This picture is from Facebook and although it is sad, potentially there will be quite a number of machines restored from this lot. I often wonder what drives someone to dismantle their machine and never get it back together, I have after many years in the industry seen many examples of good bikes left like this and eventually scrapped, personally I hate a motorcycle in pieces and in 1991 I totally restored my 1969 Triumph Bonneville in 3 weeks a 100 point restoration, and built the “Vindian in 7 months from a running standard machine to a riding and finished machine. Whats the secret, easy don’t pull it apart till you have both the time and the money then have all parts or subcontractors all ready to go don’t even start till these things are in place because you will run out of enthusiasm and potentially the dream soon becomes a burden and a nightmare inevitably you will end up loosing bits and forget how it went together and it will be scrapped or sold.

Last months  rant from me about complacently getting what you want was graphically illustrated on Facebook recently about Club and Association rides, I have had a bit of feedback and a couple of suggestions that I will bring up at the monthly meeting Tuesday week. So if you have a idea on this matter we are all ears to hear what your thoughts are both good and bad.

So we are all going to suffer the brunt of the fact of more motorcyclist killed are dead in the first five months (29) than all of last year, the Vic Police have announced stringent checks on anybody riding a motorcycle immediately. Well if you read the facts above 23 were not regular bike riders out of the 192,000 on the Victorian Roads today so really only 6 were killed and the Chief Commissioner admits that 85% of the accidents were the bike riders fault so 15% weren’t, looking at this 5 are really innocent victims! The toll is in the real world less this year than ever, last year off road bikes and scooters were counted in the fatality figures what next race track deaths, idiots have need for no need sympathy, only their families or worse still the innocent victims they have killed or maimed I agree with the Police they are the ones that need targeting, but not ordinary motorcyclists.

This picture turned up on Facebook recently and the story is it’s a brand new Chief that the proud owner was taking home from the dealer, I don’t know what to say except I have to feel sorry for him

A couple of photos recently cropped up on Facebook recently the 1947 Chief is far from being completely dismantled but still its a fairly good photo of whats there, for the experienced Indian owner this is a slight inconvenience being in pieces but to others its daunting task which leads to the photo on the right. So what should the majority of potential new owners do, buy a completely restored model well yes of course as in the long run restoring from a oil stain or a spark plug costs a fortune & in the long haul and most people will agree that the guy thats selling a restored model usually is loosing a small fortune.