Reddit reviews How to Restore Your Motorcycle: Second Edition (Motorbooks Workshop)

This is a good book to have for overall know-how and tips and tricks and stuff. When you find a bike just look for a Clymer manual for the bike, there are other companys that make the manuals as well. If you want to make your headache as minimal as possible, try not to tear into the engine if you don't have to. Make sure that when you try and use the kick starter that the pistons actually move up and down and aren't frozen. Start off with simple projects with it. Try not to tear the whole thing down at once or you will get overwhelmed like crazy. Good luck and try not to spend too much money :)

This book is very useful. The author also wrote How to Restore Your Motorcycle. It's geared towards British bikes, but has a lot of practical info for all makes.

Sure, sorry, was at work....

The paint was done by a pro, to match BMW original codes.

I did paint first, engine second... but looking back, I should probably have gone the other way.

My tank was so bad I had to have it welded up, needed a pro to do that.

The biggest thing is to decide how deep you want to get into it... to do what i did was expensive, more than the bike is worth if I sold it. I found this book was a help in putting some structure around the overwhelming number of things you need to do.