Snuck home a day early, had the bike delivered to my wife's place of business and the driver just plopped the container off right in front of the front door.
Anyway I got it uncrated and got the front wheel on so I can roll it and get it loaded on my trailer for the ride home this weekend.
Initial impressions:
-virtually every fastener is finger tight, which is OK since I want to inspect all of them any way
-the handlebars are garbage, they bend just looking at them
-chain guard will more than likely be gone after a few mud baths
-the bike is very compact and lightweight
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-big fuel tank
-super simple design, should be a joy to work on
-overall build quality acceptable
-my certificate of origin has no info on it, what's that about
Going to put it together stock, break in for 500 miles, then get after setting it up for travel. I'm very pleased and optimistic this may be the ticket for a South America ride and dump'