As its name suggests, this scrambler is the “Soulbreaker,” the one that will break your heart… but why that name?
Como nos cuenta Fran Manen, propietario de Lord Drake Kustoms, la respuesta es muy sencilla: “Muchos me decían que era imposible hacer una Harley campera o una Scrambler, ¡algo tan radical! Y yo sabía que cuando la vieran, a más de uno se le iba a romper el alma; y aquí tenéis la respuesta a vuestro ‘¡es imposible!’: la ‘Soulbreaker’.”
As Fran Manen, owner of Lord Drake Kustoms, tells us, the answer is very simple: “Many told me it was impossible to make an off-road Harley or a Scrambler, something so radical! And I knew that when they saw it, more than one person’s soul would be broken; and here is the answer to your ‘it’s impossible!’: the ‘Soulbreaker.’“
Fran Manen, who has spent long periods living in the United States, has some guiding principles that he tries to follow, and as he himself tells us:
There are two rules at Lord Drake Kustoms that we remain faithful to. The first: always try to make motorcycles that are different, and the second: nothing is impossible.
We’re tired of always seeing the same motorcycles in the world of customization, especially Harleys: the same old style, even copies of each other. Many call me a “rebel” in a world of purists… I simply believe there’s life beyond what we see with our eyes… the world of customization is expanding like never before. You can keep looking back or explore new paths! And what better way to discover new routes than putting a knobby tire on a Harley and riding down a dirt track or simply crossing the countryside?
The Soulbreaker was the first in a series of off-road / scrambler-style motorcycles that I built. Each one was different, but focusing on the first, we wanted to create a bike to inaugurate our European branch (specifically in Málaga, Spain); bikes that speak for themselves, and this Sportster has achieved that.
And it certainly made a lot of noise. It placed third in the Sportster category at the Harley-Davidson European Bike Show held in St. Tropez, France, and we immediately received two orders to make more bikes in this style. Of course! It’s all about style—this is what it’s all about: creating styles and trends, not copying, copying, and repeating.
