Jason Beavers is a super talented guy with a sense of humor who is just trying to do what he loves best and frankly, he’s working his ass off doing it. Originally started in 2009 as a small, family run custom paint business where they also built their personal custom bikes, it quickly morphed into a one-stop, award winning custom motorcycle shop. Barnett’s Magazine Online featured another Crazy Beavers Customs bagger, a crazy-cool Road Glide, not too long ago. Actually, in the big scheme of things, Jason’s been knocking out one wicked bagger after another with a clean style of his own that’s slowly becoming his trademark.
The simple, smooth lines of Jason’s idea of the perfect Street Glide are subtly enhanced by the total lack of billet bits and pieces. The only real ‘added’ adornment you see is the black bag latches. Everything else seems to just blend in to the big picture except maybe the iPad prominently mounted where you might expect digital gauges. That iPad sits in a one-off inner and outer fairing that seems to lack a headlight until you see the tiny LED headlight just under the fairing’s front lip. Apparently when it’s aired up, it’s smite easier to see and be seen, but then the giant, but now SOP custom bagger 30-inch front wheel would attract anyone’s attention. Missing a spinning, 30-inch thin five-spoke 30-inch wheel leading a motorcycle behind it is not easy to do even with today’s totally distracted drivers.
Once again, to put things into perspective, I have to unfortunately mention that the huge 18-inch rotor is the same diameter as the stock Harley-Davidson wheel it replaced. Is that enough perspective for you to muddle over? Although I’m not a personal fan of big wheels on my own bikes, the simple, but-clean-as-can-be look of Jason’s wheel and brake combo is right up my alley. Like all custom baggers, I have no idea if there’s even a wheel behind or under those swoopily-stretched bags and rear fender. Doesn’t matter I guess as the whole aft section of this bike appears to be in motion even at rest.
Oh there’s lots of other tedious stuff involved like raking out the frame to fit the big front wheel, but it’s all getting to be the same combo of neck kits and extra-degree triple trees. At least custom bagger builders are attempting to make these bikes rideable and not like the radically raked-out real Old School choppers that never met a turn they didn’t despise. You may have to wheel these around a bit, but at least they’ll turn around in your lifetime compared to the old stuff.
I gotta applaud Jason’s use of finishes other than chrome on this build. The Twin Cam engine’s aesthetics are also up my alley with a distinct lack of anything shiny while the rest of the bike appears to be Atomic Number 24-free. Pretty risky thing to do with a show bike, but Jason did win the People’s Choice award at the Ray Price Motorsports Expo so maybe he’s onto something. That “something” could be the stunning, custom mix candy blue paintjob with silver graphics Crazy Beavers Customs did. All I can say is that it pops!
And speaking of pops, I think we’ll be popping off this bike, but you can find out more about Jason and Crazy Beavers Customs by visiting http://www.crazybeaverscustoms.com/.