Here's the brother from (not) another mother, Jarrod Del Prado. “The customer on this build was, as usual, a very cool guy to work with. He shares our passion for motorsports in a big way. Vintage, current, all of it... so we decided to incorporate some of the colors of the 70's Elf F1 cars into this bike - blue, black and white.”

“His only specific requirements were that he wanted a rocker shifter and pipe wrap, otherwise he was cool with us doing what we do.” Dream customer? Check.

In typical Del Prado fashion, the colours were chosen for maximum impact. “We kept everything with the paint scheme simple and bold, and finished it with matte clear. We built the rocker shifter and had it coated in black to subdue the extra length.”

We asked Jarrod to give us some specifics, just to keep the trainspotters happy. He obliged. “It's based on a 1995 1200cc Evo Sportster. We modified the frame with a stretched and lowered hardtail. We tweaked the look of the motor by powder coating the primary cover, cam cover and rocker boxes in matte black. Then we improved the performance by adding a Crane Single Fire ignition and coil, and a Big Sucker intake. On the exhaust side, Justin built a tidy equal length custom exhaust finished in white.”

“Braking performance was improved dramatically with Brembo rotors and calipers. We wrapped the 19" front and 17" rear in Pirelli Night Dragon tires. As always, Justin proves that clean wiring is an art form - everything flows beautifully. We used Biltwell's aluminum throttle, Tracker handlebars, and Mushman foot pegs. The bike looks really mean, really sharp, and my bro and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out!”

Features

• Donors: HD Sportster 1200 1995 onwards, the engine HD EVO
• transformed into a hardtail frame
• powder coating engine
• Ignition Crane Single Fire
• Intake Big Sucker
• custom exhaust, thermal tape
• design inspired by race car Elf F1 1970s
• colors: blue, black and white
• Brembo brakes
• 19-inch front wheel, 17-inch rear wheel
• Tyres Pirelli Night Dragon
• wheel Tracker
• steps Mushman