Knucklehead serial number

[Rubone]

Man Eric Sorry that happened to you.

Hopefully Chris Haynes (The Crumudgeon) will weigh in he's the SN Guru IMO

I know zip about judging and have too "fragile" an ego to ever put myself or my bike in a position to go through that.

Final thought if your Knuckle is insured or registered with some state entity and they have accepted it (again IMO) that should mean something.

You missed the point here Paul.
Eric is only proposing a scenario. It didn't happen to him. He is merely looking for feedback from the community on what level of expertise may be expected in a tough situation. As for Serial number expertise Eric likely has the most extensive library of H-D serial numbers ever assembled, far more than Chris has ever seen. Not to disparage Chris, but Eric has made a life's mission of collecting , dissecting,analyzing, and categorizing Serial numbers, belly numbers, date codes, theft codes, etc.

[PaulCDF]

Man Eric Sorry that happened to you.

Hopefully Chris Haynes (The Crumudgeon) will weigh in he's the SN Guru IMO

I know zip about judging and have too "fragile" an ego to ever put myself or my bike in a position to go through that.

Final thought if your Knuckle is insured or registered with some state entity and they have accepted it (again IMO) that should mean something.

[Speeding Big Twin]

Imagine a 42 Knuckle is examined at an AMCA national meet and one of the judges says he doesn’t like the look of the SN. But the owner disagrees and tells the judge that all the SN characters appear normal for a 42 Knuckle and he even mentions one or more features about each of them. The owner also tells the judge certain things about the SN boss and that they are not uncommon for 42 and he shows the judge photos of these things on the SN bosses of two other 42 Knuckles.

But what happens next? Is the judge required to say why he doesn’t like the look of the SN characters and exactly what he thinks is wrong with them? And if so is the judge required to provide evidence to support his opinion?

NB: before starting this thread I downloaded the AMCA Judging Handbook Revisions 10/24/24 but are they in the current Judging Handbook? I don’t know because when I tried to download it a message appeared on screen saying: ‘Sorry, the document you requested is not available.’ And the same thing happened when I tried to view the AMCA Judging Handbook & Guidelines 2023.
Eric