Drag Bike: DP Customs’ 154 hp Turbo Destroyer
DP Customs are famous for their clean, motorsport-influenced Ironhead customs. They’ve now taken the racing concept to the extreme, with a 154…
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Harley-Davidson is an icon of American culture and the most popular marque for custom builders. Shortly after the company was founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, customizers started bobbing, chopping and dirt tracking the famous V-twins.
After WW2 Harley motorcycles were at the center of the bobber craze, and kept their lead as Californian bikers turned to choppers in the late 1950s. The 45-degree engines have their own nicknames and folklore: from flatheads, knuckleheads, panheads and shovelheads to today’s Evolution and Milwaukee-Eight motors.
The Sportster is the basis for more Harley-Davidson customs than any other model. Originally fitted with an ‘Ironhead’ motor, it turned 60 years old in 2017. It’s probably the single most customized motorcycle on the planet, and certainly has the largest supply of aftermarket parts.
Top 5 Harley-Davidson Sportster customs
Love it or hate it, the Harley-Davidson Sportster has been an American motorcycling icon since 1957. Around 50,000 are built every year,…
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Harley Sportster by Headcase Kustom
Right now, the Harley Sportster is challenging for position on the café racer scene. (Before purists complain, I’m using the term ‘café…
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Icon 1000’s ‘Iron Lung’ custom Harley Sportster
Icon’s design director Kurt Walter is one of the most inspired bike builders operating in the USA today. Working with a tight-knit…
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Jamesville’s 1948 Harley Panhead
James Roper-Caldbeck is English, lives in Denmark, and builds custom Harley-Davidsons. It sounds like a League of Nations recipe for disaster, but…
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Rough Crafts ‘Stealth Bullet’ Sportster
The rise of Winston Yeh and Rough Crafts in the custom world is nothing short of meteoric. Any remaining doubts that he’s…
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Hazan Motorworks Harley Ironhead
Max Hazan is one of a handful of builders who operate at the intersection of motorcycles and art. It’s a rarefied field:…
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Harley Panhead by Noise Cycles
It’s a little embarrassing to realize that we have not featured the work of Scott Jones before. Scott is the man behind…
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Harley Sportster by Bull Cycles
Regular readers will know that we don’t feature many Harley Sportster customs. It’s not often that one makes me jump out of…
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Intoxicating: Speed And Custom’s Martini-themed Harley XL883R
Like Gulf Oil, Martini is a brand inextricably associated with speed. The blue and red stripes are one of the most distinctive…
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Sportster 48 by Rampant x Ellaspede
When Warwick Lyon started work on this Sportster 48, he wanted to build a modern interpretation of a café racer with elements…
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Harley dual sport motorcycle: The Carducci SC3 Adventure
Jim Carducci is an engineer with a passion for dual sport motorcycles and the Harley Sportster motor. So he’s put the two…
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