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A new "Bike Builder" feature on The Company website (www.harley-davidsc corn) allows customers to create a per ized Sportster by selecting between sE options including wheels, handlebars, paint, foot controls and more. Once the is configured to the customer's taste, I design is taken to the local H-D dealer confirmation and sale, and delivered it little as four weeks.



This pilot program is limited exclusi to the new 1200 Custom model, the Iv Sportster variation featuring a chunky, 16-inch Michelin Scorcher 31 front tire revised trim that includes a reshaped I light eyebrow and smaller LED suzuki backrest taillight. rubber-mounted, 1200cc Evolution V-tv equipped with EFI and mated to a five-transmission, remains unchanged. Pric for this model is "Harley-Davidson affoi able," meaning $10,299 for Vivid Blacl $10,799 in Sedona Orange/Vivid Blacl two-tone. Optional paint colors like Blu, Scallop and Hot Pink Flame cost more, most of the H-D1 optional upgrades.



When did ape-hangers become fash- Harley-Davidson took the concept mainstream ionable? We must have

motorcycle accessories blinked with the 2008 Crossbones, and now Victory and missed it. Are they really good has followed suit with the 2012 High-Ball.



for anything beyond cooling your pits? The Polaris-owned brand introduced.



Maybe that's the whole point. Regardless, latest creation to the motorcycle press at Jeff's Metal and Speed, a hot-rod shop far from the Long Beach Convention CE where the International Motorcycle Shc held each December. With chopped-an neled cars all around and beer on ice, invitation-only show-and-tell had a lowb appeal that suited the High-Ball perfect



Sporting a hot-rod bobber look, the r bike is based on Victory's Vegas, and K ered by the proven Freedom 106/6 me said to churn out 97 horsepower and I lb.-ft. of torque. Ridged fenders hug the 16-inch whitewalls, which roll on wire-s wheels for the first time since the origi 1998 V92C. The body, engine and shoe dual exhausts are all blacked-out, the "color" a splash of white on each side tank. But the big news is the ape-hang,



While many states have legal limits handlebar height, most fall into two cal ries. Thus the High-Ball's apes are twotion adjustable. A single gauge resides crook of the bars, and the seat height to be a knuckle-dragging 25 inches.



Codenamed Bob, the High-Ball was designed in-house by Victory's own Mil Song, and will go on sale in April for $13,499 ($250 more in California due emissions plumbing).