Steve McQueen, Ed Roth, Von Dutch and more at the National Motorcycle Museum

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
  • 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-
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    Asphalt Angel-
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    The Dragon Bike-
    See the Dragon bike in The Wild Angels on TH-cam: • 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
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  • @rampantcolt1684
    @rampantcolt1684 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Hopefully Wheels Through Time obtains some of these and expands!

  • @prestonrobert2625
    @prestonrobert2625 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No words but tears of JOY!!!

  • @sidneysnottley6414
    @sidneysnottley6414 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Multiple - Multiple wet dreams in that video.Thank you to whoever got their sh*t together to record these gems for posterity.

  • @craigmonteforte1478
    @craigmonteforte1478 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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

  • @tRumpblows
    @tRumpblows ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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.

  • @hellonwheelz3317
    @hellonwheelz3317 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd love to see RoadDog and McQueens Indian chopper go to WTT.

  • @markmiller6817
    @markmiller6817 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Dragon bike , very cool .

  • @ttjbiggunner2025
    @ttjbiggunner2025 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dang that brakes my heart if I was closer I would go all the time

  • @justinkeller9187
    @justinkeller9187 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So many beautiful bikes. I won't be able to afford any of them at auction.

  • @mikeshaffer2950
    @mikeshaffer2950 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @SpaceRanger187
    @SpaceRanger187 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hope these bikes go to a good hope. Maybe someone will buy all of them and just move the museum

  • @csj9619
    @csj9619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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!

  • @peterbetts858
    @peterbetts858 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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 .

  • @jimcockburn4652
    @jimcockburn4652 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow what a motorcycle collection, there must have been a motorcycle to suit tastes of all sorts

  • @D16S06
    @D16S06 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So sad to learn of this closure .... if only I had the money to help! ... 🏍😧🏍

  • @TheJeffMiller
    @TheJeffMiller ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ridden over to the museum many times. What a great place. Very sorry to see it go!

  • @jamestregler1584
    @jamestregler1584 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Inspiration for my new shop 😎

  • @richroberts8238
    @richroberts8238 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Course Barber is the real national motorcycle museum. Nothing in the world compares.

    • @freebird7284
      @freebird7284 ปีที่แล้ว

      unless your looking for harley's

  • @mosads2986
    @mosads2986 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    EXCELLENT JOB WELL DONE 👏 ✔️ 👍

  • @user-yi3qr5jh4x
    @user-yi3qr5jh4x ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @tomohawk2760
    @tomohawk2760 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome

  • @amirsayed4264
    @amirsayed4264 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you for these great bikes information😀

  • @bluzzjazz
    @bluzzjazz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @davidchereneimmel8820
    @davidchereneimmel8820 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes please!

  • @lesterhutchins1621
    @lesterhutchins1621 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really cool you're just on the wrong side of the tracks like me

  • @JPKDACOR
    @JPKDACOR 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    music goooooooooooooooooooodddd!!!!

  • @mariozamprogno1654
    @mariozamprogno1654 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The bikes in the museum are a super cool, but that soundtrack is amazingly good. Absolutely awesome soundtrack

  • @johnwalshire2884
    @johnwalshire2884 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Watchout5035.
    @Watchout5035. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @louielouie4187
    @louielouie4187 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video much appreciated
    I'm sad to see it go for real

  • @csj9619
    @csj9619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Roaddog is the pinnacle of super- weird-super-awesome fabrication.

  • @jasonmyers3847
    @jasonmyers3847 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @lesterhutchins1621
    @lesterhutchins1621 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love you

  • @rdkil1
    @rdkil1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    +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...

  • @jbradkilpatrick
    @jbradkilpatrick ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve never been here but I’ve ordered a lot of metal garage signs from them.

  • @wilburross9709
    @wilburross9709 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @pennyhurt2796
    @pennyhurt2796 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hope i can make it out

  • @user-my8uz8qy4g
    @user-my8uz8qy4g ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where all these amazing bikes going

    • @tucoramirez8397
      @tucoramirez8397 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @user-my8uz8qy4g ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tucoramirez8397 sad

    • @mphonda6894
      @mphonda6894 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tucoramirez8397 it's literally YOUR generation that ruined things lol. it's YOUR generation that's closing the museum and selling it.

    • @stratocaster1greg
      @stratocaster1greg ปีที่แล้ว

      To offset Japs getting our bikes I hoard real Samurai swords.

    • @dennymcfastlane8530
      @dennymcfastlane8530 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mecum Auction.

  • @lockout6896
    @lockout6896 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How the hell did this place close.come in America

  • @lesterhutchins1621
    @lesterhutchins1621 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Talk to wheels trough time

    • @leovdvelden8428
      @leovdvelden8428 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great place for these treasures....

  • @ecec5863
    @ecec5863 ปีที่แล้ว

    steve is bruce lee good friend i believe bruce will sit on his bike and take some picture

  • @markwitte303
    @markwitte303 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    why do people say for good when something interesting closes. i think it is bad.. not for good.

  • @robertlaube574
    @robertlaube574 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is this the guy from American pickers?

    • @ChopCult_09
      @ChopCult_09  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes Dave Ohrt was on American Pickers

  • @GeorgiaGrowGuy
    @GeorgiaGrowGuy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can move bike and artwork. Someone else (Jay Leno) should buy it out and hide it from the world forever as revenge.

  • @raymondkolbus3186
    @raymondkolbus3186 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sad

  • @freebird7284
    @freebird7284 ปีที่แล้ว

    i always wanted "Gothgirl" not the bike , the girl!

  • @michaelcarley7016
    @michaelcarley7016 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just off the top of my head, this should have been moved to Daytona, LA or Las Vegas. Such a shame.

  • @881qyk
    @881qyk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @johnhenderson4490
    @johnhenderson4490 ปีที่แล้ว

    No way

  • @chiefjoseph8154
    @chiefjoseph8154 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just before everything goes woke.

  • @cobyporschifer221
    @cobyporschifer221 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Putting a motorcycle museum in Iowa was a horrible business decision in the first place. Sturgis or Dayton would make more sense.

  • @stevenpierce4359
    @stevenpierce4359 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have been there years ago with my wife and Travis Bradley his wife all the way from beckville tx

  • @jamiemoffatt50
    @jamiemoffatt50 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some nice bikes. Most are regular blah.

  • @jamiemoffatt50
    @jamiemoffatt50 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Music is horrible

    • @MrMartman777
      @MrMartman777 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's not rap or hip hop that gets high marks from me

    • @richardfreeman3207
      @richardfreeman3207 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MrMartman777 Excellent music IMO.

    • @mphonda6894
      @mphonda6894 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.