Just came back from one of the last rides of the year - did about 100 miles in beautiful Sunday weather. The bike's going to John in a couple of weeks for its next round of winter projects.
I think this is the list of things to be done:
1. New rear tire.
2. Re-chrome tank side panels, and chrome rear brake arm.
3. Machine two aluminum 'cups' to replace the two black rings on the top of the external front springs.
4. Rework the rear brake so that it actually has some effect.
5. I'm going to get the tank and the front fender repainted (same motif, but just fixing some issues).
6. Potentially paint the body of the recently installed steering damper (I'm thinking silver to match the silver on the fenders and side panels).
7. Replace the fuel screen in the petcock.
8. Replace the oil drain plug.
9. Convert the glass main fuse to a plug-in type fuse.
10. General service and checkup.
Decals-wise, the '59' on the rear fender is probably going to be replaced with a reproduction dealer transfer from the UK. There's a fellow over there who is currently reproducing about 70 different vintage dealer decals, and he has some of dealers who sold Hondas during the 1960's (Commerford's, Elite Motors, King's of Oxford, and of course Gus Kuhn), so we'll see which one will work best. Too bad he doesn't have Read Brothers!
So I think that will about cover it for now....time to lock up the shed.
