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GTA M/C scrappers ?

Cycle Salvage in Peterborough maybe?
 
Most scrappers will turn them away unless you drop them off at their yards - not worth the time to decommission fluids, tires etc. I dumped a couple of Viragos at Standard Auto Wreckers a few years back -- they weren't sure what to do with them and they certainly were not going to pay anything.

Throw them up on Kijiji for free. There are lots of dead bike hoarders.
 
Mad Mike said:
Most scrappers will turn them away unless you drop them off at their yards - not worth the time to decommission fluids, tires etc. I dumped a couple of Viragos at Standard Auto Wreckers a few years back -- they weren't sure what to do with them and they certainly were not going to pay anything.

Throw them up on Kijiji for free. There are lots of dead bike hoarders.
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You may get more as scrap metal than as a scrap bike. FWIW, we call a guy and he comes to pick up scrap metal. We get no money but didn't need to deal with hauling things away. I suspect you will end up in a similar situation. Whoever moves the bike is going to get all the money there is in the project, the bike where is sits is worth zero or less (unless someone wants it as a personal bike or parts).
 
Motorcycles make lousy scrap metal. There is too much mixing of metals. The aluminum wheels have steel in the hub that has to be broken out, the motors are half aluminum, half steel... too much effort to process them for the little bit of weight... AND there is basically ZERO market for used parts... especially a old Venture.
In all my motorcycling days I have only ever one guy that wanted Ventures. He had a fleet of 'em, one with a twin turbos. The turbo one was just stupid... FAST, but still stupid.
 
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bitzz said:
Motorcycles make lousy scrap metal. There is too much mixing of metals. The aluminum wheels have steel in the hub that has to be broken out, the motors are half aluminum, half steel... too much effort to process them for the little bit of weight... AND there is basically ZERO market for used parts... especially a old Venture.
In all my motorcycling days I have only ever one guy that wanted Ventures. He had a fleet of 'em, one with a twin turbos. The turbo one was just stupid... FAST, but still stupid.
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I saw a GlenL MightyMite home-built boat with a Venture 1200 engine at Sodus Point NY 3 summers ago. It was a rocket.
 
Mad Mike said:
I saw a GlenL MightyMite home-built boat with a Venture 1200 engine at Sodus Point NY 3 summers ago. It was a rocket.
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That sounds like a great way to re-home the engine. I wonder if you could re-home it into a Tunnel Mite, tuck some fuel cells into the sides, that'd be wild.
 
did they keep the gear box?
any idea how they hooked the motor to the prop shaft?

I have a handle on an 80's goldwing 4cyl that deserves to be dropped into a plywood boat.
 
crankcall said:
did they keep the gear box?
any idea how they hooked the motor to the prop shaft?

I have a handle on an 80's goldwing 4cyl that deserves to be dropped into a plywood boat.
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Digging through the internet to find tutorials and guides. Meanwhile...

If you like the idea of a motorcycle engine powered boat, how about a boat engine powered motorcycle?

 
monkeyfarm said:
Digging through the internet to find tutorials and guides. Meanwhile...

If you like the idea of a motorcycle engine powered boat, how about a boat engine powered motorcycle?

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Hopefully that engine is air-cooled. That looks plausible but I don't know old Yamaha's enough to know for sure. It would be pretty damned loud. Why keep the shaft? I just adds weight and creates packaging problems. If I was keeping the shaft, I would have been inclined to mount the motor behind me with a bevel drive so it looked boatish. You'd need to get gear reduction in there somehow but you could use a box or hub. A lot of unsprung weight, but you aren't making a racer or long distance cruiser.
 
GreyGhost said:
Hopefully that engine is air-cooled. That looks plausible but I don't know old Yamaha's enough to know for sure. It would be pretty damned loud. Why keep the shaft? I just adds weight and creates packaging problems. If I was keeping the shaft, I would have been inclined to mount the motor behind me with a bevel drive so it looked boatish. You'd need to get gear reduction in there somehow but you could use a box or hub. A lot of unsprung weight, but you aren't making a racer or long distance cruiser.
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Internet indicates yes, 70-80's Yamaha 642 comes up as air cooled. 11/10 is very loud, especially since it's out in front of the whole setup.

He may have kept the shaft because it's easier to deal with. A very boatish thing to do would have been to power the bike via the front tire and drive it backwards. Keeps with the nautical theme, also a recipe for disaster, but you might as well full-*** it...
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