H-D RACER REVIVAL
Words by Joy Burgess Photos by Ron Brefka and Mike Lange
Some people are just born with steel and oil in their blood . There ’ s no explanation for it … just a magnetic pull they can ’ t get away from , which was how it all started for long-time engine and bike builder Mike Lange .
“ By the time I was five ,” Lange told us , “ there was something that just drew me to motorcycles . I can ’ t put it into words , but I feel like it ’ s in my blood . They ’ ve always fascinated me , and I ’ ve been riding since I was 10 years old , so I ’ ve been riding for 54 years now .”
His very first bike was a tube-framed minibike , a bike he miraculously found again on eBay and is
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