Don't expect anyone else to see your bike unless it has really loud pipes. Stop and offer help to the stranded motorcyclist along the open road, for the next you come along could very well be yourself. Don't mess too much with your carburetors, or by the time your done, you'll be walking home and your pipes will be blue. Be careful whose advice you buy, and save your receipts. Don't take advice from those who supply it for free, especially if they own a Britbike.
Motorcycle restoration is a form of self-torture.
Doing it is a way of pulling the past from the dustbin, degreasing it, painting over the rusty parts and dumping way more money into it than it's worth. Indian restoration is a truely refined ailment that is only cured by death or an unlimited bank account.