Custom Cafe Sportster

You can find Sportsters all over the classifieds at reasonable prices, and you don't have to settle for stock or another rattle can custom. You can build a custom bike in your garage without breaking the bank and we decided to take on this '03 Sportster to show you how. J&P Cycles has already shown you how to build a budget-friendly street tracker, and we wanted to do the same, only this time let's dust off the racing leathers and build a cafe racer.

• We used the Biltwell 0" Zero Drag Bar and Slimline Shorty Risers combined with some odi Vans Grips to keep the cockpit clean and mean.
• RSD has a killer billet gauge cluster with all new LED indicators to radically clean up the front.
• Progressive Suspension offers easy to order, high-performance suspension and components that are affordable. So I threw on a set of 13" 412 Series Black Shocks to help raise up the rear end to be level with the front.
• To keep this affordable and to get ride of the chunky rubber footpegs, I decided to throw a pair of Biltwell Mushman Footpegs on to give the bike a clean look and a wider platform to plant your foot.

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