Well, here's a couple teaser shots (from last May) until I get the photo-op this weekend. This was pre-paint (the first paint job failed, as you can see, but we rode it a while to break it in anyway). I just got it all together tonight.
These 2 pix, in particular, are about the exhaust system. It is a German-made almost-clone of the Dunstall 4-2 design, with the most brilliant joiner-wye arrangement (sadly, hidden under the bike, here) that I have seen. The wye is set up to create header extraction starting at 5000 RPM, based on desings made for Twins with 180 degree timing. The header pipes are rechromed by Advance Custom Chrome of Pennsylvania, and a perfect job of it.
This K5 has been owned by this rider since 1975 (it was slightly used when he got it) and loved like a little kid the whole time. He travels 90% of the time on his work, and the bike got "trapped" on Guam for 5 years in the 1990s as he got moved hither and yon. When he got it back, all it would do was run: it had 67k miles on it then and was a rusted, salt-corroded lump when he brought it to me. He had installed a (incorrect) used wiring harness to get it running, because even the connectors had corroded away. It took me 2 years total elapsed time to find, make, re-plate, and finally re-paint (with Frankenstuff's excellent side covers!) everything, and the engine has had every part touched, cleaned, rebuilt or replaced. It is a 749.8cc (2nd oversize) engine now, with VERY long legs, and the exhaust note is pure Dunstall, makes you drool to hear it. I'm taking it on its final shakedown ride this weekend, can hardly wait. The new paint (next set of pix) is on fire when in the sun, done by a local custom-paint guy in Candy Red over microscopic silver flake, a variant of the original Antares Red.
The cockpit has been retailored to be exactly like mine, a setup which this owner loves like I do. It has 6" rise by 5" setback bars (aka "K2 Bars", NLA) to match the mid-height windshield and the stepped seat, putting one's weight directly over the footpegs for mountain riding. These crazy bars took me the full 2 years to find!
And, yes, the final pix will include the Vetter: sorry in advance to those of you who don't like them (we do!).