A low-riding Sportster cafe racer from Andorra, an angular Royal Enfield Continental from India, a Honda RCB 1000 homage from France and a 162-horsepower Gixxer dirt bike from Finland. Motorcycling is indeed a broad church.

Harley-Davidson Sportster cafe racer by RC Dept It’s easy to ‘cafe’ a Sportster, but it’s even easier to totally screw up the lines. Enter Andorran custom shop, RC Dept?they’ve nailed the stance on this purposeful Sportster cafe racer, based on a 2005-model 1200 XL.
Up top, the Sportster’s silhouette’s been perfected with a low and long fuel tank, flowing into a typical cafe racer tailpiece. Lower down, it rides on upside down forks, new YSS shocks, and 16? spoked wheels wrapped in fat Avon Cobra tires. Lighting is kept low profile with tiny LED turn signals, and there?s a new license plate bracket that hugs the rear tire.
RC Dept treated the Sporty to a beefy Vance & Hines intake, and a stealthy twin exhaust system, with the mufflers tucked away low down. There’s a chain conversion in play too, with mesh-lined cutouts in the sprocket cover.
The controls consist of RSD rear sets and KBike clip-ons. There’s a smattering of parts from Brembo and Motogadget too, along with a small LED headlight up front. Between the tasty parts pick, the blacked out finishes and the slight hint of color in the bodywork, this broody Sportster hits the spot. [RC Dept]

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