For sure the idea is to use production equipment to manufacture the test bike. However I don't see how small compromises would invalidate test results, such as welding say 95% of the frame by robot and doing the balance manually, in the interest of getting the test bike out for testing. Parallel task scheduling is critical right now as the money pile is dwindling every day.
Since there are 9 or so Mondays left in the year of 2017, a small betting pool for the Monday closest to completion of test bike might fun.
Come on, Petey, quit flakin' on us.