1200 Standard FINALLY DONE!
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:26 pm
Three-ish years ago, I had a wonderful GL1200 Standard that met an unfortunate accident. The full story can be found here:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47715
Short version, it ended up at the bottom of an 8 foot ditch and was no longer so wonderful. Well, fast forward to now, and I finally, FINALLY got this bike back to a state I would call "finished".
It went through several iterations of what I thought it wanted to be before I ended up with what I got. A bigger hangup than what I thought it was going to be ended up being the saddlebags- initially I was going to re-run the Interstate hard bags, but happen to luck into a Standard 1200 rear fender, so there was no way I wasn't going to use it. However, I wanted to keep my trailer hitch as well, so I was locked into a set of leather bags that could only be a certain size. The first set I bought were wrong (factory screw-up), the second were too big, the third wouldn't open due to lid geometry, and what you see here is set 4. 20 trips to a hardware store later, and I'm fairly happy with what I ended up with.
Now, it's not 100%. I still need driving lights, might do some funky stuff with trim, and need to wire up the trailer electrical connections, but that's all I'd consider "extras". I'm just happy to be able to look at this bike and say, "yeah. Done."
For those interested, I'm riding this one to the bike show at Gilmore next weekend along with my yellow 1000. If anyone wants to see them in the flesh, or just hang out with about a million classic bikes and cars, I highly invite anyone who can make it to come check it out.
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47715
Short version, it ended up at the bottom of an 8 foot ditch and was no longer so wonderful. Well, fast forward to now, and I finally, FINALLY got this bike back to a state I would call "finished".
It went through several iterations of what I thought it wanted to be before I ended up with what I got. A bigger hangup than what I thought it was going to be ended up being the saddlebags- initially I was going to re-run the Interstate hard bags, but happen to luck into a Standard 1200 rear fender, so there was no way I wasn't going to use it. However, I wanted to keep my trailer hitch as well, so I was locked into a set of leather bags that could only be a certain size. The first set I bought were wrong (factory screw-up), the second were too big, the third wouldn't open due to lid geometry, and what you see here is set 4. 20 trips to a hardware store later, and I'm fairly happy with what I ended up with.
Now, it's not 100%. I still need driving lights, might do some funky stuff with trim, and need to wire up the trailer electrical connections, but that's all I'd consider "extras". I'm just happy to be able to look at this bike and say, "yeah. Done."
For those interested, I'm riding this one to the bike show at Gilmore next weekend along with my yellow 1000. If anyone wants to see them in the flesh, or just hang out with about a million classic bikes and cars, I highly invite anyone who can make it to come check it out.
