Sportster scrambler

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…

Quite a few bikes have quirks that can trap the unwary builder. The strange frame curvature on the Honda CX500 is one of them, and the height of the Harley Sportster motor is another. The venerable V-twin is an unusually tall engine, which makes it difficult to get a straight line from the base of the tank to the back of the seat. And it’s even harder to create a low-slung, slammed effect. But Uwe Kostrewa has managed to pull off both tricks, and deserves a round of hearty applause. Uwe…

When she's not running the @motolady website, Alicia Mariah Elfving likes to build bikes. Here's her latest, a stunning Harley Sportster ready for the dirt. Who fancies a ride?

The Scrambler We Wish Harley Had Built...Introduced back in 2007, the Sportster XL1200N Nightster was a blacked-out, lowered version of the regular Sportster -- something of a "factory custom." Though it was mainly an aesthetic exercise, the Nightster garnered strong praise from riders and rev

Words by the builder Kurt Diserio | Photos by Alexa Diserio When you think of a scrambler motorcycle, the last

The Scrambler We Wish Harley Had Built...Introduced back in 2007, the Sportster XL1200N Nightster was a blacked-out, lowered version of the regular Sportster -- something of a "factory custom." Though it was mainly an aesthetic exercise, the Nightster garnered strong praise from riders and rev

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Steve McQueen himself would be proud of Harley-based scrambler built by the talented team at Shaw Speed & Custom of the UK. Obviously this is a tribute to the bike McQueen rode in "The Great Escape," when we jumps the fence into Switzerland at the end.

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

RULER builds a dual-purpose Sportster...A lot of motorcycles have come and gone since the first Sportster rolled off the factory floor way back in 1957. While riders and journalists have been decrying the bike's antiquated push-rod V-twin technology for decades, the truth is that few b

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A few weeks ago, I stumbled across some murky shots of this Harley Sportster 1200 in a workshop. It was one of the cleanest, classiest Sportsters I’ve ever seen, with beautiful paint and a perfect stance. I found out that it was owned by Bill Bryant, the driving force behind Biltwell Inc. And luckily for us, Bill's now had it shot properly so we can take a closer look. “The bike started life as a homely 1999 Sportster 1200 without much ‘Sport’ in it,” says Bill. So he decided to take off as…

Harley-Davidson Sportster Scrambler