Michael Moore
Member
The CTX project bike has been mostly sitting unmolested this year, but I'm hoping that will change soon.
What is happening to change things? I'm finishing a 15 month project of emptying 500 sq feet of warehouse storage space filled with 30+ years accumulation of bikes/parts. With luck the last load will be picked up from the house today (it is already paid for). I turned in the keys for the space last Monday, and I was pretty happy to do so.
These last four bikes and parts to go were all vintage dirt bikes. I think I ended up moving about 15-18 bikes and related (and un-related) parts.
I started riding "vintage" dirt bikes 50 years ago when they were new, but I'm hanging up my involvement in both vintage and dirt riding. The closest dirt riding is a minimum of a 1.5 hour drive away, and with SF Bay Area traffic often being less than perfect it is easy for that to stretch out to 2 hours or more each way, which is too long for a half day of riding.
There will be no more wire-spoke wheels, drum brakes, dirt bikes or old bikes. I've had my share, someone else can have them now. If I can't store something here at home, it won't be bought.
I've got the CTX and a 250 KTM-engined track day bike project that are being kept. I won't consider a third bike until those projects are done.
The clean-out/organization has been applied to the garage/shop at home too. I've unearthed floor that I haven't seen for what seems like decades. It will be nice to be able to easily walk around the CTX as it sits on the Handy Lift because there's no longer a couple of dead vintage dirt bike projects crowded around it.
I'm a pack rat and not a neatnik, so I've had to struggle with this process, but I'm getting the hang of saying "this goes" and I'm liking having clean floors and not having to worry about tripping and impaling myself on something as I step over things in the garage. And it is surprising how much stuff I'd accumulated that had been given to me when friends cleaned out their stuff. I've never had a big block Ford, why did I find a new freeze plug kit for one in a box of stuff?
If you've been thinking about clearing out some deadwood in the garage I'll encourage you to do so. It is easy to get to where our stuff owns us instead of the other way around, and "someday" may never come for that project bike that has been "resting" for the last decade (or in the case of some of mine, nearly 3 decades).
cheers,
Michael
What is happening to change things? I'm finishing a 15 month project of emptying 500 sq feet of warehouse storage space filled with 30+ years accumulation of bikes/parts. With luck the last load will be picked up from the house today (it is already paid for). I turned in the keys for the space last Monday, and I was pretty happy to do so.
These last four bikes and parts to go were all vintage dirt bikes. I think I ended up moving about 15-18 bikes and related (and un-related) parts.
I started riding "vintage" dirt bikes 50 years ago when they were new, but I'm hanging up my involvement in both vintage and dirt riding. The closest dirt riding is a minimum of a 1.5 hour drive away, and with SF Bay Area traffic often being less than perfect it is easy for that to stretch out to 2 hours or more each way, which is too long for a half day of riding.
There will be no more wire-spoke wheels, drum brakes, dirt bikes or old bikes. I've had my share, someone else can have them now. If I can't store something here at home, it won't be bought.
I've got the CTX and a 250 KTM-engined track day bike project that are being kept. I won't consider a third bike until those projects are done.
The clean-out/organization has been applied to the garage/shop at home too. I've unearthed floor that I haven't seen for what seems like decades. It will be nice to be able to easily walk around the CTX as it sits on the Handy Lift because there's no longer a couple of dead vintage dirt bike projects crowded around it.
I'm a pack rat and not a neatnik, so I've had to struggle with this process, but I'm getting the hang of saying "this goes" and I'm liking having clean floors and not having to worry about tripping and impaling myself on something as I step over things in the garage. And it is surprising how much stuff I'd accumulated that had been given to me when friends cleaned out their stuff. I've never had a big block Ford, why did I find a new freeze plug kit for one in a box of stuff?
If you've been thinking about clearing out some deadwood in the garage I'll encourage you to do so. It is easy to get to where our stuff owns us instead of the other way around, and "someday" may never come for that project bike that has been "resting" for the last decade (or in the case of some of mine, nearly 3 decades).
cheers,
Michael