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"Harley-Davidson XLCR Cafe Racer", Sump, 2015 Lindsay, Brooke (November 5, 2006), "Harley's Sportster: From a Wild Child to a Grown-Up in 50 Years" , The New York Times , retrieved 2015-06-28 , As grim as those days were in terms of performance, it was an era that produced two of the Sportsters considered most unusual and sought-after by ...
The Harley-Davidson Sportster is a line of motorcycles produced continuously since 1957 by Harley ... Cafe racer 1,000 cc overhead-valve engine, iron heads, ...
His designs during the 1970s included the 1971 FX Super Glide, the 1977 FXS Low Rider, and the 1977 XLCR Sportster-based cafe racer. [8] Willie was one of the Harley-Davidson executives who joined Vaughn Beals in buying Harley-Davidson from parent company American Machine and Foundry in 1981. [7] On March 16, 2012, it was announced that Willie ...
BSA café racer at the Ace Cafe. (The rider is wearing a 59 Club badge). Triton café racer with a Triumph engine in a Norton Featherbed frame. A café racer is a genre of sport motorcycles that originated among British motorcycle enthusiasts of the early 1960s in London.
How to build a pro streetbike. St. Paul: MotorBooks International. Mike Seate (2008). Choppers Forever: A Complete History. Motorcycle Riders Club of America. Mike Seate; Dave Degens (2008). Cafe Racer, the Motorcycle: Featherbeds, Clip-Ons, Rear-Sets and the Making of a Ton-Up Boy. Parker House Publishing. Mike Seate (2009).
With limited time and money in 1969, Harley-Davidson's racing manager Dick O'Brien and his team used elements of existing designs to put together a new OHV racer, but rather than start from scratch they decided to modify their existing OHV racer: the Sportster-based 900 cc (55 cu in) XLR magneto-equipped race engine with a 3.0000 in (7.620 cm ...
A photographer’s Covid-era hobby turned into a four-year project that produced around half a million photos. But one stood out from them all.
Mert Lawwill (Born September 25, 1940) is an American professional motorcycle racer, race team owner and mountain bike designer. [1] He competed in the AMA Grand National Championship from 1962 to 1977. Lawwill is notable for winning the 1969 AMA Grand National Championship as a member of the Harley-Davidson factory racing team. [1]