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Old Feb 9, 2022 | 05:11 PM
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Saw this in passing today, too much crap around it, is that an old Ironhead Sportster engine?

 

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Knucklehead; 1930-1948. IIRC.
 
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Old Feb 9, 2022 | 06:14 PM
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Looks like a big twin shovelhead to me, but what do I know.
 
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Old Feb 9, 2022 | 06:24 PM
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Big twin.
...and it's not mine. Hope this helps.
 
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Another angle.....



 
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Shovel.
 
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Old Feb 9, 2022 | 07:37 PM
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Mid 70's FX shovel, piglet motors don't have the aluminium heads.
 
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Old Feb 9, 2022 | 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by TwiZted Biker
Mid 70's FX shovel, piglet motors don't have the aluminium heads.
Bingo! That's why they're called Ironheads.
 
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Originally Posted by Y2K
Bingo! That's why they're called Ironheads.
Shovels were referred to as Ironheads long before Sportsters ever were.
 
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Originally Posted by OldEnuf2NoBtr
Shovels were referred to as Ironheads long before Sportsters ever were.
You are going to have to quantify that comment, in 45 years of living & breathing shovels I've never heard it said.
 



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