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Here's a shot of my '75.

Great looking bikes!  I really like that relocated oil filter.

Here's mine, she's a work in progress...

Youse guys are makin' me miss my red '80 Sporty.

I had a 76, sure miss wrenching on it, my buddy has one though that I get called on every once in a while.

  here is one of my projects for the winter

Here's my refurbished 1978 75th Anniversary Edition Sportster ...

1978 Sportster 75th Anniversary Edition, Refurbish IV

Good Job! Very Nice!

My 1976. Her name is Ginger. She's fine!

here is my 1975 xlch

My 24yo sons first build. A 1985 XLH that sat outside for 10 years. Crank pin up rebuild.[attach=1]

I am LIKING that one

Quote from: JK on November 29, 2014, 08:45:38 AM
My 24yo sons first build. A 1985 XLH that sat outside for 10 years. Crank pin up rebuild.[attach=1]

Great looking job
If it runs as good as it looks (and I bet it does) he should be all smiles.

This is Nightmare, my 1977 (mostly) XLCH.

Quote from: garyajaz on November 29, 2014, 10:09:15 AM
I am LIKING that one

Me too Gary! 

81 ironhead

Quote from: FeMick on November 15, 2012, 07:34:45 PM
Here's my refurbished 1978 75th Anniversary Edition Sportster ...

1978 Sportster 75th Anniversary Edition, Refurbish IV

Boy does that bring back memories.
I picked one up off the showroom floor. I still have it but it no longer looks like that.
Nice bike any other pics?

Hi to all from Paris France
This is my "new" xlh 1965 ......still hard to kick start ....but I don't give up

Bobby, that is one clean looking bike!

76 XLH Stroker

Here's my '74.
She's got a Cycle Electric generator, Tech Cycle starter, S&S Shorty E carb, Hydroclutch 7184 conversion, Lyle Landstrom sand-cast finned air cleaner cover & all kinds of brass pieces (pegs, risers, grips, brake & shift linkages, gauge pod, etc.) machined by yours truly as my first go at an ancient Bridgeport down on the Miami River at a yatch-rebuilding joint..

I found an old MPD finned primary cover on eGay & a twisted sissy bar from Bill's Custom Cycles in PA.
Nicky Bootz relocated the filler & petcock so that I could Frisco-mount a 3.5-gallon peanut tank using a cut-up EZ Bob mount.

The battery box mounted behind the primary with the oil filter above it was my own design --- it keeps the dino-fluid in that big-assed filter cool & detaches in about a minute by swinging away & giving full accesss to the battery.

The seat, solidly-mounted is good for a 500 or 600-mile day due to curvature of the homemade pan being correct & the ergonomics between it, the forwards & apehangers being spot-on.

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Pretty cool bike, Ivan!

Thanks, Hossamania ---- I really appreciate the kind words.

It started out as a frame with two wheels & 16 milk crates full of greasy, mostly-iffy parts in 1992.
I had to learn EVERYTHING from scratch using just my factory service manual, the gearjead mentality I inherited from my Dad & my own imagination.

She was fickle at first, mostly electrical issues, until I made up my own wiring harness with cloth-covered wire soldered to insulated connectors & ran it inside the frame.
I haven't had an issue since.     

72 Iron head cases, Hilborn Injected, High Gear, Nitromethane