If the object of building a custom Harley is to grab attention, all the attention you can possibly get, then this King of Bling wins on all counts. I’m so used to insanely radical big wheel baggers that I first thought Jack Cofano photos showed a more or less stock MotorCo bagger zinged up with a paintjob you can’t take your eyes off even if you hate it. But I was wrong, dead wrong. The King of Bling Street Glide has lost almost as many factory parts in its transformation as any big wheel bagger and I’m sure the cost is commensurate too except for the cost of a billet big wheel and the frame alterations needed to accommodate it.

 

   Oh, there’s the usual custom bagger items like extended bags, extended tank, extended rear fender, extended frame covers, tall and skinny front wheel and fender, exotic seat covering, one-off apes, audio upgrade, and all the usual cool trinkets, but there’s something else that caught my eye. Everywhere you look on this FLHX, and I mean everywhere, somebody went wild with machined edges and patterns ─ some diamond cut-style and some knurled. Talk about a technique that’s tough to do perfectly as it’s not like just something that you could repaint even though that’s its own hassle, the metal has taken a permanent hit to its surface so it’s gotta be right the first time every time.

 

   Here’s a small list of what I noted ─ cylinders and heads, engine covers, transmission, air cleaner, wheel spokes, disc carriers, calipers, fender mounts, fork legs, fork bells, grips, handlebar switches, levers, master cylinders, floor boards, shift linkage, speaker grills, instrument bezels, and I’m sure a whole lot more I’m missing. Obviously somebody wanted to make each piece they could into its own world of bling for the universe of bling to follow. I wonder how many feet of machining it all is if laid end to end? Personally, I don’t have a clue, but is sure is a hell of a lot and a hell of a lot of tedious work so I can only assume it was worth it. Cleaning must be a bitch.

 

   In case all that mechanical bedazzling didn’t get your attention, our mystery owner decided to design a paint scheme you couldn’t help but catch across a parking lot. It’s a pretty bedazzling wicked bright orange and ultra pure white with streaks of gold lightning inside of a fogged purple edge with black pinstriping. Oh it’s striking in a lightning kind of way and not obviously for everybody, but if someone was planning to build a king of bling, two-tone grays or tans just wouldn’t do. It’s gotta hit you, slam you and make you write bad checks. This bike does all of that and still appears to be rideable so I’ll give it a thumbs up even though it’s probably the antithesis of my own boring black-only aesthetic. For every somewhat conservative motorcycle taste person like me there’re probably a million people this hits the right buttons for and that’s why I love the motorcycle world.