I Bought 14 Motorcycles at Auction and its NOT GOOD

so a couple weeks ago I bought 14

motorcycles at an auction in Las Vegas

and it took a couple weeks honestly this

might have been a huge mistake but they

finally showed up and to my surprise

only two of them actually run we're

going to figure out on a bike by bike

basis that I make a good purchase or an

awful purchase and we're going to try to

get all these bikes running today but

first I'm going to need some

help hey

you behind the wall you know anything

about

motorcycles little bit come on I need

your help I'll pay you 30 bucks for the

day yeah come we'll see if this guy can

help us out I mean sometimes you just

need a warm body to the pick up and move

stuff and I need a good uh assistant you

know what I mean a gopher okayy go get

that wrench hi I'm

Craig that's here well I need I need an

assistant to help me with these bikes oh

wow got a lot of motorc Mes in

here you guys might recognize Craig from

the bearded mechanic he is the best

motorcycle mechanic out there actually

we do have a little bit of History

together we met once

before yeah we jumped in the clous and

went to the store to get a bunch of

stuff that we might need but probably

don't you

good

just like old times and then I show

Craig the one of only two bikes that

actually run from the auction my very

amazing gen 1 1986 BMW r80

GS so this is the last bike I bought and

I kind of bought it blind paid $4,000

for it and these first gen GS bikes can

sell for as low as $10,000 and I've seen

them as high as like $35,000 and that

just depends on the miles and the

condition now mine's got 32,000 Mi on it

but it's in really good condition the

problem is I didn't know it had 32,000

Mi on it because meum auction they

barely show anything at best you might

see two pictures that looks like they

were taken with an etra sketch and most

of the time they wouldn't even tell you

how many miles were they wouldn't tell

you how many miles were on the bike they

wouldn't tell you if it ran they you had

no information about these bikes this

one's actually one of the toughest ones

to appraise because not that many first

gens have sold in this condition I would

value it somewhere between 12 and maybe

177,000 if we had to nail it down let's

go conservative let's put a number at

$12,000 and I got to admit it looks good

and runs good

too now this is my 2013 Road King 10th

anniversary bike and like the last bike

I had zero information I didn't know the

condition I never saw it before and I

didn't even know the miles on it and I

stole it for the auction price of

$8,000 and when I went and saw for the

first time the bike is beautiful it's in

perfect shape has 7600 M on it really

low miles but I would value this bike at

around 14,000 bucks making this thing a

killer deal if we can actually get it to

start because when you turn on so did we

buy everything we needed except

batteries uh no I have I have

batteries I thought I saw you bend it

out okay we have more than we

did okay let's pop the uh we just need a

jump just find a ground

anywhere

oh

on oh

go we need

um we need

more cowbell yes we need probably more

volts to be firing the fuel injection if

we threw a new battery in

there it'll run we need a

battery they would have them at a riy

would they I believe so yes yes this is

right

now we spent 3 hours on the the

potentially the easiest bike we had to

get running it just needed two batteries

well we got lunch too we got lunch to

all

right all right

two down 12 more to go oh man that bike

feels

good did you say I'm getting 30 bucks

per day or 30 bucks per bike 30 bucks

per day oo I should have kept walking

now this is the other bike that showed

up actually running it's a 2004 yamal M1

1700cc v twin yamal sport bike which is

super cool and never released in America

and it was previously owned by by Corbin

the seat company which might explain how

they got this thing into the United

States cuz I think they used some type

of Trade Show loophole of how they were

able to get it in here but now that it's

here it's perfectly legal to own I could

not have got this thing into the United

States and I cannot wait to ride this

thing all we have to do is bleed the

front brakes and it should be good to go

now I paid $7,000 for this thing which I

think is a pretty good deal with fees

and all my expenses I was somewhere

around 8,700 bucks it's a tough bike to

Value but I think at least on a

conservative mark it's worth 8,700 bucks

no break it's a very very interesting

bike this is a 2004

M1 it's a nak Street Fighter bike with a

1700 CC v twin really really cool bike

not that cool if you're from Canada cuz

apparently they they got this how did

Canada get anything that we didn't get I

don't

know Pur this was Corbin's bike they

bought this bike so they can put they

can build this thing in the seat which I

think looks good Awful this is the ug

dumbest thing ever so you can put a

sandwich back there looks like someone

actually rode the thing aop pic exhaust

carbon fiber Wheels it was done up very

nicely I would love to find a original

seat for this get this ugly thing off

there and really cool bike it's got

baringer brakes and clutch which the uh

this brake is smoked let's put it back

let's get the next one running now this

is the bike this is the 1986 Honda Z50

Christmas special born the same year I

was born this one has never been ridden

not sure if it ever fired up and I paid

$10,000 for it hold on hold on I know

what you're thinking that number is

insane for a little tiny child's bike I

can ride that bike I fit on that bike

but that that's an insane number for a

little tiny child's bike well in the

past 6 months two of them have just sold

for

$225,000 so it might not be as insane as

you thought it was but let's see if it

runs I think it's it's the coolest

looking bike ever this one's nicer and

it apparently has no no miles no hours

let's see if we can get this guy running

this bike is Cherry it is really really

nice I mean we still have Nubs on tires

yeah pretty easy super clean you could

have got a bike like this yeah Christmas

day I was that kid too like every

Christmas I'd wake up thinking like one

of these years there's going to be a

bike under the tree yeah there never was

no there never is I can't get my finger

in there I was going to try have some

spark plugs now I'm getting a little

concerned maybe this thing's not as a

spring chicken as we thought it was well

you know what if this thing was sitting

the that carburetor is so tiny it's very

small we're not getting any fuel it's

crazy because if you looked up a Z50

anywhere on Craigslist Marketplace

whatever they're not worth very much

maybe 700 bucks maybe 1,200 bucks if you

look up this one the 86 Chrome Christmas

special seen these things sell as high

as $20,000

and that wasn't a fluke I think more

than one it's happened multiple times

yeah so there's no way that like I said

that that idle circuit is so small that

I don't think

we'll I

don't

wow might be the most this bike ever ran

yeah that is so cool I will say this

that is that's oil from a bike that's

never been ran or R

Ren that's straight up Dino

juice well that's amazing I love it that

is a great bike if there's any bike that

I bought that might have just saved the

whole the whole lot it's that bike paid

$10,000 for it next is a motorcycle that

we never got in in America and that is

the uh this is called the gorilla the

Z50 gorilla and it's pretty much the

same thing as the uh as the Z50 and the

monkey and all those bikes except for it

just sits up taller see we get this

thing going to fire

up oh this has a lot more compression

that sounds good

too that could be a thing that could be

a thing yeah and then you could adjust

the Bars by turning this and the whole

bars come off you can put them in or out

or that might be less for adjustment and

more for uh storage purposes so the

buyer fees what's uh buyer's premium 10%

that's not horrible minimum I just paid

133% oh your auction kleinfelder yeah I

bought a bike for a buddy last night and

it 13% where'd you get them a Java moped

oh cool Oh it's leaking

God gum tap it Craig give it a tap tap

tap it's really

leaking still

leaking yep yep should I try to start it

um I'm going kick it yep now we're

good hey

hey nice look at that we have

her so I paid $3,000 for this

and after fees and all my expenses I'm

in this thing for around 4,300 bucks but

it's not really in the shape that I

thought it was in it's the wheels don't

really match but it does run really

really good and I'm pretty sure it's

streight legal so I'm going to say it's

worth at least 4,000 bucks to the right

buyer which still keeps me ahead of the

game but I'm not sure how long that will

last because I got some pretty big

mistakes coming

up hey I'm riding a

gorilla oh oh stay rotting stay rotting

I got two flat tires that is awesome

this is a neat bike yep all right so the

next bike and I don't I'm going to be

honest with you I don't know why I

bought it actually it's awesome uh it's

two-stroke isn't it maybe it looks like

a little flat Flathead well it's air

cooled no fourstroke because it doesn't

have any sort of expansion chamber on

here yeah right and this here's um

there's proba yeah there's like little

fan blades in there you see that it's

like a little squirrel cage fan oh yeah

so that's blowing oh

wait oh okay so then that creates air

and that's pulling air in and and

putting it across the the motor okay

throwing out an idea we know it's very

simple it's very

basic is there no transmission in it is

it just like you you just start it on

the stand pull the clutch in and like a

moped yeah yeah maybe that's how a moped

is you start you start it

up well that's very no

compression what if you pull the clutch

in this thing sounds like a little

Ripper

does okay well you want to be in the

center there it is

wow that's a two stroke is it that's a

two

stroke oh it smells so good cool cool

this is such a cool little bike I paid

$850 for it with fees and shipping I was

in it for about 2,000 bucks but in

reality it's probably worth maybe at

most 1,500 bucks it is really really

cool though and it it's possible it

might has it might have a really

interesting backstory which I have not

discovered yet but it is Italian like

Ferrari and Lamborghini so maybe that's

maybe that's a thing this next bike

looked really good from

stage in person was a completely

different story and the next bike we're

going to do is the big beautiful V45

Honda Interceptor it's a 4 cylinder V

configuration and it's a very very cool

bike going to let it waft

waft I think this whole bike has been I

think the whole bike has been painted

yeah that's not that's awful looking I

may have uh I may have jumped the gun

when I bought this I think it was it was

way it seemed way too

cheap of course we don't know if it runs

I'm well let's uh hook up to a jump box

and yeah let's see what we got give it

the old cgic

try thing on the thing will light

up when that turns we should see some

lights

okay that's good news something back

here that's a thing that could be a

thing that choke

mhm if there's any one of these bikes

maybe with the exception of the BMW

maybe even the Harley you're like Sean I

want to buy that bike off you shoot me

an email this is dripping fuel that's

funny oh that's look yeah starts yep so

getting fuel oh it's nasty fuel though

man I don't know if it's going to run on

that

stuff all right go

ahead

that might be running off the

gas which ones aren't

running

did it did it bike is

fixed call me a mechanic for sale only

ridden on Sundays totally for sale all

it needs is a mirror ready to ride the

V45 was a huge disappointment I paid

1,500 bucks for it on stage when all

said and done I was in it for about

2,900 bucks I think it's worth at least

1,500 bucks to the right person maybe

it's for parts but it it was not it was

not that good looking of a bike 20t away

it looks pretty good though now let's go

to the next bike which I'm sure you're

going to see why I'm so excited about

this thing as long as it actually works

trials bike heck yeah the Alp I'm

excited about this also I've been

tossing around the idea of me and Craig

going to like a trial School M learning

how to trials ride I'd love to learn how

to trials ride it has a um

odometer speedometer that goes up to

120 right 12

at this final drive ratio yeah that's

not going to happen got super cool

vintage

aars

sticker dude that much compression got a

lot of

compression

heyy ah look there's no clutch oh no

clutch okay the clutch doesn't work so

we're going to go this way

go so the master the clutch cylinder the

master cylinder is shot uh so we

couldn't get it in gear for just to pull

out but a little

push yeah get that stance look all

Z this is fun I kind of wish I had a

clutch I would feel a little more uh

conf Craig jump on

it there's no

seat I forgot there's no seat I love

that bike let's put it back in let's get

the next one running at first glance I

stole this thing

$1,400 for a trials motorcycle and with

fees and everything I'm in it for around

2500 bucks which I thought was I thought

I was doing pretty good but trial's

bikes aren't that valuable it is cool

though but just not that valuable I

think in reality it might be worth

14,500 bucks but I might be saved by

this bike the next bike is possibly one

of the coolest bikes I got for the

cheapest price I think I paid 1,300

bucks for it the 350 BW is a very hard

bike to find they're awesome and it

looks like this thing was being ridden

recently so the 350s were pretty

rare yeah and they are

awesome ain't dumb if it works

right that's why I flew all the way down

here it's like a warrior

engine oh corers like it's on

Rails I imagine that's what it's like

driving like the Batman bike the back

tire is so wide pretty

cool kids choose your friends wisely and

choose your shipping company even more

wisely the first shipping company I

booked I got off a you ship and they had

pretty decent reviews let's call them

Thrasher Trucking because that's what

their name was I told them I need I have

14 motorcycles that need to be picked up

in Vegas and transferred to Tennessee

and I think at this point they had

around 5 days to to get it done but if

they're not picked up by Sunday I'm

going to crew an extra $2,000 fee so you

got to get it before Sunday they said no

problem but strangely and I didn't know

any better strangely they asked for half

down kids lesson number two never pay

half down for anything that's getting

Shi at most release half the funds when

they pick up the item or better just pay

for the whole thing whenever it gets

delivered because their truck broke down

now the truck broke down pretty quickly

and they still had a couple days to fix

it so I was like okay they'll get it

fixed there were serious and

circumstances that never got fixed I

missed the deadline I had to pay another

$2,000 and the truck's already been

broke down for a couple days it's got to

be getting fixed soon well they were

running out of time it was almost

getting to the deadline we had to pay

another $2,000 for the another week of

storage so I was forced to get another

trucking company now listen I understand

stuff breaks down that happens things

happen but you have a responsibility to

your customer so I was like listen give

me my deposit back we will go our

separate ways and then I'll I'll get

someone else well nope they refused to

give me my deposit back that name again

is Thrasher Trucking I think we're going

to be trying to get that rotary bike

running well we're on a roll we are on a

roll just push that just push it back in

line let's go for sushi it sounds

horrible does sound horrible also

there's no uh no front brag no front

brake no clutch cable that's a cable

clutch I'm told by my friend Jay Leno

from a video that I watched that these

are incredibly smooth motorcycles the

rotary engine is just Gold Wing

smooth oh hey look at this see what that

does cold start video oh shoot hey

that's pretty

cool 144 145 January

22 I'm going to throw it out there these

don't look like guys I want to buy bikes

from that's this bike it's it's an exact

bike first of all they did not they did

not prove that that it was actually a

cold start from that video right nothing

about that bike was no one was licking

the exhaust header that's what I do I I

lay my tongue on the exhaust header

before I start every video that's how

you prove a cold

start it's the sound effects that help

oh man what a gosh awful emblem oh it's

so ugly yeah well that's the engine uh I

know what it is all rotary bikes will

put that stupid logo you don't see

Pistons all over uh right normal bikes

there wasn't fuel in there was there no

it was pretty pretty dry you ever get a

you ever get a face slash eyes full of

gasoline thrown in your face on the

hottest day of your life when you're

wearing a full race

suit you ever you ever you ever

experienced that you hang around Craig

enough you

will the small gas can was sitting in

the sun for a while so it got like and

then like I just wasn't thinking we're

at the track and I went to put gas in

something and I bled off the pressure

and I didn't realize Sean's face was

like I don't know why he was staring

into the nozzle I was staring at like

like wide open too that's that

guy why do none of these bikes have

batteries p hold all the batteries take

them to the part store for the $10 core

charges why would they make a cold start

video take the fuel line off pull the

battery pull the battery out I feel like

we've been swindled yeah and the deeper

and deeper we looked the worse the bike

got oh well that doesn't go

anywhere that doesn't go anywhere these

don't go anywhere this doesn't go

anywhere this doesn't go anywhere this

doesn't go anywhere nothing about this

bike is put together oh it's got a gear

position

indicator oh I like it again yeah sweet

look it's got a metallic paint job yeah

I like it again it has its own oil tank

it does and it has oil p oil. p for them

long runs yeah do you know who might be

able to get it run it who the bearded

mechanic I was so excited about this

motorcycle because I hear they're such

they're very very smooth bikes I've

never ridden a rotary I've never ridden

a rotary anything I don't think I've

ever been in an RX7 or a rotary bike so

I pumped about about buying this bike

and I thought I stole it at 3750 and

until until of course I saw the bike so

with fees and everything I'm in this

thing for around 5,000 bucks what's it

worth I best maybe 1,500 bucks there's a

few special bikes that we didn't show

and for a good reason one is the Honda

motra which I'm very very concerned

about because it feels like it has no

compression and if you want to see what

happens to that bike go to the bearded

mechanic Channel where me and Craig do

thing but before I show you the secret

bike underneath the tarp which I am the

most I'm so excited about this bike I

want to throw something out this this

auction thing is kind of kind of getting

to me um so I've been thinking lately

and I want to hear some feedback from

you guys I might start my own auction

why not why not start my own auction

with very clear fees very clear

descriptions you know curated

motorcycles with video showing that they

run and and and and their conditions and

all this stuff you would know more about

that bike from looking at that auction

than you could just you know you know

looking at it I'm thinking about

starting an auction I want to see what

you guys think about it there was also a

1929 Harley-Davidson I bought at this

auction I'm going to go to my buddy

wheel Through Time CU that could have

been the biggest mistake in my life or

the greatest investment of my life but

for now let's go see the bike under that

tarp so I saved the best for last I've

been looking for one of these for a long

time I've had a couple never should have

sold them I think it's one of the

coolest bikes ever made that is the

Honda Rune I know it looks like it's

been in a barn for the past uh 12 years

it was just in I think this all came

from being inside um Hall bikes

Warehouse Dusty as anything it's gross

looking let's see if it

starts that's good news 8,900

miles

got to admit that sounds pretty

good one of the best motorcycles I've

ever ridden very unique experience to

ride this thing I love this bike we'll

see you guys next time and go check out

the beard and mechanics YouTube channel

Craig has a ton of Awesome videos and

eventually he's probably going to get

that guy running and that Honda race

bike