Bike boneyard in Northeast FL

[my-79-750-k]

Not sure if this belongs in the regional boards or not, so if it does, someone tell me or go ahead and move it. I was out doing some last minute Christmas shopping for the wife today and had some lunch with the friends. One of my buddies said Cyco Cycles was moving locations and having some kind of sale or whatever. So I dropped by there to investigate. I'd never been there, so I didn't know what to expect, but boy howdy was I surprised. Bikes everywhere!!! CB's, XS's, GSXR's, FZR's... You name it, this guy has at least 1. I saw about 6 CB750's, some with those beautiful black comstars and disc brakes WITH calipers! All kinds of ATV and dirtbike frames and parts. Newer bikes with complete engines/harness/frame etc. And tanks, tanks, and more tanks, most of which were in great shape. (Think I even saw a Dunstall style one in there somewhere) I just hate that this place is moving right when I decide to go there. I'm gonna be calling up a buddy of mine with a truck next weekend and scoring some sweet ass deals. For those in Jacksonville, Cyco Cycles is about 200 yds. down Leon Rd. right off Beach Blvd. across from Sam's Club/Salvation Army. I don't think the guy is really trying to make a bunch of money off the scrap parts as he's not taking them with him anyway, I guess he's starting over in a new shop somewhere, so this stuff will probably go for uber-cheap...

 

[DrJ]

This will be the big trend in the next 10 years. The original owners of these old shops are either retiring or getting out of the business which will result in the scrapping of thousands old Japanese motorcycles, bikes that aren't deemed valuable enough to salvage. Only a very small percentage of these bikes will be saved, not enough people are interested and the ones who do restore only care about the big dollar American and European bikes. We used to have a shop in Toronto with a great boneyard to pick parts from but it went under 3 years ago. I managed to save a CB350 chassis and motor before the rest was picked up for scrap. Even though it still seems the supply of old Hondas and Yamahas is endless, it isn't. There are a finite number of these bikes and many will see the melter.

 

[my-79-750-k]

The owner is going to continue his business, but he's just moving shop which means whoever buys the property, also buys the leftover bikes, so we'll see what happens there. I did happen to notice what appeared to be a complete (frame, engine, tank, controls, bars, wheels AND tires) cb/cl/c? 350/360 that was leaning up against the shed in the back rusting away. It was a small twin with the pipes on the left side and the pipe shield (?) that covered about a foot of the pipes. I'm sure someone on here could ID it better, but my jaw was just floored when I saw all these old bikes. Before joining DTT I would have just seen a bunch of rusted out frames. Now I see the light shining through the oxidation.

I don't know whether or not the owner plans on having another boneyard at his new business, because he not only has parts bikes, but also sells new parts and does service, kind of a one stop shop. Hopefully he does, but we'll see. I'd hate to see all those good used parts get melted down to make doorknobs and bedframes...
That rusted out beauty looked like this, but with stage 86558939 cancer... sad.

 

[quadcam79]

I saw that ad on CL the other day, I was just down on beach blvd and totally forgot about that place. :
maybe I can get down there again before he moves. Thanks for the heads up