Recently inherited 15 vintage British motorcycles---HELP

[samp615]

Not for anything but the brit bike market is in the can right now....
Yes you have some nice rather desirable bikes but they are not light the world on fire....also i struggle to see anywhere near $50k even pieced out on the retail market.

It sucks alot for you right now because you seem to not be near them to take things slow and go throw the bikes one at a time. They all are going to need alot more then you might think to get the big bucks.

That said you should be able to move the bikes as is as the projects they are, but as with everything it would be at less money.

Thanks for the input!

 

[cyclefreak]

Where are you located? Pm sent.

 

[born2expire]

this is the kind of stuff you see on TV and are like "why isn't that my grandpas collection and he left that to me" i would kill to have those bikes whether i knew a damn thing about them anyways. If you want to start a business one day with bikes whats a better way for starters then these bikes right here fixed up sitting in your shop. that right there would make a first impression to some that you knew what you were doing and doing it right. I feel the being broke thing man, before i joined the coast guard i was broke too and only cared about my next skateboard and what band i was going to see and now i have 3 vintage bikes, a old van, and everything i could dream of. So if you can see it, down the road you will kick yourself in the ass for getting rid of them. fuck being in debt for college anyways, who isn't with that shit? at the least i'd snag a storage unit on the cheap and throw them in there i'm sure you can spare 20-30$ a month to save face with these awesome machines until you get established. fuck it i'll let you store some in my garage if you want to ship em down to florida!

 

[Catbird]

Another option that would probably make your relative's memory shine would be to sell about 2/3 of the less desireable ones and use the profits to buy tools and equipment to help shine up a few of the others. I had missed that you wanted to start a shop, but tools are a good thing to have.