Cafe Racer Harley Davidson Racing Bike

This is the unfortunate.

Cafe racer harley davidson racing bike. The tank and seat shapes look nearly identical to the ones on the racer as do the stacked exhaust pipes but the foundation adopts the bronx layout with what appears to be the same fork and front brakes but with a. Sure they ve dabbled with a few racing bikes in the past but they have pretty much stuck to the cruiser formula for over 50 years. Harley is also apparently working on a flat track model and from what we ve seen it may end up being almost a mirror image of milwaukee s current xg750r flat track racebike. The bike was actually designed by a committee of three people.

When someone asked does harley davidson make a cafe racer it seemed that the easy answer would be no they don t this however isn t the case. The harley davidson xlcr was an american café racer motorcycle manufactured by harley davidson between 1977 and 1979. Bob modero an engineer at harley jim haubert jim haubert engineering hired as an. This harley davidson sidecar racer did not get any action at the bin of 14 500 on ebay.

New design patents about harley s upcoming café racer and flat track models show they will be powered by the liquid cooled revolution max engine. Davidson created it from the existing xlch sportster initially as his personal vehicle. Harley davidson is the indisputable king of cruisers. Some say that designer willie g.

The seller has a great introduction to bob noting that he s one. Tim s harley davidson wla cut its teeth in the vintage racing circuit at south australia s sellicks beach historic motorcycle races. Stormbringer harley davidson sportster café racer in 1972 english illustrator paul sample created ogri for bike magazine a cartoon whose leather clad star ogri himself wears a set of thor like wings on his helmet and rides a self built 1000cc norvin a vincent engine in a norton featherbed frame. This is evidenced by their current lineup of big cube highway cruisers and lane splitter sportsters.

Unfortunately the rules prevented him from running the bike wearing it s fibreglass bodywork so he raced it wearing a stock fender and solo seat. Visually the flat tracker clearly takes its cues from harley s xg750r the firm s water cooled flat track race bike with a similarly shaped tank seat unit and stacked high rise exhausts.