Built Under Pressure: HardNine?s Harley XLCR tracker
Building a custom bike is often beset with difficulties: there can be unreasonable client demands, unforeseen technical issues, cashflow problems, and in some countries, strict regulations to circumvent.
We tend to dwell on these in our reports, but sometimes the build story is only half the real story. The other half is life outside the workshop, and on occasion, life ?gets in the way.?
Swiss builder Danny Schneider of HardNine Choppers has had a lot on his plate recently. But that didn?t stop him from finishing this amazing 1979 Harley-Davidson XLCR custom, which is one of the most appealing tracker builds we?ve ever seen.
The former professional motocross racer built two Triumph flat trackers in 2012, and felt the itch to build a Harley in the same style.
It was just a question of waiting for the right bike to turn up, and eventually a client with an XLCR asked for a HardNine bike. ?I said, I?ll only do it if you let me build a tracker!? says Danny.
The client agreed, and Danny started working on the Harley two years ago. Then life got in the way. His baby girl was born?and five months after that, he was unfortunately diagnosed with testicular cancer.
He was prescribed a course of high-dose chemotherapy, which finished two months ago.
And in these two months he?s been in his shop in Bern 15 hours a day, racing to complete the XLCR for the MBE Expo show in Verona, Italy. Grueling, to say the least.
Although it failed to capture the imagination of American riders ...
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