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Ok, I have already mentioned my involvement on Ricks forum but here is what I know from my own replica H1R-W.
Nigel went to Beaulieu Museum and saw the original H1R-W is a very sad state, it was donated to the museum at the end of the 75 season or in early 76 and left on display for years without being used so Nigel offered to restore it if they would let him copy it and make a few replicas.
Nigel thinks that there were only three or maybe four bikes originally made and at least one was broken up for spares, Grant had one and Ditchburn had one and one may have been in Japan, there is certainly a picture in the Sunrise to Z1 book showing one in Japan but as they made them there anyway it could be any one of them?
The bike was built for Stan Shentons race team to win the 75 senior TT and the bike did win it with Grant as rider but only just as the bike seized up at some point and he was going to retire but it freed off again and by some miracle he won the race.
Even Stan Shenton has recently said that the bikes they raced were often mixed up by using different frames and engines so he cannot confirm which bikes are the TT winning machines and which bikes were Ditchburns!
I have some close up pictures of the Beaulieu bike that Nigel sent me and that one has Grants trademark R/H gear change as does the bike that Rick had in his museum but I need to check if Ditchburn used similar?
Back to the replica H1R-W, the engine is as Rick said based on road going bottom end with welded up and machined cases just like the factory bikes, cast water-cooled top end, dry clutch, six speed gearbox, the frame swing arm, tank, seat and many parts are made by Harris and are available on there website.
The forks are based on road bike units but use a magnesium lower also available from Harris at £900 a pair plus VAT!
Wheels are Morris replicas made by Marvic in Italy from magnesium, the clutch cover is magnesium as are many other parts.
On my own bike I have changed many of the fasteners to titanium to make it look even more authentic although Nigel said they would'nt have used them in the day as the bikes were light enough already!
Rear shocks are hagons and in my opinion it is a thing of beauty which I cannot start where I live as it is just too bloody loud!!
The pipes are unsilenced just as they were in 75.
So Nigel built the first of four replicas which I think is the one that Phil Morris was trying to sell and he is asking less than what he paid for it.
The second went to a guy in Ireland, the third is mine and Nigel plans to make the last one for himself when he finds time, I think he could make more but he would have to commission new engine parts which would mean having another batch made so it is unlikey but he also told me that if he was to build more then the price would be considerably more.
If you look at the Phil Morris bike or even my own bike and work out the cost to build them, (check out the price of the chassis parts on Harris website) they are a bargain and built by the same guy that used to fix them in the day!
- really? 
It is a fantastic looking bike and superb value in my opinion (he was only asking £26k in his classified). I wonder what the original build cost was 
My phone has not rung.
