Bike and Tsunami - Update: Harley going to Harley Museum

GZ250 · 05-03-2012, 07:35 AM

The Vancouver Sun reports: A Langford motorcycle dealer is helping to return a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to its owner in Japan after it was washed out to sea by last year's tsunami and ended up on B.C.'s northwest coast. With the subsequent news that the owner had been found, the bike is to be taken to Drane's shop and packed for shipping to Japan in its rusted state. Harley-Davidson has offered to restore the bike at one of its Japanese facilities so the owner can see the motorcycle before and after.

"I think it's going to be great that it actually goes back in its original condition. I think it's going to have a lot more meaning there," Drane said.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... coast?lite

UPDATE:

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... useum?lite

mrlmd1 · 05-03-2012, 11:20 AM

Sending that one back to Japan and restoring it is going to be more expensive than just shipping him a new one from the US.

dentheman · 05-03-2012, 02:06 PM

Yeah, but Harley gets more than its monies worth in the press. This will certainly be big news in Japan.

PimpS · 05-03-2012, 04:13 PM

Those tires are sure good!

I'm buying dunlop next time, that's for sure!!!

**jonathan180iq** · 05-03-2012, 04:43 PM

I don't care what the cost is.
If I was the store owner, I would completely restore that bike, get some publicity and make the owner one very proud customer. No one else in the world will have a Harley like that one. It's totally worth it.

Skunkhome · 05-03-2012, 09:13 PM

You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.

Water Warrior 2 · 05-03-2012, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Skunkhome

You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.

The bike was in a container with some other stuff that belonged to the owner. The container just floated across the Pacific to our shores. An unmanned Japanese fishing boat was nearing our coast a couple weeks ago and causing a navigational danger so the navy sunk it. This is just the beginning of things from Japan.

alantf · 05-04-2012, 04:09 AM

Englishmen make the best lovers.......but the Japanese make 'em smaller and cheaper. :crackup

Water Warrior 2 · 05-04-2012, 04:43 AM

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Englishmen make the best lovers......

I do think I would prefer an Englishwoman myself. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Skunkhome · 05-04-2012, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Water Warrior

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Originally Posted by Skunkhome

You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.

The bike was in a container with some other stuff that belonged to the owner. The container just floated across the Pacific to our shores. An unmanned Japanese fishing boat was nearing our coast a couple weeks ago and causing a navigational danger so the navy sunk it. This is just the beginning of things from Japan.

Oh! That clarifies a lot. That really takes a lot of the mystique off the bike. Now I am kinda non-plused about it.

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GZ250 Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 334	Bike and Tsunami - Update: Harley going to Harley Museum The Vancouver Sun reports: A Langford motorcycle dealer is helping to return a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to its owner in Japan after it was washed out to sea by last year's tsunami and ended up on B.C.'s northwest coast. With the subsequent news that the owner had been found, the bike is to be taken to Drane's shop and packed for shipping to Japan in its rusted state. Harley-Davidson has offered to restore the bike at one of its Japanese facilities so the owner can see the motorcycle before and after. "I think it's going to be great that it actually goes back in its original condition. I think it's going to have a lot more meaning there," Drane said. http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... coast?lite UPDATE: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... useum?lite __________________ “God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.” “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” --- Søren Kierkegaard --- Login or Register to Remove Ads
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05-03-2012, 11:20 AM	#2
mrlmd1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Crawfordville, Florida Posts: 2,853	Re: Bike and Tsunami Sending that one back to Japan and restoring it is going to be more expensive than just shipping him a new one from the US.
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05-03-2012, 02:06 PM	#3
dentheman Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Lubbock, TX Posts: 629	Re: Bike and Tsunami Yeah, but Harley gets more than its monies worth in the press. This will certainly be big news in Japan. __________________ 2007 Shadow Spirit 750 Login or Register to Remove Ads
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05-03-2012, 04:13 PM	#4
PimpS Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Slovenija Posts: 475	Re: Bike and Tsunami Those tires are sure good! I'm buying dunlop next time, that's for sure!!!
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05-03-2012, 04:43 PM	#5
jonathan180iq Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dalton, GA Posts: 3,996	Re: Bike and Tsunami I don't care what the cost is. If I was the store owner, I would completely restore that bike, get some publicity and make the owner one very proud customer. No one else in the world will have a Harley like that one. It's totally worth it. Login or Register to Remove Ads
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05-03-2012, 09:13 PM	#6
Skunkhome Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Louisiana Posts: 203	Re: Bike and Tsunami You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.
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05-04-2012, 04:09 AM	#8
alantf Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Tenerife (Spain) Posts: 3,715	Re: Bike and Tsunami Englishmen make the best lovers.......but the Japanese make 'em smaller and cheaper. :crackup __________________ By birth an Englishman, by the grace of God a Yorkshireman.
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