Sportsters

So it's possible I'm selling the Vulcan. So, even with the thought of selling the bike, my mind quickly jumped to shopping for a new one....Which I won't be purchasing until after I graduate, but no reason not to get a head start.

I'm looking mostly at harley's. I'm focusing on Sportsters because they tend to be in my price range (imaginary, but I'm saying between 3k-6k and really prefer it to me closer to the 3k than the 6, you know what I'm saying....found a few I like the looks of....and then I stubled upon this.

I know...how sick is that? Love the paint scheme, the corbin cafe seat the sick race fairing, and the tank with knee indents...It is priced around 5k. What really aught my eye were the rear controls...absolutely neccesary for a cafe racer...so I googled a bit and found these guys:
http://www.satoracing.com/rearsetshdss.htm

Pretty fancy stuff right there, but the ability to color coordinate a bikes control linkage with anodized aluminum is sick.

Then I found these from SATO Racing. Minimal, functional and super clean.

All this makes me want to build a sick Harley Sportster cafe racer. I'd probably to a black and gold theme but who knows. Well that got me thinking....black and gold is great, but black and copper is better. So I found a place in St. Louis that does copper plating. I think it would be nice to build a bike from the ground up and start with a copper plated frame. Hell. Yeah.

http://americanplatingcompa.reachlocal.com/?scid=1876202&kw=1404369:19595&pub_cr_id=393077698