I walked back inside as Julio, one of Corbin’s master seat builders, was asking some guy if the aforementioned bike was his. He nods in the affirmative and I pipe up that it’s a weird some kind of Sportster. Julio says “That ain’t no Sportster” and walks with the owner out to the bike. As he approaches his eyes get wider and wider and he circles the bike much like I did. So Jim Carducci rolls his bike into the Wizard’s Workshop to get a seat made and I shoot some images and talk with him. He’s a mechanical engineer working designing machines that make the machines that make the chips for use in the brains of computers at Applied Materials in Silicon Valley where he was raised and started riding dirt bikes as a kid. He has also worked at the Nevada Proving Grounds. Area 51? I didn’t ask.

Jim went to his drawing board between working on inventing Silicon Valley type projects and worked on the more important designing his dual sport Sportster, i.e. DUAL SPORT-Y. Being connected in Silicon Valley gave Jim access to machine shops to get his designs fabricated by people who make stuff for companies like Google, Apple, eBay and such. So the parts that were made for Jim were class and correct. I probably shouldn’t but I will let out the fact that KTM forks fit the Sportster neck without modification. Don’t tell anybody who told ya.

During the seat fitment everybody at the shop examined the bike with many asking Jim technical build questions; it sure got lots of attention. This was its first public appearance. Even the Harley shop had not seen it as Jim didn’t want to show it off until the seat was made. The final problem to be solved is the kickstand retraction deal. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the donor was an 883 and since the frame is H-D, the title says Harley. Could the Dual Sport-y become a trend? Don’t ask me, I’m just a dumb biker.