Cafe Racer Harley Sprint

A recent tv episode of café racer was about making a café racer out of an old sprint it looked great when it was done these bikes sell for about 4 000 4 500 i think it is a good platform to start with.

Cafe racer harley sprint. This eccentric triumph sprint cafe racer is the work of french workshop strakell motorcycles. Harley davidson sprint cafe racer parts. This particular bike is a japanese resto mod tastefully updated to look way better than the road going originals and closer in style to the race versions. For season 4 of crtv ry took on a beaten and forgotten harley davidson 350cc sprint that looked like it was a chopper dirt bike in a previous life.

The crtv crew met ry back in season 2 when we worked with the café racer ypsi shop in ypsilanti mi. Riding the harley davidson xlcr café racer when it was new the xlcr was the fastest bike in harley davidson s lineup cyclenews reports. Good riddance an xb12 powered sultans of sprint racer the harley davidson sportster which has been in continuous production since 1957 remains one of our favorite platforms for customization readily lending itself to street dirt tracker builds. The valve train has been lightened and weight matched.

It was generally a fun little bike that the italians thought made for a great commuter at a claimed 45 55 mpg. The camshaft is a nos harley sprint n cam that can rev to 8000 rpm. September 10 2020 by masuzi. The head has been ported and polished for the operating rpm.

Video by kevin kaltenhofer. The sprint motorcycle is able to reach a top speed of 115 km h thanks to its overhead valve air cooled single engine. Aermacchi harley davidson sprint parts aermacchi harley davidson sprint parts aermacchi harley davidson sprint 350cc aermacchi harley davidson sprint parts. Ry was the tank and seat fabricator for the gift bike for cry s melissa.

Harley davidson sprint cafe racer parts. The bike had two big flaws says strakell the weight and the centre of gravity. The piston is a 75mm wiseco with a corrected compression ratio of 9 75 1. Light weight valves are installed with high tension springs and alloy retainers.

Technically it s a 1964 harley davidson sprint model h but in reality the original 250cc single was a rebadged italian aermacchi. A good rider could run the mile in under 12 seconds with a trap speed around 100 mph.