The 200kph custom Harley-Davidson Super Glide

Bernhard Elflein is a guy who had a dream: to build an old motorcycle that would clock 200 kph. So he signed up to study motorcycle mechanics, an essential qualification if you want to run a workshop in Germany. After searching around for a donor bike in his native Berlin, Elflein heard about a barn find Harley shovelhead—an FXS Super Glide. After the deal was done, Elflein moved to Frankfurt to begin his course and start work on the bike. “A foreign city with no friends has few distractions,” he notes. “I spent a lot of nights reading books, and...