I did all the shitty work like cleaning bolts, sanding parts, prepping pieces for welding, and brush painting the motor. Every time he was in the shop I was in the shop. I have almost zero fabrication skills, but pops is a great welder and has enough of the bulldog-never-give-up attitude to get anything done. Pops and I spent almost every day after work in the shop trying to get this bike ready for EDR. It took us two weeks to turn our stock 883 Sportster into a 1250 in a rigid frame. We had our buddies at Haifley Brothers ship us their bolt-on hardtail kit, while we tore the donor bike down. We got an S&S 1250 kit and found a fork off a crashed Sportster S, and that made my 883 XL an even better version of the XL1200S we were originally looking for. With less than four months till EDR we started furiously looking for parts. My goal was to build a bike I could ride on the El Diablo Run so I wouldn’t have to drive down to San Felipe in a chase van. We turned down every bike we saw, but eventually came across a super clean 883 right down the street from us, so we scooped it up.Īfter we had the Sportster in our shop the race was on.
Black green sportster chopper zip#
You get a bike that was probably owned by someone trying to go fast on a budget, so their speed machine was held together with safety wire and zip ties.
Black green sportster chopper series#
Buying a used 1990’s Sportster is kind of like buying a used 1990’s 3 series BMW.
We found a handful of 1200 Sportsters around us and checked them out. Dad and I agreed that a Buell might be a little quicker than I really needed in a first bike, so we started the hunt for a 1200XL. After riding it I was blown away by how fun it was. He built a rigid chopper with a Paughco frame and a Buell motor and the second I sat on it I knew it was the bike for me. I really didn’t know what I wanted until my dad Bill Bryant finished a build for our buddy Dutch Rob. I love the look of long jockey shift panheads and big touring FXRs, but I couldn’t really see myself riding either of them. The main thing that made me want to ride was how fun all the trips looked you get all your gear together the night before and strap it to your bike, then you wake up early in the morning and meet up with your friends and ride to an epic place to camp and hang out-what’s not to love? After realizing I wanted a bike I did my research at events by picturing myself riding different bikes I saw. After about six months of working at Biltwell and going to events I eventually caught the bug. I’ve ridden dirt bikes since I was a kid, but the desire to ride on the street was just never there. I have never had much interest in Harleys.
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