I perhaps based on a few above comments should have explained a little more detail and history into this project.....But I completely understand and appreciate the points and comments made by all so far.
Pockey, Saaz and I have been discussing, as a Managment team does, the concept of a OzSTOC club bike since late 2014.....we sort advise from a few other members during this time who would take on the task of the re-furbishment of a bike......we collectively chose an 1100 because of the relatively low initial cost of purchase and price of available parts..... but we agreed it was still beyond our fiscal means at the time and would essentially require a bike to be donated to the club or purchased by a small group and donated to the club.
We had been watching eBay, Gumtree and the forum classifieds for some time, we even made a rather offensive offer to a Gumtree seller
....we discussed when and if we acquired a bike if we would have it done secretly and just have it ride into a National Rally as a complete surprise to the club.....but we decided we would involve the entire club and its members in the project to give everyone a sense of ownership in the project.
I jokingly said to Saaz some time ago....." Now your on the Trophy you could get some extra room back in your shed".......to which he replied similar to "Oh well, you never know what the future may bring"...... Naturally in his frequently seen dry sense of humour.
The plan was a simple take a relatively straight ST1100 regardless of colour but preferably white to "tidy up" not to showroom status but as a neat and tidy eye catching bike that was very much a usable bike for all manner of club activities and riding.......but it would showcase TASTFULLY some club identification to make it distinctly OzSTOC.
Our plan..... and by our plan I mean Pockey, SAAZ and myself......Our plan was to have a bike that spent time in locations around predominately the eastcoast due to the distances required to move to the west coast and attend all manner of OzSTOC functions with numerous riders having access to the bike when required it could be potentially a loan bike to a visiting member from inter-state or country......but when ridden around be distinctly a bike that represented the entire club OzSTOC.
With this bike being bequeathed to OzSTOC by SAAZ and his family, what I'm reading into this situation is...."Well here is the bike"
What Pockey and I have since added to the equation is to acknowledge on the bike, who SAAZ was and what he meant to the club in the form of a short scroll or similar, it was also suggested that the bike could indeed stand for all our fallen riders with names being added to the bike in a tasteful manner so they to continue to ride with OzSTOC.
I hope this clarifies that this has been a long term project for OzSTOC and I beleive SAAZ along with his family has simply provided the means of helping achieving this goal.