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Harley Adventure Bikes?

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Knobby tires on a Harley is often an adventure.

http://www.shawspeedandcustom.co.uk/bikes

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thats more like a dirt track style bike


everyone knows that adventure bikes arent adventure bikes without the beak :x
 
I like it. :thumbup Wish Americans were bright enough to be doing this, instead of only seeing the Europeans, do it.

Oh and Harley engines have Awesome tire hook-up, that's why they owned Flat Track racing.

And...In the Coastal range West of Portland Ore., is a was a logging area called Tillimook Burn
(the burn is the reason for the was).

Way before my time, a logger on his Sportster, cut those trails and hill climbs...With his girl friend on the back...He said having her there gave him better traction.

Those Coastal mountains, spider webbed with motorcycle trails, with some times insane difficulty, as the land lays..(this ain't no wuss park with groomed trails) and Oregon rain = slick snot mud...Says that logger on a Sportster was a GOD.
 
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I've seen a Sportster and a KHK (sidevalve engined precursor to the Sportster) converted for vintage MX racing.
Neither one was competetive against the BSA Goldstars and Victors, let alone the Maico's Huskies and CZ's, but they were fun to watch, and sounded great.
 
Carlo said:
I've seen a Sportster and a KHK (sidevalve engined precursor to the Sportster) converted for vintage MX racing.
Neither one was competetive against the BSA Goldstars and Victors, let alone the Maico's Huskies and CZ's, but they were fun to watch, and sounded great.
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For sure there was no competitive comparison there. Maico, Husky, and CZ were MX Gods, and on flat-ish ground, Bultaco was a king there.

Goldstar's excelled or held their own on some flat tracks, (like Ascot). But this Sportster isn't those bikes...
It's called an adventure bike, and has the suspension, and all the running gear, to be one...And when your in no-where, and need a Harley helping hand.....That is a brand that has helping hands.
 
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That one's more like it.
Ground clearance, suspension, and probably no heavier than any of the 900cc+ Factory built adv bikes.
 
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He was about a week behind me on the Trans American Trail with that thing when I started in Oklahoma this summer. I think it took him a month longer than it did for me, haha.
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That extra month was probably spent walking his winch cable up the Rockies. :laughing
 
Clem Kevin said:
He was about a week behind me on the Trans American Trail with that thing when I started in Oklahoma this summer. I think it took him a month longer than it did for me, haha.
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Ya can't rule out, he wanted to see more of the country, he was passing through.
 
NEEDS MOST TRAVEL!!!
 
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