Now there’s a hell of a CamTech big wheel bagger here, but I’m going to focus on the LumiLor paint by Darkside Scientific first as I’m still trying to wrap my head around this and the possibilities of paint that lights up. Really lights up and I don’t mean maybe glow a bit if you get it in the right light. What looks like regular paint and in this case, a really nice funky paintjob by CamTech Custom Baggers, turns night into day at the flip of a switch. Check out this Lumilor video to get an idea of what it’s all about, you’ll be amazed (and if you’re not, well it’s back to playing Keno for you).

 

  Well now you’ve had a chance to see the video, got any ideas running through your gray matter? Yeah, I thought so. Me too. This ain’t no Mystic chameleon paint that tries its best, but never really makes it. I give chameleon an A for effort, but a C- for execution. If I’ve gotta score LumiLor, I give it an A+ for effort and an A for execution. Only an A you say? Well, I think it’s only on the cusp of what can be done with it so I’ll leave the A+ for when somebody blows the top of my head off with some paintjob I couldn’t even comprehend if you told me with charts and graphs and a white lab-coated scientist explaining it beforehand. This is just cool sh*t plain and simple.

 

    And now, before I go too long without giving CamTech its due on the build and the paintjob, here’s another very interesting video of the bike owner Scott Ward’s 2013 Harley-Davidson Road Glide lighting up the night or day or dusk or garage or show or whatever. Now wasn’t that special? Hey, even if you don’t like it for some reason, you have to admire it (although you’re probably too stubborn to admit it).  

 

   Maybe a little explanation of what this bike is all about besides the paint might be in order. This former (my words) Motor Company Road Glide model has had just about every piece and part in CamTech’s huge and I mean HUGE bagger parts inventory chucked at it until the Milwaukee and York DNA has been drained out of it. The now-standard 30-inch custom bagger front wheel, this time a Digger model from Mad mind of Doug McGoon of Mad Wheels with an 18-inch HHI Rotor, finds a home courtesy of Hawg Halters Inc’s neck rake kit. CamTech’s high quality bodywork replaces everything it can and if you’ve bothered to check out Jack Cofano’s photo gallery, you might have noticed that when this baby is at its lowest point on the ground, it looks like Scott Ward must be running a mini-spare off an old Ford Escort. There just doesn’t look like there’s room for a taller motorcycle tire, but I’m sure it’s in there somewhere. Maybe they’ve figured out how to drop the air suspension and then let the air out of the rear tire too it’s sitting so low. When you’re ready to go, hit the on-board compressor and both the suspension and the rear tire go back to ride height. Hey, this is all pure speculation and probably totally untrue, but the technology exists. If you can electrify paint, what’s hard to believe about this completely unfounded assumption on my part?  

 

   CamTech didn’t fool around a bit when it came time for power and the 124-inch engine by Robert Snipes of Snipes Machine in Kershaw, South Carolina, could not only light up the tires, but probably light up most of the homes in the Kershaw area. Backed by a 7-speed BAKER Drivetrain transmission that’s connected to a Barnett Lock-up clutch, if it couldn’t light up the town, the bike should be capable of pulling the town east to meet the sun rising at dawn. Or maybe it’s just built to power the 1000 watt Arc Audio setup with its eight Focal speakers that I know of. There could be more hidden for all I know.

 

    All in all, the bagger craze goes on and that’s good, but I do like this new turn of events with CamTech’s wild LumiLor paintjob. Just goes to show that there’s a reason CamTech’s an industry leader when it comes to custom baggers and these guys are not resting on their laurels. For more info on CamTech Custom Baggers, check them out at

http://www.camtechcustom.com/ and be sure to visit http://lumilor.com/ for more info on electrifying your paint.