: I wonder if it would have been easier with stitch and glue and woodstrips.

Not sure if anyone noticed but the project did keep him off the streets and outta trouble. Looks like he put a ton of work into creating the body...I figure that stripping it would have been easier. Also, his top speed isn't remarkable so I guess he has to do more work on it.

This story reminded me of a time when I was out on my racing bike. I was peddling it on the main road down into the river valley. This road is very winding so traffic tends to slow to 50-60 kmph. I was passing them. My top speed as indicated on my speedo was just a hair under 70 kmph...that would be 43.75 mph. Felt great to be going so fast. I had the bike geared for speed so it wasn't the best for acceleration but could really get going on the down hill slopes.

Robert N Pruden