Where do all the old bikes go?

[Topperharley]

Remember your first proper xc/am/dh bike? The one you sold at a huge loss to a mate or some guy and maybe saw again a year or two later, but ultimately you have no idea where it went? Well, it strikes me, as each year more and more companies churn out more and more bikes, where do they all end up?

It makes me a bit sad to think of all the U'hu's, Stumpjumpers, ATX's, Shivvers, Z1's, Judy's and Indy's all gone.

They can't all be bought by those restorer chaps can they?

 

[moorey]

Remember your first proper xc/am/dh bike? The one you sold at a huge loss to a mate or some guy and maybe saw again a year or two later, but ultimately you have no idea where it went? Well, it strikes me, as each year more and more companies churn out more and more bikes, where do they all end up?

It makes me a bit sad to think of all the U'hu's, Stumpjumpers, ATX's, Shivvers, Z1's, Judy's and Indy's all gone.

They can't all be bought by those restorer chaps can they?

I did one of these threads about 12 months ago (i'm sure i wasn't the first)...i'll try to dig it up....:third:

http://www.rotorburn.com/forums/showthread.php?234538-What-happens-to-old-DH-FR-bikes

 

[harmonix1234]

Same place...

 

[mitchy_]

 

[morticus]

Im a bit sad i sold my old 2005 bighit to a mate for $500. he told me a few weeks ago he still hadn't ridden it, so i was going to say i would buy it back off him. He put it on ebay and got $600 for it by a guy that straps motors to them. At least some seedy guy that lost his license is riding around on it... might see it somewhere in the future!

 

[morticus]

Wonder how many kids he can keep in his dungeon :nono:

 

[Dales Cannon]

The good ones get put out to stud.

 

[harmonix1234]

Wonder how many kids he can keep in his dungeon :nono:

Depends if you mean 'living' kids.

 

[Capone]

Wonder how many kids he can keep in his dungeon :nono:

Very apt as i spotted what appears to be a rape van on the left hand side

 

[morticus]

Depends if you mean 'living' kids.

They do stack better in the freezer.

 

[NUMBER5]

They do stack better in the freezer.

There's also the 2 massive vats of acid disguised as above ground swimming pools....... More economical to just keep the heads

Remember your first proper xc/am/dh bike? The one you sold at a huge loss to a mate or some guy and maybe saw again a year or two later, but ultimately you have no idea where it went? Well, it strikes me, as each year more and more companies churn out more and more bikes, where do they all end up?

It makes me a bit sad to think of all the U'hu's, Stumpjumpers, ATX's, Shivvers, Z1's, Judy's and Indy's all gone.

They can't all be bought by those restorer chaps can they?

I've always thought the same thing about cars......

But I always see dodgy guys with big dodgy trucks cruising round when there's council pick up with about 1000 bikes in the back.... Maybe they go away and come back as Mokia, Soni, Palnasonic .......

 

[Ride_Guy]

Still some floating around...

 

[Rendog]

Still got my 03' Norco VPS and 03' BoXXers, never gonna give em' up.

 

[aanon]

There's also the 2 massive vats of acid disguised as above ground swimming pools

I think one is disguised as a trampoline.

 

[heavyp]

Crazy people like me buy them, or all the guys over on retrobike. A lot of older bikes broke to so people keep them as trophies, and it pains me to think how many good bikes are out there in parents sheds just collecting since the kids left home.

 

[NUMBER5]

I think one is disguised as a trampoline.

Hahaha.... It's all the drugs I'm taking

 

[Art Vanderlay]

Clearly he feeds those dungeon kids grass

 

[Wattsy]