Overnight Sensation
By Allison Parker & Greg Drevenstedt Photos courtesy Feuling Parts
Sturgis is just a few weeks away, and the bike in your Southern California garage is a 1985 Harley- Davidson FXRT. Now what? Most of us would give the bike a soup- to- nuts going- over, fix what needed fixing, and take it for a shakedown ride. Then we’ d pack the hard bags for the 1,500- mile journey to the Black Hills, hit the road, and hope for the best.
But if you’ re the crew at Feuling Parts, led by Luke Leatherman, you take a different approach. You work around the clock turning that old FXRT into a rip- snortin’ performance bagger.
Purchased years ago from Black Hills Harley- Davidson, the FXRT“ was bone stock,
O. G., everything but the tires and the seat,” says Leatherman in a YouTube video about the build.“ It was just sitting, and the suspension was blown out. To be a rider, it needed a lot of
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