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Last year, the Harley-Davidson Sportster turned 60. It’s an extraordinary milestone, with only the Royal Enfield Bullet having a longer unbroken model run. Surprisingly, Harley didn’t make much noise about the Sportster’s 60th birthday. But the Spanish builder Efraón Triana decided to celebrate it in a most unusual fashion. With the blessing and support of Harley-Davidson España, he’s taken a 2016 model Sportster and reconfigured it to resemble a late 50s Ironhead (below). Not an easy task…

Today’s bike comes from Buzz Kanter, the Editor-in-Chief of American Iron Magazine. Over to you, Buzz. I bought this bike in full street trim a few months before the Motorcycle Cannonball, but left it parked in secure storage. (I had to focus all my spare time on prepping my 1915 Harley for the cross country ride.) I purchased it from a bar owner who'd shut down his bar and was selling the classic motorcycles he had on display. He'd bought this Harley model J racer a decade or so earlier…

The AJS V4 was an advanced engineering effort undertaken by the British motorcycle company in the mid-1930s, the first prototype was intended as a

Classic style, modern performance... For a long time, we've been fans of restomods -- vintage motorcycles whose period aesthetics are largely retained while the bike's suspension, brakes, electronics, and overall performance are boosted to modern standards. Recently, however, we've been se

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To this day nobody can explain how a 100-year-old motorcycle got bricked-up in a wall and it still works properly. What amazes many about this motorcycle is not only it's a weird story about spending 40 years in a wall, but also its unique design that no other Traub motorcycle has. It leaves many collectors puzzled as to why anyone would \

Harley Davidson WLA 750cc comes from a Dutch collector that did ree-enactment with it. The Harley WLA is a very original example. This bike was left b