BIGmackie
Well-known member
Yippee, I'm new here! I actually made the ultimate mistake and posted in another area before posting here, I should probably be punished.
Anyway, here's my story...
A long time ago in a land far away, there lived a beautiful princess...
Wait! Wrong story. Here's the Goldwing story:
I'm active duty Navy and was stationed in San Diego, had just gotten back from overseas (boots on the ground) deployment and wanted something to spend all my hard earned desert money. Cruising the craigslist one day at work (your tax money pays for me to do this!) I run across a kind gentleman selling a "82 Honda 1100 tourer", no picture but only $250, "runs". I go look at it, low and behold he can't get it to start right now and it doesn't come with a battery, but he assures me he's ridden it up and down his block before and it's "got tons of power". I figured for 250 bucks I can sell the parts on eBay, that's how I sold it to the wife anyway! I'm the proud owner of a 1983 GL1100 Aspencade in wineberry!
Here's the only picture I have of that fateful day:
So, I got the poor thing home and started caressing her the way she needed to be, but sadly it wasn't to be. I was relocated within San Diego, while my wife went to live in Arizona (not a divorce or anything like that, I was just living in the barraks while she tried to sell our house in Arizona), the goldwing goes to AZ on a trailer. This is actually a good thing because my Dad has a shop and is more than happy to let me use all his tools, but it means I can only spend weekends working on the wing.
I make some progress:
What a mess!!
Got it back together and actually drove it!
Detail:
One more for good measure
So, there I am, right on the verge of greatness when I get orders thru a year-long training pipeline sending me to Florida, Maine, Alabama, California, and finally Washington State. The bike gets put into storage
One year later and I'm set up in Oak Harbor Washington, and back to the Gl1100.
I finally got past the issues created by storage (carbs specifically) and am starting back where I left off. As you can see from the pictures she's a bit nekked for an Aspencade, but that's about to change. Along with the electric gremlins that seem to plague this particular bike, I'm knee deep in body work and painting.
Here's how she sits today:
I'm happy to be a new member of this forum and look forward to drawing off all or your experience!
Thanks,
Brent
One last pic, here's my other ride up here in Washington:
Anyway, here's my story...
A long time ago in a land far away, there lived a beautiful princess...
Wait! Wrong story. Here's the Goldwing story:
I'm active duty Navy and was stationed in San Diego, had just gotten back from overseas (boots on the ground) deployment and wanted something to spend all my hard earned desert money. Cruising the craigslist one day at work (your tax money pays for me to do this!) I run across a kind gentleman selling a "82 Honda 1100 tourer", no picture but only $250, "runs". I go look at it, low and behold he can't get it to start right now and it doesn't come with a battery, but he assures me he's ridden it up and down his block before and it's "got tons of power". I figured for 250 bucks I can sell the parts on eBay, that's how I sold it to the wife anyway! I'm the proud owner of a 1983 GL1100 Aspencade in wineberry!
Here's the only picture I have of that fateful day:
So, I got the poor thing home and started caressing her the way she needed to be, but sadly it wasn't to be. I was relocated within San Diego, while my wife went to live in Arizona (not a divorce or anything like that, I was just living in the barraks while she tried to sell our house in Arizona), the goldwing goes to AZ on a trailer. This is actually a good thing because my Dad has a shop and is more than happy to let me use all his tools, but it means I can only spend weekends working on the wing.
I make some progress:
What a mess!!
Got it back together and actually drove it!
Detail:
One more for good measure
So, there I am, right on the verge of greatness when I get orders thru a year-long training pipeline sending me to Florida, Maine, Alabama, California, and finally Washington State. The bike gets put into storage
One year later and I'm set up in Oak Harbor Washington, and back to the Gl1100.
I finally got past the issues created by storage (carbs specifically) and am starting back where I left off. As you can see from the pictures she's a bit nekked for an Aspencade, but that's about to change. Along with the electric gremlins that seem to plague this particular bike, I'm knee deep in body work and painting.
Here's how she sits today:
I'm happy to be a new member of this forum and look forward to drawing off all or your experience!
Thanks,
Brent
One last pic, here's my other ride up here in Washington: