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[MVetter]

And, just for fun, here's a custom LS-218 delivered not too long ago.

LS-218 built for drag racing with swing arm extensions - 250 HP at the rear wheel, 275 HP at the motor shaft - over 1,100 lb ft of torque at the rear wheel - 490 lbs. - under 2 lbs/HP - verified numbers on the Dynojet chassis dynomometer. It is a beast!

Doesn't look like this bike is delivered. Peter, owner of a biker bar in Hollister, went over to the Lightning factory and shot a video today which caught my eye because the machine looked familiar.

[Specter]

Oh shut up Morgan, it's just in for it's 3000 mile timing chain adjustment so the diesel heads fire in synch.  Those electric kanuten flappers get temperamental at times, especially when the spark plugs widen under the yaw of such a tremendous load on them!   You are such a conspiracy nut!

Aaron

[socalmoto91]

I heard the owner had some serious health issues so he isn't riding any longer. Also he dropped the bike and damaged the carbon fiber body. It was in for repair plus re-paint.

[MVetter]

You heard that, did you Dave? Fairly intimate knowledge for a casual outside observer. Or, in the words of the late great Groucho Marx, "A lot of quick accidents out here for a quiet neighborhood."

[Specter]

So if the owner has serious health issues and is no longer riding...
WHY is he paying to get the bike repaired?  I mean if riding is a thing of the past, WHY spend all that money to fix the thing AND repaint it???

Why not just sell the bike, as is, he'll never recover the money he is going to put in to repaint it.  Worse case, give it back to the company / sell it back to the shop. 

This makes absolutely no sense.  Besides, to be honest, who'd want to buy a bike from a company, that for all intensive purposes, never really existed to the public to begin with?

What shop is fixing it?  Where are they getting the parts to fix it? Are they new parts or parts yanked off an old prototype from several years ago, repainted to hide the oxidation from sitting in a warehouse for years?

The grapevine of gossip needs some better watering here bro.

Aaron