Budget Harley Sportster Project, $700 And A Week To Make A Badass Bike!
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Super fun little Sportster project! With limited time and a tight budget I wanted to see how cool we could make a little sportster... I think it came out great! Let me know what you think in the comments and as always thanks for watching
A little tip is to peel the tape when the paint is not fully dried. Itll leave a more crisp line and you risk peeling the paint when you take the tape off when its fully dried
This is exactly what I need! I have a '94 Sportster and not much money.
I am very impressed with the rims, 2 thumbs up!
Looks fantastic! Little tape saving tip- sometimes you can use aluminum foil for wrapping tubular stuff.
Thats a great idea!!
Cyclops Garage ,yep I’ve done that. Works great.
Hell yea brother
Those wheels turned out waaaay better than I expected!
meethed thanks I was super stocked on them!
They Sure did!
Black is back! I can't wait to see how the wheels turn out, will look pretty good I am sure.
Love that Ford pickup. Bike turned out great, reminds me of my 1st sporty. Especially liked the decals and the wheels.
Damn I wish I could get my hands on something like that. Bike looks amazing!
This is going to be more of a fun bike to ride! Those rimz !
I have a '84' XLH that I did things to like new fenders and split tank then I painted. Swaped wheels to spoke. Had the barrels borded to 20 over. Replaced everything in the motor including barrings except the cams. Those are the only thing thats te same. I've got new generator-regulator, starter, LED headlight and sidelights. Its like a new bike but didn't cost thousands but still it only has a 4 speed. It's funny I keep going for that fifth gear when I ride with my friends LOL. My goal was to make it not look like a sporter and I think I did just that. Don't care what anybody says the sportsters are a good bike.
Tinfoil is a lot easier than tape. Looks good
This is my first video I’ve seen of yours, loved it man. You helped more people than you know. Love the multiple days of work slammed into one video. Hope that good news made good process.
shroomintomatoes Thanks for tuning in! I just opened a new shop and I try to make a couple videos a week so we should have some more awesome content headed your way!
Man i love youre vidiv,e got a 08 sporty snd likre you hate the poxy silver donkwith chromespocked wheels
Lovre you,re bike lift man
When I did mine, I use the bedsheet and a long skinny screwdriver, just tuck it in everywhere. You don’t want paint to go.
Wow the bike came out awesome. Love it. Only dislike is the decal but it's just a matter of preference
Cool, just picked up a 93 sportster for 500 with 16000 on it, was sitting for awhile, put 200 in it to get it started, now I am ready to update few items, thanks for the info
At first I thought it was going to just be another case of "putting lipstick on a pig" makeover..
I was wrong.. You and Damon put extra effort into it and did a fantastic job.. all your ideas worked out very well..
Thanks for the video.. good luck..
Thank you! I just opened a shop so hopefully many more fun projects to come. Thanks for tuning in!!!
Old video but new to me.
I REALLY like the looks. Great job! 👍🏼
💯🫵🏼👍🏼🫡👊🏼✌🏼🇳🇱
Great job on that Sportster.. I wish I was mechanically inclined like you guys man🤣 I'm worthless.. ch9es from the Central Valley
Great video
"Itsa me, Luigi. Letsa go!"
Yup 91 XL1200, Think I need a new tail lite tho. . .socket seems just a bit big for the 1157
light bulb.. rear dir sigs were just that. So I changed 'em to tail lites and dir. sigs, safer at nite
if the regular tail lite goes out.
Best thing about a Sportster is it isn’t a luggage cart!
Great outcome! Got a small Sportster as well and I think I´ll paint my engine black too.
Big BadBaby please don’t, it’ll look like shit in 2 seasons. Spend the time and polish it.
Clean sporty nice budget build
Hello Mason George, I have to say it again! GR8 job on the Sporty paint job. 883 or 1200?
I have a 91 XL with the Xover under an S&S teardrop filter with a Super E shorty carb I
never had a problem with. It is a freaking fun bike to ride, good wt/hp ratio.
I am sure someone will be VERY glad to get that Sporty.
I would change the turn signals to very small ones and it would be cool
Awesome budget build! Nice touches to bring an already good looking Sportster into current trend styling. Not a fan of the all black Nighster so imo this is a better looking version. Should sell rather quickly. Hell, have your buddy's shop sell it for a big profit.
That's the most creative shit I ever heard about a little sporty. I'm 6'4 290lbs. Ya think I can pull it off ? My balls ain't that big. God bless
Dude! Where you been! Afraid those fires were causing you grief! Glad to see you back!
Eric Engstrand thanks bud!! Thankfully no fires but we didn’t have power for days!! Lots of videos dropping this week though.
Love that Ford
Thank you!!
I enjoyed this a lot what a difference a few mods do AWESOME stuff Roll on the next project.
Sweet ATK man!
I put the same fairing on my sporty brat bob to help clean up the front end
@Rick Simpson I'm running 1 in risers and a single speedo, it sits tucked way inside, also I'm still using the stock headlight mount under it to reduce headlight vibration. I think with your risers and the side by side tack/speedo that it should fit with maybe the top edge of the tack and speedo peeking out the top, only one way to find out
I didn't know Freddy Mercury fix bikes!!!???😁
Very interesting! I just found a 1999 883 for $400. I love the idea of a project bike but it scares me honestly lol garage kept but hasn’t run in 10 years. I’m thinking about it because it seems like a great learning opportunity
@@zackadams419 for $400 you literally can’t lose! If it has mag wheels, they’re worth $600 and up. Worst case you part it out, best case you build an awesome budget bike. 🏁
She looks absolutely great! 👍
Damn good job. Beautiful Ford in the background also
You’re the Connor Ward of bike UA-cam.
Looks waaay better. You need a hand masker. And there's nothing wrong with aerosol primers and paints. As long as it's the good stuff. $12 a can is the good stuff.
Great job brother. Keep the vids coming. You got me as a subscriber
I love videos like this since I really want a cool cruiser but have no money
Apparently black is in. I punched up this video thinking it was to address functional issues with a 29 year old bike. Instead it was all about not liking chrome and making it black. I am an older rider about to inherit a 95 xl1200 Sportster, stock, with lots of chrome, which I really prefer. I find the conversion to black a bit sacrilege. The bike, stock, represents the taste of the riders of the time. Me!
Came out pretty sweet
it looks fantastic
Ye ol' rattlecan restoration lol. Bike came out great man. I like what you did with the wheels.
Damn good job👍 I love what you did. Nice🤘
Looks like a honda now in my opinion....but hey im diggen your channel!
brown chicken what Honda does it look like? I’m genuinely curious because as a Honda certified mechanic and someone who is owned literally hundreds of Hondas in the exception of the shadow ace I don’t see any resemblance between Hondas and Harleys🤷🏻♂️
@@MasonGeorgeMotorcycles dont take offence brothman!! 😉 any honda or suzuki really! (u certified in suzuki 2?) But still nice!
Resembles one with that black i agree.
I've never seen a bullet cowl do so much to improve the looks of a bike.
Looks great
Thank u so much, you really helped me with this video! Greets from the Netherlands 👍🏻
Wow, that looks great. I remember being 19 in 1994 and the sportys looked a little cheesy with silver engines
I am with you on that! I think chrome and polished aluminum looks cheesy and tacky. I love that companies are getting away from that hideous shit!
Awesome build man looks excellent...
Thank you!! I just picked up a Softail and we’re going to do a complete build on it next🏁
And in years to come someone will buy it and say “can you believe they blacked out the engine!” Lol!
I cant believe he blacked out the engine!
Looks good!
Mason, you seem like a nice guy so I want to pass on a little tip. I remain anonymous on here, but I have a small well respected Dyna performance shop. You can change the look of the front end for the better by redrilling the fender mounting bolts. It gets rid of the dirt bike look and when you see the difference, it's worth the effort. I have a dozen bikes done this way with probably a hundred thousand miles combined, so yes it holds up.
And yes on the COMMANDER II tires, my " shop " Dyna has over 160 pounds feet of torque at the wheel, and the MICHELIN is the only tire for me. All the very best, SARGE.
SARGE BULLDOG awesome thanks for the tip I appreciate it big time! On my personal bike (FXDX) I made a fender mount out of a Roland Sands fork brace and it worked out great!!! I’ll definitely give it a try on the next sportster I get in. Thanks again!
Nice bike... So, how long does the paint on the engine last? Does the heat make it flake off after a while?
Charles Belville as long as you don’t clean it with a screw driver and wire brush it should be fine 😂🤣
Nice job
U did an amazing job 👍 very good taste. From what you did with the wheels to the horn & painting the engine black just an amazing job. You said you'd found that sporty for a $700? I'm looking for budget sporty due to being a poor man living in North Philly. Any tips on where to look? Or is it just a luck kinda find?? My little sister is a junkie and she sold my 80 Ironhead behind my back for $300 the bike that was in my family since 93' that my dad put $20,000 into. I still got the title in my name but no bike. 😢 I miss riding so much. Well good luck with her she's a beautiful 94'
I have a 1994 XLH 1200 and I love it
I have a 1995 XLH 1200 in showroom condition & I love mine too & I ride it pretty hard & it has never let me down, great bike! The vibrations in the bars & pegs sometimes irritate me but I just deal with it, does yours vibrate bad? Do you have any tricks to dampen the vibes in the bars?
@@jimmansi1187 Back in the days they used to use fishing weights or washers and make some weights that would get rtv'ed into the bar ends and curb the vibrations. You could also use sport bike type weights if you don't mind having sliders on the bar ends. Limits what kind of grips you can use though. Gotta experiment.
Got that mean Captain Hook mustache 👍
Perfect go kart engine!
Nice job. I like it
Dude nice job. That came out great.
Man, I don’t mean to throw shade, but it doesn’t look like a dyna, it looks like a sportster. Keep it real.
Looks good! Well done
Very cool result! I had that same fairing on my 2000 Dyna FXDX when I bough it, but it was mounted up (with that flimsy bracket) over the top of the stock headlight mount, which made it very solid. You couldn't really see the original headlight mount under the fairing. So, maybe you didn't need the custom mount? The wheels and fork lowers look excellent!
Sweet setup...I'm also into the blackout engine look, and have contemplated doing that to my '96. Question - what mirrors are those? I'd like to get me some of those low profile mirrors too.
jazn76 got Em on eBay!
Great job
Looks good for the budget.
Thank you!
Man, that's pretty slick lookin.
SaddleTramp thanks man! I actually sold it to a local Santa Cruz kid so I get to see it from time to time rolling around.
Looks great man, well done!
Good job on the build.
Alonso Garcia thank you!
Good job.
Great stache. Got bars too
Good job I like it
Best part of your video is the 79 ford, how about a full video on that
fair wind ua-cam.com/video/DuFb89GLM98/v-deo.html
fair wind this videos a couple years old and I have made a few changes but I’ll get back to doing some truck videos real soon!
I polished the alloy crank cases in the frame with drum emery and a air die grinder
I own & ride HD's for over 40 yrs now but im no expert wrench or expert painter so excuse me if im talking out of school,id think painting over that front end & rims may end up bad,im curious as to the durability of your paint ideas,id think the paint will chip easily.
Levi Garrett paints held up great. I did the same thing to my Dyna wheels 6 years ago and they have no issues as well.
Chingadera love it
Love it man! One of the best budget builds on UA-cam 🙂
Thank you!!!
@@MasonGeorgeMotorcyclesnot my cup of tea but I think you did a great job for a budget build. Reading through the comments( not joshmiller2446, he gets it) I was surprised at how many idiots commented. Your responses to some of them were pretty good. Keep it up, if they don’t like it, fuggem!
@@biohazard_613 thank you!!!
Sportster handles far better than a DYNA!
How many cans of paint did it take to do the engine/crankcase area? I'm looking to do the same. Also where did you get the self etching primer, link?
Gregory Herrera I got the self etching primer at my local auto parts store and I think I bought three cans of primer three cans of paint and a couple cans of clear. Remember painting is 95% prep work, good luck!!!
Would have been awesome if you listed the paints and wheels etc in the description.
Thanks bro
sgtginga I just used regular old gloss black spray paint and the wheels are OEM Harley Davidson with Michelin commander two tires. The only other parts I really added were the faring and that’s an eBay special. Good luck on your project and thanks for watching!
Great job all around. Excellent results.
I read the title as 700 a week. not and a week. I was like... who has 700 dollars per week to spend xD
Hahaha $700 a week on a Sportster would be awesome. Three months in and there wouldn't be a stock part on the bike!
The dyna is just another name for a bigger motor on a sporty frame.harley has maybe six actual models
Nope, a Sportster is the smart man's bike that a Dyna tried to be.
🤣😂🤣😂 at the end of the day I like the FXR the most 😬
@@MasonGeorgeMotorcycleswell that's what it's all about, right?
Subscribed cuz we’re from the same area
New subscriber, love the video
Awesome! Thanks for tuning in 🏁
Nice job bro
I bought alot of stuff at long beach swap meet and did all the wrenching myself and had fun. Cost less to LOL.
U could pretty easily Fab a new mount for the faring! 😎🤙
Jake Wood basically we did lol
What brand / model tires did you get?
Make more vids like this !
Funny, you say that I just bought another Sportster yesterday! Going to do a bobber with this one and I’ll make a video.
I think I have to pick up a solid mount now.
Beautiful..
Those wheels turned out sick! Love the vid, new subscriber :-)
Troy K thank you!!!
Harley paint is 20 a can,but really good
So you just painted a stock sportster? the mid spacer on the rocker box would have been a great accent to the fallback motor. All black, not my cup of tea and used way too much. And the horn doesn't look old school, looks like the horn on every sportster from 91-03. And the motor isn't a wet sump, it hs an oil bag to hold the oil. If it wet sumps, you got an issue....
Can't say I ever liked the sportbikes, plastic saddles fiberglass all over, Give Me a Harley Sporty or a Dyna or SuzukiM-90