Icon’s design director Kurt Walter is one of the most inspired bike builders operating in the USA today. Working with a tight-knit crew in the company’s Portland headquarters, he creates machines that are bombastic, aggressive and refreshingly unorthodox.
这样的1991哈雷的Sportster roadracer，绰号“铁肺”。
你永远不会猜到：这是一个现代采取了哈雷戴维森可能已进入耐力赛上世纪70年代，完成双大灯和非常酷的种族图形和贴纸宽松的洒在机器上。
龙铁军的心脏是一个WISECO大口径包，用XLH883高达1200cc的。只是为了让意图明确，一对SuperTrapp尾气捅出来像一个双管猎枪的整流罩。
这样的Sportster很低，在蹲下来，这要归功于一些繁重的制造工作：在前端具有迷上了定制坯三重钳宽滑翔叉。
经过前端被降低和扩大，自定义子帧中被嫁接上了膛的枪rearsets移动到位。一对渐进式悬架970冲击被安装到支撑后方。它看起来像珀迪。“这是一个非常广泛的，低得离谱的摩托车专为流畅行驶而做的，速度最快的公路就可以发现，”古斯塔夫森说。
收尾包括手绘由车库31的细节设计，以及座椅由新教堂摩托。该轮是从一个胖男孩，熟练地画复制的老式赛车镁车轮上的蓝色色调得到的
Iron Lung has already had a shakedown test at an oval in Southern Oregon. Just to make sure she’s on form in time for the launch of the next Icon 1000 collection in spring. “Her handling was as questionable as the grandstand snacks, but she bore the brunt of torture with aplomb,” we’re told. There was a small fire, but that issue has now been sorted out …Check out this rather good short film to see the Sportster in action. Kurt Walter explains the Icon way of working in a second film, Everything Is Process.
The Icon 1000 bikes are examined in depth in the definitive guide to new wave custom motorcycles, The Ride. Learn more about the book here.
