Harley-davidson Sportster

In 1957, The Motor Company, As They Call Harley-davidson In Milwaukee, Was In Trouble. The Big Twins Were Too Big, The Small Two-stroke Single Was Too Small, And A Surge Of Imports Had Taken The Sporting Market From The Under-powered Model Was Time For Something And Was Time For The Sportster.never Has A Motorcycle Been More Aptly Named. The Sportster Kept The K's Best Features, Borrowed The Improvements Of The Imports, Threw In Some Homemade Hot Rodding, And Before You Could Say Superbike-a Term Invented To Describe The Xlch-the Sportster Was Making History, Setting Sales And Speed Records, And Introducing People To The Sport Of Motorcycling And The Mystique Of Harley-davidson.the History Is Still Going On.this Book Tells How And Why, In Sequence, From The Circumstances And Models That Preceded The Xl Through To The 1200 Evo, With Its Five Speeds And Belt Drive.