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What the model of HD is this?

17K views 31 replies 10 participants last post by  Kittlemeier  
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The bike used was an EVO Sporty, thought to be a 1988, that was made to look like an original XLCR. The body was done by Tracy Fiberglass Works and the fairing was a BMW copy.

This is the bike with Michael Douglas on it from the movie shoot


This is the bike today. The fairing has gone missing and the tank was repainted with a different smaller emblem. it is possible that more than one bike was made up by Tracy, but no one seems to know for sure.
 
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The bike used was an EVO Sporty, thought to be a 1988, that was made to look like an original XLCR. The body was done by Tracy Fiberglass Works and the fairing was a BMW copy.
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This is the bike with Michael Douglas on it from the movie shoot

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This is the bike today. The fairing has gone missing and the tank was repainted with a different smaller emblem. it is possible that more than one bike was made up by Tracy, but no one seems to know for sure.
Shesh. He just asked what the model was, not for the whole Wiki. :cool:
 
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Bump this back up with some more info. I've been researching this bike, without much luck, for years. A few months ago the owner of the screen bike pictured above contacted me as I've got a couple of NOS fairings for the bike. Sad to see that the bike has suffered so much over the years but he's bringing it back to good condition. Unfortunately he's in France and speaks no English at all. I speak no French so communicating has been a challenge. I was trying to work out a 3d scan of the bodywork to have it reproduced without much luck, either because of the language barrier or his ability to have the scan done. After a few months of back and forth, I had pretty much given up on having it reproduced.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. I've posted about the bike on motorcycle forums as well as movie prop forums. Well, amazingly I was contacted by Tracy Nelson, the founder of Tracy Bodyworks/Tracy Fairings and told that he still has the molds for the bike, he's still able to produce them, and he's going back into business. He sent me a good bit of literature on the body, which was called the Sportster Revolution Body Kit, and I've talked with him a good bit over the last couple of weeks. Been really cool hearing the stories of the bodies and fairings he produced from the sixties to the nineties.

Oh, and I don't know where the BMW copy thing came from, the fairing was an original Tracy design, called the "Black Rain." On a page a few years ago someone did say "BMW style fairing" but that's the only BMW reference I've ever seen.

Anyway, here's a couple of pics of the Custom Chrome sale page for the body kit and one of the Black Rain fairing from another catalog that I haven't identified.

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx192/omcglamery/Customchrome1.jpg?t=1355283439

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx192/omcglamery/customchrome2.jpg?t=1355283419

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx192/omcglamery/TRACY1.jpg
 
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Oh yeah, I'd guess these were from 87-88, the fairing page from 92-93. Not sure what he'll be charging for the kit, obviously more than twenty five year old pricing, but I can ask in a few days when I talk to him again. Hopefully he'll have a website up within the next few months.

I do know he was surprised at what Tramp Cycle is charging for the Black Rain fairing they copied from one of his, around nine hundred dollars so I don't think it'll be that unreasonable, but that's just a guess.

http://www.trampcycle.com/products/sports/sc/s_scs-021/s_scs-021.html

I just love the body because of all the reproduction XLCR type bikes I've seen, the bodies just don't fit Evo Sportsters well. The tank sits too far above the seat to look correct. I will say Tramp has some really nice Black Rain inspired bikes, even without the body.

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx192/omcglamery/date_14.jpg?t=1356920816



And just because this is an XR forum.

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx192/omcglamery/product_01_06.jpg?t=1356921397



Sorry about the links and small pics. The board's not letting me post larger ones for some reason. Min post count maybe?
 
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I just love the body because of all the reproduction XLCR type bikes I've seen, the bodies just don't fit Evo Sportsters well. The tank sits too far above the seat to look correct. I will say Tramp has some really nice Black Rain inspired bikes, even without the body.
This one I built using parts from Kent Riches at Air Tech. I think the tank fits even lower than the Tracy version. In this photo the seat that Mike Corbin did for me was a little too long so it bunched up at the front, but considering he did it from a drawing it was pretty close. He fixed it for me later.



Kent has been offering these kits for many years.
 
#14 ·
On the XR, to me, the headlight cover area needs to be round not square. Reminds me too much of the bikes I had in the mid-late 80's, where everything was square looking; gauges, fairings and all. Looks better in the small pic than the attachment larger one, too bulky, at least to me....tomp
 
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Definitely understood as it does have that look. It's an eighties take on a seventies bike so it should, heh.

Just throwing it out there as it's an XR board. I think it works better with the bodywork of the XLCR as the XR bodywork is already larger in comparison, it just makes it look sluggish.

Here are a couple of quarter shots of XLCR bodies with the fairing. Still a rectangular lens over a round light but for me it works.

I actually did buy a '78 XLCR after the movie came out, but even with VHS, I knew it wasn't the same.

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx192/omcglamery/product_01_06-1.jpg



http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx192/omcglamery/product_01_06b.jpg

 
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The one which you see was $4000 with a boat load of spare parts which we sold off. My son and I restored the bike from the ground up. If you look close you can see there are parts missing in the pic. That shot was taken shortly after I buffed out the body work and put it on. It is truly one of my favorite HD's of all times
 
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Is it a '78? That's what I'd guess from the wheels. I did notice the muffler missing and figured it was in the midst of a resto.

Mine was a '78 but it had the seven spoke wheels. It was a total mess for $2000 but I was too young to know any better. Had '79 Sporster chrome siamese pipes, no rear sets, a blue windscreen on the fairing, and had been creatively wired at some point. Honestly, as great looking as it was, I was glad to get what I had plus a couple hundred back out of it. I'd love to have another, in good shape, one day but the prices have gone crazy on the good ones. Still love the Black Rain bike as a slightly different animal but there's no substitute for the original.
 
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Yes it is a 78 and it was a mess as well but running. My boy is now 24 at the time he was 23 we had fun and challenges and lots of father son bonding time building/restoring it. I think he could turn a nice profit from it if he wants. It only comes out on the nicest of days and gets many looks and compliments. Makes the boy feel real good to know he owns a piece of HD history
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Tom, Thanks..... The hardest part was getting the correct parts for a fair price. As you know there were only 3,100 total produced in 77-79 yes they actually made like 13 or something like that in 79. So NOS parts are drying up and used ones well there used up. The first thing was to take a 100 good pics of the bike before /during disassembly this way we could reference later during the assembly process. I have lots of hrs. in polishing, sandblasting, sanding, searching and repairing broken fiberglass parts. The rest is just nuts and bolts. We could not find original tires and they dont make repops so it is what it is. I made exact replicas of the mufflers as the price for those on a collage students budget were out of control. It was fun like I said and the bonding time was absolutely the best reward :nana:
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