Harley 500 Cafe Racer

The bike was actually designed by a committee of three people.

Harley 500 cafe racer. The first thing to get changed was the bodywork with a carbon fibre bikini fairing side panels and seat unit fabricated and fitted. The blacked out front end includes black fork gators and lowers as well. At the time mecum explains the most popular trends in motorcycling were choppers bobbers flat trackers and café racers harley s design chief willie g. For example a 2019 harley davidson street 750 model in vivid black with sale price of 7 599 10 down payment and amount financed of 6 839 10 60 month repayment term and 4 49 apr results in monthly payments of 127 47.

Not street rod models this seat is higher than stock. Harley and arthur davidson began building their first motorcycle. Check tech specs for more info includes v2 cafe seat powdercoated xg frame leveler powdercoated license plate and led mount led strip taillight with run brake signals all in one. The harley davidson xlcr was an american café racer motorcycle manufactured by harley davidson between 1977 and 1979.

Only available from tuffside. A headlight fairing and small windshield complete the cafe racer look. While the style of the concepts is a bit of a matter of taste we can t help but think they look like a harley designer went to radwood and got the wrong ideas about what people want the idea of h d pushing into new categories certainly seems exciting. The café racer style was born out of riders darting between london coffee shops in the early 1960s and mainhattan choppers decided to pay homage to the style with the clever build name.

Davidson created it from the existing xlch sportster initially as his personal vehicle. So using the contemporary sportster as the base he designed the 1977 harley davidson xlcr. When eric wanted a cafe racer built from a harley davidson street 500. Harley davidson cafe racers american manufacturer harley davidson was formed in 1903 when childhood friends william s.

Keeping things cohesive there s also a. Some say that designer willie g. Bob modero an engineer at harley jim haubert jim haubert engineering hired as an. Surviving 2 world wars and great depression harley has grown to become one of the world s most recognized motorcycle brands.

1977 harley davidson xlcr mecum. The street 500 and street 750 were the stripped down models in harley s dark custom line so the word of the day is black. Our v2 cafe seat for the harley davidson street 500 750 series.