Current bikes: 4
(Updated November 2024)

2022 Royal Enfield Himalayan, 2009 Buell Blast, 2004 Honda Shadow VT750 Aero, 2000 BMW R1200C, and if you count my sisters bike which I helped buy and is stored with my bikes you can count a 1993 Honda Nighthawk 250

2004 Suzuki GS500F

First motorcycle, bought fall of my senior year.

2004 Honda Shadow Aero VT750CA
This bike was my uncles and had been outside for years under a tarp as can be seen in the photos below. It had originally only needed a new petcock on the tank but after years of sitting I went through cleaning the carbs, new coolant, brake fluid, final drive gear oil, oil change, and a fresh set of Dunlop tires.

2004 Aprilia Futura RST1000

This was the bike that started it all, even though it wasn't my first bike. My high school friends dad had a Ducati sport bike as well as this Futura which he had just left outside for years. I wanted to buy it and over the course of a year or so I ended up buying it off him after having already started with my GS500F. I sadly never got it to run right and ended up selling it to a guy from Vermont. It was a cool bike and is what got me into them. Before asking to buy it I never had any interest in motorcycles.

1986 Suzuki Madura (2x)

One was a parts bike, the other was a restoration project. Wasn't able to get it done and sold the project and all the parts to a guy in MA who is almost done with it. Should be on the road this summer (2023) he said. The parts bike he didn't want so I parted it out and after no one wanted the frame I zip-tied a bill of sale to the frame along with the bottom end of the motor still in it and put it on the street corner for free. Bike was sold in 2021.

1982 Kawasaki KZ550 Spectre

Got it running the day after buying it. Threw a new battery in and cleaned the carbs. I was so eager to ride it I forgot the choke was out, didn't let it warm up, and ripped it down the street. About 1 minute later I blew the engine (lack of oil to the top end) and fishtailed all over the road. This was the first time this has happened to me so I rode it out and didn't even think to hold in the clutch. I left a long tire streak on the road and had to push it back home about a mile. I tore it down that same day to part it out on Facebook and eBay. I cut the neck of the frame off with the VIN and sold it on eBay with a clean title and bill of sale.

RIP KZ550, the bike that could have been :(

1980's Honda Silverwing GL500

I ended up buying my uncles other bike which had sat longer than the Honda Shadow had. It had been like this for about a decade. The stator motor had gone bad and would not recharge the battery. To fix it the motor would have to come out and it's a pretty intensive job all together. Given the condition of the bike the plan was a full restoration project with my dad. We got overwelmed and with too many projects going on we agreed it was time to sell it. We did however get the bike running together and was one of the first projects me and my Dad did together in the garage in a very long time.

1986 Kawasaki Ninja ZX600R

Bought it already hacked up and "modified" to be a cafe style bike. It wasn't running and had a ton of parts missing. Bought it for $300 hoping to part out. It's been 2 years and I still have almost all the parts still in storage with half listed on eBay. I also put this frame on the curb with a bill of sale in a plastic bag zip tied to it. Shipping entire frames is a pain in the butt and doesn't usually bring in much profit. The only way it does is if you cut the neck off with the VIN and have a clean title that you sell on eBay.

1998 Ducati 900SS CR

So there is an interesting story on this bike. My friend in Connecticut was at some guys house buying parts off an old square body and noticed this clean red Ducati in his shed with a bunch of hacked up bikes. He asked the guy how much that day and was told $2,000 if it was that day or the next. He gave me the details and I drove down from New Hampshire to get the bike the next day, he even drove it over in a trailer to the garage. He didn't have a title though, nor a previous registration. The story was that his friend had done some landscaping or construction work in Southern Connecticut for a guy who worked for Sikorsky (the helicopter company). Instead of paying him the guy gave him this bike and was going to mail him the title when he found it. Supposedly the guy had a ton of expensive cars and bikes, this Ducati was just another toy to the guy. Well he never sent the title or something and this guy (who I bought it from) had bought it a few years before from his other buddy (the contractor). Now if I had still been living in Connecticut at this time I could have registered it here no problem since it's over 20 years old Connecticut only needs a bill of sale, as long as it had last been registered in the state. Since I was in New Hampshire I had to get the bike there. I had Rob and the guys at Speed Demon Cycles & Towing in Bloomfield check it over and it needed a lot of work, money I didn't have. It was leaking oil from a few places, and the timing belt was cracking they said. So I listed it for sale on Facebook marketplace. Very soon after listing it a guy offered to pay full asking price and would send the PayPal right then and there, which he did. He had worked in Italy for Ducati in the 90's/2000's and always wanted this cafe racer style 900ss. He was now high up in the electric motorcycle field as director of design for one of the biggest EV bike companies there is, and Vice President of another in Canada. After months of back and forth messaging, and being unable to reach him for most of it, I was stuck with a problem. The bike was sold, I had spent the money, but needed it gone since it took up space. After months of reaching out I called him company and had them forward the message that I needed it gone or would resell it, but could only refund what the next buyer paid which might have been less. I had no intent of keeping his money and would have done a full refund if I could have at this point. Luckily he got back to me a day before a new buyer came. He ended up driving over 9 hours from Canada all the way down to get the bike. He didn't have a truck, nor a trailer. Instead he had a red Honda Element which matched the Ducati perfectly. I don't know how but we got it to fit in the back. He then had the problem of getting a bike with no papers besides a bill of sale across the border into another country. I don't know how that went down if they accepted it without issue with the BOS or if he got it in another way, all I know is it now lives in Canada lol.

I wish I never sold it.

2001 Harley Davidson Sportster 1200

This was an impulse buy in winter of 2023. The plan was the make it into some kind of cool rat rod bike that I would ride around town on when visiting Connecticut. It grew on me and I've since replaced the damaged brake lever, and installed mirrors that actually work. I've started the process of selling all the extra parts that came with it as well, one of those parts being the original white 883 tank it came with. This had started life as a white 883 but was converted to a 1200 by the dealer in 04, I have all that paperwork and all the paperwork since new. The paint job was done by the previous owner and is a very dark purple that most of the time looks black. It has low mileage too at only 12k. For the time being I'm keeping it but it is on marketplace for sale and if it sells great, if not also great.

1980 Suzuki Rm100
Bought for I think like $80. Removed anything of value (clutch basket, head, carb, gas tank, seat, fenders, wiring, stator) to sell on eBay. Then put the bike on the street for free and was gone within an hour. The exhaust had bad rot all over it and was worthless, massive holes on it.

Chinese pit bike (50cc 2-stroke)
Bought for $50,  cleaned carb and sold same day for $200 (tag sale buy)

1993 Suzuki DR250 & 2000 DR200
Bought to part out. Needed space ASAP for another project and sold for just barely over what I paid for them both.

1993 Honda Shadow 1100

Was half owner (me and a friend went in on it together at auction). Bike has a battery drain and ended up selling it without that issue fixed. In hindsight we shouldn't have done that. Either of us could have bought it and done it all solo but we wanted to give going into business together a try. It strained the friendship which is still not on speaking terms.

2021 Royal Enfield Himalayan

Bought another one in Rhode Island for a good deal. Previous owner did a stage 2 cam by KENT cams. The timing wasn't done right and the job wasn't tested prior to firing it up. Instead of turning the motor over by hand to know the job was done right he fired it up and the piston bent the exhuast valve, damaged the seat/head, and damaged the piston. It had no compression due to the bent valve. I replaced the cylinder, piston, head, timing chain, timing guides, and reinstalled the stage 2 cam and timed it correctly. Kept some aftermarket parts it came with to install on my bike. Had to replace the rear swingarm as well since the spacer was missing and the sprocket hub bolts had cut 1/4th the way through the swingarm. I was unable to solve a sticking rear caliper after replacing it with another one, changing brake fluid, changing rotor, changing pads. No clue why it wasn't retracting the piston after brake pressure was released. Due to that I didn't sell for what I wanted which was $2500-$2800. Instead I let it go for $2000 to make space before snows on the ground, and to fund another project. Still good profit and got a ton of parts that came with it I either installed on my bike already or plan to list on eBay.