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Complete Restoration of a Black Shadow
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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 127684" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>I have a question for which there is an obvious answer that many people might give, but for which I hope at least a few people spend some time considering it.</p><p></p><p>Background: I have a matching numbers 1950 Black Shadow that will require me to do a <em>complete</em> restoration down to the last fastener. Although I've done some amount of work on it since buying the bike a few years ago (29 years ago, to be precise), optimistically, I'll finish two other projects and be ready to start on the Black Shadow before the end of the year.</p><p></p><p>Although Graham has done a fantastic job with the web site, its search engine hasn't enabled me to find if someone previously has posted such a complete restoration thread here. There are 3.4k posts in the post-War Tech. Advice category, and various search terms haven't narrowed that number enough for me to find such a thread, if it does exist. Does such a thread exist (here, or anywhere else), and can someone point me to it? But, that's not my real question.</p><p></p><p>Assuming such a thread does <em>not</em> exist (i.e. a <em>total</em> restoration, not just of individual components[*]), and assuming I spend the time necessary to thoroughly document my restoration in readable form, on what web site should I post it? The obvious answer is "here," but is that actually the best choice?</p><p></p><p>[*] Two examples of the level of detail I would go into are at:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/691207/1928-ariel-model-c#Post691207[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/496950/1957-bsa-spitfire-scrambler#Post496950[/URL]</p><p></p><p>As alluded to above, a good reason posting it here might <em>not</em> be a good choice is that soon after it is finished it will be buried by later technical posts and the site's search engine won't necessarily find it. If I spend the effort required to write such an extensive thread, I'd like it to be easily found in the future by as many people as possible for whom the information would be useful, not for each post to be read and then forgotten by people who already own Vincents and who are unlikely to actually make use of the information in it.</p><p></p><p>My three choices seem to be:</p><p></p><p>1) post it here (but, why here?)</p><p>2) post it on another site (but, what site, and why there?)</p><p>3) make notes only in enough detail for myself and don't take the time to write, edit and post it on the web.</p><p></p><p>Opinions, please.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 127684, member: 2806"] I have a question for which there is an obvious answer that many people might give, but for which I hope at least a few people spend some time considering it. Background: I have a matching numbers 1950 Black Shadow that will require me to do a [i]complete[/i] restoration down to the last fastener. Although I've done some amount of work on it since buying the bike a few years ago (29 years ago, to be precise), optimistically, I'll finish two other projects and be ready to start on the Black Shadow before the end of the year. Although Graham has done a fantastic job with the web site, its search engine hasn't enabled me to find if someone previously has posted such a complete restoration thread here. There are 3.4k posts in the post-War Tech. Advice category, and various search terms haven't narrowed that number enough for me to find such a thread, if it does exist. Does such a thread exist (here, or anywhere else), and can someone point me to it? But, that's not my real question. Assuming such a thread does [i]not[/i] exist (i.e. a [i]total[/i] restoration, not just of individual components[*]), and assuming I spend the time necessary to thoroughly document my restoration in readable form, on what web site should I post it? The obvious answer is "here," but is that actually the best choice? [*] Two examples of the level of detail I would go into are at: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/691207/1928-ariel-model-c#Post691207[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/496950/1957-bsa-spitfire-scrambler#Post496950[/URL] As alluded to above, a good reason posting it here might [i]not[/i] be a good choice is that soon after it is finished it will be buried by later technical posts and the site's search engine won't necessarily find it. If I spend the effort required to write such an extensive thread, I'd like it to be easily found in the future by as many people as possible for whom the information would be useful, not for each post to be read and then forgotten by people who already own Vincents and who are unlikely to actually make use of the information in it. My three choices seem to be: 1) post it here (but, why here?) 2) post it on another site (but, what site, and why there?) 3) make notes only in enough detail for myself and don't take the time to write, edit and post it on the web. Opinions, please. [/QUOTE]
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