Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm fairly new here and newly diagnosed with ASD. Anyway, motorbikes are one of my interests, and, well, it might be a long shot, I was wondering if anyone else here is into them too. I don't know anyone else IRL who shares this enthusiasm. It'd be nice to hear from anyone else who is interested.
I'm big into bikes (especially the spannering) and have owned over 50 from my initial CG125 to GSX1000 Katana, GL1000 Goldwing and finally a rather rare 1970s Moto Guzzi 350/4 (a knock off of the Honda CB350/4).
All long gone unfortunately as my wife didn't like the time I used to spend on them (mostly buying as basket cases and restoring to good working condition or better) so in the interests of a quiet life I gave up and sold / gave them all away.
I'm now looking at getting back into them now I am semi retired and want to do a YouTube channel on buying and restoring affordable bikes from the 80s an 90s - something along the lines of Mustie1 (YouTube channel) but much more aligned to good everyday bikes that are affordable (Suzuki Bandits, early CBR600, Yamaha Diversion) but with the odd bit of relative exotica thrown in (VF1000F, CBX750 etc) that are still affordable.
The autistic collecting trait in me has resulted in me building up a huge collection of service manuals for any kind of bikes I can find and I've been slowly learning more skills on YouTube that I need to get hands on practive with (spray painting, welding, soda blasting etc)t hat will come in useful.
Nothing is likely to happen in a hurry as I don't think I will get back to the UK for the next 2 years and here in Brazil where I like, you are highly likely to have your bike stolen at gunpoint at the traffic lights. I've seen a few and it is aways the big bikes that are targetted as they are quite high value here.