What did a new 1957 Harley Sportster cost?? 1957-2022 Harley-Davidson Sportster Prices & Units Sold
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Ever wondered what new 1957 Harley-Davidson Sportster cost? Harley-Davidson Sportster MSRP pricing and yearly units sold from 1957 - 2022 for 883 and 1000 models.
Only 883 and 1000 models included in units sold figures. 750, 1100, 1200 and Revolution models not included.
If you have an accurate source for any sales figures not presented in this video, please email me and let me know. Thanks much!
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With the exception of a few Superglides and a Low Rider snuck in, a very good video.
I've owned three '79 Sportsters and am very familiar with the "except 1979" notation when looking for parts in a catalogue.
This was because it was the first year HD went to the triangular frame based on the '77 XLCR Cafe Racer model.
The rear brake master cylinder was also placed where it interfered with the rear exhaust pipe, thus requiring an extra bend to go around it.
I modified one of them to run the drags for one season and met with some success.
Enough success to piss off some people with bigger displacement machines.
Anyone who claims that a Sportster is a girls bike must have never ridden one because it's one of the most ornery and cantankerous machines I've ever ridden.
Never got your email. Spell it wrong perhaps? I'm at tripp@trippontwowheels.com. Standing by. Don't click on the blue link, that's the email address.
I bought my 86 883 2 days out of the Army in 1989. It was a $3995 ride for free/trade in for same amount deal HD had. I paid the $3995 and rode that little bike ALL OVER the US for a long time. Such a sentimental thing for me. 7 HDs later I'm on a giant bagger/couch... but my heart will always have a special place for my sportster. I wish I had never sold it.
Very cool story. It’s good to hear from you!
I've owned three Sportys over the years: an '88, '01, and '12. They just got better and better as the years went by. GREAT bikes!
Black n red one looked sweet.
I've owned about 25 sporty's total, doing a trike with a 72 XLH with a custom built swing arm with a juice brake servi axle.
Check my channel if you want to see it.
I bought a second-hand 1999 883 Sportster with 20,000 miles on her. I've had that bike over 20 years and now I have 370,000 miles altogether. She wears a 2009 front end because I wore out the old one. Sportsters were Harleys cheapest motorcycles and their most reliable motorcycle which is why they were all discontinued. But as I also have British motorcycles and I ride them and I get parts from the aftermarket 10 times better than what I could get from the manufacturers when they were in business. You don't need a factory, you don't need a rip-off shyster of a dealership. All you need is your phone to call and order parts. And everyone knows Harley doesn't deal with bikes that are over 10 years old for ordering them parts. I will never take my Sportster back to a Harley dealership after my last experience.
Dude that's Awesome!
it was never called 883 back then regardless of actual displacement . It was called a 900 and later on 1000. They never called it 883 until the Evo was introduced. I own examples of each.
Right you are, and it was 1972 not 1973 when they upped the Sportster to 1000 cc. The video says 1972 was still a 900 (883)cc. I owned a 1973 XLCH and I had thought of buying a 1972 model but couldn't get the money together at that time. The 72 brochure called the 1000cc Sportster the "Time Machine".
@@DesertRat332 yup you are most correct
I was wondering, why I had never heard of Ironheads being 883, until recently.
It still amazes me how long that Harley has keep this bike. Definitely a classic bike. Looks like you spent a good amount of time on this one. Well worth the watch. Thanks for sharing!!
I've owned 3 Sportys over the years. My first was a '76 XLH that I bought in 1988. The next (and best) was a '99 1200C that I bought new. I wish I had never sold that one. I currently own a '72 XLCH that needs some love. She's been sitting for quite a few years. I plan to restore her back to original one of these days. Somehow I got old and fat and ride a soft tail these days but I have loved all of my Sportsters. I did notice a mistake in your video. You said that they went to 1000cc in 1973. That is incorrect. It was actually in 1972. I know cause I own a '72 and it is 1000cc.
I have two 2002 883’s one
All black and a 883r
In my opinion the 883r is the nicest looking sportster ever made. Nice video! 👍
I’ve got a 1991 1200 Sportster owned it since near new. Hardly gets ridden now poor thing since I bought my Kawasaki Z900RS in 2018, the root beer color. Like chalk and cheese. I’ll never sell the Sporty though. Kind of timeless. The vibration though compared to the Kawasaki 😐
Someone made a comment about me having 370,000 miles on my Sportster unfortunately my phone lost it. When I bought it the previous owner was waiting for a new electronic speedometer because the Sportster shook them to pieces. I get roughly 10,000 miles out of a back tire and 20,000 miles out of a front tire. I have replaced the little bearing in the clutch about seven or eight times oh, it usually goes for about 50,000 miles. Belt drives on my bike last around 100,000 MI. One time I overfilled the oil tank because it wet some into the crankcase and I didn't know that. On my way to my destination or oil was pumping out of the top of the oil type all over the belt and it was dis integrating. I managed to bake at home. I had it towed to the independent Harley shop that I had do everything that I could not. My Sportster runs very cool. 2 up in August in Florida the oil temperature run around 200 degrees according to the thermometer in the oil tank. When your bike is cool running and the oil is not cooked it last so much longer. I have gone through 37 back tires and 17 front tires. I use my motorcycles for everyday Transportation as they were designed for. When you see my Sportster with duct tape Upholstery and Rusty pipes outside a convenience store in ghetto town you know a poor guy owns that motorcycle. One time this broad was getting her stuff and her buddies were talking about robbing my store, the one guy said to the other guy oh no that crazy biker works there! I would ride my bike all over to job interview as well as temporary job assignments to keep busy while I am milking my unemployment from the bastard who fired me. If someone did not come back from lunch I would fill in for them and I would get 8 hours pay for 4 hours work and $10 for gas money. I did not ride the Harley at nice because you have the drunks out and about as well as the people texting on their phone instead of paying attention to what they're driving, as well as herds of wild pigs come out at night. I hit one in the daytime and my buddy was surprised I did not drop my BMW 600 / 6. I never change the fork oil because the fork always worked well. 1 fork with leaking oil but my Harley mechanic could not get them loose. Some guy bought a brand new Sportster and put a brand-new Springer front end on his bike and he left the old front end at the shop. My mechanic said $300 for the fork and $100 to put it on and I said go ahead. My Sportster has been more reliable than I ever could dream. It's like the Energizer Bunny it just keeps going and going and going and going. One time I looked out the window and there was a guy around my Sportster and when I went out to look at it he was pinstriping my bike. He was drunk as a skunk he just came back from an automobile show in Miami where he would pinstripe people's cars. They came in to get gas and he looked at my Harley Sportster and said that bike needs pinstriping so he just went ahead and pinstripe the bike for free. I saw an ad for motorcycle tires in a magazine I saw in the Yamaha shop. It was get two back tires and you get a free front tire. I called up and they said we don't do retail two people just dealers. I asked how many tires did I have to buy before they would sell be tires. I bought 12 back tires and got 6 front tires for free. I got three tires for $100. I did not have to buy brand new tires for 10 years. I generally put 30,000 miles a year on a bike because I am retired and I have plenty of time and I live in the beautiful island of Florida. It has not been a peninsula since they made the Intracoastal Waterway and people cannot walk across the water. You never hear anybody having major problems with a Sportster oh, they are the most reliable motorcycle Harley ever made. It's a shame that someone cannot buy the old Harley Factory that built the Sportster and the V-Rod. When I wore out the rotor from just wear and tear I called up the Harley shop to order a new one or maybe it was the stator one or the other I don't remember. The Harley salesman on the phone said don't fix your old bike buy a new one and trade in your old one and I told him it was 20 years old and had 250,000 miles on it roughly and I asked him what he would give me for it and he said nothing. And this is a good running bike. A guy was at the Harley shop and sold his Sportster for a Kawasaki instead and he said that he would sell me all of his Sportster stuff and when I brought my truck to the Harley shop there was a huge pile of stuff and he said oh I forgot I have a brand new solo sheet let me run back and get it and everything was $100 or $150 I don't remember. One day I came home from work and there was a garbage bag hook to my front gate. Inside was a brand new Harley stock Sportster seat and a brand new set of stock Harley Sportster exhaust pipes balance tube and everything. Some guy put a new sheet and new pipes on his bike and just gave me the old ones and I don't even know who the person was. I Ride Slow. In Florida when the orange blossoms are in bloom we have the sweetest smelling air on Earth! Flatheads in the old days were easy to kick because they had low compression and they ran cool because they had low compression as well. T h e i r Cool Running and under stressed nature made them extremely long-lived. I never trade my motorcycles in I think of them like my dogs I love all of them and if they need I provided it. I had a woman pull out in front of me and I broadsided her car at 50 miles an hour and I destroyed my beautiful BMW 100/7 that was just getting to the half million mile mark. I got a good price from GEICO for the motorcycle but it broke my heart. For now I am restricted to my Ural sidecar outfit because my left leg is very weak and I can't shift without the heel-toe shifter. But today the bike stalled at a traffic light and the battery was dead so I stood all my bad leg and kicked it and she started first kick. I have all of my motorcycles for decades. I can never think of selling any of them. My Sportster technically is it worth anything but it is worth to me. Because I ride slow on all the little two-lane roads we have in Florida I put in more hours than somebody who is racing at 100 miles an hour. My friend who did motorcycle shows I would dog sit for him he had an original 1957 Sportster that was not pristine but it had original paint and all original sheet metal and he sold it for $10,000 to a collector and we went to the Harley shop for him to buy a new motorcycle and all of the salesman would just walk away from us even though he had 10 grand in his pocket cash money. We discussed about how we felt that we were not wanted there. So he bought a beautiful motor Guzzi. Now my Sportster is my first Harley. And anyone who does not believe I have the miles on that bike is welcome to come and take a look at it. I don't have an Evolution motor big twin in my collection but I see lots of guys who get beautiful bikes with low mileage pretty paint pretty Chrome garage queens and they get them for around $5,000 that is a bargain in anybody's book. I might just buy another l o t and put up an another building and fill it with cheap Harleys. I bought up every British bike that came my way that was $500 or less. I have seen guys buy nice Evolution Motors Sportsters for $1,500 and up. I might just buy another Sportster so I won't have to chance losing my old one in an accident. When I am in the Harley shop and I see people looking at a Sportster I sing it's praises I tell them how many miles I have on my Sportster I tell them use Harley Oil Change it twice a year and change the filter every other change and your bike will last damn near forever. When you have a motorcycle for 20-plus years or more you develop a special relationship with that bike that someone who trades their bike in every other year like it was a stinking car does not have. I don't drive I have only my Ural sidecar outfit until my leg gets better where I can hold up a two-wheel motorcycle I usually have for motorcycles licensed and insured and on the road and each one is a different kind of motorcycle depending on what I want to do that day. I also have a Vespa P 150 scooter in my favorite color. It is so much fun to kick- start and p u t t around on. One time a bunch of bikers pulled up next to me when I was riding the Vespa and challenge me to a race. I said two conditions one you only get one gallon of gas and two you have to kick-start your motorcycle. He laughed and said touche and rode off. I love riding everything I have because that's what they are made for. I have no need for high-horsepower anyting. I just love riding everyday because you never know when something might happen to you. When I was lying in the road after the accident bleeding and screaming all I can think about was that I am not dead! My nurse came into my hospital room and she said I saw that not a lot left of your motorcycle. Just what I wanted to hear. Everybody says I ride like a girl but I know a girl with a Suzuki Hayabusa and when I ride bitch behind her and I peeked over her shoulder as she that we are going down I-75 at 180 miles an hour I just close my eyes and hold on. She says Frankie I know when you're scared because you squeeze me tighter. She gets a kick out of that. Okay I think I blabbed enough for now but yeah I do have 370000 miles on my Sportster believe it's or not. My government Smartphone is stupid and does weird stuff please excuse anything misspelled
I dont think they are the most reliable . I do think they are better engineered because of the unit engine/transmission . I own pans, shovels , and ironheads. All of my sporties are choppers. My pans are as well. Not my shovels. 73 , 76 and late 84 ironheads. 53,58 and 61 pans.. 71 Flh with a 68 front end 2 over forks. goosenecked frame. drum brakes. kick and electric. progressive shocks. cheapo exhaust pipes with a set cheap baffles. 82 FXR Im trying to restore. Parts almost impossible to find. 83 FLHT I hate but I got her cheap. Thats a Harley not AMF though. My 73 sporty has a denvers choppers set of solid forks to along with a hardtail. ROUGH RIDE but oh so cool . 10 over stock forks with 55 degrees of rake. Its OK I live in Phx Az everything is a straight line ,no turns to deal with except left or right onto another street. Low and slow. The late 84 sporty chop is my favorite. Its got an evo front end and evo brakes front and rear. Brand new spoked wheels. Bates solo seat and P pad . Home made upswept drag pipes. Starts and runs good. My daily ride is 09 Dyna Street Bob. Gear drive, cams ,pipes, intake and remap. its my daily actual transportation and far more reliable than any sporty. I ride it like I stole it. You have that many miles on that bike because you dont ride it hard. Its cool though. You want it to last and dont wanna be turning wrenches I suppose. As for oil I never have and never will use that crap that Harley sells. AMSOIL in my Twincam. All three holes I use amsoil products. As for my pans shovels and ironheads usually Twin power. 70 wt in summer. 50 wt in winter. I change fluids and filters often. Its cheap insurance. If ya ever happen to be in hot as hell Phx with that ol sporty and I see ya Im buying the first round of beers. I like you actually ride my sleds!!!
@@chopperchopster my Sportster has what they call a softcam. It doesn't make a lot of horsepower even for an 883 but because it run so cool down here in Florida even in the summertime the engine doesn't seem to wear out and I don't hammer on it. It really wouldn't be any point because there is no horsepower for you to get. I used to use my Chromecast certificates at my local dealership, it would get me 3 quarts of oil a quart of transmission fluid and an oil filter and I paid $0.56 over the price of the $25 certificate. My 1965 Triumph TR6, front half is all stock, back half has a bolt on hard tail. Aaron has twin Harley fish pipes one on each side as well as the Harley toolbox and a Tombstone tail light on the FLH Harley fender with the hinge in the back. The bike is so comfortable I can ride 70 miles an hour all day and it's more comfortable than my Sportster with shock absorber. I had ABS a 650 Chopper bought it for $500. Had my Triumph wrench clean the carburetor, and make a new wiring harness to replace all the crappy spaghetti that was on the bike. It was a hardtail with a king and queen s e a t on it and a Springer front end. I took one ride on the bike but I didn't like the way the Springer was so I just had it sitting on my porch. All custom parts except for the motor. Sold it to a guy in a local club and once I saw him on a Harley and I said oh did you sell the Beezer he said oh no I had to have a Harley because of the club and the rules don't say that I can't have more than one motorcycle. He loved the BSA Chopper I sold him. He had to buy a Harley because of the club rules. I bought my Sportster because I wanted to have a bigger choice of people working on my bike when it needed it. I do stuff like fluid changes, and on my other bikes I do valve adjustments, oil the drive chain, adjust the drive chain as needed. I was riding my BMW 100 / 7 my 1977. Some woman blocked both lanes of the road. I hit the side of a car with my bike around 45 miles an hour. When I lay in the road bleeding and screaming all I could think about was I'm not dead I'm not dead I'm Not Dead! My nurse comes into my hospital room and she says I saw that not a lot left of your motorcycle. This motorcycle was on the verge of rolling over the odometer for the fifth time. Being retired with all the time in the world me and my riding buddy go out on day trips just to get out. We are the only true in our riding group who don't drink. I would put a new rear tire on the beaver three times a year. Being a veteran of the Air Force sometimes we go over to another post to have lunch and then ride back. We stopped at a couple of our favorite biker bar to have a soda, and take a break from riding. I have worn out 37 back tires on my Sportster and 17 of the front ones. I got a new speedometer to replace the one that didn't work about three years after I bought the bike but it wasn't worth me putting on because all of my British bites two Speedos don't work or it's the wrong one and I love to just go riding for the joy of riding. When you have to commute to work on your motorcycle you can to run up a lot of mileage. When I was in between jobs I loved taking a four hour job, do the job in one hour and the guy feels bad for me so he gives me an 8-hour check! I was working on a temp assignment building my local Harley dealer. There was a hurricane forecasted but it was such a beautiful day I just went to work. The foreman gave me an 8-hour check just for showing up to work. Everybody was happy about building our own Harley dealership, they were enthusiastic in a way that they would not be if it was just another CVS or Walgreens. Right now both of my legs are unsteady from the accident with the BMW. I am now kind of restricted to using my Ural sidecar outfit that I just bought my buddy who helped me with my BMWs and my Triumph he found the Ural and it was running jumped off a car battery at so he just wrote it around the dealership and everything worked and he brought it up here and I told him yeah I'll pay $4,000 for it. It was like buying the sidecar and getting the motorcycle for free. In the old days I would find Harley guys who would have a box of old British stuff just miscellaneous things in a box right and I would ask him well how much you want for this and they say $10 just give me 5, and then they say all just take it I'm tired of packing it over and over and over. In the old days of biker parties were downright fun. You had bike games that were fun. You had great food. When the girls would get drunk they would climb up on the band stage and get nasty! They were just strut their stuff! I belong to ABATE of Florida in the old days and protesting to helmet law was so much fun we would get how many of our bikes food would show up and we would just have rogards and we were just ride around without helmets and it was such a great Act of defiance. It was so cool getting interviewed by TV and newspaper people and then seeing your you and your bike on the news. When I used to stop at biker bars you would see beautiful Old Stock kind of Harleys. Yeah personalized but not straying too far from original. I have all of my bikes for decades, when I go down to the dealership I see one year old bikes traded in with almost no mileage and it's like how could you even get the feel for a bike and you don't even ride it.? The older bikes like what you have and like my old British bike you have to do stuff to keep them in good running order because let's not forget everything that is a collector's item now used to be just a regular everyday motorcycle that you bought from a dealer. And I loved that in the old days you could buy all sorts of motorcycle gear as well as a motorcycle from Sears catalog. I loved working at my local Sears in the hardware department as a second job. I loved selling Craftsman tools. Made in America the best they were. Sometimes I would make more money per hour on a good day at Sears. I loved saving customers money or telling them about really good specials at the managers did not want us to make the customers aware of. I loved telling customers that the $2 calendar from Sears has $200 worth of coupons in it months two months. Come Christmas I would have a dozen people lined up at my register waiting for me to wait on them because they wanted me to get the commission. And they would just stand there patiently online while I would wait on everybody in turn because I always waited on them good in a little stuff or for Big Stuff. Some old lady came in with a weird woodworking bit and I had no idea what it was and I said ma'am I have no idea what it is but if we got it I will sell it to you and she said oh thank God a man that doesn't make me feel stupid because I don't know about tools, come Christmas she brought and $1,100 saw combination table, I made $35 on that one sale. I had a little Toyota Corolla wagon you would be surprised at the great big TVs and lawn tractors that I could fit in the back of my car and take to a people's house cuz the modern cars they can't fit nothing in. The management actually complain that I was taking delivery money away from the corporation. One day my Toyota didn't start so I got on my Triumph and I rode it to the hospital to go to work. I was told my motorcycle did not look right outside the hospital it was bad for their image. They told me to take the day off so I rode back to my mom's house and got my riding gear on instead of my office clothes and I had a great day on the road. I went for a job interview with my regular motorcycle jacket with all my patches on it and the old lady called the office and told her don't send us any more Hell's Angels. I had to get a plain leather jacket to ride to interviews. I remember when apartment complexes would have big sign saying no motorcycles. Lots of mobile home complexes also had rules against motorcycles. I hate cars, pickup trucks are useful but cars are the biggest waste of everything just to carry one person. I've had my Harley Sportster almost 25 years and I've had my Triumph TR6 for about 40 years. When I had to have some stuff done to my Ural real simple stuff no mechanics would do it. So I went to my buddies house and with the manual and the parts by dealer sent me I went to work it took me a lot longer than a mechanic sure but it gave me the satisfaction of doing the job myself. When I get into the seals correctly on the pushrod tubes I had to do take it apart and do it again and that's what I did. When you look at the amount of maintenance for an old motorcycle and you look at stuff that was just considered routine maintenance that the owner did. On all of the motorcycles in England and most in America you had to tear down the front Primary in order to change sprockets when your chain wore out. Cleaning carburetors, cleaning and replacing points as needed. But just like kick-starting all of these skills are being left by the wayside. Well thanks for liking my comment I'll let you go now I know I've been long-winded. As soon as the doctors say that I am okay to ride a two-wheeler again I am going to go look for a nice clean low mileage 883 Sportster they are just such a great bike I love them.
@@frankmarkovcijr5459 i forgot to mention my 71 Honda cb750 hardtail chop and my 71 yamaha 650 chopper as well as a chopped 71 triumph t110 tiger .also a chopper. You and i have something in Common. I too had a bad wreck. While riding my 61 pan with its open chain primary a woman ran a red light . I hit her car dead center. Woke up in hospital 2 weeks later with my left leg amputated from just below the knee down. I have heel toe shifters now or I also have fabricated jockey shifts with the clutch lever attached to them . Think about that. Might work well for you as well. Not hard to create a heel toe. I don't drink either. I'm straight edge. I just figured you did. No beer then if we cross paths. Soda and shoot pool. Maybe darts. Only other reason to be in a bar is chasing tail!
@@chopperchopster me and my riding buddy are like the only two guys in the Legion Riders at my post who don't drink. And I have so many women come up to me and tell me how cute my motorcycle is. They all loved the sidecar but they think the sidecar comes off like in the movies and I tell them that only happens in the movies. My doctors were talking about cutting off half of my left foot, and they were saying well then you could put one of your triumphs on the road because it's shifts on the right hand side. I have my rescue dog and my rescue cat to take care of. Honestly I enjoy having all the Time in the World to just go riding my bike and doing whatever I feel like. I have a heel toe shifter that comes stock with the u r a l. I am 2050 with my eyesight so I am considered legally blind so I don't think so any darts would be such a great idea. People tell me how can you ride a motorcycle and you're legally blind and I tell them the woman that hit me was 2020 so what's her excuse? My riding buddies a chaplain said that when and if I lose my license for riding a motorcycle then he would just come over to my house with his bike and then he would drive the bike and I would sit in the Sidecar, I was so surprised and I thanked him for being so considerate. Sorry to hear that you lost your leg. This country tolerate stupid drivers because there are so many of them and they outnumber us when it comes to being voted on. I tell my doctor's as long as it hurts and I have feeling in my leg then you can't cut it off!! Of course I can always put a cheap sidecar on the sporty that would hold it up. I once had a cop following me around and I pulled over and he pulled over behind me without his lights on and I knocked on his window and I asked him if we had a problem and he said no you just have a very interesting motorcycle. I got one pulled over for dawdling and I was talking with the cop because he wanted to buy a Ural sidecar outfit. We just chatted away and then I looked down the road and traffic was backed up all the way to the bridge cuz no one would pass this cuz he had his lights on. I hope he got one. I never thought I would use mine for everyday Transportation but it has been so exceedingly reliable and I've gone through 7 back tires meaning I put around 40,000 Mi on the bike since I bought it. I just wish it still came with the machine gun haha. I bet you have an interesting collection of motorcycles but then don't we all because we like bikes and if something comes our way that is a super bargain we would be foolish not to snap it up. Well time for another pain pill catch you later ride safe!!
I had a 88 4 speed Sporty, 1 year old .I paid £4000 in 89. Was fine till I got the Harley dealers to upgrade to 1200cc ( wiseco pistons ) about 6 months later the transmission died.Tuened out they never should have upped it to 1200 without a G Box upgrade.End result after me raising hell .They replaced the transmission with a uprated 4 speed g box ,no charge.
I’m glad to hear you didn’t back down! Ride safe John.
Iam 51and started riding on an 84flh sporty! And have had a 68,76, and now an 06! Still love them! Just a great bike!
Keep on goin man!
my 2nd Sporty i bought around 2000 was a LA import .It was a1200 cc chrome engine ,FXR tank , gunfighter saddle, softail rear fender.I had it raked out to 32 degrees wide glide fully chromed forks ,fat boy custom painted 16 inch wheels ,Avon white walls ( think long before the 48 came out ) .Boy that bike looked great.
Great video always loved them old iron heads had an 85 XLS 1000 last year for them.
The price in 1964 was about the same as a base ford falcon, which was an economy car. But HD deserve credit for keeping the price low for decades. Not sure what its like now, but back in the day it was competitive.
I like the early year models with the springer seats & mid-mount controls.
I bought a new 1977 XLCH and the retail price was $3050. An XLH (electric starter) same year was $3200.
The seat was different than those shown in the video.
I bought a 1973 XLCH in December 1972 for $2075 I think the XLH would have been $2150 or so. That was in Charleston, SC. I was in the Navy and had priced an XLCH in Waukegan, IL earlier that year and it seems they wanted $2500 for a 1972 Sportster. The South Carolina dealer gave me a good deal because he had traded another dealer for the XLCH.
@@DesertRat332 Sounds about right. Remember the old tv show, "Then Came Bronson"? The rider's cool sportster had a 21" front runner and a bit more chrome than a stock bike. I priced one they were calling a "Bronson Special" in 1969 they wanted $1999 for it. Inflation is readily apparent in the prices of Sportsters over the years.
My brother bought a '68 Triumph TR6 new for about $1160. But those were 1968 dollar$.
Great Music !
Very interesting, many thanks and for your efforts
Thanks much Stephen! It's nice to get comments like yours instead of how I made a minor mistake or two. It took 40+ hours of work to make this video - hunting down prices, production numbers, culling 195 bike photos out of thousands, assembling everything, editing, piecing together the two separate soundtracks of music and exhaust rumble, and almost 90 minutes to upload the video. It's the comments like yours that make me want to do it all over again! -Tripp
@@trippontwowheels no problems, it is apparent how hard it's been for you to compose a really interesting article, and for me and many others now and later again many thanks, but in truth their are only a few that keep the fort running, the rest just ride the wave and the same jaw bone . Keep the faith
Would seem AMF was able to put numbers of Sporties out.
Love the 57 sportster well balance & looked nice,. after that year they went with that odd shaped tank & as the years went by it stayed that way and evolved into a wanna be entry level chopper. Enjoyed my Knucklehead, Panhead and even 1st year Electoglide dresser and the 70'xl flat tracker was the best sportster with good handling & frame geomenty i remember., But back then they were what they were, nothing special and affordable. Of coarse that was 60 years ago, i am more into scooters and small displacment bikes now.
Just checked my email. Found nothing. Spell it wrong possibly? It’s tripp@trippontwowheels.com
I loved it when it said "Sportster" on the primary cover and the script "Sportster" on the gas tank. I don't know as they ever did both the same model year. 😞
@@DesertRat332 So long ago i don't really remember but i think your right about the primary in '57&58
Interesting to see the MSRP over the years. It is fairly consistent at about 2 1/2 months gross professional salary or about 5 months gross wages for non-professional. Roughly. So, it's been fairly well placed as an "entry level" big bike. I'm on my second sporty ['05 1200] and loving it. Not too big, not too small. Fun to ride.
ROFL...have you PRICED a Sportster S lately? No, I don't mean that $16k 'webpage MSRP', I mean walk into an average dealership and PRICE ONE? If you can walk out with a bike below $35k, you're SUPER LUCKY to find one of the VERY RARE 'at MSRP' dealers in America (what...maybe 10...and they WON'T ship out-of-state, or Harley gets mad at them...it's a 'walk-in' deal, ONLY). Now...as 'Mean U.S. Household Income is $48k...I'm not really sure where you're getting those 'salary percentages' at...
No, sorry, you could buy a house for $5k so a Sportster was a real luxury.
I bought a 1973 XLCH Sportster in Charleston, South Carolina in December of 1972. It cost $2075.00. First year of a front disc brake, and I liked the wrinkle black finish on the cases.
There should be Thousands upon thousands of thumbs up 👍 only 212? That seems awfully low for such a time consuming edited video here, I personally Thank those responsible for this awesomeness, HD owner of a 2002 Sportster 883C
I owned a 94 sporty for fifteen years one of the best bikes I've ever owned
The 71 was the last year for the 900. They put fatter pistons in the 72 1000 but the head bolts were too close to the cyl walls so they changed the heads & cyls in 73, along with an Asian front end & disks (the Sportsters had anti-lock brakes till then). I had a 71 but gave it to someone with bolt-cutters. I've had the 72 since 1975. Most reliable thing I own. When it's cold out it just waits for me and cries tears of oil into the crankcase. The first nice day, and it's ready to go, third kick. It doesn't vibrate, it quivers.
Cool bikes.
Great video thanks.
You’re welcome John. Glad you enjoyed it.
The Harley Davidson Sportster is the #1 modified motorcycle in the world! I own 3 1992's 1200,one has a fatboy front end with a full size front light( I hate that little xl light) bobbed fender and this one started out as an 883 so converted to 1200,bike is called a " Fatster" motor all blacked out and a rocket off the line,tail light fades to black and fun to ride,and on one 1992 I put an FLH front end on full fender with fender light and passing lights,and blacked out motor,this one is a " Glidester" anybody who says the Sportster is a girls bike ,I tell them " just like a Corvette is a girls car"!Maranatha ,Greetings from Tampa Florida 😎
I've got a '57 XL waiting in line to be put back together. I'm not looking forward to it. A lot of it is just not around anymore.
I've got most of it collected, we will see.
Have fun peeps.
I had an 84 which was the last year for the iron head Sportster. 85 was the new alloy cylinders. The 84 was 1,000 cc. The new engine was 883. I rode that 84 for 23 years. Sold it to my grand daughter who sold it to her cousin to whom his dad had bought it new. It is still in the family.
Impressive!
Early or late 84? By the way it's not the last ironhead. 1985 is.
It was an early 84. My mistake. I thought 85 was the new 883 engine.
@@jimkraft9445 late 84 is preferable in my opinion because it doesn't have a generator. Late 84 is first to use a stator and has spin on oil filter where the generator used to be. Also has diafram spring in clutch. I have two chopped late 84 sporties. By the way they also still made shovels in 85. Police models only. Idk how many.
Yes, mine still had a generator which I never had a problem with. I did have to replace the regulator a couple of times though. I have a 99 Softail Custom now which I have replaced both the stator and the regulator at around 30,000 miles.
I also had to replace the clutch discs in my 84 Sporty because the facing came off.
I started riding Harlelys in 1955 when I was 14. A 1942 flat head with the side shift on the tank and foot clutch. Wish I still had it. I actually started riding when I was 8 on a friends Whizzer motor bike. Then Cushman scooters, then the Harley. I am 81 now. Not ready to give up riding yet.
Love my 2000 883, will never sell it.
'77 XLCH was $2995, I remember because I bought one. XLH I don't recall $3125 I believe. The grey bike is a '77 FXS.
Notice how all the early Sportsters had right foot shift like a Brit bike. I wanted a 1971 900cc back in the day . They wanted $1,900 for it . I passed . Sadly . Bought a 2004 1200 Classic many,many years later . Great bike .
Had to have the shifter in the right to slide left.
After the standardization act made all bike shift on the left, (75) you could change the shifter side with a 30 dollar relocate kit that included all the early shift parts and a new shorter brake cable. I think it was a Gary Bang part.
Have fun.
I had a 2008 Sportster. Wish I had kept it!
I just looked on cycle trader and there's 26 of them for sale.
But is any of them AirFoiled's one?
@@splodge5714 I had the 2008 XL 1200C Custom 105th Anniversary Edition. Copper and Black, wire wheels.
Very informative. Cool video and beautiful American machines! Btw at 4:38 that’s not a Sportster. That’s a Shovel Head engine.
Please describe the photo and I’ll swap it out when I update the video for 2023. Damned Google images anyhow. Thanks!
@@trippontwowheels it’s at 4:38 time stamp. It’s charcoal grey. You can tell it’s a big twin by the shovel head valve covers and the battery box is on the right side. Leave it it’s a beautiful bike lol. I think it’s a Dyna but I’m not sure. Dyna’s are just big Sportsters in reality.
It was late and I was sorting through hundreds of images. Looks like I botched two out of 195. 🙂
@@trippontwowheels well I enjoyed the video a whole lot. Learned a lot and I’m proud that the original Sportster from 1957 was an 883. I’m the proud owner of a 1999 XLH883 SPORTY.
@@filthyanimal874 And I’ve got a 2004 XL1200R. Where are you from?
Just picked up a 1958 xl sportster project bike . Surprised by how low the production numbers were for these bikes.
Very cool Mike! Would love to see pictures sometime.
@@trippontwowheels She's rough at the moment, and hasn't ran since the mid 90's, but its a fairly complete bike so it deserves to be saved. I'll have to send some pics eventually.
the picture you used at 9:12 of the '99 883 is literally my motorcycle haha. You can see it in the first video on our page
Very cool! A nice surprise? 🙂
Pretty sure thumb start did'nt come in until the mid-late 70's.
Shocked at the low production numbers early on.
Enjoyable vid bar the odd big twin pic mix up...
Actually he is correct 67 was the first year thumb start
@@johnturner2197 did"nt know that for xl Sportys.
Thanx for the correction.
Are the prices adjusted for inflation?
No. They are original prices.
You made a couple mistakes. You showed a a ‘76 Sportster, then a picture of a Super Glide with a Shovel Head motor (4:29 min). Then a ‘77 Sportster, followed by a Low Rider also with a Shovel Head (4:37 min). Good video though.
What's the Super glide doing there?
Give you one guess. 🙂
@@trippontwowheels it's got a sportster front end? I'm partial to the Super Glides soooo. Coincidentally you stuck it in with the 1976 year. My 1st Harley was a 76 Sportster. The one I ride now and is also the one I will keep till the bitter end is a 04 Super Glide Sport. Thanks for the video though, I did enjoy it.
bought a 68 sporty brand new with tax $ 1835
I prefer a Buell 900.norman front twin disc.
Didn’t think they were $1000 way back then! Pricey when u think cars were 2-5k......
2001 model was the best looking imo
Best calipers too. So good they only had on 3 years..... Idiots
If only I could find a 1957 sportster for sale at MSRP.
If you do, buy it fast brother, because I’ll be right behind you.
@@trippontwowheels if I find it at that price I'll grab one for you too. 🤘😎🤘
You da man!
What is the music,and I don't mean the engine sound.
@@stan-ut5gj Answered your other post.
You've got some wrong year models in there, along with a bike that's not a Sportster. When the 13 bought the company back, Harley start producing models again, in '81, or did they start in '82?
No one’s perfect! 1981.
@@trippontwowheels,
Yeah. But the point of the video is to show what the year models look like. You had 2004 and up models showing for some of the 2003 and earlier models. Cool
Thanks
Like several here, I never understood why everyone said 'the 883 is a girl's bike'...especially the mid-80's models...the damn things were all vibration, torque and more torque. A wrong-move, and you're wearing it like a roadkill turtle, not riding it! If I had to sum them up in a word, I'd say 'touchy'...rode 3 of them, didn't really want one after that first ride! I also don't remember an OEM 80's model that came with a his/hers seat...everyone I ever saw 'untouched' was 'driver only'...no pillion, no nothing otherwise. As for price, well...besides their late 80's run on the '100% trade-in offer' on what you paid, I really don't remember EVER hearing someone buying them anywhere NEAR that MSRP that everyone wants to use to compare them to...as with most 'non-MSRP Harley dealers'...you could expect to pay anywhere from 50% to 100% more than MSRP (normally, 40-50% over MSRP for the 883...where the 1000, and later the 1200, were higher).
Shame the best Sportster of all didn't get a pic, my 2001 yellow 1200S. You should've asked.
I called. Got your voice message. 😞
😪🥴😁
Those older sporster were not 883cc they were 900cc then went to 1000cc in the early 70s
True, sort of. Sportsters were produced from 1957 -1972 with the "883 Ironhead" billed as 55CID which does equate to 900 cc, but was actually 53.9CID which equates to 883cc . Models XL 883, XLH 883 XLC 883 and XLCH 883 were produced these 15 years.
What is that music?
Six different songs from Epidemic Sounds, a royalty free music service I have to pay way too much for. 🙂
The Sportster was increased to 1000cc in 1972, not 1973...
Damned! Does this mean I only a 99 out of 100?
Very Good!... 154🐄🦉🏴☠✝
"1529 sold of which about 5,000 survive"...
So the stats in this video have told me a thing or two..... very low numbers of production until AMF took over and the bikes didn't look so antiquated back in the early years - seems H-D, like the English manufacturers, failed to keep up with the times. I hope that these newer engine designs and styling helps H-D survive the inevitable death of the internal combustion engine because Harleys have something that metric bikes don't - STYLE !
Why is there a Lowrider in the video @ 4.40 , and no mention of the 1100 and 1200 models..... shame on you Tripp, you should do your homework before going out to play !.... I bought a 1990 four speed 883 here in England in june 1990 and it cost me £4560.... that's about 65% more, but I remember that there was both car tax and VAT payable on the price of £3200 - govt. bastards ripping us off again, three months later they abolished car tax but the price never went down.... H-D absorbed that little earner thank you very much !
from 2021-2022 biggest price jump ever, $1,500 in one year. $11,250. since sales are low Harley passes on the losses to the consumer. ripoff.
Amen.
Thunderbolt.
Badboy heads.?
2022 we see the highest jump in price $2,000.00 yoy.
My new 1972 XLCH was faster than my new 2008 1200 Custom...
There is no head like ironhead! I have had 3, a 68, a 71 and my current 74. Actually it is the one pictured at 3:59, I took that picture in front of my house. So the question is now, how the fuck did you get it??
Google search, looking for the best bikes I could find from each year, and yours must have popped up. I’d be happy to remove it for the 1957-2023 version when I put it out. Just let me know? Ride safe Charlie!
@@trippontwowheels It's cool, kinda neat seeing it there actually. I was more surprised, like "hey, that looks familiar!" That was right after I bought it and put it back together, it had a cracked frame at the swingarm pivot. You should see it now, COMPLETELY different. Hardtailed drag bike style now. I bought it from the original owner, he paid $1865 at Port Huron Harley in Michigan, I still have the receipt. I don't know if that was the MSRP however. Liked and subbed. Anyone giving the ironhead some love is good in my book.
Rubber mount big improvement.
You got that right! My 2004 was the first year to have it.
My rigid is smooth as butter up to 70mph, and who wants to do more than 70 on a Sportster? 🤔
I knew the old guy who was Harley dealer here in Philadelphia from the 50s through the 80s. He told me that he once bought a train car load of sportsters and every one of them came back with a bad transmission. He called the factory to complain and their explanation was "The guy who usually does the gear hardening was out that day."
And on the seventh day he rested.
Paid 400 for my 1959 ,paid a 1000$ dollrs for my 70 xlch .. looking for a 1962 ch that my birthyear.panhead out of question.not rich ,just a worker bee. Ride hard and free.!!!!
I hear ya brother Dash! Got my 2004 XL1200R for $1000 even. Ride on!
Got a 1962 xlh me grandpappy bought new. Been riding it since 1990. I’m lookin a 72. My birthyear
$1100 when you could buy a nice house for $5000.
Add those hideous 1960's tailpiece models yet leave out the 1977-79 XLCR1000 . . .
No photos available. You think making this video was easy? 24 hours on this one.
Can t believe the idiots at HD have dropped the Sporty models. And Dynas for that matter. Making bikes in Asia be it India or China is gonna kill HD... They've lost me.
You’re a bit off track. The 883 and 48 haven’t been discontinued as of the present, and Harley makes all its North American sold bikes in the US and has no plans to change that.
I have 2017(Olive) with vance and hines.
So????
Musics annoying
there were not 883,s until the evo era
Sorry, but that’s 100% not true.
Lol, but it is 100% wrong
@@seldomseensavage3459 Couldn’t have said it better myself. 🙂
i am 100% wrong
Shittiest riding Bike ever made by Harley but sells because it's the only Harley most can afford, at least among those obsessed with owning a Harley rather than a "Rice Burner" that will outperform them, is more reliable and costs literally HALF the money. Harley people don't yet understand that it's about RIDING, period, not about WHAT you ride!
Reread your last sentence a few times. To yourself. Seems it applies to more than just Harley people.
Bugs the F' out of me they don't list production numbers, didn't realize its been that long since they stopped.
Me too.