(Tim)wrote
In a way those big beemer off-roaders remind me of this:
http://www.motorcycle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8060
I rememebr when Larry Burquist pulled this off, but the sportster was
plagued with problems.
I ahd heard that tee team was so disgusted with the bike that they took
a backhoe and dug a pit in the desert and buried it. Then some time
later somebody found the burial site, dug it up and restored it.
Besides engine trouble it was a suspension nightmare not counting all
that weight thrashing around in the desert.
But where it actually shined was doing well over 100.mph in the straight
passages.
Still it couldn't take it.
They should have used a BMW.
?;^)

You know I actually saw an early Buell Dualsport set up with a sportster
883? awhile back, I had looked at them before I made the decision to
go with BMW, and I was under the impression they we're all fitted with
Rotax motors, I guess they made a few with the sporty motor.
The biggest factor in going with the Beemer was the driveshaft, I just
had enough of fixing broken master links, and adjusting chains. UD