Part of his engineering eye called for the bike to be balanced. No massive rear wheel and slim front. His design called for similarities not contrasts. He ordered 54 mm inverted forks from CCI figuring a length to set the bike level. The front end was fine except the pinch bolts wouldn't hold the tubes. Every time he installed the unit, the tubes slipped through the trees and the bike dropped 4 inches. Four times he shipped the trees back until he received a set machined properly. "They were embarrassed, but very helpful," Al commented.

The engineering legacy continued to resurface. "I like a bike to be geometrically even with tight symmetry," Al said. So he made sure that levers and linkage were matched. Including the V-twin obsession bars.

I'm 6'3" and needed the machine to fit," Al said, "These bars made all the difference." He ran all the hydraulics and wiring through the bars. "I wanted to run an internal throttle also," Al commented, "but there wasn't enough room left."

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