Kris01 wrote on 01/30/17 at 17:34:47:Was it art or something you could ride?
These shows have about half of the bikes that can be ridden in some form.......and the other half just seem to be some form of art.....I bet that a very small number of the bikes are ridden on a regular basis.
In the "can be ridden" group was the 1960 Harley XLCH, a very nicely restored 1968 Honda CB 450, a Ducati GT750, a Norton Commando, a retired T500 Suzuki Road Racer that had been converted back to being barely street legal, a pair of nicely restored Harley Davidson (Aremachi) 50cc motorcycles, a RD350 road racer replica, and a several Honda twin Cafe' projects.....most of the bikes in this group could be ridden - but are bikes that don't appear to get ridden often.
In the "art" group were a lot of Bobber or Brat bikes that were most likely never ridden.....and the tires with the nubs on them prove they have not been ridden since the last set of tires were put on. Some of these bikes appear to be impossible to ride, as the seats are low, the footpegs are about a foot lower and farther forward than the seat.....and the handlebars look like an impossible reach for anybody under 7 feet tall. Many of these bike lack any kind of "legal" lighting.....and often there was no place to put a license plate. One of the bikes was a Honda 350 that was created to look like a 60's drag bike that was raced, then abandoned and discovered 40 years later.......it was a "build you own barn find" project!
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