Sportster love

[Motu]

I hope they use it on a gravel road, it'd be a waste otherwise.

[AllanB]

Very nice. Interesting responses nit-picking the base of the machine. I'd be happy to park it in my shed.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I hope they use it on a gravel road, it'd be a waste otherwise.

I sure as fuck would.

Very nice. Interesting responses nit-picking the base of the machine. I'd be happy to park it in my shed.

Hell yeah.

[98tls]

Motorcycle forums Crashers got it 1/2 right simple fact is that somebody with ability on that thing will make anyone with none on anything they choose to name regardless of output or any other fucking thing look stupid.Happens every weekend but oddly nobody posts up about it when there on the receiving end.

[GrayWolf]

If the proportions were better it might be nicer.

Now THAT is a Sportster I could love, thats a really purty cafe racer!

[skippa1]

A sporty anyone could love...

http://thekneeslider.com/michigan-ma...e-motorcycles/

Very slick. Thanks

[doc]

If the proportions were better it might be nicer.

But but but ..... that's a "Girls bike"

[skippa1]

But but but ..... that's a "Girls bike"

Nice combo

[doc]

Nice combo

Yup.

Love it or hate it, the Harley Sportster has been an American motorcycling icon since 1957. Around 50,000 are built every year, taking up a fifth of the Milwaukee factory’s production capacity.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Motorcycle forums Crashers got it 1/2 right simple fact is that somebody with ability on that thing will make anyone with none on anything they choose to name regardless of output or any other fucking thing look stupid.Happens every weekend but oddly nobody posts up about it when there on the receiving end.

Its cos we're all above average.

[ellipsis]

......Sportster, BSOC....

[Voltaire]

......Sportster, BSOC....

Gives me a good run for my money on the BMW....but not for much longer mwahaaaa mwahhhhaaaa.
The other mid 70's Harley 1000 the BMW gets on a good day...

[imdying]

Well, it's actually a 1200 M Buell engine, which obviously is a lightly modified Sporty engine anyway. So hardly a huge mod there right?

Yeah, there's your salesman lines coming through (I was going to say lies, but it's not really). That is a huge modification... that is not the block it left the factory with, short of changing the frame, it's difficult to find a modification with more significance than that.

Putting aheavier crank in it from a Sporty to smooth it out is hardly much of a hot rodding mod either right?

No, other than a like for like replacement, changing cranks is not considered light modification.

So what....an exhaust you say? Well a std exhaust wouldn't fit the frame now, and so they had to change it anyway right? Hardly earth shattering I wouldn't havfe thought? Bored the cyls right? To what...ist over size to freshen up a worn engine? Look out top fuelers!!! A diff manifold? Holy shit! So what we've got is a 1200cc Buell engine, with a mild port job, cams and???

No, what we have is a bike that has had it's entire induction system changed. All of it from the filter, through the manifold, past the valves, the head, the cams, out the other side, through a different exhaust and muffler.

Yep...a light massage in my books mate. When the thing is bored to 1400cc with a trick short throw crank, down draft juel injection with wild cams then we're getting a lil serious. We built a 1350cc Buell XB12 a while ago...does around 125hp and 115ftlbs worth of torque.

Yeah right, because there is only lightly modified and hugely modified with nothing in between.

Most Japanese bikes won't see which way it went on the street.

What a load of rubbish, I've never seen a street without corners.

[Crasherfromwayback]

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What a load of rubbish, I've never seen a street without corners.

Ummmm...sorry mate, but an XB12 is one of the best handling street bikes I've ridden. And I've ridden a few. You're simply letting your hate of all things HD cloud your wee peepers. That, and I bet my left nut you've never ridden a well set up/hot rodded one.

[200BUSA]

It looks a nice bike but would it handle as well as this?