A forum for stories, pics and updates of your resto's. Be it a barn find, Grampas hand me down or a bike being brought back to it's former glory.If you are restoring it, show us your stuff!
A last and only one post for this year, not as I expected!
18 days after my previouse post I ended up in a car accident 13 November 2011, nothing too major but the MRR revealed 5 rib fracture and hip damage. It took a few months for recovery toget back to work.
Rest of the year I spent training my doughters for driving license.
Whatever, new opportunities will come 2013, so a Happy New Year to all of you GL1000 lovers!
//BugHunter
'78 GL1000
Life is a trip with a start and an end mean while figure it out to extend!
"Say not the struggle naught availeth." A H Clough.
'78 GL1000 Trike
1st bike: '58 150cc Ambassador 2 stroke. learned how to chuck it down the road
'31 BSA 500 single long stroke Sloper, dug out of a wall in Sussex, never went that well...
'49 Sunbeam S8, built from bits in '67, used daily, sold to a US biker in '84, still miss it
3 BSA Bantams, now a daughter has one
'78 Honda 500T
Awful dog face removed as my avatar can’t imagine how it ended up in my profile
Don’t know if that is a threat for people like me to be more frequent to post, feel guilty
Replaced with some representing colors shaped as viking helmet!
Hope to compensate you by adding some new pictures.
Not anything that is ready but just to get a look on how my head lamp shell bought in US on AMA swap meet (nice memories) will look.
HeadLamp_back.jpg
Headlamp_Front.jpg
BackLamp_Front.jpg
BackLamp_back.jpg
All for now!
//BugHunter
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'78 GL1000
Life is a trip with a start and an end mean while figure it out to extend!
Better I show some progress then....
Lately I have started preparations to get parts repainted, but first I has to “Strip all” old rust and paint off.
I have prepared a chemical bath to dip all parts into overnight in mild heated temperature (here shown to 68ºC = 154.40ºF). Therefore have I build some isolation around my tank and due to the heat vaporization and need it to be covered.
The after 24h you can take it out clean it by wash it of with water, dried it with a hair drier
// BugHunter
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'78 GL1000
Life is a trip with a start and an end mean while figure it out to extend!
Well, actually painted this last late summer and are trying to catch-up on the posting break.
It was a year ago in August when the black paint came on in not optimal conditions and probably need to be re-coated. The surface is not lean enough that can probably be clear coated.
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'78 GL1000
Life is a trip with a start and an end mean while figure it out to extend!
