This vintage '1957 Sportster' is actually a brand new bike

Last year, the Harley-Davidson Sportster turned 60. It’s an extraordinary milestone, with only the Royal Enfield Bullet having a longer unbroken model run. Surprisingly, Harley didn’t make much noise about the Sportster’s 60th birthday. But the Spanish builder Efraón Triana decided to celebrate it in a most unusual fashion. With the blessing and support of Harley-Davidson España, he’s taken a 2016 model Sportster and reconfigured it to resemble a late 50s Ironhead (below). Not an easy task, but Efraón had one factor in his favor: development of the Sportster has always been incremental. Like Porsche, Milwaukee prefers evolution to revolution....

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