What Spitfire’s Paul Cavallo has done here for Supertracker’s owner, Mike “Cheez” Brown, is to take one customer’s dream of “I want a V-twin that I can jump” and turn it into a fire-breathing reality. What Mike ended up with is a bike that looks ready to travel back to the ‘80s when super motards (or supermoto depending on your preference) were created for a made-for-TV-sport called Superbikers that failed here initially before a resurgence in Europe brought it back to America. Toss in some street tracker vibes just because you can and that’s where the name Supertracker must come from.

Obviously Paul didn’t just modify a Sportster frame for this duty, but started from a clean sheet of paper or a pile of tubing or whatever he starts from when he’s building something that never existed before. Check out the wicked long travel and beefy inverted fork along with the braced swingarm and monoshock rear suspension Paul designed and you can se this is not your typical street tracker custom, but a bike built to fall back down to earth safely after a big jump or two or three or more. I’d go for the “more” aspect.

Getting it up to speed to jump is a Spitfire-modified 1203cc Buell engine ripped out of an innocent Buell Thunderbolt for repurposing in Mike’s bike. Real XR-style exhausts by SuperTrapp look just peachy and enable Mike to dial in the engine’s audio output to whatever his mood is by simply adding or subtracting plates. Hey, a guy’s gotta look good and sound good before, during, and after any jump.

Making it look good is the handmade bodywork by Jason Wilson that was treated to a dose of Wayne Wreck and Sweet Baby James paint to bring either an ode to some body being Irish or just a bit of Shamrock-induced luck to the bike. I’m going with the luck part as jumping anything this big and fast involves a bit ‘o luck as well as skill in landing safely over and over. Hey, everybody’s got some lucky thing on there bike or some ritual of luck they do when it comes time to fly. If for some reason you don’t, I’d advise you to get one quickly as you don’t want to push your luck anymore than what you have already.

The end result of all of this work culminated in a “Best in Class” and “Outstanding Engineering” awards at the 2010 Oakland Roadster Show along with a well-deserved third place finish in the 2012 Ultimate Builder Show finals of the Performance Custom class. Sounds like a win-win all around for everybody involved to me.

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