Last night while attaching the license plate (which is a project on its own right), I inspected the welding and construction. Talk about being hand made. I think manual welding is the biggest contributor to unevenness or misalignment of parts in the frame. My bike's rear fender is also off-line. But, I concluded that these bikes are made with such clearances in mind. (I have only 120 miles on board and I can do the maximum allowed 40MPH smoothly). It will be a sheer coincidence if every little thing was perfectly aligned.