Icon 1000's 'Iron Lung' custom Harley Sportster

Icon’s design director Kurt Walter is one of the most inspired bike builders operating in the USA today. Working with a tight-knit crew in the company’s Portland headquarters, he creates machines that are bombastic, aggressive and refreshingly unorthodox. Like this 1991 Harley Sportster roadracer, nicknamed ‘Iron Lung.’ As with most Icon 1000 builds, the donor bike had done a few laps too many. But you’d never guess: it's a modern take on a machine that Harley-Davidson could have entered into endurance races in the 1970s—complete with twin headlights and a liberal sprinkling of very cool race graphics and stickers. The...