Value on vintage bikes

OldPro277 wrote:

Apparently you didn't read or understand my post. Dude,obviously you haven't done many restores. I/m not sure anyone that does a quality restoration is able to...

Apparently you didn't read or understand my post. Dude,obviously you haven't done many restores. I/m not sure anyone that does a quality restoration is able to make a profit,or at least enough to warrant the time involved. And to address your statement that no one gets to see a great restoration job if its not ridden. .Wrong again. Even the bikes that I don't ride go to at least 6-8 races per year to be displayed. They've been in the "Legends and Heroes " displays at various Nationals and Supercross's on the East coast(High Point,Unadila,etc), at the Moto Armory displays at Vintage days, and various other AHRMA events. So,Im going to estimate that conservatively 40,000+ people had to the opportunity to view my 4 "non ridden" bikes this past year. Which is just slightly more than if I rode a bike at local Chicken Licks Raceway,lol. Keep in mind that 6 racebikes go with us to actually be raced at these events too,and those ones are restored to "show"quality too.

To recap all this-- again-- You build and use the bikes the way you want to, I'll do my thing , Sandman will do his, Newmann does his and on and on. I have zero qualms with the way anyone does their builds. You seem to like to argue, my advice to you is to relax and build, restore, ride, race,show,display whatever you like. Most of us Vintage guys have had far more days behind us than we have ahead of us so.........

barnett468 wrote:

"Dude,obviously you haven't done many restores." Well, I do restorations for a living and have sold a few cars for world record prices at Barrett Jackson...

"Dude,obviously you haven't done many restores."

Well, I do restorations for a living and have sold a few cars for world record prices at Barrett Jackson in Scottsdale, therefore you quite clearly know absolutely zero about me, so that's what you get for assuming.

Also, when attempting to be condescending to someone, it would bee more effective if you used the proper words in the sentences you write. Instead of the word "restores" in your sentence above, you should have used the word "restorations" as this would have been grammatically correct.


"And to address your statement that no one gets to see a great restoration job if its not ridden."

"reading comprehension is one of my stronger attributes,lol. "

ummm...that is not exactly what I stated, therefore, your reading comprehension skills that you seem to be so proud of are obviously not quite as good as you seem to think they are.


"You seem to like to argue,"

It is also quite obvious that you are in fact the who who likes to argue and to try and have the last word, otherwise you wouldn't continue to reply to my posts, lol. Anyway. please do carry on, as I find this amusing.


"my advice to you is to relax and build, restore, ride, race,"

Thanks for the "advice" and I am always quite relaxed and did race today at Milestone with calvmx and won both classes I entered on my old worn out looking 1980 YZ250 that says "GERITOL" instead of "YAMAHA" on the tank.
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OldPro277 wrote:

Yes we all know how fast you are and that you're a "jetting expert",and your bikes run great but look ugly . I'm kinda shocked you...

Yes we all know how fast you are and that you're a "jetting expert",and your bikes run great but look ugly . I'm kinda shocked you didn't mention again how you were the Head engineer of Kawasaki R&D go-karts during the glory years,lol. You just have a very bad habit of de-railing just about every thread you feel the need to enter. This thread was titled "Value of Vintage bikes". NOT what Barnacle THINKS people should do with their restoration projects. I tried to answer the mans question,and you jumped in with your criticism of "useless" builds and what people should do with them. And congratulations on your record-setting performance,however I was referring to restoring Vintage MX bikes for profit, which is very,very difficult to do,and was also the subject of the thread. (there is that reading comprehension issue again)

ATKPilot- You are correct,this is typically the safe port in the storm and I apologize for hooking him---but its soo easy,lol. Vintage guys are a great bunch of dudes,but every once in awhile you run across one that........

One last thing 'ol468, why is it that in most threads that you post , there are a bunch of "blank" posts from you ?? is that a sign or secret code of some sort ?? Lmao.