Richard Pollock has an enviable problem; an order book that’s bursting at the seams. The ink has hardly dried on the story of his full-throttle Hooligan flat tracker, and we already have another top-shelf Mule Motorcycles creation to drool over. This time, it’s a well-sorted Harley-Davidson Sportster street tracker.
Although Mule has worked with other styles before, trackers are his bread and butter. The respected American builder has been racing and building them for as long as we can remember and has a knack for creating machines that prioritize functionality, but still end up looking impossibly stylish.

This Sportster bears all the hallmarks of a quintessential Mule Motorcycles build, even if the process behind it was a little unconventional. In a rare move, Mule took the project on after the customer had already made a few key changes to the bike. ?It was also one of the rare ones where there were hard customer requests,? he adds, ?but in the end, it worked out well.? The 1993-model Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200 motor had been transplanted into a chromoly twin-shock frame from C&J Racing Frames several years ago, with a C&J swingarm out back. The chassis is an oil-in-frame design, with the main backbone acting as a reservoir. The bike’s owner had also manufactured his own fork yokes, handlebar risers, front axle, brake rotor carries and caliper brackets, and headlight mounts.

New bodywork was crafted for the 90s Sportster by a fabricator...