Rusty Old Barn Find Indian Motorcycle, Will It Run?

Its not a Indian moto morelli

Screw you Craig. Im from Alabama. 😂

That there’s a Yellow jacket. Time for the live action

kick start 2 stroke, what more could you want?

That’s no bee, that’s a honeystinger!

Ha! FIRST... Great show! But, this is more related to a MOPED! The I Italians did LOTS of versions of this engine...

This made my day. A clubmate have me a '73 MX-74 that had been yard art for a decade or more. Not this nice, but the Minarelli P4E70 did come free and turn. It's gonna take awhile to bring it around.

Jealous that you scored the big Minarelli, Craig. It's a cool machine!

That's a wasp. In Australia we call them European wasps.

Why uh.... don't you ever get clutches free by riding them around with the clutch pulled in??? If you can get it rolling and jam it in gear, ripping on it with the clutch in will break it free. I'm sure you knew that, just wondering.

"lets drain the oil out of the trans" has a different meaning these days LMAO

Great video and when you go into the history of the company that’s pretty cool I could watch you work on a bike and explain the history of it all day. When I’m not reading my Bible or working. Jesus Saves.

I own a klein 10" bud.
I absolutely love it. I abuse the hell out of it. It gets used as a hammer or pry bar more than a wrench. And when I do use it as a wrench, it never fails me.

I have a question I just picked up from my buddy a 1973 Bo taco Sherpa T350 it has a speedometer on the side. It has 188 miles on it hasn’t run since 1975 but it has compression all day long. The only thing missing for some reason is to change. Everything else is factory the kill switch everything. What do I do?

A very good friend of mine had a shop and sold these in the years your talking about in Canton Ohio on Kirby Ave.

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Craig Greg, you the man!

Use a pane of glass as an ideal flat surface. Also, lay your tools on a separate surface other than the lift.🏍

These are cool bikes definitely would love to get one

Allan Neuman ; any relation to Alfred E. Neuman.
Who me worry ?

Combo mini bike and misquote foggier!!!

If I had you on Facebook market place I’d just send you old cheap bikes in our area

Indian Chief image and "Ching Chang" all in the span of a minute. Very PC indeed :D

"I'd use the zip gun, but everyone says they want longer videos..." That absolutely killed me.

DUDES THATS IS A WASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To my knowledge fuji which later became Subaru only made the motors for indian for one year. Other than that they were italian made

That was not a bee, it's a German wasp, also known as a c*nt with wings...

omg what a pile of s...!

Yea 30 minutes still isn't long enough. 45-60! haha! Let's go Craig! We need a "The Bearded Mechanic...Overtime" channel with more content with less focus on post-production.

Greg I had one of them back in 82 . I got broken for 100 bucks . Fix it up . I terrorised golf corrses and back alleys on that bike . Mine was so clean too . In the last shot as soon as i heard it so many memorys of insane jumps and crashes . It was stolen right out of my back yard ....i think that might be more like a 78 or 79 ....not sure but i loved that thing .

INB4 anaphylaxis from your "friend" when he warms up.

Craig lost some weight! Nice job!

this is so awesome dude.

Your story about Yamaha being involved kinda makes sense when you look 👀 at the exhaust pipe and the sound. It sounds a lot like a 70’s model enduro.

Good job!

I had that bike in the late ‘70’s. The frame ‘severed’ under the gas tank. I welded a HUGE plate of steel over the crack. I converted mine to a trials bike and idled around the block climbing up curbs. Mine was clearly Italian w Marzorchi, (sic), forks and a Minarelli,( again sic) engine.

🤨🤔 que extraña moto de indian pensé que solo construían motos de 500 kilos

Hi craig that was a wasp you where calling a bee

Back in the nineteen seventies, one of about 15 teenage dirtbick riders had an Indian dirt bike. Most of us striped down Yamaha Enduros.
The guy with the Indian and another guy with a hodaka weren't keeping up.
Most had 125 cc and raced at corona race way.
We weren't very good but bad fun anyway. By nineteen seventy four and five, the Honda Elsinores and pentens were smoking fast.
Rex Staten let everyone know they were weenies.
A real expert , usually winning by a lap .
cuting up swing arms, purchesed the aftermarket suspension parts, and did every performance trick internal and external. Wasn't even competitive like it was in 1972.
We called them yamadogs.

I have the me100 i believe..... I'd send pics but I don't know how... lol

Wow, you’ve done some amazing bikes over the years but of everything you’ve done I want that Indian the most, to have that bike in the UK would be incredible, I’ve had a lot of Italian 70s 2 strokers over the years, if you stuck a garelli tank on that Indian it would just be a garelli tiger cross and nobody would suspect any different but with that Indian tank it makes that bike sub zero cool, that has to be a keeper ❤

In 1974 our neighbor owned the Indian dealership in town (Kennewick, WA). I was seven at the time and my dad bought a 50cc for my brother and me, and a 75cc for my mom. He had a 400cc Kawasaki. Fifty years later, those bikes are long gone but I am still riding.

Think you could a something on a ssr 125 i learn from your videos i dont get how you wire

Your 'bee' is a wasp guys!🙄

Suggestion, Love to see a video of your background and how you got into this

That bike needs an under the frame expansion chamber.upgrade shocks forks go vintage race that puppy.

That yellowjacket was a bike mechanic in its past life. Just checking your work.

What happened to the building with occ?

Bring the 2 strokes back! 😢

Craig that yellow & black flying bug is a Wasp, nasty string .

Not a Bee it's a wasp