| Author | Message | ||
     Dcc46 |
that's depressing | ||
| Crusty |
I worked at a Lock manufacturer a few years ago that underwent a change in upper management. The new president decided that all the old manufacturing equipment that was in storage was wasting space. They put a dumpster out back and kept filling it with old machinery. It looked like that. The good news was that I got a Powermatic drill press and a nice steel workbench with a 6" vise attached for free. That is a heartbreaking sight, but I don't think it's photoshopped. It looks too real. The next time H-D starts telling you to be patriotic and buy American, remember that dumpster. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Well, if I found out some enterprising Elf got a few spare Uly seats and a wheel or two out of the deal, I'd feel a lot better about it. Perhaps somebody in the area should scout all the scrapyards near East Troy? A lot of us would love to have some spare parts. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
that makes me sick.... | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
It's normal practice, to counter liability claims. Yeah they could strip the bikes for usable parts, but that would cost more in man/hours than the parts are worth. This way there's no comebacks & they get paid for the weight. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
+1 Grumpy I saw Polk Audio do the same thing with high end speakers when they were closing their U.S. plant and moving offshore. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Yeah they could strip the bikes for usable parts, but that would cost more in man/hours than the parts are worth. Too bad they wouldn't at least let them have a "pull your own parts" junkyard at the factory for a few days... | ||
| Daveswan |
I opened that image in Photoshop, magnified it, and went over it to find signs of manipulation. Yeah, it's definitely a retouching job that pretty good but there are some tell tale rough spots, cut and paste, cloning, and missed blends that give it away.  | ||
| Ulynut |
Real or not, please don't post stuff like that. It's like those photos someone took of Jennifer Love Hewitts cellulite. You know it's probably there, but you don't want to see it. It just gives me nausea. | ||
| Spiderman |
No it's real, that happened long before HD shut Buell down... | ||
| Badlionsfan |
like i said, happens all the time at every manufacturing facility of everything. we had a skid of five 60" plasma tvs damaged on the dock at work last year. 1 tv destroyed, other 4 had boxes torn up, tvs were fine. we had to pay out the damage claim, shipper didn't want any of it back. they were locked in a trailer until the trash truck came to dump the dumpster, and they were thrown in and crushed in the trash truck. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
HD disposes of its employee fleet and test bikes by tossing them in dumpsters. BUT the bikes are destroyed and not dumped in whole like these. Frames are cut into pieces, rims are cut up. I'm not so sure about the validity of this pic. The background does look like the PDC, but I'm not 100% sure of it. | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
All bike manufacturers do this. They were probably un-numbered (no way to title them) test bikes/IMS show/pre-production bikes. | ||
| Daveswan |
it's a cut and paste job, I've been doing this stuff for 20+ years. I see where parts of the dumpster were spliced together and overlapping the bikes in areas weren't cut right. In any case... maybe I'll create a dumpster full of hogs later and post it.  | ||
| Littlebuggles |
please do Dave | ||
| Barker |
as a man who makes a living @ special effects,,,, and after looking at the higher res version,,, I'm going to bet its real. ** Whats really cool is the embossed Buell logo on the frame of one of the bikes. That gives me an idea. (Message edited by barker on November 11, 2009) | ||
| Barker |
Hopefully its like one of them jelly bean jars,,, Guess how many, closest to the actual number wins the lot. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Barker, could you post up the hi-res or email it to me? john.heibler@eutecticusa.com | ||
| Cityxslicker |
where were you guys two years ago when they said that they would cut and dumpster drop the rooster before any of us were able to get our hands on one? Welcome to the 'party' | ||
| Ourdee |
I'd be collecting tires and plastics and pegs and control levers first. Ebay would never see them. Ahrrr, always a day late. I'd pay them double scrap rate and not charge for tire disposal. | ||
| Swordsman |
Daveswan, you are mistaken. I also pulled it up and magnified. There are no signs of manipulation. The pixel errors you see are the result of a crappy camera (probably a camera phone shot, judging by the resolution). Just look at the pic as it is, and think about it: where the hell would they get photos of all those trashed bikes in the first place (notice many are missing bits and pieces)? Not only that, but how could the light source be perfect on all of them at the same time if it was pieced together (source is ~10 o'clock)? No, I'm afraid this is the real deal. ~SM | ||
| Guell |
yea i magnified it too, theres no signs of doctoring to the pic, its just a crappy cell phone pic it looks like. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
From Court in session from an Anynomous source. That I would assume had factory insight from the tone of it. Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 04:14 pm: -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Yes there were running mules of different types, but no they will not leave the building except in cut up pieces in a dumpster. I can assure you that the last and most representative one will be stored away for the museum, to be brought out many years down the road. Whether the program gets turned back on or not. Still pizzed two years later. | ||
| Glitch |
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| Cityxslicker |
are they going off to Harley so thay can pull all the parts and keep them for the 7 years we are supposed to have spares? Umph is looking like it will get the knod for the CityX replacement. | ||
| Jammin_joules |
You guys ought to see all the Big macs and McDoubles amd fries McDonald's throws out in their dumpster every night. | ||
| Glitch |
Can't ride a Big Mac | ||
| Buelltoys |
Go to any manufacture and they do it all the time. They are most likely either demo or pre production models with no VIN numbers or listed as so so can not be sold. All the auto plants do it so I would assume that Buell is the same. I have seen many completely assembled vehicles go under a backhoe for crushing. Normal procedure. | ||
| Court |
Okay . . . funny C.O.V. story . . . About 2001 I get a call from an old friend who scored a great deal on a Buell from his local dealer . . . He'd written to get some information about when the bike was built, the original color, wheels and so forth. He also asked, since the bike had less than 500 miles, about the proper breakin procedure. When he told me about the deal he got it sounded REALLY good. Anyway . . . . . I open up the big ol Excel file of all the Buells made that year . . . . and start looking for his V.I.N. I found it and broke out laughing on the phone . . . Some of you may recall the bike the Scott Miller used to use to do the rolling smoking burn outs on with Reg sitting on the handle bars . . . he'd pin the throttle . . . let the bike sit there for a couple minutes bouncing off the rev limiter and blow the rear tire. I congratulated John on the killer deal on the "factory" bike and assured him that he likely didn't need to worry about the break in procedure. The risk of buying a C.O.V. is that it may have been a photo bike used by media and never ridden. . . . of it could have been a "see if you can break" this mule. All fun stuff . . . . | ||
| Madduck |
I spent two years of my life diving into the dumpster behind the McDonalds in Madison Wisconsing. Get there too early and you get nothing. Timing is everything, hot food hermetically sealed in those styrofoam containers in the early 70's. life was good and we usually snagged enough chow for a feast back in the SW dorms. Life was good then. |
