Oz, get back to work or you're sacked (again). Octane, phew, that's some rebuild. All I've done to mine is a top-end job with Royal Enfield pistons, Peugeot valves and some porting. The machining was done by Robin Oakley in Kent (UK). I couldn't help but notice your bike is outside the same workshop as Mad's, give him my regards.
As for small worlds, we've featured the guy you mentioned who took his Nimbus to Japan, his name eludes me but he wrote a series of features for me accompanied by amazing drawings. Maybe we ought to start an "Indian" topic elsewhere?
Part 1 of Oz's excursion to Bonneville will be in our next issue, but please don't think I'm trying to "push" the magazine, but it was him that made me decide to "go for it". We got through 2 bottles of vodka doing the story, sat in my shed. Oz fell off his chair at the end, and for a change, I didn't.