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.

$39.99/yr.

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