Скачать с ютуб Dave Reidie and his amazing Harley-Davidson collection в хорошем качестве

Dave Reidie and his amazing Harley-Davidson collection

DAVE REIDY INTERVIEW BEGINNING OF TRANSCRIPT RE: Here I am in the mysterious back blocks of Castlemaine, speaking to Mr Dave Reidie who, as you can see, is surrounded by the most magnificent collection of Harley-Davidson, mostly, motorcycles. Dave, tell me, this is a brilliant collection, how long has it taken you to put this together? DR: About 40 years. RE: About 40 years. So, a lifetime for most normal people. DR: Unfortunately, it takes that long. RE: It does, it does. Now, the obvious questions I have are “how many have you got” and “what is your favourite” and “what is the most valuable”? DR: Look, I think there’s about 50 of ours here and there’s probably eight or nine of other peoples that leave them here, around about that. It was never a numbers game; it was purely about finding unique machines and mainly machines that are unique to Harley’s history. RE: Well, I think by any measure you’ve been successful in that endeavor. There must be a favourite somewhere amongst here? DR: Not really. I always say the favourite is the one you are riding at the particular time. Look, there are some that are more desirable, more valuable than others. But, you know, they are all hand-chosen just fitted our eclectic taste. RE: I’m looking at them, many are kind of standard, but there are obviously a lot of heavily modified racers particularly from the – am I guessing here if I say the 20s and 30s? DR: That’s the era we ended up being focused on. Probably started on bikes from the 50s and 60s that we related to. But then we worked our way down and Harley have a really rich history of building really cool racers in the 20s and early 30s. And that was the area that we sort of concentrated on. And it was also in that period that period-modified started, so the really cool bobbers and all that originated from that era. And if you were lucky enough you started with a race bike to build the ultimate bobber, and we are fortunate enough to have a couple of those. RE: Excellent. Well, I can see there’s some pretty exciting machines here. I think the only time I’ve ever seen a comparable collection is actually in the museum itself in Milwaukee. Would I be close in that proximation? DR: Again, the Milwaukee collection is fabulous and it’s far broader and generally of stock machines. Where this is, you know, we were a dealer for 40 years and this is just what appealed to our taste. We were also into customizing, chopping, riding, racing and so those were the bikes that appealed. And if they were modified that didn’t matter too much. And we generally left them in as-found condition. RE: So here do you have - I’ve only just walked through the door and haven’t had a chance to look at everything – but you have some workshop facilities here for maintenance and restoration? DR: We have enough to just do our own bikes, yes. RE: So, you don’t take anybody, you don’t have customer bikes coming through the door? DR: Generally not. Unless they are extremely good friends. RE: And it’s beautifully presented, you’ve got brand new premises here, you’ve got wonderful photos on the wall and all sorts of memorabilia all around the place. How can the public see this? DR: They generally, they can go to our website harleycitycollection.com.au and open days are posted on there. RE: Okay, so we are not a seven day a week sort of place? DR: No, I’ve got to have some time off. RE: Time to fix your bikes. For example, are you generally open on the weekends? DR: No, it’s really just those chosen open days, a handful of open days a year to give the general public t harleycitycollection.com.au he opportunity. RE: Okay, we will keep an eye open for that. Thank you very much Mr Reidie and I am going to salivate on your collection for the next few minutes at least. Thank you. END OF TRANSCRIPT