Harley Davidson Sportster Dual Sport
Jim carducci dual sport harley davidson sportster andy bumatai.
Harley davidson sportster dual sport. Jim carducci is not exactly the average joe rider. Great to see it come back full circle. The motorcycle is a harley davidson based off road bike conceptualized by designer builder jim carducci with desert race ready input from pro ironman racer tony gera. 26 jun 2013 14 16 utc by florin tibu.
The harley davidson sportster has been in production since 1957 proving itself as one of the most versatile platforms for chopper flat track and cafe racer builds especially if you like the throaty rumble of an air cooled 45 degree v twin. With more than 40 years spend on. Teaming up with the team at san jose harley davidson carducci is offering owners of 1200 or 883 sportsters from. Sportster dual sport by k h co.
Subscribe subscribed unsubscribe 23 7k. They are a hoot to ride on dirt roads like the outback cattle truck roads here in australia. But the sport in sportster was originally off road sport and dual sport. It s not quite as improbable as it sounds and the amount of engineering on the finished product is quite remarkable.
This is a very rare baja iron harley sportster dual sport conversion fully street legal. Harley davidson fans that have always wanted to hit the dirt track but didn t want to leave their sportster behind can now rejoice. Somewhere along the way the sportster got confused with harleys big twins and got regarded as a cruiser. The sport gets dual brake discs and a sport style front fender between cartridge fork legs.
So what was tom s plan for transforming the 2006 model harley davidson sportster into a pukka dual sport. The additional disc and single piston caliper account for much of the extra weight the sport carries compared with the other 1200s. Harley davidson xl1200s sportster sport. Home news tuning.
So he s put the two together and created the carducci dual sport sc3 adventure. The sc3 gera baja is an off road baja 1000 race bike from two motorcyclists at the top of their careers. Unsubscribe from andy bumatai. He stripped the sporty down to its bones then tossed the front end in favor of a 2015 triumph tiger setup.
I started with shedding weight and some beefed up suspension he says. Carducci dual sport founder jim carducci has created a dual sport conversion for owners of hd sportsters that is pretty amazing to say the least. It was converted about 6 years ago and is the only newer sportster rubber mounted motor ever converted. This bike started life as a 2005 harley 1200cc sportster.