Same goes for the bodywork too with a lovely shaped, stretched tank that does its best of blending in with the rest of the bodywork like it’s one piece. The extended bags and wide rear fender completely surround the dual exhaust looking pretty custom just sticking out of enough to exhale, but I’d guess you’d probably have to be careful of what you put in there. That is if it isn’t already filled with additional audio stuff like custom baggers are wont to do. Those big speakers on the lids might be the giveaway that there’s more equipment than usual on board or not. I got a feeling there’s still plenty of storage available. The fairing itself is just nicely cleaned up and still can do the business if necessary while the bat wing just looks good sitting there.

  When it came time for paint, a Jack Cofano-approved pearl white basecoat provides a striking white canvas for the asymmetrical graphics that gives what otherwise might not be too different a paintjob, a new twist. Brilliant dark blue sweeps of color are contained by what appears to be variegated gold leaf or something very close to it. Just a whole different way to pinstripe and it shows the artist’s handwork. The asymmetrical aspect almost immediately shows itself as you walk around the bike, but in a subtle way so it’s not shouting, “Hey, look at me, I’m crazy different.” More like, “Please, as you walk around, take notice that things are not the same, yet they are.”

  Well all that stuff is well and good if the show circuit is all you care about, but, as I said at the beginning, I think this bagger is really intended to put in some semi-serious street time. Part of that has to do with the Herb Liles Racing logo on the front of the fairing. Seems that old Herb loves his go-kart racing and anybody who loves racing tends to think of vehicles as being something you use, not just stare at. The competitive side of him wants the bike to be able to do show duty, but things like the crash bars with highway pegs say road-use-intended to me. Or take the Harley Twin Cam engine that looks pretty stock to me other than a Hypercharger-style air filter setup, someone just wants to ride this without a hassle and that’s just peachy. Riding bike good.

   Then there’s the bar setup that includes a change of bar with Performance Machine grips and everything else stock MotorCo, but dipped in chrome until it could burn your retinas out in direct sunlight. Nothing like stock if you want reliability. Even the stock mirrors stayed instead of being replaced with speakers or something else. Somebody wants to be able to look behind and see what traffic’s up to. Same goes for the dash and instruments which are often needlessly replaced with a whole new inner fairing and lots of digital instruments that frankly look a little tacky to me all lit up in LED light. And, last bit not least, the floorboards and foot controls are stock instead of some super expensive billet pieces. Somebody just wanted to use them and maybe play with that if it became an issue down the road.

  My guess is that Herb is busting out this bike right now on the roads around his North Carolina, home. You can’t keep a racer down and I don’t think too many racers would like standing around a show killing time unless they were being paid to sign autographs or something like that. My guess is that Heb has already gotten his jollies on the show circuit and now it’s time to hit the road. Full speed ahead sir.