Some amazing progress done on the engine, Cricket @bikequeen
How nice to see that you have used some old material which was collected by your dad, it will certainly make this bike even more special.
A pity you did resign from the fire department but disagreements do not help.

@clipper thank you Carl, there is a lot more to add on to this engine, tiny details still to be painted on.

Re: FD, it’s his loss, I could have made him look good our I could have destroyed him…I choose the latter

@bozzer Hey Boz! GREAT idea….maybe we could get me another shed and i can move in ther 😉

@jdtruby Thank you john…I’m please with it so far. The future is what I make it I guess 🙂

@johnb @fiveten @clipper @gblair @jdtruby @chinesegeorge @bozzer

Did the throttle body parts today, but it was missing the throttle plates so I scratch built some. I wanted to more progress shots but my OCD kicked in and I just kept building…SIGH. This will not be a 2 day build guys 🙂

Engine details to follow in the next post

This is how the real ones look

This is how the kit would look if I didn’t add the plates

And here are my scratch built ones

And the throttle body assembly

It's amazing just realistic the parts look when the scale is this large. Reminds me of the time when I first saw 1/4 scale RC planes flying and how real they looked. Excellent work Cricket (@bikequeen).

I agree with Carl. The large scale of this kit makes the parts almost impossible to tell from the real parts. This is really looking cool.

Excellent so far and awesome scratch building, my friend @bikequeen!