Harley Dual Sport

I started with shedding weight and some beefed up suspension he says.

Harley dual sport. Sportster dual sport by k h co. So what was tom s plan for transforming the 2006 model harley davidson sportster into a pukka dual sport. Harley davidson is preparing to go somewhere totally new for the h d brand into the sport and adventure motorcycle segments. The pan america takes a page from the carducci dual sport playbook and then whitewashes it within the harley davidson corporate boardroom.

Then to make things more difficult my family car was stolen. Milwaukee s new motorcycle has knobbies and a fresh engine. This particular bike is a one off race version of carducci dual sport s sc3 adventure which itself is an award winning custom harley v twin based adventure bike first introduced in 2013. A first look at harley davidson s 2020 pan america adventure bike.

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. Heck this is even bigger than when harley entered ama superbike racing with its dual overhead cam liquid cooled vr1000 back in 1994. I sold most of my ironhead parts to fund a full dual sport conversion on the 87 sportster. 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 s not quite as improbable as it sounds and the amount of engineering on the finished product is quite remarkable. Teaming up with the team at san jose harley davidson carducci is offering owners of 1200 or 883 sportsters from. Harley didn t even give us a spec sheet to dissect but what we re hoping for is some top end rev happy performance too. Jim carducci is an engineer with a passion for dual sport motorcycles and the harley sportster motor.

Less aggressive and less off road capable than the. In addition to sportsters i also had a newborn daughter so money was tight and free time was tighter. All that money from the parts sales went towards a new baby mobile. Announced just this morning for production in 2020 the motor company is launching what it described as a modular 500cc 1 250cc middleweight platform that includes the 1 250cc pan america adventure bike the 975cc streetfighter and the 1 250cc custom cruiser model.

So he s put the two together and created the carducci dual sport sc3 adventure.