A little more cleanup
My wife worked on a few parts of the bike, the first being the chain guard. It is chrome, but the chrome is in kind of sad shape, but still shiny here and there. It had years of crud built up inside, layers of dirt mixed with chain oil. Several applications of solvent and a flat blade screwdriver took care of it. She polished up the outside and it does not look too bad now.
The windshield had been mounted so that the inside of the shield rubbed against the back of the speedo and tach, so there are some scratches on the inside of the shield. I don’t know that we will be able to get them out, so I may have to leave them. You don’t really notice them when the shield is on the bike.
The seat actually turned out to be in pretty good shape. Some cleanup with Meguiar’s leather cleaner and it looks pretty good.
The tank emblems were covered with black paint, so she put some stripper on them and got into the crevices with toothpicks. They came out fairly nice. Some of the gold finish is coming off in spots though, so they may need some touchup. I need to find a good picture on the web somewhere, so I know what they are supposed to look like.
I CANNOT believe he painted the Honda emblems. I find it even hard to believe that he took them off first…!
Comment by Brian Layman | 05.29.2007 | 9:54 pm