Well, I think that it is possible that after HD saw what people were doing to their XLs and XLNs, they came out with the 48 as a mid year release.

Maybe they will see all the folks that are doing some really sweet things with the XL N and Xs and give us a production cafe racer as 2011's mid year model release...

 

Papadop88 shared this in another thread figured I'd spread it a bit.
http://www.rsd.jp/bikes.html

 

 

Mine's getting a little closer to the way I want it...not world class like some of these internet picture finds, but it's mine, and I can ride it (or just look at it) anytime I please, which is a definite plus...

 

Gettin there. Just need either clip-ons or drag bars. Then a two-into-one canister style exhaust.

 

Yep, I have an old Ironhead 2-1 header from the 70's that I'm planning on adding a collector and probably a reverse cone megaphone to. The Superbike-style bars will stay, though - I've had both clubman and drag bars and they're too hard on the old back on long rides.

 

Has this one been posted yet?

 

83, who made that seat?

 

They did, It's called the XR1200X... Its pretty nice.

 

The XR is not a cafe bike. It is designed after the XR750 dirt tracker. Cafe racers are more like street legal road-race bikes. This is why a true cafe racer has clip-ons and solo seats. The name comes from how the Brits would strip their bikes down to make them handle better and they would race from cafe to cafe.

The closest Harley has come to a production cafe racer was the XLCR.