$50 worth of diesel and too many hours of driving later, I now have what you might call a motorcycle kit: that is to say all of the essential parts required to build a rolling KZ1000P, minus motor and transmission, laying in a heap on the floor at ALTSpace. Crucially, I also have a license plate and all the paperwork necessary to get a copy of the title with my name on it, which gives me hope that all the work I am about to do turning this into an electric vehicle will be rewarded by the opportunity to ride it on public roads.

I’m now feeling that old familiar anxious buzz which lets me know I’m overextended. I’m going to deal with the paperwork tomorrow, but then I’m going to leave this bike project alone for a while, maybe a month. I have a couple days’ more work to do getting the spiderweb lights ready, but I also have a lot of Floodland organizing to do, and then there’s the ongoing problem of getting enough work done quickly enough to keep the day job which pays for all the rest.