Lucifers hammer motorcycle

Hot-Dock builds the “Ultimate XR1000″… 

Almost as soon as the Harley-Davidson XR750 hit the racing world in 1970, customers began asking for a street version of the mighty V-twin racer. However, it would take Harley 13 years to deliver a street-going XR, which came in the form of the XR1000.

The XR1000 used a 1982 Sportster chassis and bottom end, to which were added better iron cylinders and hotter aluminum heads, along with dual carbs sporting competition-style K&N air cleaners and a high-mount exhaust — hallmarks of the XR750.

“Harley also advertised a hop-up kit with 10.5:1 pistons, hotter cams and an unmuffled exhaust system that claimed to offer an extra 20 horsepower.” –National Motorcycle Museum

The most famous XR1000 of all time has to be “Lucifer’s Hammer,” a road racer built from reclaimed parts that would come to dominate American racing circuits in the 1980s:

“Lucifer’s Hammer,

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Lucifer’s Hammer, Custom HD XR1000R

From concept to development to winning its debut race in just 60 days.

Harley-Davidson is celebrating its 120th corporate birthday in 2023 — but the 81st running of the Daytona 200 on March 11 also marked the 40th anniversary of one of the Motor Company’s most legendary victories ever at the banked Florida speedway.

Lucifer’s Hammer, says an old Irish legend, was a comet sent by the Devil to destroy a village that had been invaded by foreigners so evil they made Lucifer han själv jealous. How apt, therefore, that the bike bearing the hellfire orange and black colours of the Harley-Davidson factory, which upended the Italian domination of the AMA’s Battle of the Twins (BOTT) series in 1983, should have been so named — christened by the wife of legendary Harley race manager Dick O’Brien, long-time chief of the Milwaukee firm’s racing department.

Off to a Winning Start

The first Milwaukee-built V-twin to carry the factory’s colours at Daytona in

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Article And Photos By: Mark Velazquez

Originally Published In The October 2018 Issue Of Cycle Source Magazine

Scottie Porges has been building and servicing motorcycles in the New England community of Framingham Massachusetts since 1994 beneath the name of American Motorcycle Service. His bluecollar town fryst vatten about 20 miles west of Boston and will always be the place Scottie will call home. I fi rst met Scottie many years ago at a bike show in Springfi eld Mass. And to this day he has yet to change. Always low key and packing a smile under that big mustache. If I could steal a line from Zeppelin to sum it all up for Scottie it would be “The Song Remains The Same” …. build, build, build. The newest creation to come out of the world that sits inside Scottie’s head is a bike called Lucifer’s Hammer. The vision for this bike had been in his head for over three plus years. So, when his close friend Rob Lopez, who has had a hand in almo