THE MAN WITH FIVE HAZANS. We chat to Bobby Haas from Dallas?s Haas Moto Museum
The Hazan supercharged KTM
Dreaming of owning a Max Hazan motorcycle" As far as realistic life goals go, it’s right up there with walking to Mars or curing cancer using only a six-pack of beer and some toenail clippings. Put simply, unless you win the Lotto it’s never going to happen. Now prepare to meet a man who owns five of the things. Yes, you read that right. And if that wasn’t enough to send your jaw floorwards, he’s extended collection also includes bikes from Craig Rodsmith, Revival Cycles, Bandit 9 and Deus Ex Machina. His name is Bobby Haas, and he’s just opened the latest and greatest of his public collections. Welcome to the new Haas Moto Museum & Sculpture Gallery.
The Hazan ?65 Harley Ironhead Talking to the man himself, it’s clear that his personal success and ability to buy as many cool custom bikes as his heart desires hasn’t gone to his head. Aussies are well-known for calling a spade a spade, and Craig Rodsmith, our Antipodean man on the ground in the US, went out of his way to explain that Bobby was a ?top bloke?. For those not in the know, personal praise doesn’t get much better than that in the land Down Under.
We started with the obvious question. Just how many bikes does Bobby have" ?Our total collection now numbers just shy of 150 cycles,? he says . ?That’s across our two facilities. I am basically the ?new kid on the block? in this area, since my first acquisition of a cycle for d...
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