THESE ARE NOT BIKES for sensible people. Sensible people don’t want a vintage, rusting, non-running motorcycle in their garage. Alas, we are not sensible people. Mike Wolfe is one of us, a guy that simply falls in love with a bike because it’s old, or historic, or interesting, or cool. Certainly not sensible, but who cares?
A couple of years ago on the “American Pickers” TV show, I watched co-host Mike Wolfe yank a 1967 Triumph Bonneville out of an old barn, and I knew he was one of us, one of the guys who probably has a bumper sticker on the back of his van that reads, “My Other Car is a Classic Motorcycle That Doesn’t Run.”
Anyone who’s been around the hobby for any length of time knows guys like this.…