I started reading this thread when it was at 105 pages. Read the first 104 over the past week. It was like watching the full series of sopranos back to back to back. Great watching everybodys bikes evolve. These things are so cool and i plan to get one...some day. Im currently a broke and deep in debt grad student without a place to store or work on one. Im way out in west texas but one of these seems like it would really shine back home in the mountains of wnc. This thread has got my mind spinning on what I plan to do when i get one. Is the gold a production color in the US? I seem to see them more on the ccw blog with the swiss and south african dealers. ive been trying to save money at the end of each month but i have a habit of blowing it on guitars/basses/banjos/anything i can make noises with. We'll see what I can pull off