[bityard]

I guess I don't consider my motorcycles to be art projects. I want to experience the machine as it was originally designed, as much as I can. Once I've done that with this one, I'll move on to another. But I don't care to "make it mine." Car nuts who restore old Mustangs or Corvettes are the same way, just on a somewhat bigger scale.

There are of course a large number of people who do the opposite. They take vintage bikes and chop them up into cafe racers or whatever. And that's fine too. Just not what I'm interested in.