Start a trail/gravel road ct90 70 clubhouse..

[chuck peterson]

Interesting, another fleet for sale. Yesterday 3x guzzi, today 8-9 trail bikes

Rig all of these on a decent trailer...

Deliver where needed for a whopping good time for you and your friends

Rent them out as a way for groups to have fun

https://nh.craigslist.org/mcy/d/center-conway-honda-ct90-ct70/7239936403.html

[cliffrod]

That's funny- I bought a deal like that once from a closed shop in TN.  When he saw how many of those bikes I had on his trailer,  my brother in law did suggest I go into the rental business instead of selling them....   

Iirc, there were 7 CT70's plus 4-5 rolling but incomplete CT70's, 3-4 CT90's, an MZ 250, a very nice CB750 (that I was almost able to trade for that 59 Norton mentioned the other day) and more parts.  Think it cost around $500-$600.   It wasn't a particularly huge score at the time because there were no monkey bikes....

[Lannis]

I have a funny feeling that renting out fleets of beater dirt bikes to the folks who would rent beater dirt bikes as a group would end in tears ... either lost or wrecked bikes, or massive liabilities.

When I was last on the Isle of Man, I went by the only bike dealer on the island, Tommy Leonard Honda.   Turns out that he used to rent bikes once upon a time ... you'd THINK that it would be a good market for that, since it's difficult and expensive to get your own bike, or a English rental, onto the bike-mad island.

He started with larger bikes, then just did 125s, then quit.   The customers wrecked or abandoned ALL of the bikes, and it was a losing proposition.   

I'm sure that some folks do OK renting bikes here, big cruisers for Europeans to ride Route 66 and such as that, but I can't imagine light dirt bikes making it back very often ... !!

Lannis

[cliffrod]

My brother in law was joking about me being stuck in the same kind of business he was.  At the time, he and his brother had a go cart racetrack with mini golf and batting cages in Oak Ridge, TN.  They had already sold their duplicate operation in Pigeon Forge.  They lived in Oak Ridge so that track was easier to manage.  Neither proved to be the great $$ idea they thought it might be.

The mini golf & even the pitching machines were no biggie, but keeping the go carts running was a never-ending slog.  Most locals weren't too bad because they wouldn't be allowed back if they hammered stuff and didn't generally follow the rules. But many out-of-town construction contractors from ORNL with nothing else to do after work for weeks/months on end regularly had marathon sessions.  Switching to belt drive on the carts helped a lot, but it was still a ton of work until they finally sold the property.  That place was a real ball & chain salt mine.

It was hard enough to police people on go carts on a small closed track with posted rules.  I can't imagine letting people go out into the wild with machines like dirt bikes.  Sounds like a guaranteed lose-lose $$ proposition.