Yup, this over-the-top-as-usual Camtech Custom Baggers’ custom bagger has a rather large, but rather clear front wheel. Yeah, I know it’s been done before, but somehow when you see it (especially in person) it still has a lot of shock value. Something doesn’t look right because it doesn’t look wrong. All the components like brakes, tire, rim, and fender are there, but how the hell does it all just kinda float between the fork? The clear composite between the hub and the rim always shocks (and fools) me with its sharp see-through clarity and this tidy little number by Doug McGoon of MAD Wheels in Orange, California, once again fools me on first glance. Maybe I’m just easily fooled, but a see-through wheel never gets old.

 

  Cameron threw the whole super-extensive Camtech bagger parts catalog at this bike once again leaving practically nothing on this bike as delivered. Especially the body work consisting of Camtech’s flared dropped seat body kit, bags and speaker lids. I’m just assuming there’s something stock hidden like the back wheel that could be a rusty spoked steel rim wheel the way the architecture surrounding it totally keeps it outta sight, outta mind like an undiscovered Egyptian pharaoh’s 5,000-year old subterranean lounge. Oh it’s there, lurking beneath the surface, but you can’t see it.

 

  What I do like that I can clearly see and recognize is the Camtech Hayabusa-inspired fairing. I love Camtech’s use of sportbike headlights integrated into their fairings for a totally different look that’s just peachy to me. Yeah, I’m sure a lot of H-D fans would rather make a big deal out the blasphemy of a Japanese sportbike part stuck on a MotorCo product, but it’s not the first use of Asian part on a stock York-assembled tourer so get over it. If it helps at all, I’m sure it came from a wrecked one and isn’t a new piece. Actually the more I think about it, maybe this is where the Yamoto inspiration came from. The Busa is quite a large battleship of a bike with lots of firepower so I’m going with that reference then. Camtech’s go-to painter, Donnie Keller, was once again called on to provide an elaborate paintjob that I wouldn’t want to pay for unless Donnie worked for about a buck an hour and even then I gotta wonder. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Donnie lives in the back of the spray booth in one of those tiny Japanese hotel rooms.   

Maybe he’s trying to paint a lovely Japanese inspired art message about being held against his will at Camtech, maybe not, but either way his paintjobs are incredibly time intensive. The way that blue kimono flows through the whole right side of the bike and doesn’t lose its continuity is amazing.

 

   Once more, Cameron Jurow and the Camtech crew have coughed up a custom bagger that clearly has a style and look all its own. For more info on all their parts and work, punch up www.camtechcustom.com and check out the huge galleries.