Honda GL1100 Gold Wing custom

I’m fascinated by custom Gold Wings: it’s strangely appealing to see these heavyweight tourers stripped of all excess, and they invariably have good bones. This machine is a 1983 GL1100 belonging to Kevin Rowland of WagonGear, who describes the transformation as a “winter-time tinker build, lots of head-scratching and junk parts.” The original owner dropped the bike and damaged most of the bodywork, to the point where he hid it under a blue tarp for more than twenty years. So when Rowland got the 'Wing, everything that moved and wasn't soaked in oil was shot. The carbs and brake components...