Sportster Dual Sport

Harley davidson fans that have always wanted to hit the dirt track but didn t want to leave their sportster behind can now rejoice.

Sportster dual sport. Somewhere along the way the sportster got confused with harleys big twins and got regarded as a cruiser. This is a very rare baja iron harley sportster dual sport conversion fully street legal. But the sport in sportster was originally off road sport and dual sport. Here s how it went.

So he s put the two together and created the carducci dual sport sc3 adventure. More recently we ve been seeing the sportster in off road trim serving as a base for scrambler adventure and dual sport purposes. It s not quite as improbable as it sounds and the amount of engineering on the finished product is quite remarkable. I like building bikes.

At the time it was wearing its best norcal style chopper regalia. I also like a good callenge. Great to see it come back full circle. I sold most of my ironhead parts to fund a full dual sport conversion on the 87 sportster.

The bike has been displayed at numerous shows including laughlin river run and many more. 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. Teaming up with the team at san jose harley davidson carducci is offering owners of 1200 or 883 sportsters from. They are a hoot to ride on dirt roads like the outback cattle truck roads here in australia.

It was converted about 6 years ago and is the only newer sportster rubber mounted motor ever converted. Custom motorcycles don t always need to be practical unless of course you need a purpose built machine that can handle a two week adventure ride across australia. Purpose built moto turns the sportster into a dual sport. The sc3 gera baja is an off road baja 1000 race bike from two motorcyclists at the top of their careers.

I have seen a few scrambler sportster builds and they looked really cool but i wanted to build one that might actually be rideable off road. In that case you d want something like this tough harley davidson sportster. Race ready dual sport motorcycle. Leading examples include the carducci dual sport sc3 biltwell s frijole 883 desert sled bull original s mx1000 ironhead and the various jump motocross bikes from the rusty butcher just to name a few.

Special cylinder heads with dual spark plugs stouter compression ratios and different camshaft lobes contribute to the 1200 sport s power gains compared with the regular sportster 1200s making it easy to identify the bike. I like dual sport bikes but i like harleys too. But i was determined to make it happen so i turned to my daily commuter a 1987 sportster. 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.