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HARLEY SPORTSTER BIKE BUILD | MOTO VLOG 1

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This project details the customization process of a Harley Davidson Sportster motorcycle, transforming its aesthetics and functionality through various modifications. The video showcases chopped fenders, custom lighting, a spring seat with rigid struts, a wire tuck, relocated ignition components, aftermarket exhaust, and an air filter. It also highlights plans for future upgrades and addresses challenges encountered during the paint process.

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what's up guys welcome back to another live and lost video here and i'm gonna be showing you all the bike today so without further ado let's hop on the harley let's go for a little ride and let's give you all a tour of the bike what i've done to it what i'm going to be doing to it and we'll see where the day takes us let's get it [Music] so [Music] what's up guys back with the bike i'm gonna go through a little walk through here show you what i did to it and let's begin all right so we have the chopped rear fender here i went and i chopped these off they used to extend out to about here the fender supports chop them off just with an angle grinder bought the fender off of amazon bolted it through here along with the rear tail lights smoked rear tail lights that i have on both sides the wiring is up in there got this license plate bracket with the third brake light not with the brake light not the third brake light i'm used to jeeps with the brake light back here went over the spring seat it's uh pretty uncomfortable but i like how it looks i'm gonna get rid of the springs in the back as well just did a straight strut bar right here so uncomfortable ride but again all for looks now the paint on here is super bad for some reason it didn't dry right in the garage or whatever and it has runs and stuff but here's my battery cover it's all zip tied on because with the 07 in newer i believe this is a 2008 with the 07 and newer the ecm is in the back here and i obviously couldn't keep the ecm back here so i had to relocate it underneath the battery cover moving on we got the four controls right here um these came with the bike i don't know what brand they are i don't like them i need to get new ones i think they're cheap but from there we had a complete wire tuck right here so there's plastic pieces that go here totally got rid of all of those and tucked it up underneath the tank with that i had to do a two inch tank riser as you guys can see right here taped all the wires to a two inch tank riser and then i had to do the coil relocation off amazon as well i really like these spark plugs i've had no problems with them also recl relocated the ignition the ignition was once up here relocated to that side so since i'm on this side the bike anyways i'll just do this side of the bike i went through and painted all this black as you can see it's already peeling it's just cheap paint painting this black paint of the ribs black strut bar again just vinyl wrapped the oil cap cover um went with the laf pipes on here from amazon as well this bike is completely built off amazon so the laf pipes super loud pipes absolutely love them went with the aftermarket air filter off amazon as well makes the bike breathe way way way better absolutely love that air filter would not go back i went and painted all this as well the forks the front wheel added the shock boots on there and then i went added these turn signals on there as well added the z bars with the quad lock phone mount absolutely love this foam mount i've only had it for probably um i don't know a couple days now but i absolutely love it super nice going on to the gas cap just a quick amazon gas cap or you got pretty dirty um also the tank is an aftermarket tank as you can see it's got the dimple funny story about the tank is i bought this bike and it wasn't running um had bad gas in it haven't ran in a while so what i did was i went to marketplace found this awesome tank for like a hundred bucks and there it is try to two-tone it but then again i don't know what happened with the clear coat it looked really good i can post pictures looked really good and then the clear coat messed it up so if you guys have any idea why that happened please comment below again i really love how the bike turned out my next step on here is probably going to be new mirrors new clutch and brake lever um i'd like to get new triple tree mounts as well but that all depends um i like to do a speedometer relocation so put it right right down here i think that'll look good with drag bars i want to get rid of these z bars i'm really not a fan of the z bars and i want to get rid of them so i need drag bars new grips some probably new controls uh and then as far as engine goes this is an 883 i have looked into the 1250 kits and right now hammer performance is running a deal until the 31st so we'll see if i pick it up or not i probably won't because i don't want to have to buy a tuner and all that for it just quite yet i'm looking at getting a little bit bigger bike so i don't know how much longer i'll keep this bike for but here it goes [Music] so that's the tour of the bike hope you all like it much more to come i'm about to hit the garage build some more stuff for i'll post it on my instagram give that a follow have a great day and remember you're not living unless you're living lost peace [Music]

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