Crickets

Buddy Holly (far right) on his new 1958 Ariel Cyclone outside Ray Miller Triumph

The story goes like this, Buddy & the other Crickets just got off tour in '58 and headed to Dallas TX to buy motorcycles. They visited a few bike shops and no one took them seriously - the Harley-Davidson salesman thought they were just rowdy kids & made them leave! 

So they ended up at Ray Miller Triumph where Buddy got the Ariel Cyclone, and the other two got a Thunderbird and a Trophy - the boys all paid cash...man, what was it like to be that young around the birth of rock n' roll with hits on the radio and cash pouring in??

After Buddy's death, his father rode the bike and later sold it & it drifted around a bit until the remaining Crickets bought it and gave it to Waylon Jennings as a birthday present - as Waylon and Buddy were old friends. The Jennings family still owns the bike.

The following pictures are all Holly's bike while belonging to the Jennings family.

Buddy Holly's 1958 Impala

Awesome home movie footage of the boys & their new bikes.