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[Speedbag]

Oh yeah, it lost the forward control mounts too. That was a major pain in the ass, along with repainting those little sections of the frame....

[kopfjäger]

Oh hell yeaah! 

[koko64]

That back wheel suits it so well.  It come up so good, just right. Great touches and not over done.
Interesting about the collector plate, I remember when Evo motors were the latest thing!

[Howie]

Nice

[ducpainter]

Well kids, it's time to finish up this thread....

This thing is done. As done as it will ever be, that is. I got my freshly painted fender back from a buddy over the weekend, and got everything all back together as you can see. I gave him explicit instructions to not do a better paint job on the new fender than the old, but he went a little overboard and it looks better than the rest. Oh well, the lightly pitted chrome and other little tatters hide it. 

Otherwise, it got the CV carb over the winter along with new throttle cables. Riding the bike a little more last fall revealed that the old Edelbrock had some issues at certain throttle transitions, so that and the lack of parts availability sent it to the recycle bin. Naturally, changing the carb meant that my old air cleaner wouldn't work, because the backing plate had an integral support to tie the carb to the cylinder heads and there was no way to make it work. I bought a carb support for the CV and made a cool custom air cleaner out of a new K&N element I had laying around. But it bummed me out that my original round air cleaner wasn't there. Then on a whim one day, I did some scanning around on eBay and found a new but older outer cover, which had much nicer chrome than my original. Go figure. Made a new backing plate and we're golden. So if anyone needs a nifty, one-off air cleaner for a Harley CV, I'm your guy.

Beyond that, I just did a little rewiring and tidying under the tank and a thorough cleaning while under there. Time to ride this pig and get that new carb dialed in. Man, is it a weird feeling to put a collector plate on something you built....

You can't tell painters anything. They are singularly focused.

Looks good Dave!

[Speedbag]

You can't tell painters anything. They are singularly focused.

Looks good Dave!

Thanks, Nate.

Damn painters. I wanted orange peel! 

[triangleforge]

That's really beautiful the way it's come together, and I love the story of the bike's creation and return to home.

And because I was away from the DMF for a while, it was only yesterday I saw the news about Kevin. I can only try to imagine how that felt, and send my fully-inadequate and belated condolences.

[DuciD03]

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... ya very tough, heartfelt situation; nice to see you worked through and have a nice bike to show too.

ride on