Tom's endless BMW R90S Restoration

As anyone who knows me can attest, my restoration project has been a drawn out process, as the photo of Jack sitting astride the original beast amply demonstrates. Given that Jack is now a bona fide rock star, having just toured the country with the Big Days Out festival, as the lead guitarist with the band 'Teleprompter'.
There is a photo of Alison and I sitting astride a blue 750 Honda, which belonged to a distant cousin of Rita visiting from the UK. It was in the early 70's, when the 750 Honda was heralded as the 1st real superbike, and I was about the same age as Jack in this photo. Interestingly, both Alison & I now own bikes. There's no hope for Jack.
I was living in Perth at the time, and found an ad for this bike in a magazine, for sale in Bundaberg. I had been looking for a R90S for a restoration project for some time. The R90S was BMW's only foray into the superbike wars of the mid 70's. This model is a 1975 model, originally in Smoke Grey, and now in the Sunburst Orange, or Daytona, colour scheme. It had a 200kph top speed off the show room floor, was the first production bike to have a fairing attached, and won the Castrol 10hr Endurance race in Australia.
After convoluted negotiations over the phone, it was decided Peter and Heather would travel to Bundaberg, pick up the bike and ride it back to Brisbane. Alison then flew to Brisbane and rode it on to Melbourne. It must have been a pig to ride at the time. The clutch was about finished, and the brakes were far from their best. Alison and I had a short ride along the Great Ocean Road, Alison on her Yamaha 600 and me on the R90. I rode it around Perth until its Qld rego ran out, then pulled it apart.
It was the beginning of a complete restoration. Every moving part has been replaced, fasteners replaced with stainless steel, and some subtle modifications to improve its function. It came to Melbourne with me when I moved from Perth in '99, and lived in the loungeroom for a couple of years.
While it is well advanced from this stage, it still isn't finished. I hope that at some stage, Peter and Alison will both get to ride this bike again, and find it a much more pleasant experience than their first ride in 1995.