Does anyone have pictures of the “graveyard” at Ricky’s place? Never heard about it until the other day and a quick google search came up with nothing.
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My buddy wrenches for a rider out there, he said the barn has tons of factory suspension,factory pipes,factory motors,whole factory bikes etc
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There is a vid on youtube I have seen somewhere, Ricky gives a quick tour of an old barn with stuff laying around, some old factory stuff.
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There was a photo set of the goat farm a few years ago by TWMX (i think) and there were a few pictures. There was a works engine from one of his rmzs just sitting on a shelf covered in dust plugged with paper towels. I'll see what I cant find
EDIT: Justin beat me to it it was MXA
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That is some cool stuff there. Would love to see more like that! But particularly I heard something along the lines of a couple works KHI bikes being run over with a dozer and half buried?
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One of the mags had some pics of his graveyard when he was still on Kaw 2 strokes. Dozens of crusty motors and thrashed frames laying around in the weeds.
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What a collection of amazing stuff...
Man he could send his kids to college just auctioning off the "junk" he has laying around.
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queen of spodes wrote:One of the mags had some pics of his graveyard when he was still on Kaw 2 strokes. Dozens of crusty motors and thrashed frames ...more
They used to run them over with a dozer then bury them. There are a couple of bike pits on the farm for sure.
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queen of spodes wrote:One of the mags had some pics of his graveyard when he was still on Kaw 2 strokes. Dozens of crusty motors and thrashed frames ...more
I'm shedding tears right now. Excuse me , as I have to go listen to the song " Taps " and dump a little whisky on the ground right about now.
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queen of spodes wrote:One of the mags had some pics of his graveyard when he was still on Kaw 2 strokes. Dozens of crusty motors and thrashed frames ...more
These are the pictures I heard about. Was it a clause at termination of contract everything gets destroyed or what? Would be a heck of a story I’m sure.
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He’s found so much stuff in the shops and they allow him to keep what he wants. He’s running a full PC system that was specially built for Savatgy on his 16 Kawi lol. Crazy
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queen of spodes wrote:One of the mags had some pics of his graveyard when he was still on Kaw 2 strokes. Dozens of crusty motors and thrashed frames ...more
Don't feel so bad sir. I don't think anything Ricky practiced on/with was any good after he was done with it.
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The original photos and article were in TWMX summer of 2000 or early 2001. I will see if I can find it. I was injured at the time, so I kept looking at the pictures of chopped up frames with works engines and pipes thrown in the grass to rust
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There was a big front end loader with a frame or 2 and misc parts in it also. Would have been MXracer wouldn't it?
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For someone with a pickers heart this is awesome. Guy in the area had an old dirt bike boneyard and I loved just wondering around when I was a teenager
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Was RC that hard on stuff??? Were they so busy it was like, quick just dump it over there another bike is coming ?
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