Custom Bikes Of The Week: 23 June, 2019
We’ve got a Harley-heavy selection this week, with a cafe racer from Italy, a scrambler from Japan and a tracker from the UK. Rounding out the selection are a rally-style Royal Enfield, and a jaw-dropping cafe/streetfighter Ducati Panigale.
Harley-Davidson Sportster by Speed and Custom Followers of the V-Twin scene in Britain will know Steve Willis’ name: as the man behind Speed and Custom, he runs one of Europe’s top in-house Harley-Davidson custom shops.
Steve just dropped us a line about this new Sportster 883 build. It was commissioned by a customer who was very taken with S&C’s Dirt Quake-winning Mert Lawill replica flat tracker, and wanted something in a similar vein. The idea was to build a Sportster with a rugged, shed built vibe, rather than something clean and showy.
On went a raw aluminum fuel tank from Omega Racer in Thailand, and a ribbed rear fender. The fender support was made from an old sissy bar, and the rider’s seat is a re-shaped Forty-Eight unit, upholstered by SM Trimming. The modern emulsion shocks were swapped for a set of more classic looking items from a Nightster, and a set of off-the-shelf number boards were modified to fit the sides.
This street tracker also features a Paughco exhaust system and a Bison Motorsports velocity stack, with a one-off aluminum cover over the fuel injection module, complete with the Speed and Custom logo. As for the ’44’ on the number boards, those are a nod to 19...
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