What Motor to Use

The Sportster got it's start at the HD Factory, it some how got in the wrong assembly line and they started using old Sprint parts to finish it. The guy that was putting the engine together reading the instruction came to the sentence where it said "for the cam" that's how it got four cams.
They were going to call it "Baby 74" but short people had trouble reaching the ground with there feet. They finally came up with the name "Sport Turd" and because of advertising they changed it to Sportster.

Kart Racing

I quit Drag Racing "once" for awhile because of cost, and this was a long time ago. Started going Kart Racing because it took in the whole family. Had a great time until the Kart Factorys and retail stores got involved and they had so much better equipment and went so much faster that the same thing happened. Cost got so high I had to quit that too. When I went back to Drag Racing my wife and I decided as long as the race bike payed for itself we would continue to race, it turned into a business before we knew what was happening. Both working to make things work, you get caught up in that sort of thing because you love to race. We were lucky to have turned that first eight second run which got us the start to great Sponsership from Harley. Still we had to go on the road ten months a year to even make that work, and the cost kept going up out of our own pocket, even getting paid from Harley and NHRA. It seemed no matter how good you got it still cost a lot of money. You had to really love Drag Racing to keep going and it was a lot o work. And it goes on and on and on.

Clyde Denser

That’s Clyde Denser, Harley Davidson Racing Department, 2nd in command to Dick O'Brian in the old days. I'm explaining the new injector system. At the 1976 Ontario Supernationals