Just stoking the proverbial fires here to see if there might be enough interest to make this enterprise a go. As mentioned previously a legacy member has been enthused by the idea of doing a community bike build. To involve as many of us as possible. He'll be traveling from west coast to east in the spring and from east to west in the autumn. Depending on how things work the build project would move to selected venues along the way for a traveling circus of a bike build.
To make this happen parts will be needed. Some idea of donations already made can be seen be reviewing this thread.
Some parts, however, are almost certainly not donation material. A frame and engine and tranny cases are examples. Those things would have to be purchased and it would habe to known the initiative could purchase them before we could really begin anything else.
The best guess for cash or in-kind donations to fulfill this part of the need I've been told is $5k. I say in-kind because anyone would be free to donate parts that may not match a Road King build but which could be eBay'd to go toward the Road King build.
If there is more interest please make note here or let me know via PM. I'm just the messenger on this effort. Will be supplying at least one of the workshop spaces but am still just manual labor on Big Brian's grander undertaking. Will answer all I can for anyone. Those things I can't will get answered and respond quickly.
Time frame to know whether or not we can pull this off for this year is now relatively short. If we're not sure we can make this a go within a month or two we'd best not impose on everyone to even begin moving parts around.
Everyone here is now as up to speed as I am. Hope to read of more interest. Thanks.