The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine
56
Resurrecting A Fake
XR-1000
By: LDH
H-D has a rich legacy of flat-track victories all across this country. As a youth of 12, I was fascinated to watch the sweet controlled sliding and was even more impressed to learn that many of the bikes did not even have brakes (compression on a real flat-tracker will slow it down perfectly well). So, I set out to build a street-tracker in the manner of old vintage XR-750s that brought about so many victories for H-D. The donor bike was a sad affair indeed. It was a Craigslist special, and it came with the promise that “it ran fine when I drove it last.” To call this 1982 Ironhead Sportster a “basket-case” would have been stretching the truth, but it was a starting point. After gathering the proper pieces from Phil Little Racing (fiberglass body parts, bull-horn bars, etc.), the first road test was carried out. Alas, it was smoking like a BBQ Continued On Page 58
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