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fab shop has been dragging their feet on the Prototype and haven't finished
it! Haven't any photos, so I won't have anything written up for this
month. I can tell you that because of the way fab shops do business here
and the cut-throat, "what's in it for me" attitude I won't be marketing
finished frames! Instead, I will offer the frame kits for user completion.
All bent members and burned parts will ship with each kit and final assembly/welding
will be left up to the user. Everything will be there, but I won't offer
them until I can get a prototype completed. I want to be sure everything
fits! The price (another reason for the kit concept) will be $375 + shipping.
I will try to get them even lower than that but for now, that looks realistic!
What do you think? This way I can avoid the added expense of Liability
insurance and get some frames out there. On the Horizon, I have a 75% complete
design to use the same frame kit with a different mounting arrangement
to accept the Scout/Warpath engine and transmission and per Dave
Clements' suggestion, I have begun a design for the "Legion Softail" using
existing H/D rear members. This one is a bit more engineering intensive
and will take a bit of time. I have suppliers in place now for the materials
and formed components so the projects should be rolling soon. BTW, the
"ugliest frame I had ever seen" that Stan referred to is the "new project"
photo on the Tenino page of last month's VI! I prefer to think of it as
"Aesthetically Challenged"! |
Legion frame. For more details,
see last month's article
Aesthetically challenged
frame at the Tenino
meet...
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