Loved my '70 XLCH. She screamed.

4:12 - Kaplan: Roars like a lion!....this is no Honda! - Owner: No! King-A! cheers! 🍻🍻

What a bad ass ride! I love the sporty ironhead!

This is the mother of all iron heads, awesome sporty

I am fairly confident that the front is stock length or very close, like he said the smaller rear wheel gives somewhat of an optical illusion ,if you will. But I believe the biggest contributer to the longer tube illusion is the fact that headlight is pedestal mounted and exposes the entire fork, if you imagine a stock AMF XL headlight bucket and eyebrow trim in the stock position, I believe that it would look a lot closer to stock. Very, very nice ride! I have owned several of these righthand iron head XL's. Love em, but this is a whole nuther level and as a former drag racer I can appreciate the attention to his enovative performance efforts. Thanks for letting us check it out...

That thing RIPS. That man is so humble and he really made a piece of art. Keep the paint the way it is I’d say...

Woah that's a trip that rear wheel was made to look like a solid aluminum rim but it's actually covering spokes? Is that what I heard?

@s3gts

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is correct. I spun the shape on a big lathe. Old School Metal Spinning.

And, amazing, no leaks! Great story and receipts, good luck finding a nicer iron head!

@rayfernandes182

4 жыл бұрын

lpp

Not that you need the headache but your show would be awesome on tv

80 horsepower!! That's a lot of ponies out of a street driven Iron head sporty. Very nice build.

@mr.m325

3 жыл бұрын

so 1/2 the HP of a Ducati twin street fighter

Repaint it ? You kidding the guy was probably distraught when you told him that.

im dissapointed ken didnt hit the wheelie bump lol

WOW...i had a 1975 xlch but nothing like that..thats a sweet sporty. Bought my old sportster for 300 bucks Canadian...held onto it for three years. Was locked up when i bought it...i managed to free it up and take it for a few miles. Loved it...tall gears...sold it for a cool grand to a buddy who wanted to restore it for his wife. My shift peg was left side though and no electric starter. Kicking it over was a challenge...them points and carb had to be just right or she was just not gunna go! Still got bruises from kicking that bike over lol...i think mine was 63.4ci or 64.3ci i forget. Was what i think was a 1000..i could be wrong. lol they use to say those old bikes had two oil leaks...one at the showroom and one at your garage lol.

@mikebrabant4170

4 жыл бұрын

I owned a 1975 xlch sportster back in the day and it had electric start only, bought it new. Went through a couple of idler gears but that's about it and put about 17,000 miles on it before trading it in.

Your videos of Sportsters are awesome. I own a 2003 XLH 1200.

The wheelie had me clicking on your video!! FTW

Wolverine meets Evel Knievel....

Surprises me that the guy did not make the triple trees out of ally. Stainless? Jeez the weight. Otherwise, yeah nice build.

I told you it was a Time Capsule. Part Rocket Ship Too! All the Best will your Motorcycle Museum.

@KaplanCycles

6 жыл бұрын

Dave Ford thanks David this is one of those rare occasions where we got more than we bargained for in the bike is better than I could have ever hoped for you did an amazing job with this motorcycle building it in maintaining it for 45 years!

@s3gts

6 жыл бұрын

Your welcome Ken. Things that have come to me since we spoke is that we had all the reciprocating weight pieces blue printed and balanced as well. Not only were the Heads Dual Plugged but Baisley High Performance Ported, Polished and Flow Benched them as well. The Valve Geometry was also reworked to accommodate up to .625 Lift Cams.

@kaveebee

6 жыл бұрын

Very nice bike Dave. Obviously a work of love. Were you selling for health reasons?

@s3gts

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kevin, No, health is fine. Once I moved on to larger bikes I parked the Sporty. Golf took over my adult life and even have made custom golf bag mounts for my Road King & 2018 Milwaukee 8 Softail Deluxe. I bought the Sporty at age 20 and sold it a 64. As I reflect back, I developed my skills as a builder on this bike. (Machining, Painting, Engineering, etc). It was time for others to enjoy.

@DrWhit-vz6nr

2 жыл бұрын

Who did you outsource the paint job, Dave?

beautiful bike I've had one miss it lol

What a bike!

You make that sporty look like a mini bike lol

How much for the tins?

very nice bike

@bigloopmacmaster3740

5 жыл бұрын

DON'T Paint It! Leave it as it is thats a special CH.

?? .080 over? Thought max was .070. Thought the only way to get 86 ci was to stroke it. Did I miss something? Beautiful Ironhead though

@Cowboyspirit

5 жыл бұрын

It has Trock big bore cylinders. A year ago Trock jr still sold them as new on Ebay.

@lesliehorwinkle

4 жыл бұрын

He said wheels and jugs were oversized,

Badass Ironhead

the question is HOW MUCH to buy it ?

Might have missed the explanation but...kick start XLCH??

@vector6977

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

Ironheads......fastest real Harley.....period.

Wow another totally a manlie man's bike. Total James Ural Jones bike dude.

@davenichols5156

3 жыл бұрын

Manly 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 if your gay

Was this already sold, Mr. Kaplan?

You're riding iit like you stole it. I had THE BUG since 1966. I tell my friends, When I was a teenager I had A Cycle Mag under my bed.

No kickstart???? LOL!!!! Thing would break your leg on two if you were to try to kickstart it!!!!

transmishion