The bike is ready for the show. It was a lot of work to prepare it. It was dirty, dented up, some minor corrosion, and wear and tear. Now it is clean and all the dents knocked out and the corrosion taken care of. A lot of this is also preparation for 2016 BMST.
Rose was doing the finances a few days ago. Our neighborhood is "gentrifying." Property values and taxes are going up, the cost of everything is inflating fast, and we are on sort of a fixed income. Rose is retired and my employer is a tightwad. It looks like the racing budget is reduced and I will actually need to pay attention to it. The build will be progressing mighty slow.
The target I had was 165 mph and that would get me back the FIM record I had. The bike ran 146 in 2015. Plans are revised to do something more realistic. It will be a solid run or two above the magic 150 mph. The new pistons will raise compression ratio from 10.5 to 12 to one. The new cams will help, too. The bike is ported but the rubber castings show there is room for improvement. The intake ports will be enlarged so their minimum cross sectional area is 85 percent of the valve area. The tops of the pistons will be ceramic coated, the intake valves polymer coated, and maybe the combustion chamber. The head needs bigger intake and exhaust valves and I was going to develop a custom race header. That will wait till 2017.