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 First I
must say that English is not my primary language so please forgive me if I
make some mistakes. (taken care of them - Ed) The first 4 pictures
are from the Princess 2 months after I bought it from a friend. He had the
bike, forgot about it, and left it in an old workshop for 5 years.
By the time I took these photos I had already done some work.
First of all I cleaned the engine , added fresh oil and I repaired all the
electrics because it had didn't have lights, battery or spark plugs. When
the Princess had electrics etc it took 4 kicks to get back to life, YES 4
kick after 5 years of sitting, and the engine started like a baby. What a
great feeling hearing that engine!
Then I started to get the correct info for my Princess, my first contact was
Steven Adams from Kiwi who helped me a lot with all the info I needed. My
first and obvious buy was the parts manual and the operation manual. With
both manuals it become easier to know what I was doing. I ran the bike for
about 3 months without a problem.
And then I left it in a friends workshop for about 8 months and started with
the chrome and minor refurbishments.
That of course used up all my weekends, but there is no price for the
pleasure to be working on and riding a living legend.!
 Two
months ago we completely disassembled the Princess (it took us 1 hour,
that’s the great thing, the simplicity of these bikes!) and we started
prepping and painting all the metal parts and I sent the seat to another
friend who did the leather work with the seat and the saddlebags.
I don't want to bother you too much so in summarizing my experience : Buying
this and turning it into the beautiful bike it is today was the greatest
thing that I have ever done. It is a pleasure to ride it, take care of it,
work on it and meet great people all over the world like Greg.
Here are some of the latest pictures I took, some are taken in a exposition
of motorcycles that is going on on my city.
It needs some more minor work to be completed and totally restored but as I
said before THAT IS GREAT because it means that I still have some more
friends to meet and some work to do on the Princess. Pablo.
    
If you ever do a restoration you will know what I'm taking about, if you
haven't..... What are you waiting for ?
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