Shaw Speed & Custom's Harley 1200 Sportster

What sort of custom bike can you get for $10,000 to $15,000? I get a lot of emails asking that question. They’re usually from people who want the reliability of a low-mileage bike, but with a different look. This custom Harley 1200 Sportster from Shaw Speed & Custom in the UK is one answer: the total cost of this Sportster was just £8,500. (That’s just under US$13,500 at today’s exchange rate.) Shaw Speed is an offshoot of a major UK Harley-Davidson dealer, so they plucked out a 2006 Harley Sportster XL1200R from the fleet of trade-ins and set to work....