For...reasons...I've been on the lookout for a small, quick little fixer-upper to sling up on the table and work on over the winter - something single-cylinder-y that wouldn't crush my vertebrae dragging it around the garage and be easy enough to wrangle something halfway decent out of by March.
Failed successfully in that endeavour and ended up with this on the table instead -
It's a fraction heavier than a neutron star and as easy to move around as a small, semi-detached house. It's a moldy green colour too so yeah, swamp thing.
It is quite clean though, so there's that.
There be spiders...
and also a shiny and chrome kickstarter tucked away -
(so no huffing on paint canisters screaming Witness Me!, at least not in the kickstarter dept). The usual wiring mystery, waiting to destroy weeks of my life...
and there we have it. The old gent I bought the bike from assured me the engine was in tip top shape, and if I can get away with it I have no intention of removing the fucking thing to check. The frame looks pretty clean - plan is to get some fluids in it, a battery, plugs etc and try to get the thing running, then start bothering you lot with everything else. Plans for the bike include new bars, paint, seat and rear subframe, shocks, lights, brakes etc but not to do a bolts-to-brake-lever resto on it. Get it clean, get it running well, get her down the road.
I don't know much about Gold Wings and by "much" I mean "anything at all". I do know that the engine looks cool as shit and reminds me of my old Hotwheels cars with the engines that stuck out through the bonnet/hood, and hopefully with a bit of trimmed fat and a paint job it'll have a more flattering name than swamp thing.
Carbs are a bastard on these, that I do know, and the timing chains need changing right off the bat. Other than that, I'm all ears.
Failed successfully in that endeavour and ended up with this on the table instead -
It's a fraction heavier than a neutron star and as easy to move around as a small, semi-detached house. It's a moldy green colour too so yeah, swamp thing.
It is quite clean though, so there's that.
There be spiders...
and also a shiny and chrome kickstarter tucked away -
(so no huffing on paint canisters screaming Witness Me!, at least not in the kickstarter dept). The usual wiring mystery, waiting to destroy weeks of my life...
and there we have it. The old gent I bought the bike from assured me the engine was in tip top shape, and if I can get away with it I have no intention of removing the fucking thing to check. The frame looks pretty clean - plan is to get some fluids in it, a battery, plugs etc and try to get the thing running, then start bothering you lot with everything else. Plans for the bike include new bars, paint, seat and rear subframe, shocks, lights, brakes etc but not to do a bolts-to-brake-lever resto on it. Get it clean, get it running well, get her down the road.
I don't know much about Gold Wings and by "much" I mean "anything at all". I do know that the engine looks cool as shit and reminds me of my old Hotwheels cars with the engines that stuck out through the bonnet/hood, and hopefully with a bit of trimmed fat and a paint job it'll have a more flattering name than swamp thing.
Carbs are a bastard on these, that I do know, and the timing chains need changing right off the bat. Other than that, I'm all ears.