Daily Slideshow: Mule's Harley 883 Tracker

Too Nice to Ride (Almost)

Streamlined

These Californian bike builders produce high quality performance trackers. These are not the ones you may see being assembled in your brother-in-law’s backyard. These bikes are professionally built not only proportionally – but oozing with style and performance.

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Lightweight

This particular tracker is one of owner Richard Pollock’s creations: a 1991 883 Harley Sportster he chose to name “Rupert’s Ride”. Richard is strict about his definition of trackers. He’ll let you know he’s no authority on flat tracking, but then he has competed in hundreds of races and studied bike building since the 1970’s, therefore he should know what one should look like!

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Compact, Yet Equipped

Of course, Richard is definitely an authority. He has many bike builds under his belt, and all are as exquisite as this baby is. His skills are in high demand.

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Only Attack (A Tach...)

When he gets a new Sportster project to work on, the first step is to strip the bike down to the frame. He used to purchase aftermarket frames, but they were difficult to register legally and the fits were complicated. So, he went back to the stock frames, and concentrated on dropping the overall weight of the machines.

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Locking cap, Racing Stripe

After this baby was stripped down, he purchased and installed new Screamin’ Eagle heads, cylinders, pistons and cams. He then sent the bottom half away to get the rods, bearings and balancing reworked. Finally, he sawed the rear end of the frame off and moved the shocks up 6”. The swingarm was also made longer.

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Custom Brake Fluid Can

If you were to have the opportunity to take a spin on Rupert’s Tracker, you would notice that the biggest difference between his and a stock Sporty would be the suspension and the brakes. One of the coolest features is the homemade master cylinder. It was originally designed to be a Yamaha clutch cover window.

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Carb vs. Injection; Dual Front Discs

Another attractive feature is the stainless 2 in 2 exhaust pipes coated in black ceramic. They wrap perfectly around the bottom end.

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Double-Ganger Exhaust

Richard will tell you that he isn’t a fan of blacked-out bikes. He feels the things been done to death. But in this case, the customer is always right, so to give it some depth, he added the red stripes as his own outward demonstration of his attitude toward solid black.

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It's (Barely) Street Legal

This particular work of art contains all of the skills and taste he has developed over the last 20 years. According to Richard:

“‘It’s user-friendly, lighter than stock, better brakes, better handling and much faster - and better looking. Much better looking than the fat ol’ Harley cruiser that it started life as. The best thing about the bike? ‘Riding it fast!’”

He offered another opinion:

“The sound is why everyone needs to build or own a Harley with cams and high dual pipes!”

Great stuff…

RIDE ON!

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