In 2011 Victory Motorcycles Sweden froze a 2002 V92 TC to be exhibited at the Sweden Ice Hotel.The bike was defrosted this year and delivered to a shop called Stonetown Custom.
After only 1 hour of workshop time (oil change, fresh fuel and a new battery BUT without needing new spark plugs or any other replacement electrical parts) the Victory was brought back to life and fired up.
The shop guys shot this video.
I think Victory’s are very very good motorcycles. I just don’t desire one.
Think about it, freezing preserves anything, pretty much. Neat stunt.
WTF????
richards – agreed
That’s not a big deal. My bike starts up with fresh fuel every spring, when the temps get above 10° F after sitting all winter in an unheated garage where it gets to -40°F….ice is only 32° F, that’s Spring riding weather around here!!!!
Not mentioned in the video is this bike got the equivalent of 300k miles as a test bike on a shaker rig. It’s a mule, can’t be registered for street use, probably about to become some other bike’s spare parts. You could probably do this with most any bike, but yes, still a neat stunt, cool strory.
I had an Evo that was in an underground garage when floods came. It ended up entirely submerged. New signal switches, new horn switch, new fluids, and then I rode it for 7 more years although the first couple weeks you caould have called me soggy bottom. Never was able to get the milk out of the gearbox until I swapped it out and did a full teardown.
Probably different with the Vic since it’s all the same oil.
This rebirth of an old mule is still a neat trick and speaks volumes to the silly arguments over which oil is better and whatnot. These are machines, not eggs.
Pop hopes that this old warhorse gets a better final rest than to be parted out. I see bikes at antique shows with a lot less history than that Vic.
Pop after it was done with the Shaker at Polaris R&D it was shipped to Europe for tech training. Prior to being frozen in a block of ice it was repeatedly torn down and reassembled teaching students how to work on Vics. Probably doesn’t even have a VIN number. I too think it’s a cool story and wish the bike would end up somewhere whole. But without a 100 year history behind Victory I just don’t know if someone will be interested in preserving a piece of it’s history like this. Find an old Harley or Indian that’s survived that much abuse and still ran and it would probably collect a nice price at a collector auction. A piece of history from a 16 year old company just doesn’t have the cache’ the others do, unfortunately.
That’s kind of cool
Don’t know what it is suppose to prove
but it is still a cool thing to read about
Cryogenics. What Ted Williams’ kids did to him.