Well I got off work a bit early today and decided to go for a little ride. I cruised into town on my Daytona. Well it was like 48458493 degrees outside so I was about to head home when I rode by Duncan Donuts, and my spidey sense started tingling. Parked in the parking lot of D&D were two pretty sweet bikes!
I pulled a U-turn pretty quick and parked next to them. As I was climbing off my bike, the two owners walked out. We sat and chatted for about 5 minutes in the parking lot, and decided to all go back inside D&D and hang out in the AC. As I got to know the two riders more I found out that the one on the speed triple was the son of the ducati rider. Well the Ducati Rider is the owner of a business on the edge of town that until today I had no idea existed. His business is one that builds custom trikes, and adds side cars to bikes.
this is a link to their website
http://www.hannigantrikes.com/
They invited me to tag along on a curvey road on their way home, and check out the business and shop. I had nothing better to do, and decided to follow them. The road was one i've never ridden, but it was fun, and i'll ride it again! Once we got to the guys house/business we parked in his driveway, and he opened a giant garage/shed and pushed his bike inside. His son and I followed him into the garage, and what I saw made my jaw drop.
We all have seen stories in magazines or online or heard of people who have awesome motorcycle collections full of awesome bikes right?.... Well I found one of these people today!!! inside this huge garage sat about 50+ bikes. They ranged from new sport bikes, to ADV bikes, to touring bikes, and more old vintage bikes than you could list. He had tons of old BSA, Triumph, BMW's, a few Indians, and a bunch of Japanese bikes!
The Guy even had an NSX in the garage he rebuilt.....
After I picked my jaw up off the floor, they took me on a personal tour of their shop and business. I imagined it was a "ran out of their garage" type thing. I was wrong, they had about 30 or so people employed there. They had about 5 or so different buildings that each had a different part of the building process dedicated to them. one was fabrication, another was paint, another was assembly, another was for the fiberglass laying, and so on. It was really cool to see it all, and how much work goes into making one. It was a fairly quick tour, but I still really enjoyed it. It reminded me a bit of the Buell factory I toured a few years back. Everything was done in house. and was a small home town business that seemed to really care about their product and put a lot of effort into making a good thing for customers!
I wish I had taken a bunch more pictures, but oh well.... A little stop at a donut shop turned into something really cool!!!
I pulled a U-turn pretty quick and parked next to them. As I was climbing off my bike, the two owners walked out. We sat and chatted for about 5 minutes in the parking lot, and decided to all go back inside D&D and hang out in the AC. As I got to know the two riders more I found out that the one on the speed triple was the son of the ducati rider. Well the Ducati Rider is the owner of a business on the edge of town that until today I had no idea existed. His business is one that builds custom trikes, and adds side cars to bikes.
this is a link to their website
http://www.hannigantrikes.com/
They invited me to tag along on a curvey road on their way home, and check out the business and shop. I had nothing better to do, and decided to follow them. The road was one i've never ridden, but it was fun, and i'll ride it again! Once we got to the guys house/business we parked in his driveway, and he opened a giant garage/shed and pushed his bike inside. His son and I followed him into the garage, and what I saw made my jaw drop.
We all have seen stories in magazines or online or heard of people who have awesome motorcycle collections full of awesome bikes right?.... Well I found one of these people today!!! inside this huge garage sat about 50+ bikes. They ranged from new sport bikes, to ADV bikes, to touring bikes, and more old vintage bikes than you could list. He had tons of old BSA, Triumph, BMW's, a few Indians, and a bunch of Japanese bikes!
The Guy even had an NSX in the garage he rebuilt.....
After I picked my jaw up off the floor, they took me on a personal tour of their shop and business. I imagined it was a "ran out of their garage" type thing. I was wrong, they had about 30 or so people employed there. They had about 5 or so different buildings that each had a different part of the building process dedicated to them. one was fabrication, another was paint, another was assembly, another was for the fiberglass laying, and so on. It was really cool to see it all, and how much work goes into making one. It was a fairly quick tour, but I still really enjoyed it. It reminded me a bit of the Buell factory I toured a few years back. Everything was done in house. and was a small home town business that seemed to really care about their product and put a lot of effort into making a good thing for customers!
I wish I had taken a bunch more pictures, but oh well.... A little stop at a donut shop turned into something really cool!!!
