Took a nice cruise today on the Suzuki, was my first time taking it on the road since I bought it a week ago!...

Cleaned up and partially restored my gauges....numbers are still a bit sunbaked.......

The day finally came......

Realizing the tank I had was just too far gone for a ratrod look, I started the search for another 78 tank.......

This is where the story started.... A Craigslist ad for a 78 GS1000 that had not been started since 1990....$400...

If you ask yourself what is the most pleasant stage in the construction of a custom, then after the first start of the engine, I would undoubtedly name the final assembly stage....

"There is no formula of beauty (as well as a recipe for happiness), but if by some miracle they become known to you, then do not rush to touch them, because you deprive yourself of one of the brightes...

As you will name a ship, so it will float ... - a quote from the cartoon....

Every man should plant a tree, raise a son and build a cafeteria racer ... It seems that the well-known folk wisdom sounds like this with a list of what shoul be done in this life. After the first two...

If a hard winter and riding on motorcycles are two incompatible things, but your passion is consistently high at any time of the year, there will be the only way - you can build motorcycles in winters...

I invite you to take a look at the motorcycle thoroughly dismantled, carefully restored, externally perfected and carefully placed in the still life, an hour before the start of its rebuilding....