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16th May 2012
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Senior Chief Know It All 2nd Class
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,428 Sportster/Buell Model: XLCH Sportster/Buell Year: 1969 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XLH Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1960 Other Motorcycle Model: XLCH Other Motorcycle Year: 1959
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That's a 1969 XLH. Interesting...
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16th May 2012
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Greasemonkey
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 112 Sportster/Buell Model: xlch Sportster/Buell Year: 1967 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 1968 xlh
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Yeah but it cant be a 69, and has a boat tail. Rider is Rodney Gott chairman of AMF. Press photo taken in 1969 in Millwauke. Imagine finding this bike posting pics of it...........only to be told your 19691/2 sportster was never produced.
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16th May 2012
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,159
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mrmom9r
Absolutely 1970 , our local dealer at the time ordered nothing but boattails in 1970 even the baggers. Caused a real mutanty with the local Sportster crowd.
All those removed boattails came in real handy later in the 70's when we were building street racers with extended swingarms.
If Willy G.'s last name had been Smedley we wouldn't have had to suffer through those boattails.
Absolutely 1970. RPO (regular production option)
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those boat tails gave us renegades something hard core. the non chrome fender rails. relflector holes though. same black paint as the frame. |
16th May 2012
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,159
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1967xlch
Yeah but it cant be a 69, and has a boat tail. Rider is Rodney Gott chairman of AMF. Press photo taken in 1969 in Millwauke. Imagine finding this bike posting pics of it...........only to be told your 19691/2 sportster was never produced.
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or prototyped. and tested by the actual manufacturer.
before being realased to production.
even if the paint dont match.
oh wait its got the late 69 grab rail. crap wrong vernacular. 1969-1/2. sorry.
you might as well start sleepin with that h.
im buying you a hydrometer at jacktown. |
16th May 2012
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Senior Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 7,949 Sportster/Buell Model: XLCH 1000 Sportster/Buell Year: 1977 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 75 motor in Norton frame. Other Motorcycle Model: 42WLA 45, Harton, Narley Other Motorcycle Year: 1942
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That seat makes a lot more sense with the turtle tank, it almost looks in proportion.
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16th May 2012
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,382 Sportster/Buell Model: XLCH Sportster/Buell Year: 1969 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 1966 XLCH Other Motorcycle Model: BMW Twin Other Motorcycle Year: 82
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Cool,
That is a 1969 XLH with the New Boatail, I'm bettin a Harley Factory Promo Picture of a very early Boatail used on a 69 H, or a tail added to a 69 H,
*Update, the DR beat me to the punch.. sorry I don't read well in the morning... I'm lovin me some Boatail these days...
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16th May 2012
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Senior Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Puget Sound--Washington State
Posts: 3,858 Sportster/Buell Model: Sportster XLH Sportster/Buell Year: 1961 Sportster/Buell Model #2: Sportster XL Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1957 Other Motorcycle Model: XLH 62, 65, 68, FLH 1970
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Monte03
Cool,
That is a 1969 XLH with the New Boatail, I'm bettin a Harley Factory Promo Picture of a very early Boatail used on a 69 H, or a tail added to a 69 H,
*Update, the DR beat me to the punch.. sorry I don't read well in the morning... I'm lovin me some Boatail these days...
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Yeah, it's funny. I hated them when they first came out, but I've grown rather fond of them over the years.
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16th May 2012
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Master Mechanic
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 284
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Nice bike. Love or hate the boattail, its still a very nice and historically correct bike.
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7th December 2012
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Biker
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 2 Sportster/Buell Model: xlh Sportster/Buell Year: 1970
Reputation: 10
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There were 1970 boat-tail sporters. I know because I have one. I bought it from a guy in Kansas, it was box-stock. The owner had removed the boat-tail and installed a standard seat and aftermarket tail-light. You could tell it was originally a boat-tail because of the bobbed rear fender. Same color blue as the model in the photos above, but an XLH model with saddlebags, windscreen, and large tank.
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7th December 2012
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Biker
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 2 Sportster/Buell Model: xlh Sportster/Buell Year: 1970
Reputation: 10
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