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Both sets of handlebars come from Biltwell Inc., while the mesh-covered fuel caps and fuel level gauges are Kuryakyn parts.Ĭross is finished off with Highsider mirrors and a Cultwerk license plate bracket, while Racer wears a glassless Motogadget mirror and a Heinz Bikes plate holder. Other Rebuffini goodies include both bikes’ foot pegs, handlebar risers, grips, levers, and backlit switches that are made to plug right into the Harley’s CAN bus system. A Thunderbike fairing, modified with a red windshield, wraps around an upgraded LED headlight. Up front are a carbon fender and a carbon sump guard, both from Rebuffini. There’s an LED taillight out back, along with a pair of tiny LED turn signals from Kellermann. The Racer wears a tail section from R&R Customizing, styled after the classic Storz designs on vintage flat trackers. A modified Cult Werk fender does duty up front, with an aftermarket fly screen mounted higher up. There’s a custom fender out back, with a pair of integrated Kellermann LEDs acting as turn signals and taillights. The Cross bike features a custom subframe that cradles the custom two-up seat, ending in a tidy rear loop. But each has been dressed up differently. Moving to the chassis, Martin trimmed a little off the back of both bikes. The air cleaners are standard Screamin’ Eagle fare. The two-into-one exhausts are from MCJ in Italy both setups include a valve that can be opened or closed via a lever, to adjust the volume. He simply dropped an Andrews cam into each engine for good measure, and converted each bike’s final drive from a belt to a chain. The stock bike’s 110 ci Twin Cam mill is plenty fun out the box, so Martin didn’t get too fancy there. The calipers are from Rebuffini, while the discs come from Galfer. The brake setups are identical too: twin four-piston calipers up front, with a single four-piston caliper at the rear. The knobblies are Bridgestone AX41s, while the street tires are Avon Cobra Chromes. The bikes roll on their stock wheels, but there are plans to swap the Cross wheels out for a pair of spoked hoops from Kineo (they’re currently on backorder). Martin also treated each Low Rider S to an extended swingarm from Krüger & Junginger in Germany. And both sport Öhlins shocks at the back, finished in gold and black respectively. Both wear complete front ends from Rebuffini an Indianapolis Special setup with a Scott steering damper on the Cross, and a Nexo 4.0 system with Öhlins forks on the Racer. “It’s always cool to order stuff like this without caring about what it costs,” he quips.Īs a result, the two builds share a number of key parts.
And healthy budgets meant those parts could come from the very top of the top shelf. Within three days he’d found his own donor bike and dropped it off at Martin’s workshop, with instructions to “build a cool racer.”īuilding both bikes simultaneously meant that Martin could order all the parts he needed at once. But a week into the project a different client walked in to collect his custom Harley Road King, and freaked out about the Low Rider S.
Martin sourced a suitable donor for the ‘ scrambler‘ and got cracking.
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“He used to be a professional dirt bike rider, so I proposed the idea of making something with a bit of off-road character-and enough power to have fun.” “My client knew he wanted a Harley, but didn’t know exactly what style,” says Martin. The Low Rider S Cross was the first of the two Harleys to go onto the bench. “It’s cool to mix different styles in a bike,” he says, “like a chopper with high performance parts.” But that’s exactly what builder Martin Becker enjoyed so much about these projects. Dubbed ‘Cross’ and ‘Racer’ for obvious reasons, they feel like two sides of the same coin-but were actually built for two different customers.īoth bikes stand taller than the slammed bobbers and choppers we usually see from MB Cycles, and both feature an unconventional mash-up of styles. Most Low Rider S customs get the Californian ‘club style’ treatment, but these two tire shredders from MB Cycles in Heidelberg, Germany walk a different path. And while the newer Softail Low Rider S is a rad bike in its own right, there’s still something special about the original Low Rider S that gets Dyna bros all hot under their Carhartt collars. The resulting bike was a total hoot to ride-noodley Dyna frame and all. So they restyled the iconic Low Rider, bumped it from 103 to 110 ci, dropped in a hotter cam and tacked an ‘S’ onto the name. was on the cusp of absorbing the Dyna range into their new Milwaukee-Eight Softail line, and had time to cram in one last variant. The 2016-model Dyna Low Rider S was the last hurrah for Harley-Davidson’s beloved Dyna.
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