2012 Sportster Forty Eight For Sale!!

 For Sale! 2012 Sportster Forty Eight 1200. This has been my ol’ reliable bike for years and I wouldn’t hesitate to ride this anywhere… Only selling to fund the Datsun build! I have owned this since new and have slowly customized a few things over the years. Most recently I just welded up a stainless exhaust system and made a brand new leather seat with ZERO farts on it! Has an Altman Electronics ignition system and a Mikuni vm38 carb (no fuel injection). Has an aftermarket spun aluminum oil tank. Has a set of stainless apes with some aftermarket tins in gloss black. Asking 6500$ Or Best Offer!

Sportster Seat for Sale!

 Finished this sportster seat up a while back and its up for grabs!  This is a stock swingarm Sportster seat made for years 1982-2003.  This started as a fiberglass Corbin seat, refoamed and covered in some Relicate black leather tuck and roll.  This seat would work best with a stock style sportster tank.  Please pay attention to the front of the seat and how it fits with the tank.  See last photo from the Le Pera website.

Check it out on my website here!!

Choppah Bars!

Finished these bars up that are very similar to the bars i made for my shovelhead.  These have a little more rise and a little less sweep!

Crazy Frank Seat!

Finished this Crazy Frank king queen seat up this morning!  Turned out nasty!

Sportster 48

Got some time to ride around the city a little bit this afternoon.  Snapped a couple photos..

K and Q

Finished this little leather king and queen seat up for a buddys long chop!  Turned out great!

Royaly

This week is going to have a lot of king queen seats in it.  Finished this one up today for my buddy's sportster chop.  Going to look good on its new home.

Tire Changing Machine and some new Rubbers

Got some new hides put on the sportster 48 tonight.  Still have the stocker on the back... and it has some life left in it... might have to burn it down before i change that one...

Riding RI in December!

Couple of photos from a couple of weeks ago.  Anytime you can get on two wheels in a New England winter is awesome!  

Warming some gloves up..

Back in the shop for a warm up...

Sportster Custom Seat!

I got this seat from a local customer.  It started life as a drag specialties vinyl seat with the flame cutouts...  He wanted to back a little thicker to make the passenger more comfortable, and he wanted it to be sewn black with black diamonds...

Brooklyn Invitational (2)

Brooklyn Invitational (1)

Got back from the brooklyn invitational sunday.  It was awesome.  Tons of bikes, cool people, and beer.  Slept in an abandoned lot across from the dice party friday night.  Saw tons of bikes on saturday.  Almost slept in the park saturday night, but met a dude that had roof space and was willing to let 3 savage smelling dudes sleep there...

Checking out of our hotel for the night...

Sportster Forty Eight EFI to Carb Conversion

Last week or so I got the sporty running with the new ignition and carb.  Got a seat and a passenger seat made and its ready to ride!  Few more things on the list are sissy bar, tail light, oil tank, and finally paint!

Sportster Forty Eight EFI to Carb Conversion

I had some trouble with the forty eight a year and a half ago, ended up having to rewire the bike to stock on the side of the road after my fuel computer failed.  I decided to swap to a carb.  I got an s&s intake manifold and mounted a Mikuni VM38 carb.  I had a throttle cable and throttle grip in the garage already and used those.  

For the Ignition I reached out to Altman Micro Machines in Germany.  They make an electronic ignition module that uses your crank angle sensor and the wires from the coil to run the ignition.  There are settings for advance base setting, advance rise curve, and rev limit.  There are literally 6 wires that you need to keep from the main harness.  Then there are a ground and ignition + and you are ready to start the bike.  I ended up just gutting the harness and starting from scratch.  But the amount of wires removed was awesome.  

I had a tank with a ridge in the center that was being swapped onto various bikes.  I welded on some bungs to mount the tank, now i just need to lower the rear mount a bit so that it flows a little better... 

I still need to make an ignition coil mount, and make a battery tray, but other than those two it should be ready to ride.... I will be swapping out the stock oil tank for something else soon, and there is a seat in mind..... Still have to figure that out...