Just been out tonight and put another 50 miles on the old 750/4, such a nice night and a not too posh weather forcast for tomorrow afternoon, (my time out time usually and I really have been wet more than once to often to go out when it's raining!) Anyhow I slipped out on the bike on wor lasses blind side (she has a habit of winging as I'm getting ready if she sees me, wot a pain in the arse), and thoroughly enjoyed my ride out! I was stopped in a favourite spot looking over the bike and contemplating what to do next in the way of restoring the bike, (my bikes a rolling project), when I was hit by the concern that if I make it too nice I probably won't ride it so much. Why, well I'm not knocking anyone that has a beautiful classic bike that doesn't use it a lot for various reasons like "it'll get dirty and I'll loose the concourse look kind of thing" but there is a danger that that could happen to me if I made mine that way, and for the same reasons as others, I might not use mine as much, and what a shame if it didn't. The beauty of my bike at the moment is that it's mechanically sound and is running well, and is still tatty enough to use all of the time without me worrying about loosing the look or overtaxing it type of thing, also it's still desirable enough to draw a crowd at any bikers meet which let's face it is a part of what it's all about anyway. Restoring it further is not about me not wanting to put the money into the bike, it's more about me not wanting to take the 34 years of soul out of the bike that is defined by the tatty way she looks. I bet I can't get to sleep tonight for thinking about this one. I'm not sure why this bike has got to me in this way. I've had some fabulous superbikes over the years but when you're like I was tonight, mid corner on a 34 year old bike thinking wow I can see how this bike was the superbike of it's day all that time ago and it's still doing it for ya now well, that's defo special and I don't want to loose any of that. Giz your ideas on this one fellas.