My project bikes for last winter and this winter (XS650 I'm working on now) were cheap pickups my friend did not work on and I bugged him to buy/trade).
I'm thinking that next year, my project bike will to either work on one of his or nag him to work on it at his place and I'll do some of the work like carb & brake rebuilding which is the part I like the most. He has 3 bikes I know of that "worked when stored" but I bet need to be worked on to ride again.
He retired as a motorcop 2 years ago and was part time working. Then all the sudden he took a FT job at a courthouse as I was nagging for him to fully retire.
If he does not let me work on them I think I'll take the winter off and instead of a new project, do improvements to existing bikes I have.
Just like my wife likes to look at houses on Zillow that we can't afford, I'm combing Market place for project bikes I don't have room for.
Here is one (facebook):
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/7290497480968741/
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