Photo: Lord Drake
Although it's been known to happen, Harley-Davidsons are not generally meant to take on race tracks or less traveled paths. I mean, just think about it: every time you imagine a Harley, you see it moving down the road, taking its human to where it needs to be in unmistakable style. And nothing more.
Yet the custom world, diverse as it is, often imagines and creates Harleys that could easily be used on the tracks or over less-than-perfect terrain. Just think about the Bultracker series born in a Spanish garage called Lord Drake.
Bultrackers are generally scrambler-style builds, blended with street tracker cues and always wearing tires meant for hardcore use. We've seen a number of them already, but the Lord Drake list of such builds is not nearly over.
Enter the Bultracker 57, a Sportster-based build that not only stands out through its go-anywhere do-anything attitude, but also thanks to its bold colors, rarely seen on a Harley of any kind, a nice blend of white and red patches with gold accents.
A lot of modifications had to be made for the bike to end up looking like this. The rear was removed and replaced with one better suited for the purposes of the build. The new one includes an 18-inch wheel, Ohlins shocks, a high-floating fender, and a new license plate bracket.
At the opposite end a BMX handlebar catches the eye, floating above a 21-inch wheel wrapped in the same kind of rubber as in the rear, sourced from Continental and specifically made for scrambler bikes. The front is also where a reworked fork was installed, as was a small and almost invisible fender.
On its sides the bike shows various covers painted in the design's colors, but also a seat dressed in custom upholstery in black and highlighted by red stitching.
As for what powers the Bultracker 57, we're still talking about the Sportster's stock engine, brought to a new level of growl with the help of a Roland Sands Design exhaust system and a custom air filter.
It's unclear how the changes made affect performance, but at least at a visual level the bike holds its ground with grace and puts out a certain feeling of power and capability.
Lord Drake is not one to share how much its builds cost, and so is the case now, so it's impossible for us to know how much the project is worth.
We do know that probably matters little though for American riders who don't usually go nuts for scrambler-style bikes. Europeans and others on the other hand do, and that's why Lord Drake is still in business making these things. And they do deserve their time under the spotlight, so we'll keep them coming.
Bultrackers are generally scrambler-style builds, blended with street tracker cues and always wearing tires meant for hardcore use. We've seen a number of them already, but the Lord Drake list of such builds is not nearly over.
Enter the Bultracker 57, a Sportster-based build that not only stands out through its go-anywhere do-anything attitude, but also thanks to its bold colors, rarely seen on a Harley of any kind, a nice blend of white and red patches with gold accents.
A lot of modifications had to be made for the bike to end up looking like this. The rear was removed and replaced with one better suited for the purposes of the build. The new one includes an 18-inch wheel, Ohlins shocks, a high-floating fender, and a new license plate bracket.
At the opposite end a BMX handlebar catches the eye, floating above a 21-inch wheel wrapped in the same kind of rubber as in the rear, sourced from Continental and specifically made for scrambler bikes. The front is also where a reworked fork was installed, as was a small and almost invisible fender.
On its sides the bike shows various covers painted in the design's colors, but also a seat dressed in custom upholstery in black and highlighted by red stitching.
As for what powers the Bultracker 57, we're still talking about the Sportster's stock engine, brought to a new level of growl with the help of a Roland Sands Design exhaust system and a custom air filter.
It's unclear how the changes made affect performance, but at least at a visual level the bike holds its ground with grace and puts out a certain feeling of power and capability.
Lord Drake is not one to share how much its builds cost, and so is the case now, so it's impossible for us to know how much the project is worth.
We do know that probably matters little though for American riders who don't usually go nuts for scrambler-style bikes. Europeans and others on the other hand do, and that's why Lord Drake is still in business making these things. And they do deserve their time under the spotlight, so we'll keep them coming.
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