Taking a break from the Vaincre for a couple of days, I built a greenhouse for a client in Snohomish, Washington. The greenhouse is 16x24 and constructed using double pane E-glass. Some of the panels weighed up to 95 lbs. The grounds surrounding the greenhouse were amazing. No expense was spared on the structures on the site, the main house even had an indoor swimming pool. The shop was bigger than most houses, and finished inside with VG cedar and thermal floors. Probably my favorite part was the bike parked in the garage. A BMW K1600.

The K1600 features a 1649cc in line six and is a thing of beauty. This was the first time I had seen one in person and I was impressed. Very Impressed.

The Bike


The Engine


The Grounds (prior to greenhouse)


The Greenhouse - ps I broke my first piece of glass on this job!!

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Never mind the shop, I think the greenhouse is bigger than my house..... Nice work Sunny!

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Russ
77 GL1000
75 GL1000
82 CB900F
83 CB1100F project


States visited by Goldwing...

Nice job! I take it the glass is fully hail-proof? I ask because when I put a greenhouse up here, I'd just got all the glass in and we had this incredible hailstorm in July, which we watched from the house....4" of solid ice sliding down the drive towards the house, made up of these huge hailstones.

We watched it entranced till I remembered the poor greenhouse.

There wasn't an unbroken pane in the roof!

I re-roofed it with twinwall polycarbonate.

It was freakish...cars looked like they'd been caught in the asteroid belt...really deep dings all over.

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"The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on,
nor all your Piety nor Wit
can lure it back to cancel half a line...
so....probably best use Tipp-Ex in future?"

1976 GL1000 "Mitzi"
1976 GL1000 and Héchard sidecar "Mitzi 2"
1977 GL1000 'The Parts Bike' now in bits
1976 XT500 'C'
1976 TT500 'C'
1980 Paris-Dakar XT500 (replica)
1992 Grinnall Scorpion SC3 prototype
1993 'Big Valve' BMW R1100RS "Red Sonja"


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Gents;
A few bucks there for sure. A good friend of mine celebrated his 75th birthday last summer buy buying a red 1600 GT. What a beast, and he uses it well. He spends the entire summer riding. He traded in a Kawasaki Concours that had over 80,000 miles on it.
Mike
'84 Wing-Lite (ex-Aspencade)
'84 un-Terstate
'84 Standard (as yet un-named)
'84 Standard (Black Betty)

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Mike Coleman
North Lancaster, Ontario
Canada

Wait until you get the chance to ride one.

Cycle World put it ahead of the Goldwing when they did a comparison.
Having ridden both I'd say it is pretty close. Depends a lot on the type of riding you do the most.

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1976 Goldwing Super Sport
1982 GL1100 Standard Bagger (in progress)
1985 Honda Elite
1976 KZ900 Dragbike
1992 ZX7 Dragbike (KZ900 style motor w/NOS)
and a rotation of various purchases

I like the styling better than the wing (blasphemy)..

Hal, the roof is 5 wall poly carb with UV coating, and the walls are double pane E-glass safety glass...

_________________
I found the end of the internet

---- Bradshaw Bikes offers polishing and upholstering for your Wing!

That should be pretty much asteroid-proof!

_________________
"The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on,
nor all your Piety nor Wit
can lure it back to cancel half a line...
so....probably best use Tipp-Ex in future?"

1976 GL1000 "Mitzi"
1976 GL1000 and Héchard sidecar "Mitzi 2"
1977 GL1000 'The Parts Bike' now in bits
1976 XT500 'C'
1976 TT500 'C'
1980 Paris-Dakar XT500 (replica)
1992 Grinnall Scorpion SC3 prototype
1993 'Big Valve' BMW R1100RS "Red Sonja"


Hal's Nalbum