Thanks for your kind comments, fellow fellows! motorcycles have owned me for 53 years now. i say celebrate all on two wheels! if you check out that rear brake, you'll note it is an externally contracting band type. adequately will slow one down, but emergency stop = probable catastrophe. hopefully the little 7 inch Kaw dirt bike brake will be enough. These bikes only weigh 420 pounds wet. this one should weigh around 400. they look primitive, but the engineering on them is amazing, all sorts of close fits in different places. people mistakenly think Harley-Davidson never changed anything, at least i used to in my younger years when i prided my ignorance for the marque. for example, there are "early 1927" and "later 1927" models, later '27's had a number of improved features from early '27 models. the factory was continually improving on what they were manufacturing. Back then, motorcycle design had to be created and improved on; the only body of knowledge the factory could refer to was what they'd created for the past 22 years. it's mind boggling to imagine what it was like for American motorcycle manufacturing pioneers as they began planning to build the first American bikes by 1901. For that matter, imagine Sochiro Honda post-WWII. Although he was a master piston ring manufacturer in the pre-war era, he had pretty humble beginnings post-war. god, i wish we had some knowledgeable Japanese members who participated on this site. that was my ultimate dream when i started the website in 2004. but at least we accomplished bringing in 2113 from the darkness that it sadly returned to. but, then, i can understand investors such as the person who purchased 2113 desires and needs their privacy. sad, but true. at least it's in the U.S., so someday it may be seen again. i had a chance to go see it, but i was going through chemo at the time and working at the same time, so i couldn't make the journey.