If a bike was nominated and did not win, it can be re-nominated again. The only rule on this (SOHC4 membership voted on this) is that it must wait a month before being re-nominated. I think you are in the clear here.
Re-nominating bikes is actually quite helpful in the BOTM. Sometimes we just can't find bikes to nominate. Members have gone back through the older BOTM's looking for suitable bikes to be in the contest.
If we only have one bike at the end of the nomination period (Nom, Second & Accept), that bike is not an automatic winner. What happens is that there is not a BOTM contest for that month and the nominee waits for the next BOTM month. Here, they are automatically entered into the BOTM contest and do not need to be re-nominated, Seconded and Accepted again.
Btw Mike, is that the right picture of the bike and is that current? I ask because that is the one I will use at the beginning of the voting thread. Let me know what one you wish me to use in this thread if it is different.
Oh and thanks jaguar and johnie more making that easier one me.
_Rick