Greg and his father, Chris Wingo, have been knocking out a wide range of custom bikes that span just about every segment and brand out there since 2005. There’s not much they don’t delve in as this video shows. Unknown Customs previously specialized in incredibly long swingarm, blinged out Hayabusas that would make any nutty-loo fast lad a bit hyper. Unknown’s transition to include custom American V-twins in its repertoire appears to be totally seamless. I don’t know if dad Chris had a hand in going American, but you’d never realize Greg hadn’t just been building only custom Harleys for the last decade. He’s got the eye.

 

  Compared to the blinged-out, wild paint street Suzukis you’ll also find on Unknown Customs’ website, their anti-bling 2004 Road King is the polar opposite. The closest thing you’ll find to anything shiny, never mind chromey, is the satin-finish, exhaust collector mouth or maybe the front rotor. Both are just metal colors and not hyped up in any way and that’s how much you gotta stretch to find a “shiny” part. Nothing wrong with this approach either as Greg didn’t take the usual flat black way out. Frankly, it’s nice to see this approach as there’s still something shiny even if it’s a darker hued paintjob.

   Needless to say, you can see that Greg’s done a very heavy re-work of the stock FL frame to fit the 26-inch front wheel from Thomason Performance in Merrimack, New Hampshire while adding some flair. Greg cut the stock H-D backbone and downtubes and added a bit of stretch to go with the increased rake to fit the 26-inch front wheel and make sure the B’COOL front fender doesn’t run into clearance problems. Plus you can see that air suspension was fitted front and rear and it’s a lot of work to do just to get rid of a kickstand. Well maybe that wasn’t Greg’s actual intention, but custom baggers require air suspensions that mimic the fore and aft movement of a camel sitting down. At least that’s the way it looks to me, but I’ve still got kickstands on my bikes so what so I know?

 

  Taking a look around the finished bike there’s not much other than the 88-inch Twin Cam engine and tranny (maybe the rear wheel, but we’ll never know) that’s anything like what it came off the York assembly line with. Every piece of bodywork from the headlight nacelle to the rear fender and bags will not fit as a replacement on your stock FLHR, although if you check out the old parts shelves at Unknown, there could be just about every piece of stock Road King tinwork available.

 

   Greg’s done a fine job of making a custom Harley bagger that has a quiet tough guy attitude behind its stealthy finish. The lines of the bike flow like no 30-inch front wheel bagger can and the 26-inch wheel strangely loses the somewhat cartoonish look the 30-inchers have to me. From all the new custom activity we’ve been seeing from shops and people in Georgia lately, I gotta wonder what’s in the water there that’s causing such a nice bunch of custom Harleys to be popping up like dandelions on an obsessed weed hater’s lawn. There are more Georgia feature bikes coming up soon on Barnett’s Magazine Online so keep your eyes and your mind open and enjoy what those Georgia boys are up to.

 

    For more information on what Greg Wingo and Unknown Customs are up to, be sure to check out http://www.unknowncustoms.com/.