What goes around...

Got a call from a guy, out of the blue.  He tells me he bought a bike I did several years ago.  The "Heavy Bobber".  He said he liked it the way it currently was, but liked it even better the way it was before, the way I did it.  He seemed to be a straight up guy, and shared the same passion for the Shovelhead that I did.  I was right thinking that.

So, we talked for a while about the bike, and all the changes that had been made through the previous 2 owners, and what it would take to get it back to it's "original" state.  And then, he said it.  "I'm thinking about shipping it back to you to have you put it back to original, or better".  Well, I kinda believed him, I mean, it was possible, but really, who would do that?  Send it all the way back to me.  Any competent shop with decent fab and mechanical skills could do the same thing, I mean, I have a plenty of pictures of the bike on our website...

But I had a feeling that this guy had the same thought I did.  That just wouldn't be right.  It wouldn't be the same.  The same hands that did it first time, should be the ones that do it now.

He did it.  It showed up a couple days ago.  It arrived at the shop like a warrior returning from years of hardened battle crusades, and being patched up and modified, and well, butchered.

I swear, if that bike could talk it would have said, "Good to see you again, Jason, you think you can take care of all this, and get me back in, I got plenty left in me!"

You bet we can.  This job has a little more meaning than I can really explain.  This job here is special.  I'm sorry this happened to you Heavy, but you're here now, and I got this.

What?  You don't talk to motorcycles?

The first picture is what it is now.  The second is what it was, and will be again.