Icelandic love affair..

In 2003 my good friend Sævar from Iceland came to visit me when I was living in Trondheim, the biker capitol of Norway. I had found a bike for him in that needed some love and caring. The bike was an ’86 Sportster 883 that had been chopped a few years earlier, and had been standing inside a mountain since then.

He bought the bike and the first thing we did was to get it up to 1200cc. The bike had a Calles frame and Tolle front end with an 18 inch wheel in the front and 15” in the back. Not a bad thing to start with. Back in Iceland he used the bike during the summer and in the wintertime he did some adjustments to the bike. New rear wheel with fender & sissy. A new homemade oil bag and a “first timer” airbrush paint job.
Next winter the bike was back on the table and this time it was the front end that was swapped for a brand new Springer (of course ;-). The paintbrush got filled with some fresh new paint for the new stripes and he even made a new seat for it, leather work and all. Nice work bro! A true garage build.. He has now sold the sporty and has built himself a nice Panhead Softail.. More on that project later.