Homeless Bikes of Brooklyn

Why are the most vulnerable left unloved?

Went down to the Brooklyn Invitational Bike Show last weekend and had a great time! One of the things I always do when getting lost down there is scout out NYC's finest derelict bikes, and I found a few of this cold city's most unfortunate! These have been sitting for a while, apparently abandoned by their former owners. Why do they do this to a perfectly good bike? Next time I go I may bring bolt cutters!

'Been watching thes CB350 for three years, and she hasn't moved!

Cool little Puch, which obviously needs a new home!


CB750 Somewhere under the BQE

A Little Closure

Here's the '79 Ironhead; finally finished. I finally went with a 70's FX style tank with a re-located petcock, Roadster bars, baffeled drags, oldschool air cleaner, chopped rear fender, custom tail-light made out of a round trailer light, plus a fine rattle-can hotrod black paint job! Re-built a set of fox gas shocks, and re-built the front forks. After fixing the usual Ironhead problems like vibration caused broken wires, shorted coil and screwed-up keihin butterfly, I got it running pretty good!~
I call her VISCERAL, as she vibrates, rattles and clanks, makes a lot of noise, and is a beast to drive- I LOVE IT!

CB550F "Special"

Another derelict arrived at the shop this winter. Needless to say, she needs help!



After cutting the High-Speed Hard-tail off, fabbing shock brackets and ripping out the wiring, we now have made a little progress!

Exhaust Building

Got my Hobart EZ-TIG fired up last night to finish off Scott's pipes for his metricmotorbike 360 brat. They came out pretty good!
I'll have some sets of pipes for various cafe style bikes available in the coming months. Also, I am set up for custom fab and mechanical work here in the Mid-Coast Maine area.

A little progress!

CB 160 Machining

Finally, I had to resort to some good 'Ol yankee ingenuity! Out comes the hole saw, and after sawing and picking rings out- the pistons finally come free!

Honda CB160 Building!

Got ahold of a 1966 motor and frame the other day. Evidently the host bike had been sitting out for a while!
The pistons rings had rusted into the bores solid! I tried penetrating oil, brake fluid, heat, hammering, etc.