Sportster scrambler

For Sale: The XL883 "Harley Hater Special" Street Scrambler...The Sportster is the most versatile of Harley-Davidson's air-cooled machines. While the bike may be marketed as an entry-level cruiser, when you strip down the machine to the bare essentials, the bike makes a great platform for a V-tw

One of the coolest things I get to do is manage the Burly Brand. Have been part of this thing for about five years and enjoy every minute of it. http://www.burlybrand.com With that comes an opportunity design parts and build bikes to market them (a rarity for marketing geeks at my level) Not a bad gig at all. This project began as a concept for a couple of new parts, including a crossbar style handlebar, a vintage moto peg and tall shocks, all designed with the Sportster in mind. Pegs…

Greg Hageman's known as the guy that convinced us that Yamaha Viragos can look good. But we've never seen a Harley-Davidson custom from the American builder. Which is strange; the Sportster is arguably a better (and more popular) platform than the Virago. And Greg sure knows his way around them—he's a qualified, master-level Harley technician. “I started in '99,” he tells us, “and took every single tech class the factory offered until 2011. So I was fully aware of the capabilities of what I…

Think of a scrambler motorcycle, and most folks will picture a modern Triumph or a vintage BSA. Not a Harley. But David Zemla, who runs Burly Brand, decided to take a different tack. Could a Sportster be reconfigured for bombing down fire roads? After a lot of trial and error, not to mention a few wrong turns and dead ends in the build process, the answer is a definite ‘yes.’ Zemla’s 2006-model Harley XL883 had previously enjoyed a sedate life, transporting a retired teacher to and from the…

Off road Harley

From there workshop in a industrial warehouse in South Sydney, Australia, Gasoline Motor Company have striped to its essentials a Harley 1200cc street bike and turned it into an exceptionally high-powered scrambler. The impressive build is nothing sh

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