My name is Christian and I'm a GL1000 owner from Sweden. I'm a guitar teacher and freelance guitarist who enjoy fencing (active fencer and fencing coach), old british cars and of course motorcycles.
I have had quite a few bikes over the years but this is my first GW. My mom and dad had a GL1500 and I have borrowed it quite a lot... The GL1000 how ever is my favorite bike. I stumbled across this at a friends house and bought it for a couple of hundred.
It's in pretty bad shape but thats the way I like it!
It's gonna be a cafe race (surprise...) and I have two different styling themes to choose from.
Being a Swede born in the seventies, my first hero was the late Swedish F1 driver Ronnie Petersson. he raced for Lotus in the classic John Player Special cars. So, a black bike with gold trim and logos is cool. Nice tribute.
Or I would like it to be a tribute to the 60's and 70's "Gulf" sponsored race cars like the old Porsches (the movie Le Mans with Steve McQueen). Imagine a light blue bike with the orange stripe and the Gulf logos... Mmmmm
Ok... What I have to do is:
New front fork. The current one is to badly pitted on the inner tubes... Got a pair of Ebay yesterday!
New brakes (probably). They are really stuck, and my experience from cars is that they will never be good again once they go bad...
New cam belts.
Carb overhaul
Styling:
New saddle
Clubman handlebars
BIG tacho in the middle and a small speedo.
New front headlight (lowered compared to the original position).
Paint, paint, paint... patience, patience, patience, patience...
The engine is no looker... All the chrome has lifted from the parts so it need some attention...
I'll try to keep You all updated on my progress!
//Christian "Swede"
