Shops

[oldironnow]

Madhouse Motors (and cafe), Boston.












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[grado]

Very cool. The military bike, anyone know what that is?

I just wonder, how does a shop like that make enough money to survive?

A place like that, with a small restaurant inside, kinda like an Aces Cafe, building a bike for a young gun to run the 200, or the moto America circuit, with a place a guy could keep his bike, with a bed in the back so there would always be a place you could sleep………and maybe pull a grand a week…….🤔


Ps……diggin’ the graffiti 👍
 

[Fatfatboy]

That is a very cool shop. It's like a real Wheels Through Time.
Hd's, Ducati's, BSA's, Indians, Honda's, R.E.'s and the list goes on. Must have some awesome wrenches. The dying breed of mechanics. A place that say "Sure, we can work on that."
Unlike the MMI tech holding facilities. "What year!? 1992?. Let me check with the boss. Sorry, he's never heard of it."
Or the plastered every EMPLOYEES ONLY sign.
That would be a great shop to intern at. A space with smiling faces, I'm sure.
The last shop, that I know about, that was like this closed in 2021 when the owner passed away of a brain aneurysm. A very cool Australian dude that loved to show you what he had in the shop.


I dig the hand crackin BSA with it's shiny bits under a patina-coated tank and am curious about the shrouded 4-wheel contraption. A guy could get lost in there and be content.
Thanks for sharing.

[m143]

grado wrote

Very cool. The military bike, anyone know what that is?

BSA M20

[grado]

m143 wrote

grado wrote

Very cool. The military bike, anyone know what that is?

BSA M20

Thanks Walt.

Here’s the M20.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_M20

[grado]

The Wiki article mentions Val Page.  

He’s worth noting for sure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Page

[oldironnow]

I don’t know either.
Loss-leader for some $$$ enthusiast?
Front fir burying illicit money?