So this bike sat for over 18 months. Worst part is that it got tainted-corrosion on almost all chrome and the cylinder fins got a bit tainted/stained/filthy. I did a half-baked detail effort before but today, having three days off in a row and no girlfriend, wife, kids or other plans - I spent 5 hours on it. I'm not done, but I got it looking way better. Even cleaned and polished the DOZENS of cylinder fins. (This bike has air-cooled cylinders with water cooled heads. My '900 was all water cooled with fake cooling fins that were only about 1/4" deep! These are real and are going to be hard to clean.



The hiking chair saved my back!



Sixteen year old chrome sure can look good.



Before



After



The cooling fins are better, but I have a LOT more work to do on them. Got the oil lines looking good. (Yea, those are not fake, each cylinder has an oil feed line and an oil return line to lubricate the valve parts, they are inside the chrome tubes. Lifters are in tubes on the other side.)