Hey people, well I've just bought a set of stainless steel Motads for my 86 Aspencade via eBay, (still waiting for them to arrive) and to complete the picture, I've also taken the gamble and bought some stainless steel extensions via saber-cycle. It's a gamble because I don't really know if the external diameter if the Motad's will marry up with the internal dialmeter of the extensions or which ever way it works. So, here's the deal, I bought my 86 Aspencade back in December 2010, and 2 months later we had a big earthquake (Christchurch, New Zealand, February 22nd) and my baby ends up on her side sustaining plenty of cosmetical damage. The insurance company offered to pay for the repainting of the damaged parts only (not a full repaint), but lets be honest, that would look crap, the bike would look half shiny, half 25yrs old. So I opted sfor a new single tone colour scheme (Yep, that's how we spell "colour" here in NZ, not "color"). So I have gone for metallic black (with a copper metallic fleck). And there will be gold pin striping, chrome mirror accents and chrome trim beneath a shortened tinted windshield.
Now at this point, I have to say there was a previous owner of this bike was a complete diddle head! He/she put on some really nasty-ass, poorly manufactured pipe extensions and painted them blue. And if that's not offensive enough, they were badly welded and leaked severely. This person was not worthy of owning a Goldwing as they obviously had the IQ of fart.
So, let us consider that the stainless steel Motads tarnish in the first 10 miles, with the black/metallic copper and gold pinstriping colour scheme, I think that should work quite well and the tarnishing shouldn't look out of place.
Right now, the bike is in the paint shop, the pipes are on their way from the USA to New Zealand, and there's a big empty space in my garage. I will post before and after shots, and a full review of the Motad exhausts upon completion.
Watch this space.........