It would make a really good **** or flag or sign. Happy new year everybody.

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LMAO, I love it!

 

That would make a good avatar. Nice find

 

Didja ever wonder... if the metric system hadn't come along, would the "Sportster 883" be a "Harley 53"? Or a "Sportster 1200" be a "Harley 74"? And what happen to the "hugger"?

 

Just show that the old Sporty is multitalented. Tim

 

Ha!! Love it!! I want to make that a poster for my garage.

 

Well, I remember when Harleys were referred to as 45s and 74s but my earliest recollection of a Sportster it was called a 900 not 53. Mybe one of the historians can chime in. The hugger became low. Maybe hugger sounded too feminine. Kind of like,,, "jiffy stand".

 

Sportsters do have a colorful history. I am really surprised that they got such a bad rap these days. Back in the day, Sportsters RULED the streets and all the BT's were called geezer bikes. I do like what they did to the lines of the 2006 model. Tim

 

"Back in the day" (1957) when Harley introduced the Sportster, it had been built to compete head-on with the British Twins (BSA, Norton, Enfield, Triumph, etc.) and those bikes were all known in size by their metric displacement in cc's (500cc's, 650cc's and 750cc's mainly). Consequently, when the Sportster made its debut it was introduced as an "883" cc to immediately show it was bigger and more ferocious than its intended competition (and it was!). Hence, the Sportster has always pretty much remained with the cc designation for the engine size so that direct comparisons with the bikes it was competing with was never lost.

Thumper26

 

Those dammed europeans! :lol: