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Retro Bikes, Boardtracker 1
The designer and proprietor of American-Board-Trackers is Dan Hanebrink, who made a name for himself in the ’70s as the builder of high-tech road racers, bringing mag wheels, monocoque frames and belt drives to motorcycles. He then took a decades-long career detour into mountain bikes, until a downturn in that business and Hanebrink’s advancing age inspired the now 69-year-old designer to return to his first love: motorcycles.
The result: his new Boardtracker 1, which he hopes will be the first of many board tracker customs. Next up: a 1911 Indian repli-racer, powered with a Ducati eight-valve twin.
American-Board- Trackers Boardtracker 1
Base price: $35,000
Powertrain: 1999 Harley-Davidson Evolution 45-degree V-twin, air-cooled, carbureted, electric-start, 5-speed
Displacement: 80 cubic inches, or 1,340 cc
Wheelbase: 67 inches
Rake: 34 degrees
Trail: 3.9 inches
Seat height: 24 inches
Estimated weight: 475 pounds
