No, our mystery owner’s custom FLTR that Barnett lens man, Jack Cofano, had a pixel party with during Myrtle Beach Bike Week wasn’t part of a two-motorcycles-for-one deal, but it comes close. You might say it’s got a split personality, though, as the main focal point of any custom bagger just got its goose goosed in a way not seen since the Tommy Lee Jones embarrassed himself playing Two-Face in Batman Forever. If you haven’t gone through Jack’s photo gallery of this Road Glide already, you probably should now. I’ll wait.

    Oh so now you get it? Yup, the Glide’s got completely different graphics on each side over an in-your-face orange base paint that looks like it must run on batteries (a lot of batteries) to shine that brightly in the sun. That orange hue almost seems to say to the sun, “Is that all you got?” and fights back with an orange laser show of its own. If not one bit of graphics was put on this orange big-wheeled beast of a show bike, you’d still never lose sight of it in a parking lot full of Milwaukee’s finest. It just radiates color like a nuclear furnace gone crazy. On one side there are a slew of ghosted-out skulls while on the other the theme is a modern interpretation of the tribal-like graphics that supposedly fell out of favor a short time ago. Here, they have a fresh look that’s striking in 3D black and blue with white highlights. There’s your twofer kids.

    But that’s not all there is to this machine as the builder has delved heavily into what makes an extreme bagger extreme. Every piece of bodywork has been replaced or heavily modified until the stock has been replaced by custom. Even the iconic frame-mounted Road Glide twin headlight fairing has gone under the surgeon’s knife but still retains its FLTR roots. Between the pointy front fender that looks like a beak and the Daymaker headlights that seem to have grown pupils, the view from the front is almost owl-like to me anyway. That may not have been the builder’s intention, but it’s what I see at first glance. All I know is that it’s far from stock and I’m sure that was the builder’s real intention.

    There’s lots of other mods like the frame changes to accommodate the big curved seven spoke front wheel and little things like setting it up to drop to its knees at the touch of a button. There should also be one of those Baby-On-Board-style decals except this one should say “Killer Audio On Board” cause that’s exactly what it’s got and apparently what everyone wants on their bagger too. I’ve said it many (too many) times before, high performance motorcycle audio systems are none of my business. A motorcycle only needs electricity for riding not broadcasting although I’m probably a minority of one on that issue.

    Now when you talk high performance and motorcycles, it’s still all about the engine’s performance to me. This is one area often left uninvestigated by most custom baggers other than the old one-two Stage 1 kit that’s every bagger builder’s favorite. For good reason, though, as most people probably don’t give a damn about more power on a big wheeler. It’s all about show, not go. That’s not the case here as this Twin Cam 103 is getting a more powerful highly-compressed fuel mixture pumped directly into the intake’s schnoz. Upping the ante a bit more is the intercooler through which the charge passes before hitting the insides of the Diamond Cut heads and cylinders. Ridding the burnt remnants of this unnaturally aspirated explosion is left to a single exit pipe that doesn’t hamper the flow in any way and probably amplifies it more. That’s nice music on a motorcycle for some of us. And, since it basically doubles the horsepower of a stock Twin Cam at the wheels, it’s its own version of a twofer although it doesn’t come for free by any means.

    Somebody didn’t miss a trick building this Road Glide into a personal ode to wild things. There’s definitely an element of two custom bikes in one and that also extends to the engine too as I mentioned. With two distinct paintjobs on one bike and twice the power of a stocker all wrapped up in a harvest of what’s hot while excluding the what’s not, someone also has built a bagger with two distinct personalities. One is an out-and-out show bike ready to crush any velvet ropes around it in a coliseum and the other is a sleeper that can more than hold its own in a stop light challenge. The more I think about it, this bike was a rare twofer deal after all. Well, maybe except the part where it cost twice as much.