Call me crazy, but I started this 4 years ago when I bought my 1985 Limited Edition. My musings at the time were kept to "The Cost of buying, owning, and maintaining an older vintage motorcycle". I wrote six articles for myself based on my experience and what I was seeing on the various forums. The titles are:
Part 1 - Initial Musings
Part 2 - Initial preparation
Part 3 - The Purchase
Part 4 - Work and Maintenance
Part 5 - Work and Maintenance
Part 6 - Work and Maintenance
I also included an article on my thoughts about buying a used bike.
These articles have never seen the light of day except by myself - correction - have perused my posts and find I posted some of these articles in my bike log - my bad. Will be updating and carrying on.
I have since written and posted articles, commented on various posts regarding a multitude of issues and want to bring what I have written and commented on under one roof so to speak. I've started to collate these and find that the articles are quite large, and are going to need a good review.
I have read on several forums where it has been asked about collating and bringing issues into one area of a forum. This has intrigued me because there is a lot of information available, and information that is duplicated many times.
I will be collating my thoughts and those of others that have commented/posted regarding these thoughts. I have to learn about copyright and other aspects of putting together this project - sort of reminds me of doing a thesis in college.
There are a lot of threads on the various forums that can augment/compliment what I am doing and I intend to contact the various authors to ask permission to publish in my project.
I do not expect this to be an easy task as it is mostly for myself. Can I do it, and how good can I do it.
To keep this sort of focused I will be keeping to the older vintage style bikes and keeping it as specific as possible while being generic enough it will apply to other bikes beside the GW, although a lot of what we do to and with the older bikes is relevant to newer used bikes.
This will be a long term project, and I'm looking forward to what it may become.
Cheers
Part 1 - Initial Musings
Part 2 - Initial preparation
Part 3 - The Purchase
Part 4 - Work and Maintenance
Part 5 - Work and Maintenance
Part 6 - Work and Maintenance
I also included an article on my thoughts about buying a used bike.
These articles have never seen the light of day except by myself - correction - have perused my posts and find I posted some of these articles in my bike log - my bad. Will be updating and carrying on.
I have since written and posted articles, commented on various posts regarding a multitude of issues and want to bring what I have written and commented on under one roof so to speak. I've started to collate these and find that the articles are quite large, and are going to need a good review.
I have read on several forums where it has been asked about collating and bringing issues into one area of a forum. This has intrigued me because there is a lot of information available, and information that is duplicated many times.
I will be collating my thoughts and those of others that have commented/posted regarding these thoughts. I have to learn about copyright and other aspects of putting together this project - sort of reminds me of doing a thesis in college.
There are a lot of threads on the various forums that can augment/compliment what I am doing and I intend to contact the various authors to ask permission to publish in my project.
I do not expect this to be an easy task as it is mostly for myself. Can I do it, and how good can I do it.
To keep this sort of focused I will be keeping to the older vintage style bikes and keeping it as specific as possible while being generic enough it will apply to other bikes beside the GW, although a lot of what we do to and with the older bikes is relevant to newer used bikes.
This will be a long term project, and I'm looking forward to what it may become.
Cheers