Beautiful Harley Cafe Sportster

Fun looking Sportster.

Fun looking Sporty.  Man this would not be tough to duplicate... IF you could find that exhaust and seat.

XR1200R... Orange and Blue!

At the Harley Cafe.

Been going round the web for a while but it's still a post worthy beauty.

Reader Ride. 1950 Panhead. Sweet Custom Chop.

Matt from the Machinehead blog (be sure to check it out. Lots of great stuff) finished up a very nice build of an 1950 Panhead.

He Writes in:

Hey steve...hope your doing well....I've just finished my latest bike....a 1950 panhead....I'm happy with the way it came out ...was lots of work but it rides beautifully....anyway in case you didn't catch it on the site here are some shots....guy from greasy kulture is going to do a piece on it.......my attention to the Mark 1 Lemans now....
Hope all is good
Matt

Thanks for the pics Matt. Like I posted on your comments I think it a very well balanced build. Looks like you could ride the tar out of it.  Can't wait to see that Mark 1!!

Reader Ride. Nice Superglide.

Steve G sent me these a while back and they got lost in the shuffle.  Sorry bout that.

I'm sure folks have noticed that I don't post many modern American cruisers.  This is not from prejudice on my part.  I like them fine.  But there are so many sites already dedicated to them (that do it very well) so I tend to shy away.  Anyway, this one caught my eye because it's got some really nice "go" touches without overdoing the "show".  It looks to be a cruiser that you could ride the hell out of.    Function and form and all that ...  Thanks again Steve. 

Reader Ride. An American Harley in Italy!

As opposed to the Italian Harleys we've seen in America.

Marco Writes in:
Hi, my name's Marco!
I come from italy, I send you some photos of my bike for your beautiful blog :)
Hopefully you like it ;)

Thanks Marco!

By Request... The Jay Springsteen Harley Racebike

Had a request from the previous post to see more of the #9 harley in the background. I know I've posted this bike before but I don't get tired of looking at it.

By the way, the Google Search feature and the "word-cloud" really does work pretty well

You gota love a Nortley Fartster!

Flat Tracker PrOn...

Some Reader Ride "Wanderlust" Shots.

I think I've hit a vein here. Judging by the response I'd say there's a lot of it going around!
Paul and Aaron sent in these 2 great bikes and great shots!  Thanks gents!


Paul's 2000 883 on a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with his son last year....

...and Aaron's Triumph Trophy 900 at Lake Almanor in 2003.

Some Nice Aermacchi / Harley Scramblers Sitting in the Shade at Riding Into History.

OK one more before I leave town for the weekend. Trick Harley XR1200.

A few "obligatory" Jay Springsteen Vintage Harley shot from Daytona.

He's there every year and I never get tired of looking at his bike.

Outrageous Turbocharged Harley Street Tracker / Street Fighter or... whatever...

Sure it's a big corporate sponsored show bike (which I usually don't go in for) but the creative routing of the exhaust straight off the turbocharger is just too freaking cool.

 

 

UPDATE: Very Tasty Harley Davidson Streettracker / Bobber.

UPDATE: From the comments. BikeEXIF mentions that the bike was built by Tramp Cycles and that there's an article on the bike over on PIPEBURN.  Thanks much for the heads up and whle we're on the subject be sure to stop by BikeEXIF on a regular basis.  Always excellent stuff over there. 


Street Tracker, Bobber, Cafe... Whatever it is it's cool as hell. Nicest Sporty I've seen in a long while.

A very well executed Harley powered Cafe Racer.

A pair of Adventure Sporster Conversions.

The thing I love most about custom motorcycles is that no matter how outlandish a potential idea may be someone somewhere will probably get around to building one.  I'd wager that torque is NOT a problem with either of these bikes.
 

Harley StreetTracker Porn...

Found this over on ADV Rider.

 

The Pass... Triumph vs Harley.