Now, throw in some gorgeous girl graphics like the ones Tyler Coletta of Kaotic Designs in Rancho Cucamonga, California, did on his radically-re-imagined 2012 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Custom and you’ve got two of Jacko’s favorite things in one sleek package. Yup, a white custom bagger covered with women — that’s a sure fire way to make sure Jack does a photo shoot of your bike for Barnett’s Magazine Online. Maybe I’m taking a bit of a liberty here putting one and one together to make two for Jack, but I couldn’t help notice that this was the first Daytona feature bike Jack loaded up to Barnett Magazine Online’s photo site so I’m going with that.

 

  Kaotic Designs is a fairly new business, but you’d never have guessed that after seeing the Road Glide Custom’s transformation from stock custom to a radical custom show bike. Actually creating one-off customs is not Tyler’s first business priority, making show-quality wheels and accessories for Harley-Davidsons is and that’s where this bike comes into play. It’s not only a great show piece to display Tyler’s talents, but it’s a bagger he can ride when he’s not showing it off.

 

   The 2012 Harley FLTRX was a pretty loaded touring bike as far as most of us are concerned, but I can only imagine that Tyler don’t do stock. The 26-inch front wheel is not only his design, but he cut it from a big aluminum blank too. The trick-looking front brake is a pair of Harley calipers mounted on one leg of the even-trickier Arlen Ness dual-caliper mount fork legs. Clean, mechanically-butch, and custom all in one Ness swoop. Needless to say, like all radical custom baggers these days, Tyler’s got air suspension front and rear with an on-board compressor to change the attitude and altitude of the bike and rider at a moment’s notice.

 

  As far as body work goes, Tyler went a bit crazy as is the custom today, but not too crazy. A new front fender to cover the 26-inch wheel, chin spoiler, stretched tank, Harley bags with extensions, fat rear fender cover, and Ness side covers are a few of the changes that took place. A nice set of LA Choppers 12-inch apes toes the line between looking good and looking silly with comfort and control in mind as well as show appeal. A Danny Gray seat looks classy and comfy and there’s nothing wrong with that. A good looking seat shouldn’t hurt you and this one doesn’t look like it’s got a mean bone in its padding.

 

   The stock 103-inch Twin Cam provides plenty of oomph for a custom bagger, but Tyler took it up a notch with a Screamin’ Eagle-tuned Stage 1 kit and a set of CFR (Carl Faas Racing) slip-ons. The Stage 1 kit does its best to usably increase performance and throttle response, but the CFR mufflers make you want to abuse the increased performance and throttle response  just to hear the soulful deep bass sound everyone seems to strive for, but never gets. Plus they look pretty good while they’re at it in my opinion. 

 

   All of this hard work kinda takes a back seat, though, to the striking white finish covered in line drawings of striking women in various amounts of attire. Tyler knew what he was doing here as even if somebody didn’t like custom baggers, they’re going to be sure to completely walk around this bike until they’ve studied every aspect of it (wink-wink/nod-nod) from every angle possible. You gotta admit that today’s bike graphics are getting more real by leaps and bounds with every show.

 

   Tyler not only won Best Paint at the Anaheim Easyriders Show this past January, but also took a first place in the hotly contested Radical Bagger division. That’s like a double stamp of approval if there ever was one, but Tyler’s Road Glide has it all in one package so why not? I’m sure Jack would give it a thumb’s up.