Think I’m exaggerating a bit? Well check out Mr. Cofano’s lovely photos of the exposed rear wheel and tell me the rear tire to fender tip isn’t close to three feet and maybe a touch more. This has to be a record of some sort although I don’t know if anybody actually keeps those stats, but if they did, I declare this bike the winner. Edward’s bagger he calls The Master Piece has already won its share of show awards, so this Moe Erlich award is just frosting on the cake.

 

   Built over a period of just six months at The Chopp Shop in Taylorsville, North Carolina, Edward let Shannon run long and wild with a ten-inch frame stretch and a neck raked out to 45-degrees with nine more in the American Suspension trees for a grand total of 54-degrees of rake. Might seem a bit radical, but all the better to hang the gigundous Metalsport Inc. 30-inch front wheel of off which is almost twice the diameter of the hidden 16-inch rear wheel. There was a whole lot of chopping going on at The Chopp Shop.

 

  Turning to bodywork, Shannon again took a no-holds-barred approach from the custom fairing featuring Kawasaki ZX10 sport bike headlights to the stretched and dished tank to the rear fender/bag section that is a story unto itself. Not only do the Dirty Bird Concept bag lids flip up courtesy of Speed By Design’s actuators, but the bags themselves also swing out exposing what appears to be a stock Harley bagger wheel. But that’s not the only part of the bike moving around at rest. The air ride suspension by Terry Buckingham can lift that back end nine-inches with a four-inch front lift. There’s a whole lot of movement going on here without the bike moving an inch.

 

  When it does come time to move on down the road, the internally stock 96-inch Twin Cam with blingalicious Diamond Cut heads and Roland Sands Design air cleaner and engines covers announces its presence via the Covingtons Cycle City 2-into-1 big oval exhaust. If you miss that announcement, you better take advantage of one of those junk mail hearing aid offers you constantly get— stat.

 

   Paint, the 2014 make-it-or-break-it part of any custom bagger, was done in-house at The Chopp Shop in a somewhat sedate (for this build anyway) palette of PPG brown, tan, and silver. No screaming skulls need apply. Meanwhile, Butch Watson of HighRollers Cycle Seats fame stitched up the simple solo saddle in his usual, muy perfecto, high- quality way.

 

   The only problem Edward is going to run into with The Master Piece is topping this design when it comes to his next custom bagger. Since he appears to thoroughly enjoy a bit of extrovert excessiveness, I’d hate to be around when he finds out he coulda had a 32-inch front wheel. That might just be a good excuse to break his own coveted Moe Erlich award for longest bagger ever.