12-01-2017, 12:06 AM
You can either leave them stock, or do the modifications you enjoy but save the old parts to return it to stock. If you want it to return to stock don't ever take a sawzall to it anywhere, and don't ever cut the wiring.
I've done about a dozen things to my bike to suit me (RLETs, different hand grips, luggage rack, 83 degree valve stems, battery tender plug, removed tank decals, Chip Beck lic plate mod, Michelin tires, small windshield and hand covers, chrome inst cups, painted headlight bucket, fork gaiters) and saved all the stock stuff in a box in the garage ...except for the tank decals which can be purchased thru Honda. Would take a couple of hours to put mine back to factory stock. In the meantime I will enjoy it with the mods I have made, which suit me.
as a collectible it will take many many years (30 or so) before that comes into play, and if you are going to put some serious miles on it (not sure what that means to you?) that will lower it's value as a collectible piece. Anything over 50,000 miles lowers the value substantially IMO.
I've done about a dozen things to my bike to suit me (RLETs, different hand grips, luggage rack, 83 degree valve stems, battery tender plug, removed tank decals, Chip Beck lic plate mod, Michelin tires, small windshield and hand covers, chrome inst cups, painted headlight bucket, fork gaiters) and saved all the stock stuff in a box in the garage ...except for the tank decals which can be purchased thru Honda. Would take a couple of hours to put mine back to factory stock. In the meantime I will enjoy it with the mods I have made, which suit me.
as a collectible it will take many many years (30 or so) before that comes into play, and if you are going to put some serious miles on it (not sure what that means to you?) that will lower it's value as a collectible piece. Anything over 50,000 miles lowers the value substantially IMO.