Well, I've kept this under wraps long enough. I actually finished this bike way back at the end of February. I entered it in the Handbuilt Show that is held in conjunction with MotoGP here in Austin each year. It wouldn't have been the most cutting edge or original bike in the show, but they always reserve some space for a few nice local builds. The plan was to get accepted, and then I was going to unveil it on the Forum on MotoGP weekend.
Then COVID-19 struck. Circuit of the Americas MotoGP got moved from April 3-5 to November 13-15, and then got cancelled altogether for 2020. Along with a couple of fun local shows where I think the Scorcher would have fared well.
So, that was a bummer. Anyways, here, at last, it is.
Once unveiled, my intention was to do a build thread but in reverse. This bike has a lot of interesting details and unusual ways of doing things, all of which I documented as I was building it. I was going to share how I did them in many posts over many days. Then my hard drive containing all of the pictures that I took blew up -- actually, it literally burned up. So, that was bummer number two.
I'll see if I can't take some better and more scenic pics in the coming days. I'm particularly unhappy with how the red looks in these pictures. It just doesn't look right. I tried correcting it in PhotoShop, but it's still wrong. I'll also mention that the red contains red metal flake, which has absolutely defied my attempts to capture photographically.
Okay, enough whining.
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