Hi, I am a frenchie just arriving in Boston MA.
I used to ride on race bikes everywhere on european racetrack and I have bought a sportster xl883c 2001 converted in Cafe racer... so a big change for me from the japanese and italian racers.

I am looking for new parts to finish the conversion to cafe racer but I have lot of difficulties to find the parts. It is easy to find on 883 after 2004 or for the non custom version but hard on xl883C 2001 :'(

I have to discover everything about HD and customs so I think this is a good place to.

 

Nice bike. I like Cafe'd Sportsters. What parts are you looking for?

 

Thank you! I am looking for chin fairing and Headlight Fairing Mask but it is very difgicult to find fitting parts on a C version for headlight and for a model before 2004 for the chin fairing. I have created a thread about that in "sportster"

 

Try research of "Storz Performance" on the net.

FWIW My best advice to a new rider in the USA... all USA drivers of cars are trying to kill you.
There is so much inattention and lack of skills in this county when it regards to driving.

So far your XL appears as a good café racer as is....rear sets, clip on, ground clearance, et al
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Good luck find your additional parts.

 

EBay must sell those parts. Have you tried there? The bottom of the description usually states which bike/years the part will fit.

 

Not exactly sure about that. You mean like this?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cust...674229872.html

Lower air dam (chin fairing 86-2004 XL)
http://www.panicy.com/55008-evolutio...rley-xl-racer/

 

Yes exactly, you can see in you link the headlight cover doesn't fit on xl883 custom and for the chin it is not available anymore (this was the only one I have found fitting on spirtster before 2004)

 

Furydain, bonjour mon ami and welcome to HDF, from the UK!

We Europeans invented the cafe racer and have a different take on what one should be. I look forward to Furydain's finished project. Here's a French one I particularly like:

 

This guy has the air dam. You're going to have to do some customizing to make it all work. You can get someone to make you a café fairing. They aren't hard to make. In the end you'll have a bike that is unique. That's a cool thing.

http://cycleoutlaws.com/index.php?ro...roduct_id=9738

 

Thank you