Message from OldBikeBarn.com

From The Bear – President & Founder – Old Bike Barn [OldBikeBarn.com] Motorcycle Parts

Some important changes at Old Bike Barn that I wanted to take a moment to reach out to you and let you know about. As you know we are a family run outfit, but we do our best to keep up with the technological changes. I hate hearing that a customer waited for parts, service or a response for longer than they should. I have put in place some measures and policies that will serve you better and address these issues.

Keep it between the ditches and the shiny side up!

Yours Truly,

The Bear

OldBikeBarn.com
1 (888) 851-5559

So here are some of the changes:

• Improved phone coverage with 24/7 reachability, and when no rep is available you need not waste your day on hold – Leave a message and ALL CALLS will be returned by the end of biz the following day! Toll-Free 1 (888) 851-5559 Old Bike Barn

• New, improved, web site with improved search by bike features, as well as the ability to park your bike in the “Your Old Bike Barn Garage” to refer back to at a later time and see all the parts for your machine(s) in one spot.

• Used parts: a vast selection of used parts are now available and in stock, or if we don’t have it we can try to get it through our network of over 200 yards nationwide.

Thanks for reading folks.

We at the Old Bike Barn family are here for you, and your modern or vintage bike

OldBikeBarn.com

New Website Features

A new and Improved Search by Bike Model that allows you to search by brand, year, model. Drill right down into all the items that fit your bike model(s)

Once you’ve gotten to your bike model. When you’re logged in, you can “Park In My Garage” A new great Saved Bike model feature which allows you to add your bikes to
your garage and get notifications of discounts, or just quickly load your bike model listings to find parts in no time.

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by Barrie Haughton AKA Bear, President and Founder of OBB

Again, I’m probably bitching to the wrong crowd… You guys are here reading this, so you’re clearly part of the group that likes to read about motorcycling and be informed…. well at least you can sympathize with my thoughts then.

In recent rants I have complained about people wearing fake dog tags and motorcycle jackets with fake road rash. In general, I have a put up or shut up attitude, but this month my rant is again directed towards the “fake biker”. (more…)

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by William Sidney for Old Bike Barn

Trying to find Motorcycles Parts Especially vintage Japanese and European motorcycles can make the task of rebuilding or restoring one of these bikes practically impossible…
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River Road Anvil Matte Black Leather Jacket

New for 2009 River Road Premium Matte Black Leather Motorcycle Riding Jacket. Made of Premium Leather with Removable, Insulated, Full-Sleeved Liner.

Features include:
* Removable/Upgradable EVA Armor In Elbows, Shoulders & Back.
* Front, Back, Under Arm Fully Perforated Panels
* Zippered Sleeve Cuffs With Snap Closure
* Reflective Piping On Front And Rear
* Adjustable Side Waist Tabs
* 2 Year Manufacturer’s Warranty

More info on this River Road item:

> River Road Anvil Matte Black Leather Jacket @ OldBikeBarn.com

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Hey Bear of www.oldbikebarn.com here,

   I have been mentioning for some time that we would be updating our about-us section on the web site as well and FAQ’s and help. here’s the first on many installments that well let you get to know us and or brand better 2009.

The Old Bike Barn Story
Hi this is Barrie Haughton (aka Bear)  president & founder of www.oldbikebarn.com  I have been told by many it’s high time I tell the story of how  this crazy motorcycle parts machine got started and how motorcycles saved my life.
  Growing up as a kid I was into all things “Hot Rod”. I avidly read Hot Rod Magazine, Rod & Custom, and Car Craft form the young age of 10. By the time I was 15, the muscle car pricing crisis (well it was for me) was way out of hand with even rust buckets and less than pristine examples of desirable models fetching 10k or more and often well into the 6 figures. My dreams of owning a 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6, Classic Mustang or Super Bee had been crushed. Then a stroke of genius my dad ( The Old Honda Man) suggested vintage bikes. These machines were cheap, plentiful and with a great power to weight ratio I could easily pull up at a light on my CB750 and blow the doors off the latest machines and Muscle cars alike, needless to say I was hooked!
  I spent my teens building and restoring all kinds of bikes. At 18 I joined the Military and traveled to 28 countries in my 10 year career, eventually working under American, British, NATO and UN command. Every time I would do a tour of duty, I ‘d come home I would buy a few more bikes to tinker with. To-date I have owned some 38 bikes; my stable currently houses 13.
 

In late 1999 disaster struck while on a tour of duty in the Balkan’s. During a show of force to clam the local militias and war lords down, I sustained 2 fractures in my spine I could not walk at first, and they were not sure I would again. I was devastated, but I told the doctor’s in the field medic tent that I would walk because I had to ride my bikes.

I came home to some rough times. The Army didn’t renew my contract and once leave was up, they miraculously had lost any record of me being injured on duty. The young Military doctor had the gall to ask me if it happened on leave. I couldn’t believe it, I got Veteran’s Affairs and a lawyer involved…  Surprise, Surprise after many months without pay my files turned up.

They made good on it and paid for my re-education and business school. Those were some rough years. I was still in a lot of pain and limped badly for a few years. My back was too fragile to ride bikes but I stayed convinced that I could ride again someday. Around this time I built a hobby web site called www.oldbikebarn.com The site had a readers ride section and I was selling off my personal collection of Vintage parts to supplement my Veterans pension. Then it happened…  I started to receive hundreds of emails asking me for parts. Remember this is back in 2000, 2001 the Internet was not what it is today. With little competition I seized the opportunity, and started to source reproduction and new parts for my site. I was running this from my bedroom waste deep in parts. I moved into my first commercial location in 2002 where the SH*T promptly hit the fan, the web site was getting too much traffic and I was working 80 plus hours a week, in poor health. That’s when the partnership that made this business what it is today was formed.

Enter My long time friend Kevin Murphy, an avid rider himself (having cross the continent by bike) Kevin left his previous job, and with his strong back ground in web design I approached him to help out.  I could no longer do it all: build the site, ship the goods, answer the 800 number, manage the accounting and what seemed like a million other tasks. Kevin came aboard as a consultant at first but that quickly grew into a % partnership, because of his talent for making my ideas about the web and motorcycles even better.

Today the company has grown with a full staff and a vast product line covering hundreds of models; 1969 to present day.
The key players are all brothers or old friends: my brother Billy, Kevin’s brother Brian and our time long friend Pat, run the show with Ronny our latest manager handling the shipping staff. We are a site by biker’s for biker’s: filling our fellow motorcyclist’s needs with fast, friendly service, and an all to uncommon personal touch.
I remember every time someone says motorcycles are dangerous that they saved my life. If I had listened to those doctor’s I might have never ridden again!

Thanks to all of our loyal customers for their support that took www.oldbikebarn.com from my bedroom to where it is today!    Bear (President & Founder)

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It’s time for a long over due thank you to the gang at Rice Paddy and this new blog its the perfect place for this sort of thing. I’d especially like to thank  Tom the owner, this summer at Vintage days he rolled out the best Ohioan hospitality, and fed our whole gang on our first night there with at truly  gourmet BBQ with all the fixings. Thanks Tom it sure made our first day, run a little smoother and took a little stress of my plate after Traveling 12 hours in convoy from up state NY. I’d like to reciprocate a BBQ for your team on July 24th 2009 at AMA Vintage Days. The Old Bike Barn team will be in attendance at 2009 AMA Vintage Day’s again, and a day earlier this year to get setup.

The Rice Paddy has parted out over 1,000 motorcycles over the past few years they have parts in stock for even rare bikes,     Old Bike Barn covers new parts for vintage bikes but these guys have the stuff you just can’t get anymore. Check them out at www.ricepaddy.com

Rice Paddy BBQ

After the show Tom even took care of getting our photographer Tristan Brand to the airport to fly to his next gig. Click the image below to see more of Tristan’s coverage of the event!

Tristan and OBB Staffer Pat stunting a Golf Cart!

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