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Billy Balcer

Billy Balcer

AMCA Lake Erie Chapter President and founder of Strange Bird Manufacturing, a vintage motorcycle parts company.

Jul 16, 2026

OttoHOST
52:46
How did you get going on that, you know? And what was, like, your first product?
52:50
Uh, well, it, it was a, it was a couple friend of mine's companies before.
52:55
So there was, uh, um, the origin of it was, uh, Bruce Lindsday started a lot of the parts back in the '70s.
53:03
It was called the Bruce Lindsday Company.
53:05
And he sold out a lot of parts and tooling and stuff to, uh, another guy, Dennis Corso, um, which was the Dennis Corso company.
53:15
And, uh, it was about, like I said, between five and six years ago, um, I bought him out, uh, which to carry on, he was like, "I'm getting old.
53:27
I can't be doing this all day every day anymore." And, uh, I took over those companies and kinda rebranded it as Strange Bird.

5 MINS LATER

OttoHOST
58:39
What, uh, what are some of the, like the commodities that you guys sell like the most of like just oil lines, stuff like that that are broken, busted, missing all the time when you put together a bike, I imagine.

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