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UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - Jbizzle - 21-09-17
Hi all,
Does anyone know of any scrap yards in the UK that specialise in bikes? Preferably the old school type, that let you wander round and have a look at the stock, rather than call up and ask for a specific part/bike.
These days health and safety might have put a stop to it?
Any input welcome
Cheers,
James
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - BBROWN1664 - 21-09-17
There are loads of bike breakers around but I have never seen one where you could wander around unless you count auto-jumbles :pokefun
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - tommyardin - 21-09-17
(21-09-17, 01:27 PM)Jbizzle link Wrote: [size=1em]Hi all, [/size]
[size=1em]Does anyone know of any scrap yards in the UK that specialise in bikes? Preferably the old school type, that let you wander round and have a look at the stock, rather than call up and ask for a specific part/bike. [/size]
[size=1em]These days heal[/size]th and safety might have put a stop to it?
[size=1em]Any input welcome[/size]
[size=1em]Cheers, [/size]
[size=1em]James[/size]
The days of the wander around scrappies are long gone, no more climbing over cars stacked 3 high to get the window winder handle from that Morris Mariner or dynamo from the Austin Allegro.
Those days you could keep looking until you found the one in best condition, now you have what your given.
Health & Safety huh! I wonder how many people died in scrappies with cars falling on them. :eek
Grumpy old foccer.
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - F4celess - 21-09-17
(21-09-17, 03:29 PM)tommyardin link Wrote: The days of the wander around scrappies are long gone, no more climbing over cars stacked 3 high to get the window winder handle from that Morris Mariner or dynamo from the Austin Allegro.
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Grumpy old foccer.
Scrapheap Challenge came to mind reading this (perhaps I have a vivid imagination). Even that just runs repeats nowadays, probably no longer run due to H&S! :rolleyes
Mmmmm, Lisa Rogers........................................ just a little eye candy, amongst all those grease monkeys! :lol
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - Disorderlypunk - 21-09-17
we still have one or two up my way that allow you to go a wandering (couple of years since last been)
but i did know the lads who worked there so that might have helped me in that respect
-there is nothing like being covered in grease and stopping for a brew and a fag sitting in the back of a limo (im not joking this really happened)
i have never seen anything in the uk for bikes im guessing you mean like in grease 2 (in infamous breakers yard)
it still happens in america where land is cheap but over here bike breakers have to work differently part H+S and part high overheads that need covered
- i think berties bike breakers in chorley you can have a walk around and see what is waiting to be broken up.
best bet is just find one near by and go have a look what they have in
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - fazersharp - 21-09-17
Used to love that in the scrappies looking for parts on scrapped cars that wre better than the one I was driving, climbing stacked 3-4 high. Near me there was a whole line of them divided each by a wall, one time we were merrily climbing along the top and without knowing had passed into another yard and down to the ground level but that yard was shut and so the Rottweiler was out loose, luckily we could climb cars quicker than he could
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - darrsi - 21-09-17
Plenty of free breakers online to ask for whatever you need, just make sure you say you only want replies by email or every bugger phones you up.
Is there something specific you need, maybe people on here could help?
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - mtread - 21-09-17
I remember climbing up to a scrapped Allegro to take off a door handle. Breaking it. Quietly checking nobody had noticed, and moving on to the next scrapped Allegro. Those were the days :-)
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - tommyardin - 21-09-17
(21-09-17, 07:45 PM)mtread link Wrote: I remember climbing up to a scrapped Allegro to take off a door handle. Breaking it. Quietly checking nobody had noticed, and moving on to the next scrapped Allegro. Those were the days :-)
Ha ha! been there and also walking off with a pocket full of bulbs, bulb holders and fuses and any other small items that could be concealed easily.
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - slappy - 21-09-17
(21-09-17, 08:55 PM)tommyardin link Wrote: [quote author=mtread link=topic=23300.msg268539#msg268539 date=1506019545]
I remember climbing up to a scrapped Allegro to take off a door handle. Breaking it. Quietly checking nobody had noticed, and moving on to the next scrapped Allegro. Those were the days :-)
Ha ha! been there and also walking off with a pocket full of bulbs, bulb holders and fuses and any other small items that could be concealed easily.
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I always used to open the boot and have a rummage, any tools I found used to go in my pockets.
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - Disorderlypunk - 21-09-17
we all used to fill our pockets with those little bits and declare the large bits (look after the pennies and the pounds can go on beer)
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - Jbizzle - 22-09-17
Thanks all! Nice bit of nostalgia.
It was a long shot these days, i was remembering the days of 20 years ago, as a kid going round the scrappies with my dad, bag of tools and a pocket full of badges i collected off bonnets!
Shame, but as pointed out above, climbing over cars stacked 3 high and swaying in the wind probably wasn't all that safe in hindsight.
I was really looking for a complete USD front end, thinking it would make a great winter project, for me and my old man to get stiuck into.
Has anyone on here has collected all the parts then come to there senses and thought better of it???
Cheers,
James
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - BBROWN1664 - 22-09-17
My local car scrap yard still stacks them two high in places but all the expensive, useful parts are removed by their guys before the car reaches the yard.
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - F4celess - 22-09-17
But those " good ol' days " were before the internet became mainstream. The scrapyards were dependant on that physical presence, where the punter had to rummage around to find what they wanted.
These days, the scrapyard doesn't even need to open it's doors. They can strip, then shift all their wares online (ebay / amazon / gumtree etc).
This actually suits us much better too! We no longer have to spend our Sundays driving from one yard to the next, getting our hands dirty, to find that one gem we were looking for (possibly coming home empty handed). We can compare MANY parts online (on the sites mentioned), then bid to buy what suits us best - pick and choose. It's become a buyers market.
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - Jbizzle - 22-09-17
You make a fair point F4celess, but it doesn't half take the fun out of it!
(22-09-17, 10:53 AM)F4celess link Wrote: But those " good ol' days " were before the internet became mainstream. The scrapyards were dependant on that physical presence, where the punter had to rummage around to find what they wanted.
These days, the scrapyard doesn't even need to open it's doors. They can strip, then shift all their wares online (ebay / amazon / gumtree etc).
This actually suits us much better too! We no longer have to spend our Sundays driving from one yard to the next, getting our hands dirty, to find that one gem we were looking for (possibly coming home empty handed). We can compare MANY parts online (on the sites mentioned), then bid to buy what suits us best - pick and choose. It's become a buyers market.
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - F4celess - 22-09-17
(22-09-17, 11:04 AM)Jbizzle link Wrote: You make a fair point F4celess, but it doesn't half take the fun out of it!
Do totally agree with this too.
Just like in those days, as kids, we'd be out on the streets with our friends. On our bikes / playing football / making swings&camps in the woods, all day long.
Walk back in the door when it started getting dark....
These days, that just doesn't happen. Times have changed. :rolleyes
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - tommyardin - 22-09-17
(22-09-17, 09:49 AM)Jbizzle link Wrote: Thanks all! Nice bit of nostalgia.
It was a long shot these days, i was remembering the days of 20 years ago, as a kid going round the scrappies with my dad, bag of tools and a pocket full of badges i collected off bonnets!
Shame, but as pointed out above, climbing over cars stacked 3 high and swaying in the wind probably wasn't all that safe in hindsight.
I was really looking for a complete USD front end, thinking it would make a great winter project, for me and my old man to get stiuck into.
Has anyone on here has collected all the parts then come to there senses and thought better of it???
Cheers,
James
We used to get incomplete USD front ends, back ends and even some on their sides. :lol but no motorcycle parts
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - taylor - 22-09-17
a lot of the problem was the oil , diesel , petrol, brake fluid etc, contamamating the ground.
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - HarryHornby - 22-09-17
Our local scrappys still let you look around. I went to one the other day looking for a motor for my driver's door electric window, there I was balanced 3 cars high taking a door apart only for it to be the wrong motor, turns out there is a difference between and 3 and 5 door motor for a Ford Fiesta, next came the biggest stroke of luck ever.....
We had been told the car I looked at was the only Mk6 fiesta, then as we were leaving I saw a 3 door (again 3 cars up). I climbed up, opened the door and it had been totally stripped, my heart sank, then I looked in the driver's footwell and there it was, a motor, nothing else, just the motor I needed! What's the chances? £20....... bargain!
It's on the car and works perfectly, love a scrappy!
Re: UK Motorcycle Scrap Yards? - F4celess - 22-09-17
(22-09-17, 06:49 PM)HarryHornby link Wrote: Our local scrappys still let you look around. I went to one the other day looking for a motor for my driver's door electric window, there I was balanced 3 cars high taking a door apart only for it to be the wrong motor, turns out there is a difference between and 3 and 5 door motor for a Ford Fiesta, next came the biggest stroke of luck ever.....
We had been told the car I looked at was the only Mk6 fiesta, then as we were leaving I saw a 3 door (again 3 cars up). I climbed up, opened the door and it had been totally stripped, my heart sank, then I looked in the driver's footwell and there it was, a motor, nothing else, just the motor I needed! What's the chances? £20....... bargain!
It's on the car and works perfectly, love a scrappy!
Sounds a fairytale!
- A scrapyard that still lets you hunt around
- Finding the one part you needed, right there (while everything else was gone), extracted, on the floor.
Hopefully you bought a lottery ticket that evening too?
