Been thinking about posting this for sometime, hope some of you find it interesting. Any way we need a bit of a back story. My wife and I bought our first house back in the early 1980's. Back then mortgage rates in Canada were 23% which was far out of our reach. We did however find a small little house in a village near where I grew up with an assumable mortgage of 11%. So we managed to get a down payment and were able to buy it. The house has a basement which was divided into a utility area and a second smaller area where the PO had put up some paneling and made it into a small rec room. In the summer before AC it was a fairly nice place to spend some time. I added some of my own touches such as a beer frig and TV. After about 5 years in this house we decided to add an addition which is as large as the existing house and has a large basement rec room of it's own. The two basements are not connected so the old small rec room quickly became a storage area. Months would go by without me going down there. As the years passed I forgot about most of the things I had added.
Last April I mentioned to my son that I would like to find a Goldwing to fix up and ride as gas was going through the roof and I had sold my KZ1000 the previous spring and I was feeling the need to ride again. I had also always wanted a Wing but had never owned one. My son had a friend who had a Wing in good shape that had been stored for the last 3 years as the boy could not afford the insurance and frankly I think the size of the bike scared him. I ended up getting this bike from him and with the help of this site got it running pretty good and I have been riding it back and forth to work since mid May.
A few weeks ago I went down into the old basement rec room looking for something and to my surprise on the wall was a poster of a Goldwing that I had put up there at least 25 years ago! I don't remember where I got the poster but the bike staring back at me looks almost exactly like the bike I just bought. Here is a picture of the poster and below is a picture of my Wing. I think it is great that for all those years I had the poster before I actually got the bike. I think this goes into the Life is Strange catagory, thanks.
Last April I mentioned to my son that I would like to find a Goldwing to fix up and ride as gas was going through the roof and I had sold my KZ1000 the previous spring and I was feeling the need to ride again. I had also always wanted a Wing but had never owned one. My son had a friend who had a Wing in good shape that had been stored for the last 3 years as the boy could not afford the insurance and frankly I think the size of the bike scared him. I ended up getting this bike from him and with the help of this site got it running pretty good and I have been riding it back and forth to work since mid May.
A few weeks ago I went down into the old basement rec room looking for something and to my surprise on the wall was a poster of a Goldwing that I had put up there at least 25 years ago! I don't remember where I got the poster but the bike staring back at me looks almost exactly like the bike I just bought. Here is a picture of the poster and below is a picture of my Wing. I think it is great that for all those years I had the poster before I actually got the bike. I think this goes into the Life is Strange catagory, thanks.
