Hi, saltwheels262,
Thanks for the nice comment,
But to me, it's just the way I work with what I've got so this built is not that much different from my other builts, just a bit more extreme and with a grail/goal other than just ride about on a special!!!
Anyway, big step today, I phoned Chuck, the BNI man in charge of attributing the Bonneville race numbers so I got a 3 digits one, 405 APS/VBF... Sounds too much like a bad French Peugeot car, just hope it'll be a tad faster...
Also spend some time later calling Jim Haubert in Arizona, that's where I will ship the bike later in the year...
He'll be part of our luxurious and numerous crew of three: Gordon Thompson, whom I met in Manchester in 1985 and a great lover of H-D Iron Heads; Jim Haubert, H-D race dept supa dupa extraordinary machinist and H-D official prototype builder in the 70's (he's the man that built with Willie G. Davidson the original Café Racer in 1974 in downtown Milwaukee...) and meself... Jim will be organizing a few things and sourcing a few spare parts for me on your side of the pond while I sit here doing nothing!!!
All in all a good day, rejuvenating, even if I did not go in the garage to say hello to the bike, too fed up recently with me Tig welding skills or rather lack of them!!!
Cheers from Patrick