So, if you’re gonna build a bad boy custom, you might as well pick the baddest bad boy Softail to work from, Harley-Davidson’s lean, mean Night Train. During my years selling Harleys, every Night Train went to someone who thought he was a bad ass and frankly, most of them were. Nowadays it’s one of the least expensive Softail platforms you’ll find and I imagine this 1999 Night Train caught the eye of Kyle Morley, owner of XecutionStyle in Elmer, New Jersey, just for that reason. Hell, as you’ll find out, he wasn’t going to use much more than the engine, a bit of the frame, and VIN along the way anyway.

 

  Kyle’s plan was to use a 26-inch front wheel and a 20-inch rear and both of those changes brought a host of other radical modifications along the way to accommodate them. Oh you know, little things like raking out the front end and installing Meanstreet forks with six additional degrees of rake in the trees. Or, stretching the swingarm four-inches and widening it as necessary to fit the wide rear tire. Or maybe it was the frame mods in the seat area of the frame to let the swingarm fit in an area it was never intended to. The last part was necessary to allow the frame to drop down low enough to sit its butt on the ground at rest via air suspension. In hindsight, it might seem like a simple tubing operation to get where he needed to be, but the amount of work required to do this is quite staggering. Luckily, Kyle’s work is so clean that he made it look easy and natural after all the hand and head work was finally done.

 

   The 1999 Softails were the last bastion of The Motor Company’s famed Evolution engine which helped save the company we hold so dearly. In 2000, the Evo was gone replaced by the Twin Cam, but the Evo was not forgotten. Kyle kept this engine basically stock with a mild refresh to bring it back to new. Along the way he added a tiny and tidy Joker Machine air cleaner and a set of bellowing SikPipes exhausts that bellow even when the engine’s not running. You just look at them and know they’re bad boy material.

 

   Being bad doesn’t mean being stupid and Kyle shows the smart side of bad with is BAKER Drivetrain 6-speed conversion in the stock Harley 5-speed case. I don’t begin to have to tell you the advantages of a 6- versus 5-speed tranny and the BAKER internals, besides being a smite fresher, are known for their extreme durability. Set up correctly with the 20-inch rear wheel in place, BAKER gives you potential gearing for anything from around town to Bonneville and everything in between. 

 

   I never would have guessed it from Jack Cofano’s photos, but that’s a heavily modified Night Train tank. Sliced and diced by Kyle until it no longer looked OEM in any way, it’s been narrowed and stretched and reshaped until it looked like it was always meant to be this way on this frame. Maybe natural is the word I’m looking for to describe Kyle’s styling intentions for the fuel cell. Fenders front and rear courtesy of B’COOL give the right amount of street seriousness and a bit more platform for Kyle’s lust in life, paint. Spray guns, airbrushes, pinstriping, what have you, he’s a painter first and foremost although that’s not putting down his fabricating and designing talents by any means.

 

   There’s a strange little bit of kit going on here paint-wise and the witchy, warlock, satanic theme might bother some of you and that’s okay. Personally, the pentagram/666 thing doesn’t bother me in the least as it’s just motorcycle paint and Kyle’s way of grabbing attention, not that this bike needs to grab your attention with demonic paint. Hey, it’s how the guy makes his living, painting, and he’s just strutting his stuff for searching for potential paint customers. The PPG Deltron candy red and black is about as bad boy a paint combo as you’ll find and it fits this build well. It’s like red racing out of the darkness.

 

   From the Alloy Art headlight embedded between the fork legs to the short apes with neat internal controls for throttle and clutch to the floorboards fit for a Caterpillar D11 to the beautiful hammered leather finish seat by Anvil Customs, this Kyle Morley/XecutionStyle Night Train takes the bad boy ball and runs with it in a good way. Bad boys tend to travel light and that’s exactly what this bad boy does. This bike just looks like simple big wheel fun with not a lick on it that doesn’t have to be there. For some of us, that’s what custom motorcycles are all about and not a lick more.

 

  For more info on XecutionStyle and Kyle Morley, visit http://www.xecutionstyle.com/ or check out Kyle XecutionStyle Morley on Facebook.