Steve McQueen, Ed Roth, Von Dutch and more at the National Motorcycle Museum
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The National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa is closing on September 5th, 2023. We traveled to Iowa to tour the museum and capture the impressive collection before it is actioned off and pieced out to new owners. The bulk of the museum was curated by the founders of J&P Cycles, John and Jill Parham. At the time of our visit the museum housed more than 300 vintage and important motorcycles and more than 6,000 pieces of road art.
The museum has brought joy to thousands of enthusiasts and is a testament to John and Jill Parham's contributions to the motorcycling community. We were lucky enough to spend three days in town and still weren't able to see it all. We learned a ton and feel blessed that we were able to experience so much history in one place.
The museum is closing for financial reasons. With the relocation of J&P Cycles from Anamosa to Texas, the amount of visitors to the small community of about 5,000 people hasn't been enough to maintain and house such a large and significant collection. While it's sad the museum is closing, we can't thank the founders and staff enough for providing an incredible experience to so many riders for as long as they did.
A huge thank you to Jill Parham and Dave Ohrt to welcoming us to the museum and taking the time to chat with us. And another thank you to the staff members who helped us navigate the collection.
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THE BIKES:
Steve McQueen Indian Chopper-
JD Cameron interview with Blacktop TV about building a bike for Steve McQueen: • McQueen/Cameron Indian...
More about Steve McQueen's Indian Chopper: magazine.cycleworld.com/artic...
Asphalt Angel-
nationalmcmuseum.org/2018/08/...
The Dragon Bike-
See the Dragon bike in The Wild Angels on KZread: • Video
0:00 Intro
0:53 Choppers
19:12 Harleys
37:02 Best of the Best
48:12 Interview with Jill Parham
53:54 Indians
59:07 European
1:16:32 Japanese
1:22:21 Competition
1:35:54 Early Motorcycles
Пікірлер: 65
No words but tears of JOY!!!
Hopefully Wheels Through Time obtains some of these and expands!
Multiple - Multiple wet dreams in that video.Thank you to whoever got their sh*t together to record these gems for posterity.
I have ridden there three times from Omaha. A great museum! Very sad it has to close. If this were a baseball or some other ball and stick sport museum people would be falling all over each other to get in and support it. I hope the auction goes well for the owners and they are rewarded nicely. All the best to them.
I'd love to see RoadDog and McQueens Indian chopper go to WTT.
How could anyone say they don’t like Ed Roth ? the man is a Legend IMO as much as any of the Great Customizers like George Barriss , Gene Winfield ,Jesse James ,anda few others
Wow what a motorcycle collection, there must have been a motorcycle to suit tastes of all sorts
All the years I spent trucking across America, never knew this place existed, shame the young generation is missing out on how simple things were, an how the safety of the ride has changed.
It's a shame the museum is closing. I love vintage bikes, choppers, customs and anything cool, so hopefully these machines will go to people that will continue to display them publicly rather than hide 'em in a private collection. Thanks for preserving history!
So many beautiful bikes. I won't be able to afford any of them at auction.
Dang that brakes my heart if I was closer I would go all the time
The Dragon bike , very cool .
Inspiration for my new shop 😎
I hope these bikes go to a good hope. Maybe someone will buy all of them and just move the museum
Course Barber is the real national motorcycle museum. Nothing in the world compares.
@freebird7284
Жыл бұрын
unless your looking for harley's
p o that i hear that your museum is closing. But i have to say thank you for having it for as long as u did . Theses are all beautiful machines , 60---70 s n better , style. keeps some of the newer style bikers on their toes . how cool they were back in the days .
Thankfully, I got my 7 year old granddaughter there before it closed. The six times times I said:"I rode one just like this in...." was cool. Of course, the "I sold this one for $50" and "this one got buried in a field" stories didn't come out. The "I rode an modified Triumph up the hill climb in ..." was a cool story. Maybe not so much emphasis on:"I made it 3/4 (optimistic estimate) up the hill" but forgot the "flipped it on my head" part. My grandpa rode a 1942 like this one, and a great uncle traded a 1918 Harley like this one for a couple of plow horses added more family context.
Ridden over to the museum many times. What a great place. Very sorry to see it go!
So sad to learn of this closure .... if only I had the money to help! ... 🏍😧🏍
EXCELLENT JOB WELL DONE 👏 ✔️ 👍
Looks like it was Heaven on Earth! At least we have this video to remember it by. Kind of a shame someone felt the need to 'restore' Roaddog, though. Don't think it was ever meant to be that polished and painted up.
Was here last week with 6 other riders great museum sorry to see it closing been here twice. Going to try and make the auction on the 9th of Sept.
thank you for these great bikes information😀
Awesome
The bikes in the museum are a super cool, but that soundtrack is amazingly good. Absolutely awesome soundtrack
So cool, I went to Dale's Wheels Through Time last year in Maggie Valley and it was great to see the variety of bikes there. I had a KZ900 like the one in the video. That bike would really run. I fortunately survived a no-look driver making a left turn in front of me. Snapped my femur, through me over the trunk but I lived to ride again, thanks to the full coverage helmet I had on. It obliterated it and I would have surely had a head injury without it.
Roaddog is the pinnacle of super- weird-super-awesome fabrication.
music goooooooooooooooooooodddd!!!!
Really cool you're just on the wrong side of the tracks like me
Yes please!
Wouldn’t i love to own that Jesse James Camel Roadhouse El Diablo chopper. That bike changed my life and the way I felt about motorcycles. I really hope it goes to a great home or back to the original owner. I wish I could afford to own a bike like that one. I have built a chopper but it’s not that nice. But it makes me happy to ride anyway.
+You can see my donated 200,000-mile 1999 Victory V92C from 59:37 - 59:45 nestled (for some reason) in the European segment in this video. I also donated a 2001 Buell Blast, but didn't see it, nor do I know if it was ever displayed...
It seems as the world is changing for the worse.....all the great thing's like this wonderful museum are coming to a sad end. The sign of the times? Sadly, I think so. I'm writing from sunny Northern California. Come on out to Yosemite National Park and Calavaras Big Trees. The riding is awesome out here....for now, until it dies too.
Thanks for the video much appreciated I'm sad to see it go for real
Love you
Hope i can make it out
I’ve never been here but I’ve ordered a lot of metal garage signs from them.
Where all these amazing bikes going
@tucoramirez8397
Жыл бұрын
Auctioned off like the rest of America. Way too high for us regular folks to ever dream. Old Harleys are very popular in Japan of all places. They sell you "reliable" and "cheap" only to buy up all your history. I hope the new generation is proud.
@user-my8uz8qy4g
Жыл бұрын
@@tucoramirez8397 sad
@mphonda6894
Жыл бұрын
@@tucoramirez8397 it's literally YOUR generation that ruined things lol. it's YOUR generation that's closing the museum and selling it.
@stratocaster1greg
Жыл бұрын
To offset Japs getting our bikes I hoard real Samurai swords.
@dennymcfastlane8530
Жыл бұрын
Mecum Auction.
How the hell did this place close.come in America
steve is bruce lee good friend i believe bruce will sit on his bike and take some picture
why do people say for good when something interesting closes. i think it is bad.. not for good.
Talk to wheels trough time
@leovdvelden8428
Жыл бұрын
Great place for these treasures....
Is this the guy from American pickers?
@ChopCult_09
9 ай бұрын
Yes Dave Ohrt was on American Pickers
You can move bike and artwork. Someone else (Jay Leno) should buy it out and hide it from the world forever as revenge.
I ride a Honda. It’s a great reliable bike. Like a good friend to me. Seeing that crushed Panhead made me sad. What a waste of timeless Art. Like I said I ride Red but if I had a Pan, Shovel, or even a Knuckle I’d cherish it
i always wanted "Gothgirl" not the bike , the girl!
Just off the top of my head, this should have been moved to Daytona, LA or Las Vegas. Such a shame.
Sad
No way
Just before everything goes woke.
Putting a motorcycle museum in Iowa was a horrible business decision in the first place. Sturgis or Dayton would make more sense.
I have been there years ago with my wife and Travis Bradley his wife all the way from beckville tx
Some nice bikes. Most are regular blah.
Music is horrible
@MrMartman777
Жыл бұрын
It's not rap or hip hop that gets high marks from me
@richardfreeman3207
Жыл бұрын
@@MrMartman777 Excellent music IMO.
@mphonda6894
Жыл бұрын
It's free stock music that you don't have to pay for. Are you gonna pay for the music for their next video? Didn't think so.