Comments on: A Visit to the Barber Motorsports Museum: Sportbike Nirvana

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Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:06:49 +0000

[...] what I’d like to have in my own stable some day. It would be like that corner spot in the Barber Motorsports Museum with all the great [...]

By: tjrubley

tjrubley — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:14:43 +0000

Mi Mitch,

I’d love to post pics of your car on the blog. Send me a little background and images to tjrubley@gmail.com

Thanks!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:01:09 +0000

dc,

I was BMW mechanic for a short period of time, but I also (still) own a Hennarot E30 M3. If you’d like me to send you some photos I would be happy to.

-Mitch

By: tjrubley

tjrubley — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:10:10 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Mitch! And thank you for the insight regarding garage queen e30 M3′s. Many good points that I hadn’t really considered.

It sounds like you have some experience with the model. Previous owner or BMW mechanic maybe?

Thanks for your comment,

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:05:27 +0000

Absolutely awesome! I have to say, the content on this blog is amazing! Tj, I have no idea how you find this stuff, but it’s great. I agree with the motorcycle guy above, the corner with all of the HRC bikes, the FZR750RR, and the GSX-R 1000 owned all the rest. The whole museum is really impressive though. They have droves of Ducati’s that I’ve never even seen before, in pics or otherwise. The Bimota and the ZX-10 were also wicked cool. Thanks again for sharing.

By the way, I would like to comment about the Hennarot E30 M3 that was posted above this blog entry. I would be very cautious about spending top dollar for an E30 M3 with such low miles, as they usually are pampered garage queens. Thus, these cars often have S14 motors that were never properly broken-in, and therefore now when they are driven they feel sluggish, as though the motor is tired and requiring a rebuild, despite having “low” miles on it.

Please do not confuse a break-in period to reckless hot-dogging around town. A proper break-in of the S14 motor involves letting the motor warm up prior to each time the car is driven (to ensure complete oil lubriacation of all of the small oricfices within the engine); while also occasionally pushing the motor to redline, usually as a reuslt of agressive driving done at the track.

I might be wrong, but that is just my two cents.

By: tjrubley

tjrubley — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:12:51 +0000

That one corner with the RC30 and OW01 FZR750RR and the OW02 R7 and the … and and… it was like that for all 5 floors! An incredible place. Glad you enjoyed and thanks for your comment,

By: custom motorcycles guy

custom motorcycles guy — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:39:57 +0000

Wow..I never knew that Barber had this museum of awesome pics. The RC 30 is a motorcycle I would love to see in person. Thanks so much for posting the pics and letting me be aware of the collection they have. I’ll make sure to go there as soon as I can this year!