Hi Simon, Beautiful piece! I am also building a modern Vincent bike based on the Egli TPV billet frame. New built engine as well. Curious from what donor bike you got the front fork and wheels?I am not that young, 62. Reasonably healthy thank goodness. Rich enough I guess (although I don't know what that means these days), Maybe a few talents, not including metalwork (I am much better at woodwork), but very little time (which is why it took me 8 years). I imagined it into being and never gave up on it.
It was Enoch Powell who said:
"The lives of Nations, no less than those of Men, are lived largely in the imagination."
Patrik