The biggest cliché in motorcycle journalism is the ?listicle? of the best-looking bikes ever made.
If we ever run out of ideas and succumb at EXIF, you can guarantee that the Harley-Davidson XR750 flat tracker will be in our list. And we?d lament that it was never street legal.

So this streetable XR750 from Brad Peterson is right up our, er, street. And it?s no replica or lookalike, either.
Power comes from a genuine factory race motor, used briefly in 2007 by National #80 Rich King, which probably delivers around 100 horsepower.

?The motors are sold without a title,? Brad tells us, ?but they do have serial numbers. My motor was confirmed as a Rich King motor via the H-D race department records.?
Brad is a machinist by trade, and hails from the port city of Bellingham in Washington State, near the Canadian border. He?s been riding since childhood, and his grandfather?a motorcycle dealership principal?helped build the town dirt track.
Which might explain why the spec sheet for this XR750 is pure street tracker gold. The motor is fed by twin Sudco Mikuni TM 38 flat slides, breathing through Darcy racing intakes. Bill Werner Racing supplied the exhaust and SuperTrapp mufflers, and also the wet clutch.
The powerplant is squeezed into a C&J frame, which has been oiled (rather than painted) to prevent rust. The forks are modified CBR600 items, with nitrided tubes and the caliper mounting lugs machined off the right fork lower. They?re hooked up with A&A variable ...