It always breaks my heart that so many good parts and machines went to waste like this. And you just wonder how many of these machines made their way here long before their time.
@geralt58
Жыл бұрын
So sad to seeing that. I live in Cuba and you don't known how hard is to get a decent bike here. I bet that the 70% of that bikes Cubans can rescue them and use them. It's incredible.
@vladredline2767
Жыл бұрын
ок! No passaran! 😄
@ThePistonbreaker
Жыл бұрын
Capitalismo salvaje... viva Fidel
@antoniozacariaslima3285
Жыл бұрын
Tradução para português
@marshallcollins8634
Жыл бұрын
@ Gerald And all they would need to fix ANY. Of them is DUCT TAPE. If a Cuban can't fix it with duct tape ,than it is not fixable.
@chrishunter5041
Жыл бұрын
There should be a law against Motorcycle abandonment👍
@ronaldsweere9286
6 ай бұрын
Genereally when you abandon a vehicle the law does fine the last owner.
@kennyrichard2971
Жыл бұрын
Motorcycle junkyards like that i bet they are kicking them selves today for not pulling parts and shelving them with the massive demand for vintage motorcycles today
@paulgrogan8032
Жыл бұрын
Imagine the miles of absolute joy & love that those machines brought so many souls.
@J2I3H
Жыл бұрын
Exactly my thoughts! Makes me feel good imagining that
@michellepatrick5175
Жыл бұрын
I wonder how many had a car make a left?
@dco956
Жыл бұрын
@@michellepatrick5175 a shit load...that's y they're n the graveyard
@dco956
Жыл бұрын
@@ccrider00 u definitely need God on your side.....u gotta have 360 vision & stay away from high traffic
@carlmorgan8452
Жыл бұрын
Some lives lost is possible too 😊
@1683clifton
Жыл бұрын
Picked up my first bike in Co off some Mennonites property, they left it to the waste and the original owner let me get it. Every part replaced using the old Dennis Kirk catalogs. Best bike ever. Now I ride a brand new mt03 and I'm so happy to be back on two's. God bless America.
@JwpGaming
Жыл бұрын
Wow. That's got me quiet. I've visited many scrap yards growing up, but seeing so many bikes, each with their own stories, left to die. makes you go quiet.
@1970sRacing
Жыл бұрын
something spiritual about these sites. I keep picturing riding or seeing friends riding these bikes and a strong desire to restore them all......I know you can feel it Ken!
@Tibingi84
Жыл бұрын
oddly enough this is the most beautiful junkyard I’ve ever seen 🤩
@TWDStroke
Жыл бұрын
I love that he’s talkin quietly as to not disrespect the dead
@Ro6entX
Жыл бұрын
As a rider myself, this was heartbreaking to watch. Could only imagine how many laughs, smiles have been generated on all those bikes. Most looked that could be salvaged for parts. Would be a project person’s paradise too. I could be wrong but I think this place is in Georgia
@user-on9zy3sd8e
Жыл бұрын
Нет не думаю что это в Грузии. Я часто бываю в Грузий, и такого я точно там не видел и не слышал. А мне как мотоциклисту друзья с Грузии сказали бы...
@floriandiefenthaler2553
Жыл бұрын
@@user-on9zy3sd8eI bet he meant Georgia in USA. In eastern countries people don‘t buy, use and scrap to buy something newer. As to my perception things, that work are continued to be used. They also get more often repaired. Other than western modular component swap, they get REPAIRED and reinstalled.
@venjhammet
Жыл бұрын
Breaks my heart to see these bikes rusting away. If it was in our place, I lot of it would have been restored.
@cajuncyclerestorations145
Жыл бұрын
I wonder how many happy young guys took these down the train tracks . gravel roads, and trails with out a worry in the world in the (best years) 70s & 80s !!!!
@lalique1980
Жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍🏍👍👍👍👍👍
@roadrunner1580
4 ай бұрын
took the words right out of my mouth
@jefftaylor1974
Жыл бұрын
So, where is this place? What's its name? Is it open for sales?
@darrelllopes5013
Жыл бұрын
Imagine buliding a custom bike salvaging parts all form the yard. That would be a real apocalypse bike!
@cikoko460
Жыл бұрын
i see myself there siting on one of them bikes and crying... greetings from united kingdom! :(
@AnyMotoUSA
Жыл бұрын
Sport wheels in Jordan Minnesota is pretty huge, I'm positive there's over 4000 bikes there.
@kolarmic
Жыл бұрын
I sense a sadness in Ken's voice. I am sad too. Those were all wonderful bikes, and the stories they could tell from their years on the road, track, or trail. It's a shame that owners neglect, fail to repair or replace a part, and eventually send the bikes off to this permanent home. For any true two wheel enthusiast, this is a hard video to watch. Pride of ownership goes a long way....and in many cases, keeps bikes like these on the road and running.
@TheSillybits
Жыл бұрын
I totally agree, but, I suppose manufacturers are also to blame to some extend; they stop support, parts become harder to get, they come up with new models and me buying a new one instead of repairing is often attractive, heaving the banks support with cheap money... its sad though, and I hope some can partly live on as replacement part on another one still in use, or else as reused metals in new bikes....
@Itsjake908
Жыл бұрын
This is a serious issue in America and something NEEDS to be done about it.
@donniebaker5984
Жыл бұрын
@@TheSillybits same goes for muscle cars . Who would of ever thought they would ever bring over a million dollars at an auction today ..and i just happen to know a man who visits my local watering hole who now owns one of three of the rarest the most valuable muscle cars ever to exist and he doesnt have a clue of what hes really got only that his father bought it brand new in 1970 and told the kid to never sell her...so he paid a professional $27,000 to restore his dads car back to factory with the original paint it still has on it from the factory shinning like the day it was made 53 years ago, besides he aint no ordinary bar fly as he is the boss of a demolition crew who is the only ones who know how to blast through mountains of rock for natural gas companies to lay pipe ..so hes already a multi millionaire and wouldnt part with his dad's car for anything and everything there is in the world ! But i would in a hot new york minute ...they made a lot of hemis and they made a lot of cudas ...but they never made over three 1970 hemi cuda rag tops with a four speed on the floor and two four barrel carburators on a 426 Chrysler hemi as it is the most powerful muscle car ever produced and documented ...don " big daddy" garlits about 30 years ago on his cable tv show feature a museum curator sell one to a japanese man who was contracted by japanese white collar business men to buy up all the rarest american muscle cars there is no matter what the cost ..and on big daddy don's show 30 + - years ago i sat in front of my tube with tears in my eyes as one of the three ever made went for $6,000,000 dollars with big daddy bragging about it that was my first time ever hearing about it as big daddy himself admitted there were only three 1970 cudas made with a hemi , equiped with two fours a four speed on the floor and a rag top ...if you ever seen the movie " fantasium " you saw the hero in #2 ..chasing the " tall man " the ghoul from other planet ...and now you and me are the only two people in the entire world who know were #3 is ...and dont you feel special ,,,,,ba ha ha ha ha ....lol
@keithturgeon5448
Жыл бұрын
Idk, how much time money and energy would you put into a 80s sportster to keep it going? Sometimes it just doesn't make sense
@follyfour506
Жыл бұрын
Maybe a lot of them bikes were stolen or crashed . Another thought , if they were all still on the road the manufacturer's wouldn't be selling new bikes.
@timewilltella39
Жыл бұрын
It breaks my heart seeing all those bikes like that I bet in all that is soms real gems Thanks 💯✌️❤️🙏2u@yours sir 🇺🇲💪
@straycat1674
Жыл бұрын
Imagine how much of those bikes could’ve been salvaged if they weren’t left out in the environment. That’s not a motorcycle graveyard, that’s motorcycle purgatory.
@TimewarpTV
9 ай бұрын
yea I was thinking the same. I wouldn't even want parts from most of these rust buckets, most look in total disarray.
@user-yn1kx2mn9i
7 ай бұрын
You should see the junkyard that was on Michael Sabo’s Basket case garage . It’s twice the size of this yard with modern bikes and ATVs and UTVs . They literally walked up to several bikes that was being junked and fired them up and they might have smoked or needed something but not junked. It was almost sickening to see running and rideable bikes being junked and some had parts sold off of them and still ran fine
@zentz-11
Жыл бұрын
Mir blutet das Herz.😭Grüße aus Germany.
@76vetten
Жыл бұрын
That was fun looking around. Great video.
@ronaldtravis970
Жыл бұрын
I used to work at a place similar looking to that as a teen in the late 80s 90 s Called Joes Used Cycle in N Dartmouth Massachusetts . I learned so much working there .
@Si-vq5wg
Жыл бұрын
Mind blowing.I had to watch this 2 or 3 times to take it all in.I'd happily pay money just to view a site like this.Awesome.👍
@markvisconti4507
7 ай бұрын
Holy crap!..that is crazy. Some definite gems in there. Thank you for pointing out the bikes as you go through.
@JimBobZee
Жыл бұрын
Awesome show! Thanks for sharing.
@andrewpinheiro7202
Жыл бұрын
Man I’d love to go pick through that there’s some neat bikes in there man it is kinda sad to see them in that condition though
@markcollins5026
Жыл бұрын
Man, just think of all the happy people that bought those bike's new off the showroom floor, where are they now !
@dale5303
Жыл бұрын
So many people want to save bikes but the locations of these places are always hidden
@wenceslaununesandradejunio6649
Жыл бұрын
Nossa isso aqui no Brasil vale mais que Ouro.meu sonho trabalhar em um lugar como este .eu já tinha restaurado um monte e desmontado o resto é colocado na prateleiras todas peças recuperável catalogadas e com certeza venderia tudo com milhões de lucro .jamais deixaria se perder assim .muito triste .se eu fosse o dono desse lugar me contrataria pra fazer esse serviço ele não iria se arrepender e os colecionadores menos ainda
@wayneschmitt8520
Жыл бұрын
I couId spend hours there ! Just Iooking at parts ! Thank you for sharing !
@mikestowe6136
Жыл бұрын
these are the videos i love i could sit thier allday n just look at bikes id wanna fix n ride n not restore ride them the way they are sweaty but then again id be happy with any bike to ride
@MegaAndyandyandy
Жыл бұрын
Think of all the old bikes those parts can bring back to life.... Be a pal and grab me the ignition off one of those 70s rt360's for my Ice racing project!! Awesome Video just awesome.
@justrob4586
Жыл бұрын
A few of those bikes around the 4 min mark looked solid and fairly easy to bring back to life. The Shadow 750, the intruder, and a couple after that
@Kris_Stiletto
Жыл бұрын
No HD's? Must be because People rebuild HD's... :-) Peace, Stiletto :-)
@user-bi3fg6hz1o
Жыл бұрын
Hey Mr Kaplan everything big in Texas man the good stuff that can be be fixed and made road worthy with the right tools time and mechanical knowledge WOW
@daleskiog7499
Жыл бұрын
Mind blowing just absolutely crazy .
@chrisgroves9829
10 ай бұрын
Amazing,thanks for sharing kap!
@mysticunicorn1968
Жыл бұрын
Where is this place located? Can anyone go there? If so can you drop by or do you need to contact the owner?
@larrybrown9310
Жыл бұрын
Lotta nice machines..I’d love to get in there and get em running and looks for parts for my 93 YZ250
@user-fi3vc1te5w
Жыл бұрын
🤯для мотолюбителя очень интересно,просто походить посмотреть,починить 👍
@duskintheforest584
Жыл бұрын
The carnage is disturbing! But interesting for us motorbike fanatics.
@carlmorgan8452
Жыл бұрын
Dust to Dust ..... all is vanity
@VentoVr61987
Жыл бұрын
Da blutet einem das Herz! Ich hätte gerne einen Tag Zeit um mir ein bike zu bauen und dann mit nach Hause zu nehmen! Sowas habe ich noch nie gesehen, echt unglaublich aber auch unglaublich traurig für einen Menschen der Motorräder liebt!
@michaeleverett2650
Жыл бұрын
I just Googled Bob's Used cycle parts to see if they are still in business here in Phoenix, and it shows that they still are in business with a website with pictures, looks like they have a lot of bikes and parts that is well-organized , I remember that place being around for many years.
@tony2167
Жыл бұрын
They are still in business
@jimini1976
Жыл бұрын
Is that the same place that had ads in Dirt Bike and Dirt Rider in the 80's and 90's? Back then my favorite thing was Stick Em Up stickers, 50 cents each👍. Good ole days.
@Dazg297
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video that place is like heaven I would love to live there.
@Mr10usdad
Жыл бұрын
Ken are you still in Georgia? Where is this?
@jimclarke1108
Жыл бұрын
Amazing, im sure a complete bike or two could be restored
@jonahstreet6747
Жыл бұрын
Yall should should see the inside of the buildings. The entire building is loaded with motorcycles. There is motorcycles on the service counter that is no longer used. This place is amazing to say the least and only one man works there. Bridges cycle salvage in Washington GA they got anything you will ever need for 2 wheels. Ken needs to buy this place. I was up there a few years ago and the man said he wanted to sell all of it.
@nononsenseBennett
Жыл бұрын
Someone needs to disassemble and properly warehouse the parts. A followup with the back story of the owner would be great content.
@donpablitos
Жыл бұрын
My heart is broken.😢 I love restoring old bikes. We don't have such things. I had a heart attack.🖤 Greetings from Poland.
@joshuaruttenberg9508
Жыл бұрын
For all those people looking for the 10 mill socket here’s a good place to start
@Antidoton
Жыл бұрын
They say you can hear the sound of two strokes ripping through the trees in the dead of night when nobody is around...
@jamesblack1011
Жыл бұрын
Hi new sub here love this kind of content. We don't get these kind of places in the UK. Would be a dream come true if we did. Would like to see you bringing a couple of those back to life.👍🏻
@aidenpowell6093
Жыл бұрын
I'd live there. beautiful video. thanks brother.
@jojocueto9068
Жыл бұрын
It's not a graveyard. It's treasure
@tlbx57
Жыл бұрын
Wow, one of the bikes with a windjammer faring look very much like the the one I owned back in the late 70's. Where is this place at?
@wayno23
Жыл бұрын
Not for sale, gonna do them up one day 🙃
@davidchereneimmel8820
Жыл бұрын
Crazy ! Never seen a motorcycle graveyard. I did notice the Fox body mustang haha. I would love to spend some time in there.
@geemailgmail3463
Жыл бұрын
Wow!! Alot of good memories from people on them bikes.
@xnihilo64
Жыл бұрын
Remains of the golden age of motorcycling.
@dave1secondago
Жыл бұрын
wow fantastic find bro
@donaldclinton1975
Жыл бұрын
Looking at one of my favorites right there. The Yamaha triple
@Hdhdjdjdjsjdje
8 ай бұрын
It’s beautiful. Ripper County… literally… man…. I bet that was a fun day looking through… Amazing amount of bikes. 🤤🤤😵💫🤤🤤😍😍😍😘😘😘😘
@vintagemachinery2159
Жыл бұрын
Ken liked that Suzuki gt380. I just sold my gt750 a couple years ago, haven’t seen one for sale in MN since.
@johnhansen7499
Жыл бұрын
That was awesome! I hope that you grabbed a project bike or two 😅
@creativeexperience6388
Жыл бұрын
Man that place is heaven. I only build old rusty bobbers and that would be awesome to go to
@tessbushell5489
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely mental that,full of rusty gold.Just imagine all the parts that are like you say unobtainium just lying amongst it all 😔I hope you save some Ken 👍🏻
@shaneburke1778
Жыл бұрын
Nicest yard art I've ever seen 😍
@atoyotpromod
Жыл бұрын
So much awesome in there!!!!
@django1364
3 ай бұрын
at one time those bikes were someone's pride and joy, many road trips many memories, and many stories to last a generation to come, look at them now nothing more than a pile of junk, I wish was living near a place like this junkyard..so many rebuilds
@GroovyVideo2
Жыл бұрын
1987 I worked Buds Cycle Austin tx - it had similar amount of old bikes = ALL were melted down for scrap using portable melting pot rig - was before the internet so were mostly worthless at the time -except for aluminum scrap price -
@johnthonig1692
Жыл бұрын
I knew Bud on Ceaser Chavez st
@will7385
Жыл бұрын
Wow nice find a gem and do a restoration video please!
@raitshots
Жыл бұрын
Woiwww. Real back again rebuild. Easy 😎👍
@robertraikes9409
6 ай бұрын
Man, what spectacle, many a fun time had on those bikes I bet
@tala.186
Жыл бұрын
i love the video
@bingbong59
Жыл бұрын
I am tearing up, what a mind feat of passed joy
@user-fw1tk2hf5i
5 ай бұрын
Wish we could have some of those parts over here in NM
@beniaodessckiy3396
Жыл бұрын
Ништякии,айяйяй!!!
@figerchannel
Жыл бұрын
What an amazing/terrible waste! If it was India or Pakistan - all these machines would still be running and would travel the next kilometers to please their owners. And here - they die in silence. For a car fan, it's like visiting a cemetery of former heroes. 😥
@nicholaswilliams4336
Жыл бұрын
Do they have scrap yards in India ?
@figerchannel
Жыл бұрын
@@nicholaswilliams4336 😆 I don't think so
@markwebster613
Ай бұрын
i would love a back yard like this .one could only wish .
@vtwinrenegade
Жыл бұрын
@kaplancycles - Where exactly is this place?
@sheikh_javed_yasin
Жыл бұрын
My heart shattered into more pieces than the graveyard has bikes.😢
@sonnyseabury4051
Жыл бұрын
I know all of those bikes, at one time or another, had beautiful stories to tell. Shame that their owners didn't take better care of them, and that they gave up on them. Very sad, because I'm quite sure that there is alot of potential in many of those bikes, for a beautiful restoration, which would need to be done by your business, since Y'all are the best of the best in my honest opinion. The proof is in all of yall's videos, and should Never be questioned.
@cr250rrcflyby3
Жыл бұрын
Dang Kap ! I was hoping you would stop at them vintage CR’s …I seen a CR60 not long after you walked in ! What a damn shame seeing them old dirt bikes. GOD BLESS AMERICA ‼️LORD KNOWS WERE IN DEEP DOO
@JoseAntonio-sx7qg
Жыл бұрын
Muito bom seu trabalho 😮
@kainsixtysix9458
Жыл бұрын
Some seriously rare bikes in the mix. I saw my old Kawi 350 2 stroker in there. The ATCs and vintage dirt bakes really get my attention. No CBXs ?
@GH-wt7ww
Жыл бұрын
80s and earlier produced some quality bikes from Japan. It might look doom and gloom but Ill bet some could come back to life.
@zackward5516
Жыл бұрын
Fully restored for the low low price of 20 k lol . All jokes aside it would be cool To bring one back to life .
@americanme3239
Жыл бұрын
"Sport wheels" in Jordan Minnesota was the same.. until 15 years ago.. they relocated down the road.. scrapped alot.. downsized.. and have a large building for good bikes. As I was hunting parts outside for my v65.. THE owner was out there moving junk around.. he said he enjoyed the old days.. cause he rode alot of these cycles. Getting late for me to risk my life today. Magna v65 4 sale.
@hodaka1000
Жыл бұрын
So sad so many unloved motorcycles when there's so many people who want to adopt 😞
@brucedale4465
Жыл бұрын
Where is this place I would like to see it? Subscribed
@lloydmott1291
Жыл бұрын
MAn where is this place at I saw one or two I would love to get my hands on??????
@ranter7100
Жыл бұрын
Oh my...... the states is amazing for this type of thing. I could amuse myself for hours looking at my youth.
@phoenixarizona8441
Жыл бұрын
What's the difference between the Yamaha XS 650 vs the Yamaha XJ650 both inline 4 cylinders both fun fast bikes for the age
@johnthonig1692
Жыл бұрын
XS650 is two cylinders
@jamesbanjomanjohnson
Жыл бұрын
where are you at ? where is this junkyard located??
@leonardarola
Жыл бұрын
Ohh man, would love to pick me a few side projects from there...
@jawafreestyle85
Жыл бұрын
Nice place.
@dwesley8984
Жыл бұрын
Were is this yard?
@dco956
Жыл бұрын
I love 70s & 80s.....that's my world...as a 15 yr old kid....I remember Suzuki GS 1100 L. were as cool as LTD KAWYS
@keeganfoster1792
Жыл бұрын
Wish there were more people that try to save these gems wow, hard to see all them
@tommihelminen6430
Жыл бұрын
What a he... Wow. That's a lots of bikes! I get sad and same time interested to get there and start to build a bike 😁. I read comments and it is so nice to see that there is lots of same kind of people in all ower the earth ho thinks same way! We all whant to rescue all fantastic bikes 😅 . Heh... I realy hope that some one sell ore giwe those bikes and parts! Ot woud be wery sad if they just rot and rust a way in time!? Good video and greetings to all you macine heads in all awer the world 😎💪
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