Joey’s a regular on the bagger builders’ block with many, many successful builds to his credit. Barnett’s Magazine Online recently featured another 26-inch wheel Vindictive Wayz bagger, a custom Street Glide called Resurrection that you can see here. Yes, he does have the touch, doesn’t he? No surprise then that this Road King came under the knife so to speak, but this time it was more like plastic surgery rather than bone reconstruction and plastic surgery like we’ve grown to expect from a big wheel bagger.

 

  If you haven’t watched the American Suspension video accompanying this article, it might be the right time to check it out. In case you’re a God-fearing video freak, here’s a quick summation. American Suspension makes a bolt-on neck kit with the correct triple trees to give you the rake and trail that’s more in the stock bagger dimensions without having to cut the neck and replace the unit with a completely different weld-on piece. Yeah, it’s a little more stuck out there, but no big deal as this is a custom bike right? Just a design challenge to work around and as you can see by Joey’s bike, anything’s possible.

 

   The best part about this conversion is that you can (somewhat) easily return your bike back to stock if for some reason you decided the custom thing was not your thing. Plus it cuts out some welding work($) and no re-painting of the frame is necessary. Joey sayz, “It has not been cut, but has been stretched and raked to the exact geometry necessary to put this bike in line with factory. The bolt-on neck from American Suspension is a new product that bolts over the existing neck. It moves it up 9-degrees and out 1.5-inches to connect with a 9-degree triple tree. This combo puts the Road King at 44-degrees of rake and you will see with that stretch directly in line with the numbers from the factory.” Do you think this bolt-on conversion had anything to do with the bike’s name Something Simple? I say yes.

 

   There’s a lot more going on than just that bolt-on piece and Joey, as usual, doesn’t disappoint. The profile of a Road King is still there, but it’s been glamoured up a bit to say the least. A Renegade Paul Jr. Design Trinity 26-inch front wheel and matching rotor fits between the raked out Arlen Ness lower fork legs topped with SMT Machining fork boots. Somebody must have yelled “Bring on the chrome!” as the whole front end sparkles and the chunky tri-spoke wheel does its best to dazzle. There might be more chrome just there than the total on some of our other recent feature bikes.

 

  Joey also got all the other custom bagger bits that a builder has to have now like air suspension by American Suspension taking care of the front and re-purposed Corvette shocks in the rear. Now that’s a different take and I wish I knew a little bit more about that rear shock aspect, but I don’t, sorry. There’s the usual engine dress-up pieces along with intake and exhaust mods, but otherwise the Twin Cam is pretty darn factory and that’s just fine by me. For all the other custom bits, check out Jack Cofano’s photo gallery because I’ll bore you to death with all the bits.

 

  Custom bodywork at the back is courtesy of Sinister Industries’ rear fender, filler pieces and bags. Nice when you can one-stop shop for basic bodywork that you can mod to your whims.  The stock fuel tank was beautifully stretched and massaged by Joey until it’s barely recognizable as an OEM part while the elongated Road King headlight nacelle from Bad Dad brings its own bit of custom swagger to the build. Sitting in-between those pieces are a wicked looking set of CamTech Custom’s Felons 16-inch bars that just reach straight for the sky directly, or so it appears, out of the fork tubes. Pretty wild looking stuff.

 

   The paintwork by Brian Morgan of BKP Art in Greenville, South Carolina, is a subdued design with rich colors that doesn’t fight for attention, just quietly commands it. It’s exciting to look at up close and the skull graphics are not overpowering in a van mural way. The way the silver graphics break the line between black and red paint while giving a bit of flash to the design is about as tasteful as you can get on a current custom bagger paintjob. Anyway, nice job all around on this important aspect. Another little thingie is the extremely tasteful seat cover that just looks really nice and everyday livable too. More classy Audi than anything and that’s a compliment.

 

  Joey Beam’s come up with another fine bagger and I’m sure there will be plenty more to come. For more info on Vindictive Wayz, check out http://vindictivewayz.com/ or visit their Facebook page.