A good name for a custom bike that a Lumberjack will not turn down. The actual work of a Lumberjack was difficult, dangerous, intermittent, low-paying, but the men built a traditional culture that celebrated strength, masculinity and confrontation with danger… Does it make you think of the life of a custom motorcycle builder? With this Harley Sportster project , Guillaume Drapier from French shop Comete Motorcycles follows the traditional business model of all custom builders who know that it will be difficult for them to make a living just by building one-off bikes. Build the custom bike that people want to sell the parts used to create it.
You guessed it. The Lumberjack promotes the bolt-on parts that the shop created. I list the most interesting ones and it doesn’t matter if you intend to ride or not the muddy roads. They can be used in many custom applications on many styles of bikes. 1- A coil and contact relocation kit with a left side mount speedometer. 2- A stock headlight bracket in a raised position to remove the Sportster’s infamous original “eyebrow” headlight. 3- A 3” gas tank lift. 4- A shock sidmount plate (with taillight (this one is French size) 4- A solo seat kit including the leather seat, the base plate cover and the hinge. 5- A machined aluminum time cover. 6- A front turn signal relocation bracket. In his catalog Drapier is referencing more than 100 custom parts, mostly for Harley Sportster & Dyna applications.To see them visit Comete Motorcycles. By the way, Lumberjack is for sale.
I feel like the tires should be swapped. Cool bike and nice looking profile.
I don’t think they really have any idea of what they are doing.
Yves Saint Laurent would have parked in next to an old jardinière.
What’s up with these knobby tires on what are essentially street bikes? Seen a lot on recent builds (European) for what purpose? It’s a recipe to fall on wet streets
Like…except the wrong tires for mixed used, mud & pavement.
They get weirder and weirder.
When will they come out with knobbys on a Vision and call it a dirt bike?
Dirt tires are for dirt bikes unless you are a poser!
“A Custom Sportster Ready For Muddy Roads.”
When I ride on muddy roads I like to have an air cleaner…
And ground clearance with suspension.
Just plain tragic!
About as inspiring as a bout of the flu!
There is a pair of womens panties hidden on that bike somewhere
Obviously the “builder” has never ridden on a muddy road.
Well… looks like a Belarus which is a Russian tractor….that rhymes with Polaris…which is a missile…that was aimed at Russian Tractor factories.
Someone else might use that name as well…all very coincidental….maybe
Who the hell thinks of this stuff..well
More of the same every second Sportster in Perth Australia looks like that.
So suspension with almost no travel, an open air intake which will suck all kinds of debris in, a drive wheel with no traction and a seat that will give you a vertebral hernia on the first bump. Nice off road bike! I guess at least the mufflers are wrapped so they won’t get muddy, just change the bandages when they get dirty. Time to go back to the drawing board with this one I think, chaps.
Yep, that’s what you do with a mud bike… take all the covers off, so the mud can get into all the moving parts.
What a confusion of styles!
Looks like the start of the next pointless sheep trail. Somewhere, a trendsetter is thinking ”I wonder if somebody makes a 30” knobby and a skid plate for my last ground-breaking custom masterpiece big-wheel ”bagger”?”
Slow news week Cyril?