Billy Joel to public sale motorbike assortment following mind dysfunction prognosis

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Billy Joel is closing his motorbike store in Lengthy Island, New York, and auctioning off his private assortment of bikes as he battles a mind dysfunction.

The 76-year-old singer revealed in Could that he had been identified with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), which impacts his imaginative and prescient, listening to and steadiness, he stated on social media on the time.

Joel additionally canceled all of his tour dates for 2025 and thru July 2026.

Earlier this week, Joel's consultant Claire Mercuri advised The Related Press that the music icon shall be shuttering twentieth Century Cycles in Oyster Bay in late September and promoting his assortment at public sale later this 12 months because of his medical problem.

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Billy Joel is closing his Lengthy Island motorbike store and auctioning off his private assortment because of his mind dysfunction prognosis. (Bruce Gilbert/Newsday RM through Getty Pictures)

NPH is a situation that happens when cerebrospinal fluid builds up contained in the cranium and presses on the mind. It's most definitely to affect individuals older than 65. Treating the situation entails surgical procedure to implant a shunt to empty extra fluid from the within of the cranium, based on the Cleveland Clinic .

In his Could assertion asserting his prognosis, Joel famous that the situation had been "exacerbated by current live performance performances, resulting in issues with listening to, imaginative and prescient and steadiness."

The assertion added, "Beneath his physician’s directions, Billy is present process particular bodily remedy and has been suggested to chorus from performing throughout this restoration interval."

In Could, the 76-year-old singer revealed that he had been identified with regular strain hydrocephalus (NPH). (Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)

Joel, who grew up in close by Hicksville, opened twentieth Century Cycles in late 2010 as a spot to keep up and restore his bikes, restore and customise ones he purchased and showcase his assortment for the general public at no cost.

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"It’s mainly selling an aesthetic right here," he stated in a 2013 YouTube video filmed on the store. "I like older fashion. I just like the automotive fashion from the ‘30s to the ’60s. I needed to gather a complete bunch of these sorts of bikes, put ’em in a single place and let individuals see what that period of motorcycle seemed like. As a result of it’s beginning to be a misplaced aesthetic."

The "Piano Man" hitmaker stated he additionally needed to convey foot visitors and enterprise to downtown Oyster Bay — a ritzy waterfront neighborhood about 25 miles east of midtown Manhattan — the place a part of the road that features twentieth Century Cycles was renamed Billy Joel Approach in 2023.

"I’ve been dwelling on this neighborhood for a very long time," Joel stated within the video. "I really grew up not removed from right here. And I’d prefer to get just a little curiosity going into the city and the village."

Joel’s close by house in Centre Island is listed for $29.9 million, and he has been dwelling in South Florida, whereas preserving a house in Sag Harbor on Lengthy Island.

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The store turned a preferred cease for motorcycle enthusiasts and vacationers. It was house to Joel’s assortment of greater than 75 bikes, which date all the best way again to the Forties and embrace Harley-Davidsons, Triumphs, Ducatis, Moto Guzzis, Indians and BMWs.

Joel famous that certainly one of his most useful bikes was a 1952 Vincent Rapide, which may promote for tens of hundreds of {dollars} and typically extra, based on public sale websites.

<img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/1200/675/billy-joel-at-piano-ap.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" alt="FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2014 file photo, Billy Joel performs his first show of his Madison Square Garden residency, in New York. Joel will set a new record for the most performances by any artist at Madison Square Garden with his upcoming 65th show scheduled for this summer. Tickets for the record breaking show, as well as his performances scheduled in May and June 2015, will go on sale to the general public on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)" width="1200" height="675"/> Joel, who's a longtime motorbike fanatic, opened twentieth Century Cycles in 2010. (The Related Press)

Joel’s enthusiasm for bikes dates again a long time. In 1982, he was using a bike on Lengthy Island when he was struck by a automotive that ran a purple mild, injuring his left thumb and dislocating his proper wrist. He spent a couple of month within the hospital.

The singer has additionally ridden bikes throughout numerous advantages for 9/11 first responders, breast most cancers and different causes over time.