VTM SpaceSter

Harley-Davidson Sportster custom
This Sportster-based custom will be one of the few signs of genuine originality at the AMD World Championships Of Bike Building next year. Designed by Bernard ‘Buck’ Massart of the French custom motorcycle shop VTM, it’s built around a Harley-Davidson Sportster engine. The SpaceSter looks like a motorcycle designed on a CAD system, but apparently the cladding was all shaped by hand. Oil is stored in the frame and the flow of the styling is inspired—particularly the fins behind the engine. The front upside-down fork is from a Yamaha YZF-R1, attached to an 18” wheel, and if you look closely you can see the vent for the exhaust on the lefthand side. If you can read French, there’s a PDF feature of the bike from Wild Motorcycles here. Details are otherwise scant, but I have a good feeling about this machine. Do you think it will win?

[Via Cyril Huze blog. Images © G. Dujardin.]

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Harley-Davidson Sportster custom
Harley-Davidson Sportster custom
Harley-Davidson Sportster custom

Posted on 30 Nov 2010 in Custom Motorcycles.

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  • Scott Brough

    The only way to ride this bike and look good would be to wear metallic silver spandex; you know, like a full silver spandex body suit with bootlets and glovelets built in. A cape would be optional. I seriously like this bike. The lines are very well thought out and constant. Who cares about the rear suspension when you have a looker like this one. Great job on this unique creation!

  • http://bloodfalcons.blogspot.com motoguru.

    Hey DEREK LARSEN, do you think maybe they used the Sporty motor due to the fact that the entire bike looks to be designed around the cooling fins????

    just a thought.

  • http://23bricksforever.blogspot.com/ 23bricks

    Myself, Brawny, Jimmy Monk, Tosh and others went by VTM last summer looking for 45 pistons … Buck showed us this bike in progress – pretty amazing as it was, and amazing as it is now. Buck was a nice fella to a bunch of foreigners who turned up unannounced, gave us beer and sent us to the best camping place we hit. For those reasons alone he should win. He also had 2 pretty much perfect hydras, a scando longfork pan and a genny shovel in his shop … but no oversize pistons.

  • KIK

    wow ! i had forgotten about little john buttera,..thanxs for the reminder..

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