Written by Andrew Jones
Custom bikes can come from almost anywhere. Brand new factory bikes or clapped-out junkers. Crash victims or botched restorations. Now these are all good and well, but there’s one type of donor bike that always brings a smile to our faces, and that’s the parts bin specials. Conjured out of thin air, they are the moto equivalent of making babies. You start with nothing and you end up with a miracle. The only issue is, they aren’t exactly street legal. Which is why this spares Harley tracker from California’s Mule Motorcycles is headed straight for the track – just as soon as it’s not illegal there, too.

Mule’s Richard Pollock says he stopped counting custom bike builds at about 200. Needless to say, after your skills are honed that much, you begin innovating whether you like it or not. ?I made a seat out of Balsa wood for a Cycle World project a while ago. All my friends thought it was a really stupid idea. Funny how many wooden seats you see installed by the current crop of motorcycle builders, yeah" How you like me now"? Killer exhaust. Even better welds
Built to run in the 2018 Super Hooligan class of Roland Sands? popular race series, under normal circumstances it would have been a Harley street tracker but Richard’s devious brain and fidgeting hands had other ideas. ?The frame is an eBay special ?95 stock Sportster unit with a salvage motor. Everything else was built up from scratch wi...