“American Pickers” star Mike Wolfe says he’s starting 2023 by “sharing the love” – his love of vintage motorcycles.
"American Pickers" host Mike Wolfe shares what he loves about Middle Tennessee.
Wolfe never cleans or restores his bikes. He’s even been known to leave cobwebs on spokes or a bit of animal poop on rims. So,” meaning the bikes will bear the rust, dirt and scrapes of whatever farm, corn crib, attic or cellar he sifted through to find them. An"as found" bike is “telling you its story as you're looking at it,” he added. “Now, if I was to clean this thing, or take it apart and restore it, it would immediately mean not much to me at all because then you start looking at the restoration and you stop looking at the history of the bike.”The history of objects – motorcycles and otherwise – has fascinated Wolfe since he was a thin, lanky, poor kid in Bettendorf, Iowa.
In his early 20s, he worked in a warehouse building bikes before being promoted to the sales floor. His garbage collecting officially became"picking," and he kept it up because,,"It's hard to sell a bicycle in January in Iowa." Antique motorcycles soon became one of his main collecting focuses.
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