Bike and Tsunami - Update: Harley going to Harley Museum

[GZ250]

The Vancouver Sun reports: A Langford motorcycle dealer is helping to return a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to its owner in Japan after it was washed out to sea by last year's tsunami and ended up on B.C.'s northwest coast. With the subsequent news that the owner had been found, the bike is to be taken to Drane's shop and packed for shipping to Japan in its rusted state. Harley-Davidson has offered to restore the bike at one of its Japanese facilities so the owner can see the motorcycle before and after.

"I think it's going to be great that it actually goes back in its original condition. I think it's going to have a lot more meaning there," Drane said.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... coast?lite (http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/01/11490380-harley-davidson-motorcycle-swept-away-by-japan-tsunami-washes-up-on-canada-coast?lite)

UPDATE:

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... useum?lite (http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/25/11866152-harley-davidson-motorcycle-swept-away-by-japan-tsunami-to-be-preserved-in-museum?lite)

[mrlmd1]

Sending that one back to Japan and restoring it is going to be more expensive than just shipping him a new one from the US.

[dentheman]

Yeah, but Harley gets more than its monies worth in the press. This will certainly be big news in Japan.

[PimpS]

Those tires are sure good! ;) I'm buying dunlop next time, that's for sure!!! ;)

[jonathan180iq]

I don't care what the cost is.
If I was the store owner, I would completely restore that bike, get some publicity and make the owner one very proud customer. No one else in the world will have a Harley like that one. It's totally worth it.

[Skunkhome]

You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.

[Water Warrior 2]

You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.
The bike was in a container with some other stuff that belonged to the owner. The container just floated across the Pacific to our shores. An unmanned Japanese fishing boat was nearing our coast a couple weeks ago and causing a navigational danger so the navy sunk it. This is just the beginning of things from Japan.

[alantf]

Englishmen make the best lovers.......but the Japanese make 'em smaller and cheaper. :crackup

[Water Warrior 2]

Englishmen make the best lovers......

I do think I would prefer an Englishwoman myself. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Skunkhome]

You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.
The bike was in a container with some other stuff that belonged to the owner. The container just floated across the Pacific to our shores. An unmanned Japanese fishing boat was nearing our coast a couple weeks ago and causing a navigational danger so the navy sunk it. This is just the beginning of things from Japan.
Oh! That clarifies a lot. That really takes a lot of the mystique off the bike. Now I am kinda non-plused about it.

[Thorag]

An unmanned Japanese fishing boat was nearing our coast a couple weeks ago and causing a navigational danger so the navy sunk it. This is just the beginning of things from Japan.

...after some Canadians claimed salvage rights and tried to tow the boat home, eh :lol:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/04/04/bc-japanese-tsunami-ghost-ship-sinking.html

[music man]

Oh! That clarifies a lot. That really takes a lot of the mystique off the bike. Now I am kinda non-plused about it.

Well I will add back to it for you then, the shipping containers doors were ripped off of it when it was found, so somehow the contents stayed inside the whole way across the ocean with no door holding them in.