Well, you guys are pretty much right on the money. I was planning to add springs to the seat and a formal down pipe would be a better solution. Truth is that I am in a bit of race with the clock to have the bike ready for next weekend, so a few of the details will get sorted out later. The pipe on the bike now was borrowed off Bonneville #1.
Today was the shakedown voyage and the bike simply rocked! Power is fantastic and the bike rides amazingly well. The raw fab work was finished up a couple weeks back, but the bike sat in Pat's shop while I took off with the wife and kids to the Grand Canyon for a little vacation. Goal was to have the bike sorted and on the road no later than today and I just made it.
Even though fab was done, the bike needed the proper final assembly. Lock tite on all fasteners, cables, chains, wiring, etc. To do it right and not cut corners takes time. But its finally on the road, just in time for the spring Whizz-in, a 90 mile ride in the Sacramento River Delta.