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Hey Free Bird, any updates on the build? The painting should be close to done. Any news on the front end.
My bike is still "neck-ed" as some like to say. All stripped down and waiting for paint. The crated parts were shipped out in early December via Estes Transport to South Carolina... via Phoenix, Arizona! Three weeks en route to the painter. So I sorta lost my place in line. No hard feelings with the painters, lots of frustration with Estes. It is a long story, but the short version is Estes Traiffic planner got The crates cross-docked on the wrong truck and they went West.... once started... no stopping until it caught an East bound route. They arrived safely..but very late. So early February is the estimate for paint completion now and I am flying out to Charlotte and driving the parts back myself (no kidding).
The front end is a worse tale. I cannot go into detail as there is a conflict underway that won't allow detailed discussion but.... Changes made by the machinist resulted in it not fitting the trike. VERY SUPER EXTRAORDINARILY KINDA LIKE GETTING IT CAUGHT IN YOUR ZIPPER FRUSTRATING (Swearing). But the issue is getting worked out....
And now here's something you'll really like.....
I have a new front end partner and this is what we are doing....
Sort of back to the original plan for a springer with better engineering support. Here (as always) is the bad photoshop of the concept
We are building the trees in Cad and 3-D Printing them for trial fitment and mock up on the bike.
The trees will be at zero rake to the fork neck and we will achieve necessary rake and trail through the rocker design. Hoping for a product ready for the chrome platers in Mid- to Late February. But, as Ole Paul Mason used to say..... "We will finish no Chopper before its time..."
More to come as progress is realized....
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