How quickly our dream bike becomes that "project" hidden somewhere in the back shed between the lawnmower, the box of junk you have been going to sort through when you have a spare weekend and the numerous other items that only seem to escape out of the shed once a year or so.
Of course it always seems to come up in conversation at the odd family gathering here and there, a friends barbeque etc "Oh, I'm into motorbikes too." "Yes, I'm currently working on a project bike. It's a cool 1974 Honda." Which of course translated into real terms means; "I have a heap of motorbike parts in the shed that 1. If all the bits worked and 2. I was able to actually put them all back together it would somehow resemble something that once was a motorcycle.
Hence, my restoration motorbike became nothing more than a rolling frame and a collection of boxes that moved from one shed to another over the next 6 years until I built myself a 6m x 5m gabled steel clad workshop. Now I finally had the space to restore my beloved bike. Well, at least that's what I told myself, and my wife, even if it was to justify why I had just purchased two more bikes!
To be fair, I purchased one for a bargain $180 as spare parts and then the weekend I had put aside to go and pick it up bought a trading newspaper and found another that I managed to get for the even better price of $100. However, my wife didn't seem as excited as I was when I brought home the trailer with TWO additional motorbikes on it.
So as at August 2008 my "project" now consisted of three 1974 Honda CB200's with 4 engines (one came with a spare) and I am no further along in putting my original project together however, I can finally begin.....
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