Nice! Is the body metal flake and did you get the ski for it? I did mine is metal flake blue and it has the same shock set up. I have a 10hp electric start on mine with charging. How are you getting it street legal? Mine had the secondary on the jack shaft it had the wrong primary. So I bought a new clutch and secondary and belt too. I had thought about a snowmobile engine but did not want to mix the gas. I then saw a 18hp electric start and liked that better. I am putting in new brakes on it now. I should take more pictures of it as we do it and a picture of the ski too.
The body is a red metal flake, but it probably won't stay that way. There are a couple of big chunks out of the fiberglass and once those are patched, repainting the flake will probably be too costly for my budget. I'm also a pretty big guy (6'3") and I want to stretch the frame and the fiberglass about 8" to make it more comfortable.
I don't have the ski, but I've already started designing one that actually fits in place without taking the wheel off. I'm thinking about essentially building a support "cage" around the sides of the wheel with the tire sitting on the ski. Think a steel ski that is wide enough for the tire to sit on with two hinged struts on each side. One strut will attach to the axle and the second would attach to the trailing part of the fork. I think it will work, but I'm still working on the drive train and winter is over.
This picture is the previous version of the drive train. I tried to run a short chain between the jack shaft and the driven pulley. I never could get the two chains to line up properly so I have since eliminated the backplate on the TAV2 and put the driven pulley directly on the jack shaft and running a slightly longer belt. That seems to work perfectly.
As for the road legality, here in Indiana, according to the BMV branch manager here, I just need to add head/tail/brake lights and turn signals, and then get a police inspection in order to title it as a custom built motorcycle.