72 000.... been a good month.
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