DOUBLE Deal at Epic Motorcycle Museum | American Pickers (S27) | History

(phone rings)
MIKE: Dani D, what’s up?
DANIELLE: Hey, did you make it to Salt Lake City yet?
MIKE: Hell yeah! I drove through the night.
DANIELLE: Yeah, I just talked to Rick. He said to go ahead and pull around back and he’ll be expecting you back there. You can load it in there.
MIKE: I wouldn’t mind riding it myself.

MIKE: What’s up, bros?
RICK: What’s happening?
MIKE: Dude, what’s going on, man?
RICK: Where have you been?
MIKE: I made it. You get a lot of traffic here.
RICK: My name’s Rick Salisbury. I own Legends Vintage Motorcycle Museum.
MIKE: Dude, I drove past the Ferris wheel.
RICK: Did you?
MIKE: Yeah, I’m like, “What the heck’s going on?!”
RICK: That was a Robbie deal.
MIKE: That was a Robbie deal?!
RICK: I got that from Robbie.

RICK: Once I got to know the Wolfe boys, I mean, they’ve helped me, if I have something I’m looking for, I can make a phone call and I know they’ll find it for me. He just takes care of everything.

MIKE: Is that original paint?
RICK: Yeah.
MIKE: Is that original paint?
RICK: Yeah.
MIKE: Look at that.
RICK: This is my favorite bike to ride.
MIKE: No kidding. Did you get this running for him?
KYLE: Yeah.
MIKE: How many floors you got?
RICK: More than I need.
(laughter)

MIKE: Hey, I’ll tell you what you don’t have.
RICK: What?
MIKE: You don’t have this.
RICK: Let’s look at it. Let’s go.
MIKE: I know, I know man. It’s nuts.
MIKE: Check it out. Oh, yeah. Bam.
RICK: That’s cool. Does it run?
MIKE: It runs really well. When I looked at it initially, the tanks were bone dry. It sat for a long time, but the guy set it up correctly. The biggest problem was the brakes. You know, it’s got hydraulic brakes on it like a car.

MIKE: You guys got ramps?
KYLE: Yeah.
MIKE: We got it.
KYLE: I got one more just like it.
MIKE: All right. Thank you, buddy.
KYLE: Same deal.
MIKE: Yeah, so it’s laying about.
MIKE: So basically, what we need is someone to run the brake.
RICK: I’ll do it.
MIKE: You’re going to do it?
RICK: I’ll just drive it out.
MIKE: All right.

MIKE: Whoa, whoa.
RICK: Okay.
MIKE: All right, you ready?
RICK: I can’t see (bleep).
MIKE: I know. I know. I know.
(Mike laughs)
MIKE: How’s he doing over there?
RICK: The brakes are a little spongy.
KYLE: You got it.
RICK: Good?
MIKE: What’s going on? Yeah, let go of the brake.
MIKE: Oh!
RICK: No brake.
KYLE: Oh, (bleep). Get on the brake.
RICK: I got it.
MIKE: Wait! (laughs)
MIKE: “I got it!”
RICK: Oh, yeah.
MIKE: It’s all intact, and it’s on the ground.

MIKE: That went a little rougher than I thought it would, but it worked.
MIKE: I can rest a little easy.

MIKE: Isn’t it wild how he customized the handlebars on it?
RICK: The whole thing’s cool.
MIKE: They kind of pulled them back and put this crossbar on it.
MIKE: And I love the Indian headlight on it. Did you see that?
RICK: It’s cool.
MIKE: I know, it’s cool, right?

MIKE: You guys want to hear it run?
RICK: Yeah. I want to ride it.
MIKE: All right. All right.
(engine starts)
(revving loudly)

MIKE: I don’t care how old you are or how long you’ve been doing this, when you get around something that you have never ridden before, something as unique as this is going to put a smile on your face.
(laughing)
KYLE: Oh, (bleep).
MIKE: The brakes work. The brakes work.

MIKE: Here, dude, get on it. Rick. Run. Run. Roll around.
RICK: Go for a ride.
MIKE: You gonna roll it?

MIKE: Rick and I are basically like big kids, man. I mean, to hear this bike run is a big deal because it sat for so long. And it was so coveted by the family.

MIKE: Look at him. Look at him. Here he comes.
(laughing)
MIKE: There he goes.

MIKE: Now it’s at a museum, and it’s running up and down the parking lot. This is epic!
MIKE: The brakes work.
RICK: They’re not bad.
(laughing)

MIKE: What do you think?
RICK: That’s cool as hell.
MIKE: I know. I mean, it’s smoking up a little bit. I mean, it needs a little tune up or something.

RICK: How much you want for this?
MIKE: Oh, man. Uh… With what we have in it, like, uh… 46 grand.
RICK: Done.
RICK: Done.
(Mike laughs)
MIKE: Dude, I’m so happy you got it.
RICK: It’s nice.

MIKE: It needs to be somewhere where people can connect with it over and over again, not in someone’s collection that they’re just going to enjoy it personally. This needs to be out in the public like it was from day one when it was created.

MIKE: Where do you think you’re going to put it?
RICK: We can go look.
MIKE: I want to see it, man.

MIKE: So who was the architect on this place?
RICK: I was.
MIKE: And how long did it take you to build this?
RICK: Two years.
MIKE: Wow. This building is purposely built for your collection.
RICK: For the collection.

MIKE: It feels like a factory. But it’s so much more than that because of the height of the ceiling, the mezzanines, the things that he’s got hanging from the ceiling. It’s a really beautifully created space.

MIKE: I was wondering when I was gonna see the early Indians.
RICK: Oh. Yeah.
MIKE: Woo! Look at this.

RICK: I wanted to do the Indian display, because number one, there’s such a difference between an Indian motorcycle and a Harley.
RICK: The Indian motorcycle is basically a bicycle with a motor on it. The tires are smaller. The frame is shorter. The engine’s smaller.

MIKE: Man, this is so early. I mean, think about it, ’03, man. Wow. I love the throttle on these things.

MIKE: The greatest thing about Indian to me is the early racing history, the engineering.
MIKE: It’s just so untouched, man.
RICK: Yeah, it’s all original. Paint, the whole thing.

MIKE: Indian was the first American motorcycle that started mass-producing bikes. In 1907, when Harley was making 150 motorcycles a year, Indian was making 2,500 motorcycles a year,

MIKE: What’s going on with the project? What is this? What is this thing?
RICK: I think I bought that from Bobby Green.
MIKE: Get out of here. You bought this from Bob… Can I pull it out of here?
RICK: Yeah.

MIKE: Look at this thing.
RICK: The ’05 is bits and pieces of a motorcycle that I bought maybe 15 years ago.
RICK: The story Bobby told me on this bike, he found it in a machine shop in California in a box. Somebody took it in there to get some work done on it. They never came and picked it up.
MIKE: Wow.

MIKE: Would you sell this?
RICK: Uh…
MIKE: Some of this looks to be original, and then other looks pretty hokey. This one-piece right here is original to it. It doesn’t even have the right wheels on it. So what you’ve got here is you’ve got frame, fork, eccentric, gearing here, the engine, the carb, an original oil tank, reproduction fuel tank.

RICK: Well, I was all enthused about rebuilding it when I first got it.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
RICK: Then I ended up buying the three that are all there and all original.
MIKE: Then you’re jacked up on that.
RICK: So I kind of lost interest in this.

MIKE: Here’s the deal. I would like to make you an offer on it. But to be honest with you, I’ve got to digest it, because I’m looking at it from a parts standpoint.
RICK: I’ll think about it.
MIKE: Okay. No, listen… Hey…
RICK: I’m not saying no.
MIKE: No, I mean, listen, man. I mean, I’m glad that you’re letting me ponder it. I just want to make you a good offer, and I want to be more educated on it myself. I’d probably end up texting Jersey. He’s making so much of this stuff.
RICK: Right.
MIKE: I’ll talk to him.
RICK: Let me know. I’m not opposed to selling it.
MIKE: Yeah. What about the Feilbach? Would you sell that?
RICK: Ahh…
(Mike laughs)

MIKE: Hey, what’s up?
JERSEY JON: Hey, what’s up?
MIKE: Did you get the pictures of that Indian?
JERSEY JON: Yeah, dude.
MIKE: My question to you is, if it was just a frame and fork, what do you think that frame and fork would be worth?
JERSEY JON: Yeah, just the frame and the fork, dude, is $20,000, $25,000. I mean, it’s real deal.
MIKE: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: It’s real stuff. We haven’t seen a diamond frame for sale forever.

MIKE: What do you think the engine and the carburetor’s worth?
JERSEY JON: Oh, man, look, it’s so hard to find anymore. The carburetor engine’s got to be worth $12,000, dude.
MIKE: Okay, so if I’m piecing it together, I mean, I want to make him a solid offer because he never sells anything. And I don’t want to pay too much because basically, I’m buying parts.

MIKE: This bike has the wrong hubs. It has the wrong wheels. And it has the wrong fenders. It’s got a lot of hobo-looking linkage on it.
JERSEY JON: I don’t know, dude. I’d probably say… $40,000, $45,000.
MIKE: That’s what I was thinking.
JERSEY JON: If you have an opportunity to buy that bike, you’ve got to buy it.
MIKE: But man, I mean, to find anything pre-1910 Indian, the diamond frame stuff, forget about it.

MIKE: I value your opinion. I know you know your stuff on this diamond frame Indian stuff, man.
JERSEY JON: Well, I appreciate that, man, yeah.
MIKE: I’m gonna go back in there and see if I can buy it.
JERSEY JON: Hey, you get it, Corncob.
MIKE: Knock it off. Bye.
(laughs)

MIKE: All right. So I talked to Jersey Jon, you know, and he was giving me the skinny on everything.
MIKE: So…
MIKE: Can I make you an offer on it?
RICK: Uh… sure.
MIKE: For what’s here and you understanding the acquiring the rest of it, I’m thinking $45,000.

RICK: I’ve got Indians, and they’re all done. I didn’t really need another one, and the time it would take for me to put that bike together would be easy a year to 18 months. I would rather work on a project that I don’t have one like it than rebuild something I already have.
RICK: Uh, where I have the others, and it doesn’t… I have no intention to do anything with it, I would sell it to you for $45,000.
MIKE: You would?
RICK: I would.
MIKE: Okay. Thank you, buddy. I love it! I mean, are you kidding me? I’m in heaven over it. I mean, I’m like in awe of it.

RICK: I’m glad Mike bought the ’05. He’ll do a better job putting that bike together than I will. I probably would have never done anything with that bike.

(sirens wailing)
MIKE: What the heck?
RICK: What?
(Mike laughs)
MIKE: Yeah!
(Mike laughs)
That looks good together! Oh my god.
RICK: How cool that bike looks.
(Mike laughs)