I know theres already been a few posts on this but...

R Racing is currently only 12 votes behind.

If you haven't voted yet, go do it.

NOW.

https://www.hdforums.com/m_2163131/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm

It's an awesome bike thatreally deserves to win over the competition,and a great story behind it too.

 

He just got my vote. Beautiful bike.

 

Yep just voted for him.. he was like 12 or so behind when I voted... [:@]

 

I did my part too...still6 behind....I know someof you jokers haven't voted...Let's go guys

 

my vote was the 6th vote placed for that bike.

GREAT BUILD R RACING! !

 

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!At 1 point yesterday I was almost 30 votes down and it looked like a run away for the other bike. But I don't know how you did it but somehow you have gotten it to about 6 which is AWESOME !!!!!!!!! Words can't describe my gratitude for your persistence and drive!!!!!!![/align][/align]Thank you!!![/align][/align]Jim[/align]

 

For all of you that haven't voted yet, and for those of you that are not familiar with the BOTM contest: This is NOT a contest based on popularity, or your taste in Harley models. This contest was designed (Mods and Admins back me up here) to pick the bike that has been the most tastefully modified, the most creatively changed, and made the most unique out of a group of competitors. Please consider the fact that bolt on additions to a bike are great, but custom fabrication and ideas that can't be "bought" are the true spirit of this contest. Again, if I'm way off here, someone correct me please. Now go VOTE!!!

 

HES 3 BEHIND TO TIE WITH REDHAWK COME ON GUYS.

 

I voted yesterday! I also own a superglide, and my bike looks nothing like R Racing's bike. Hell, most people think it's a wide glide or a rocker. Now that's custom! I think Dyna's are already the underdogs in BOTM, and it would be great to se Harley's "cheapest" big twin take the prize!

 

BAM! You're tied. I'm only sorry Ihave just a single vote. Your bike is so totallynot to my taste, but I respect the creativity and the work that went into it and she's a beauty. The bikes I like to gawk at generally fit into one of two categories: some bikes I just love (no matter how simple or dull) and I also like bikes that have tremendous man-hours invested or are just unique in some way.

I can also relate to your story. I was literally on a website putting stock parts in my "shopping cart" so I could return my Springer Bob back to stock and sell her when I found out that I had a reprieve as well. I kept most of my stock parts and made no frame modifications to fit the springer.But I needed to replace a few things like the dash since I'd rigged up a hardwired garage door opener inside it. I was hoping that I'd someday be able to buy another used Street Bob and do the full transformation on it. It was tough to face that decision and I gotta admit, even little stuff like having to withdraw from the BOTY later in the year really added to the sting. Just like in your case, planning for the conversion, spec'ing and locating parts and then doing the work was all like therapy as our business was struggling. So I had some added attachment tomy bike.

But my reprieve came in the form of a job opportunity that I never would have seen coming. My situation was very complicated having left my engineering career 8 years ago and worked a family business ever since. My family's business still needssomeof my time, but we just could no longer afford my full salary. Jumping back into the type of engineering work I had done was likely to mean I couldn't do the work my family needed on a timely basis (and finding a job couldpossibly take months). It was a difficult situation and the bike was on the chopping block to buy me a little time to figure it out. I was fortunate to get a phone call from an unlikely place, my brother-in-law. Turns out, he is trying to aggressively grow his business and my eCommerce expertise will be a huge asset to him. The "unlikely" part was just that I didn't think he could afford to hire me. So, we worked out a situation where he pays most of what I need, my family's business subsidizes it and I have the freedom during the day to handle things that pop up in the other business if needed. So I guess I'm sort of co-employed.

I think sometimes God makes us face the tough choices and every now and then doesn't make us go through with it. Maybe just a test to see if we'd make the tough, but right decision? Anyway, I'm not 100% in the clear (I'm still taking an overall cut in income) but things are looking up and I hope they continue to improve for you as well.

Good luck the rest of the month in the BOTM, I've done all I'm allowed todo ;-)