Hello all.
I just finished restoring my Gold Wing. Had it for 30 years/24,000 miles. Sold it in pristine condition in 2009 to a guy my Dad knew. He calls my Dad in 2013 and asks if I want the bike back. I say yes sight-unseen. My Dad gives the guy the check on my behalf. I finally come over and see it and am immediately depressed as to the condition he put it in after driving it 14,000 more miles. So I stored it in the corner of my Dad's warehouse; I couldn't bear looking at it. Then this past October, I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" on vacation. So I said to myself, I'm going to bring my bike back to new condition. So come January 2nd of this year, I treated the restoration as my full time job. Love how it turned out. Only thing left to do is to cut the windshield down a bit, and find two side panels that are missing from the tail trunk (any ideas?).
I just finished restoring my Gold Wing. Had it for 30 years/24,000 miles. Sold it in pristine condition in 2009 to a guy my Dad knew. He calls my Dad in 2013 and asks if I want the bike back. I say yes sight-unseen. My Dad gives the guy the check on my behalf. I finally come over and see it and am immediately depressed as to the condition he put it in after driving it 14,000 more miles. So I stored it in the corner of my Dad's warehouse; I couldn't bear looking at it. Then this past October, I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" on vacation. So I said to myself, I'm going to bring my bike back to new condition. So come January 2nd of this year, I treated the restoration as my full time job. Love how it turned out. Only thing left to do is to cut the windshield down a bit, and find two side panels that are missing from the tail trunk (any ideas?).
