THE ROCKET. Rescued From The Scrap Heap
Written by Bobby Haas
Prior to ever being installed in the Haas Moto Museum, every vintage cycle in the Collection is treated to a ?day of beauty? in the shop at Strokers Dallas, where it is bathed and primped to remove the grime that has built up over the years. After its beauty treatment, each cycle is stored in a locked warehouse that may be accessed only through another warehouse.
As any parent would do, I often visited ?the kids? in their halfway house at Strokers in the months leading up to the grand opening of the Museum. Â As I made the regular trek through the first warehouse to the one where the Haas kids were stored, I noticed this huge hunk of metal on the warehouse floor. It was an imposing partial frame lying on the warehouse floor, rusting away with a massive 2508cc Ilmor Viper engine cradled in its belly. More than once, I crouched down to inspect the rusting carcass, wondering why such an unusual custom frame with a monstrously impressive power station would be left there to rot. We bikers tend to infuse our inanimate machines with lifelike traits, occasionally even imaginary voices that silently communicate in a dialect that never grows extinct. If this frame could have spoken, it would have whispered, ?I deserve far better than this. I was born for more noble things.?
There was a part of me that actually felt sorry for this carcass. Sorry enough to purchase the frame in this dilapidated state and recruit the most gifted mechanics to help translate my vi...
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