Gone forever? Harley Davidson Sportster History, from 1957 to present day.
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2021
- Gone forever? Dive into this video on the history and future of the Harley Davidson Sportster.
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Awesome vid, I’m 58 & have only had Sportsters, currently riding a 1995 1200 that’s in showroom condition. It’s a great bike & I ride it pretty hard & it’s never let me down, never one issue. I consider myself a Sportster fanatic, love em. Nice job putting that together!
Thank you Jim! Thanks for watching ! Sportys are awesome 😎
Yep, 61 years old and owned many bikes. HD big twins and Japanese-had them all. Keep coming back to a sporty. Currently have a 14 sportster 72-best one yet.
@@jamessmith5970 I have had a 2002 shadow ace 750 and now have a 1996 shadow ace 1100. I also have a 1996 stage 4 sporty. I miss the ace 750 with its nice wide bars but when you sit on the 1100 ace with its single pin engine and my 1200 sporty the feel is completely different. The sporty just thumps and vibrates so much you know its alive and it feels more dense in weight even if both bikes are pretty much the same wet weight.
2007 Sportster Custom 883 ! Drive it back and.forth too work ! Love it
😎😎😎😎
I love how the Sportster has kinda gotten the moniker of a "girls bike". Yet it has been H-D's most reliable and most successful platform ever. The Evo Sportster is by far the best motorcycle they have ever made.
well said !
@@ANONYMOUSBIKERUSA thanks
Wow! That was a great video! Not gonna lie, that made me really glad I got a sportster!
Thanks and enjoy the sporty!
I hope they don't go away but if they do I'm glad I have mine!
Collectors item !!!!!
I am 76 years old, I bought and still have my 1968 XLCH 900cc Sporty that I purchased new from Rieman's Harley Davidson in Kewanee, Illinois. Roger Rieman was a top road racer at the time and the main mechanic for Evil Knievel when he was doing his jumps. His dad Henry owned the business and sold me the bike, Roger worked in the shop when he wasn't going to race events. I had bought a BSA Gold Star 500 cc bike a few months before, was riding home from work one night and got passed by two Sportsters, I cut the BSA loose but couldn't begin to keep up with them. The next day I went and traded it in for the Sporty Henry wanted to know what was wrong with it because it had so few miles on it. I told him the story about being passed and left in the dust and I said that is not happening again. Henry said you won't have to worry about that happening again. To this day it hasn't. I love my bike and to me there is nothing close to it. It might be considered a "girls' bike" but any babe that buys one of these better be "one tough mama" and know how to handle it.
what an outstanding story! thanks for sharing !
I had a similar experience on my CB360T when I was 16. I bought my first motorcycle by making summer money in 1985 shaping Christmas trees on a large tree farm. Paid $250 for the used bike in nice condition. I thought I was all that and a bag of chips on it until being left for dead by a V-65 Magna or something. I was tucked in and at full redline in top gear hitting 90 mph (likely closer to 80) as I saw the motorcycle in my rear view mirror getting closer. It blew by me like I was sitting still. I had that bike a while longer and then bought a VF500R Interceptor that was like a space ship in comparison. That alone was mind blowing. I've had hundreds of bikes since then going through at least 10 a year most of my life but recently bought a slightly used 2007 Sportster 883 with Vance and Hines mufflers. The bike sounds incredible and handles great. More than enough power. First year EFI. The crazy thing is that with just 4k miles and not a scratch on it I got it down from 3k to 2.5k and it is one of the cheapest motorcycles I have ever bought besides the 360 decades ago. And it is perfect. Less then the price of a CT125 Honda Trail. This honestly blows my mind but I'm not complaining. I wish I had this bike in 1985!
I have a 2001 1200 custom low and it’s the most fun bike I’ve ever had!!! Was going to sell it but I will definitely keep it now, sometimes when I can’t ride I just love turning it on in my garage and listening to that Evo motor with screaming eagle pipes, it’s awesome 😎
awwwwwe yeah !!!!! 💪🏽
I'm still riding my 1957 sportster that I bought in 1969. Its great for terrorizing the neighborhood with. People just love to watch you start it to see if it throws you over the handlebars. Instant trophy at most bike nites.
wow!! that’s incredible!!!! good share ! 👍🏼
Awesome!!! I bought a ‘57 in 1968. It was built & a rubber burning beast. Wish I still had it
I think that Harley is making a huge mistake ditching these bikes. The very least they could have done is given the new bike the same style engine with wet heads. The Japanese cruisers look better than the new S model. I'm on my second sportster and have a 98 Fatboy, love the look of all the air cooled engines and particularly the Evo. I guess time will tell.
Wow, I had no idea a sporty engine was in a land speed record vehicle!
I love these “history of” videos broham! Hard to believe they are going to can this bike! Maybe it’s a ploy to bring it back with a vengeance in a few years!
Thanks for sharing this 🥓✌🏼
An iconic legend in the HD line up for sure! As always, the support is appreciated!
The EPA forced Harley to kill off this great engine
Fantastic video! Sixty four year run was a long time! Plus it stayed true to its origins. I will always hold the Sportster in a special place in my motorcycle heart. There are so many running on the roads right now, you will always see them ridden for many years to come. Definitely a kind of bare bones bike that is a blast to ride! Ride and stay safe ABUSA!
A classic of all time Jd !
I had a 2000 fxst for a while but always wanted a sportster. Long story short, I had to trade the bike for a truck capable of towing a fifth wheel. My local Harley dealer had a 2002 sportster 1200c for less than 5k and I took it. I’ve been riding since I was 16-17 and let me tell you, the sportster is the best bike I’ve ever ridden.
awesome story ! glad you got one! enjoy it !
Started riding Sportsters in 69 w/a 69 and later after losing that one to thieves, found a 66, that I rebuilt from frame up, w/mild hop up and a rebuild, then had a 60, built it up like the 66...yes I ♥️ sportsters too!!!
That is awesome!
Love the vid AB big thanks for keeping me in the loop.
Sure thing Simon !
Keep the Sportster -- retain the air/oil cooled 1200 cc engine -- offer an optional six speed gear cluster for smoother running at highway speeds. Evo Sportys are iconic, stylish and reliable.
This was a great piece of work and I learned a few things about the sporty as well. I hope it doesn’t go away but rather updated with more tech and power.
Thank you CF! I hope it stays around too !
,two years ago i bought a stock 883XLC, i have done alot to it, mag wheel handme bars, new carb , torq cones in the exhaust, bore it out to 1200cc, its badass. Love my sporty.
😎😎😎😎😎
Great video! I think I may have to start calling you the professor, great educational content and history! 👍💯🤙
Hahahahhah. Thanks !
Beautifully made video - very much enjoyed watching it. Thank for having put so much work into it.
wow! thanks so much for the kind words! appreciate you taking the time to watch! be well !
I once had a 2009 1200N and now have a 2020 883L, the reason I bought sportster again is because I can not forget every design of this product line
awesome 👏!
I'll croak, before i sell my Sporty. Bought my Iron 1200 in 2021 brand spanking new. Love the fuel injection, and ABS. Did my own custom 2 into 1 exhaust, then got her tuned. She's my favorite bike of the ones I've owned.
awesome 😎
Cool video mate tons of info I did not know in there, and your right mate it is a LEGEND! HD will regret getting rid of it I think.
Thanks Pal!
Awesome video!! 👍
Thank you !
I hope they don't go away, but as times come they go as well. However I say... Long live the sporty... At least the one I've got.
You’ll always have a sporty sir! Thanks for supporting! 😎
Lucky one 😉 . .. I hope get one as soon is possible .. Actually the most Harley of all !
Got mine. 2014 XL1200CA Custom. Tough to beat.
Love mine sporty, is so versatile. Bike for life ❤️ thanks for sharing 👍 ride safe and B3
It’s awesome!
Great Video I’m glad I got my 48 while I had the chance wonderful motorcycle.
Love the 48! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Nicely put together brother 👌🏾👌🏾
Thanks Ada! Cheers !
Great vid love the history of the sportster
Thank you Jerry !
When I saw the new “Sportster S” I went outside and hugged my 883
I have to admit that was very educational.
Thanks Jim!
Sportster history as brought to you by ANONYMOUS BIKER USA, Great job AB.
Thank you Larry !
Great video mate, they may double in value when production stops. Might be worth grabbing one to put away 😎🤙🏻
Never know Bert! Thanks buddy!
Your history game is on point thanks for sharing A.B.USA👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you Shasi !
Interesting video, I think they will be some form of a sportster in the future, Along with my HD Road King , I have a 2017 XL883 Stg.1 kit, a blast to ride !.
I kinda think some sort of sporty will be around as well. It’s too iconic !!!
Imagine the incredible changes in our wonderful country that've been witnessed from the seat of a HD Sportster beginning w/ Elvis Presley in 1957 in Memphis, TN & the birth of Rock 'n Roll. WoW!!!
Indeed !
I'm lucky enough to still have my Sportster 48, customized to my liking and all, and I also still got my SR400 and SR500. My SR400 is a FI model and it's been upgraded to a beefier SR585 FI. I treasure these bikes that have kept their heritage from way back when. P.S let me think, I even still had my W800 until last year, but the W series, since the W1, really deviates from its original heritage, ya know?
A brilliant video dedicated to the best bike that Harley make 😁only because I own one lol 🤘and now hopefully it will only go up in value too!
Wobbly!!! It is an amazing bike !
@@ANONYMOUSBIKERUSA it’s true! It’s true 🤘🤘
They don't make them anymore but after 65 years of them being built we will still be seeing them for a decades to come
for sure !
Great video, I'm keeping my sportster now they're discontinued here in the uk
Thanks 🙏🏽
Besides other bike that i own. I love my 2002 sportster custom.
Will keep it till the end.
i would do the same !
Great video, it won't go away. It will be in production for non eu countries.
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I still have my 1989 Sportster out in my garage.
nice !
Great video thanks for the Sportster History.
I will be Keeping My 2006 Sportster Super Low til I meet Saint Pete
thanks Eric! hold on to it !
My 1st HD was a 98 Sportster Sport. Great bike with the exception of a seeping cylinder head. Oh...it was a rattle box as well. No rubber mounts on dat one. Looking forward to the Custom 1250.
Very cool!
That was a great video big thumbs-up catch you later
Thanks Mr G !
Another great video man. Would be a damn shame to see that bike fade away. Hopefully they can make the needed investment to keep it alive
Agreed sir! Thanks for watching!
All Hail the Mighty Sportster 😎 it ain't going nowhere 👍
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
That bike is a legend 👍
Indeed it is !
You left out the most innovative sportster the XL1200S. A rare bike made for only four years. 10:1 compression, four spark plug heads, fully adjustable suspension all of the way around. It came with better cams and heads from the factory. The only downside was the carburetor needed jetting.
good info by you! thanks 🙏🏽! appreciate the help!
This will probably be the last of the sportsters as we know it. Maybe we might get a new one. I hope so!
Me too !
Dam I might want to keep my 95 sportster 883, it will become a classic lol.
Right on man!
Great video, I bought a 1975 Sporty back in 85 it was the first elec start model,had it for 2 trouble filled yrs,but it was and still is the best bike I ever owned, I`m 60 now and riding a new GSX,whats wrong wth me...
nothing at all is wrong ! 😁
@@ANONYMOUSBIKERUSA Thanx
man I'm trading up later this year KTM looks good or maybe a Ninja Idk yet so many to choose from.
I have a very beautiful 2009 Harley Davidson Sportster and I will never sale it it's a dream and just like ever car manufacturer in the US they can't just leave things alone if if sales good and looks good leave it be don't worry about over seas they have nothing to do with the cars and motorcycles over here we are number one for a reason
One thing I'd add is that in 2007 efi was standard as well
good fact !
Standing at 6'3" I'm way too big for a sportster but I have always had a soft spot for the iconic motorcycle. Harley dropped the ball on this one
Understood!
I will say that at 6'4" I have loved my Sportster as much as either my Limited or my Road King or my ultras. It takes bars and forward controls to make it work... but then again I add 14" bars to my big touring bikes too. 35k miles in the past couple years touring....recently got another Sportster and getting it dialed in parts wise to fit me... seat, bars, and forward controls... and it really revives the pure joy of riding...a Sportster is just something I'll always have I hope. Been about 40 years I've had one around, lol.
Hello friend how are you today? this content is Awesome god blessed
Thank you!
Reiser used to have a shop about 10 miles from me sad some of my parts of my rebuild will be his son’s product!!
Nice !!!!
Locally the sportster is the most resold motorcycle available, easily 15 to 20 available on any given day.
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I'd love a Sporty
Awesome fun for sure Robbo! Thanks for watching!
Awesome video man. Cool to learn some new facts bout the sportster. The sportster and the scout bobber sixty are the bikes I'm looking at. I like how the sporty has basically been the same thru the years. Besides fuel injection and abs, it don't have much other electronics that in my opinion can go wrong. Just basic raw bike. Awesome video man. 👍👍👍
Thanks Biker Dad !
What Harley could do, is give the Sportster water cooling in combination with the air cool fins like Triumph has done, which would allow for a smaller radiator that easily hides. Just look at what Triumph did with theirs.
Then, what the 48 needs is a real rear suspension, keeping the low seat height, if they need to cut the frame to do it. I think that would result in just about the perfect Sportster, that is, if they would go back to the transmission being mounted on a door, and maybe go back to a 4 speed. Why shift all the time? If 4th isn't high enough for the Montana interstate, just make 4th taller. Space out the gears. The motor will pull through. That's 1/2 the fun of it.
Some might think that Sportsters are not fast, but did you know that it's most likely the fastest bike you will find, size for size, from idle on up to about 3,000 rpm,? Isn't that where a lot of us like to ride anyway? Why be slow from idle to 3000? Let the others get to the end of the 1/4 mile first. Who cares? I don't do my riding at 10,000 rpm.
If Harley loses the Sportster, it loses. To move ahead, move back, I say.
Some people have fun on a 50cc scooter. Can you have fun on a scooter? Sure you can, especially if it's a Harley. (1200)
great comments!
I recognize RMC drags
King of the dragstrips until the 4 cylinder Kawasaki came along.
There are 2022 models of the 48 don't worry but idk how 2023 will go
Is that a Harley davidson forty eight in the thumbnail
If BMW can sell an emissions compliant 1200 R9T in 2024 there’s no reason HD had to drop their entry level Evo machine.
I’ve got an unmolested 2003 anniversary 883 Hugger for around town. For the road a Milwaukee 8 Low Rider ST gets the nod.
nice !
im keeping my 2003!!!!!!!!!!
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Totally skipped 1979. Bunch of us still trying to keep these on the road.
lots to cover in a short time, apologies for any oversights! 👍🏼
No apologies needed. Those 79s tend to get looked over. Odd ball year.😎
My first bike is a 81 Sportster -- bought in 85 , at 70 years old I still have it and it's going with me on my last day
My 1980 FLT shovel head is for sale
What's that tell you
awesome!
Why no mention of the 83 xlx sportster ya jumped yrs
my apologies i missed it ! 👊🏼
They'll be back with upgraded euro epa as soon as the revo's start sending Harley broke.
You mentioned the 48 but not the 72 smdh why do people forget the best one.
i realized that after i uploaded it lol you're right !!!!!
I am glad I owned a Sportster. . . .but I'd never want another.
Fair statement!
I love my sporty,but i think i got a lemon
No way!!!!! Ugh !!!!
I think I’m too big for a sportster but it would be fun to strip one down and make a rat rod out of it. (Scout is still twice the bike shhhhhhh) 😂 Harley will probably revamp it and come back with euro5 and liquid cooling and then it will be super badass
Hahahhahaha. That custom 1250 is gonna be a beast !
They won’t drop the sportster. Too many sell
Oh come on ! How can you miss out the 2004 redesign ?
Tried to cover a lot in short time. Sorry if it wasn’t included.
@@ANONYMOUSBIKERUSA That's ok . First of the rubber mounts , big fins , Buel spec engine , disguised link pipe etc. I mentioned it because I've got an 04 Roadster .
@@bobgibb2781 very cool! Thanks for sharing Bob! And watching!
It will be back. I guarantee it it’s too popular of a bike.
I hope not!!! Love my 2 sporties.. those tried and true evo motors. Such great bikes. My 1st road bike was an ironhead. I prefer my sporties over my big twin. Someone call the devil...ill sell my soul to keep the sporty line alive lol
I don’t wanna see it go either. It’s too much of a icon!
It is!!! Longest running line..such a great base for any direction you want to go
@@gatorsmotorcyclemisadventu4341 sure is !
The Evo sportster 1200 is the last of the authentic Harleydavidson engine's. It is a push rod motor with gear driven cams and its 74 cubic inches was the standard for like 40 years. The revolution motor is a Honda with Harley painted on it I think they are going down the toilet with this one. They should talk to their customers sometime he'll we could have told them the electric one would fail. Get woke go broke.
thanks for the feedback Fred!
Coarse they ain’t as great as the older ironheads. Those were real sportsters imo.
Bring the Bronx...
Here after the new reveal. Sad to see Sportsters go that way in my opinion. I suppose its evolution of the brand but they're losing their edge.
understandable for sure Luke!
@@ANONYMOUSBIKERUSA I've got an 04 1200. Carbs all the way 😎😂
@@Gndlf_TheOrange awesome 😎
When they stop making the present-day Sportster, that is the day Harley dies.
it's def a classic for sure! Iconic !
If Harley gets rid of the Sportster I hope that you go out of business
You hope I go out of business?
@@ANONYMOUSBIKERUSA sorry I meant Harley voice activated text oops
@@kennyowens2189 ah ok. Had me scratching my head lol. I gotcha lol.
It's hard to believe Harley would eliminate an icon like the Sportster. It makes me wonder if Harley management hasn't been invaded by the woke mob.
🏍👍🏼👍🏼🤔😀🍺🍺😎🏍🖖🏼 🥺🥺
If H-D is dumb enough to kill the Sportster, or try to replace it with something that does not have the classic Sportster feel (vibration) and sound, then they deserve to die. They've already ruined their full size models with the smooth quiet almost Goldwing like motor. The Sportster was the only real Harley left. If it goes away, Harley is dead. H-D seems bound and determined to commit suicide.
Can’t disagree with ya there!
Harleys still going to produce the sportster. They’re just taking it out of EU. The sportster still sells extremely well. They wont axe it unless they absolutely have to.
We are all anxiously awaiting to see for sure!
OMG the new sportster is ugly AF, looks like a sportbike mix, not a cruiser. Guaranteed failure, watch.......
have you ridden it ?
They were always desperate bikes. Bad brakes, bad suspensions...desperate.
interesting…… thanks for watching!