- Joined
- Dec 3, 2009
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- Location
- Kingsport, Tennessee
- My Bike Models
- Former '82 GL1100 "The Slug"
Since I received my '82 as a donor bike back in September 2007, I have had to do quite a bit of work to it. It came with a frozen engine (completely blown) and had sat outside for almost 12 years. My girls and I set about restoring the bike and it has been quite a transformation since then. I bought a '81 parts bike on E-Bay for the engine and ended up getting a lot of good stuff from it.
The '81 engine served us well for 2 years, but it had really bad bearings and I was afraid to go more than 30 minutes from home. (Never did blow up, but it should have!)
Recently, I swapped the '81 engine for an '83 that has transformed this bike back to it's hay-days! Since 2007, we have stripped it down, reapinted the frame, rebuilt brakes, swapped wire harnesses, repainted everything, rebuilt parts of the Vetter faring, swapped engines again, removed the floorboards, added a marine AM/FM/CD/iPod radio with new speakers, new drivers backrest, removed the chrome engine covers and changed some wiring. It is amazing how much the bike has changed since day 1.
The '81 engine served us well for 2 years, but it had really bad bearings and I was afraid to go more than 30 minutes from home. (Never did blow up, but it should have!)
Recently, I swapped the '81 engine for an '83 that has transformed this bike back to it's hay-days! Since 2007, we have stripped it down, reapinted the frame, rebuilt brakes, swapped wire harnesses, repainted everything, rebuilt parts of the Vetter faring, swapped engines again, removed the floorboards, added a marine AM/FM/CD/iPod radio with new speakers, new drivers backrest, removed the chrome engine covers and changed some wiring. It is amazing how much the bike has changed since day 1.