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One More Sportster Dual Sport

By Paul Crowe

Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 dual sport
Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 dual sport

One of our readers sends in these photos of a Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 built for off road duty and this one looks very well done. He took these shots just as the owner was ready to go so details are limited.

Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 dual sport
Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 dual sport

The little he was told was this was a build done either by or for the factory supposedly for the purpose of exploring production possibilities and was one of only two made. Ohlins shocks, Marzocchi forks and Piaa lights give it a professional look, though whether the factory bit is real or not, I have no way of knowing. When this was built is also unknown.

Anyone out there have any more info on this bike?

Thanks for the photos, Karl!

Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 dual sport
Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 dual sport

Posted on July 20, 2011 Filed Under: Motorcycle Builders


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Comments

  1. Dorzok says

    July 20, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    Paul,
    you seen this one?
    http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=661573
    it’s a lengthy forum build thread. dude is on his way to AK on it right now.

    • Dorzok says

      July 20, 2011 at 12:22 pm

      OH!! and the guys that build’m call the DualSportsters

  2. Sportster Mike says

    July 21, 2011 at 3:00 am

    That is nice –
    I sold my Honda Baja before I brought my latest Sportster but if I had kept it the garage and the two had mated this is what the baby would have looked like!!

  3. mike says

    July 22, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    I sincerely doubt it’s factory. It’s too gaudy, even for a prototype.

  4. todd says

    July 22, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    yeah, for some reason I can’t picture Harley using a Honda XR650 front end on their factory prototype.

    -todd

  5. Growler says

    July 23, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    Any way you skin it, it’s still chicarones…..hog fat.

  6. VMX1000 says

    July 25, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    These guys (http://www.mcm.se/mcm_in_english.htm) made a 3-4 page review of this bike when it was freshly built back in 1992-94 if I recall correctly, I have the mag somewhere. Cool bike, apparently the guy worked at Progressive Suspension at the time of the build and needed something to take him through a short desert type area, perhaps he’s changed jobs considering the PS shocks have been replaced by Öhlins units :o)

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