Our cool feature bike that Barnett’s photographer, the always smiling Jack Cofano, caught in its natural habitat of lightly cracked tarmac looks like a million bucks even if it didn’t cost it. There’s just something about a bobber with a good stance, nice lines and flashy paint that gets the job done in my book. Take a tight little frame and add a Harley Evo crate motor with a nice set of pipes and you’ve got a spirited street ride that never gets old.

  Well as long as you use it as intended as a bopping around street brat that’s a pleasure to ride as long as you keep interstate crossings to a minimum. I still vividly remember a day-long session on a bike a lot like this one riding through the curvy back roads of upstate New York and blasting through many small towns before the law had a chance to react. I had a blast and the bobber was a perfect back roads hooligan. You could lay on the throttle, nail the brakes, nail it again and the 80-inch Harley engine was in its element. Riding through the mountains only enhanced the pipes trying to do their best to entertain as well as perform as the sound bounced off the hillsides.

   There’s nothing I don’t like about our mystery builder’s interpretation of what has become a modern styling sub-class of a post WWII bobber. The rigid frame is tight and right with chassis dimensions that favor riding as well as good hot rod looks. The choice of a springer is also a defining point that takes this build out of the basement and into the spotlight. I mean, who doesn’t like a well-done springer? Same goes for the laced wheels in sizes that look ready to rip while the four-piston disc brakes front and rear really keeps thing real when you need it to be. They should be able to haul this relatively lightweight bike to a halt on a dime. I don’t find them the least bit ugly on a neo-bobber as they add a lot of mechanical interest and I like mechanical stuff a lot.

  The sparkly engine and tranny look crisp as hell sitting there all proudly dead and center. Straight back, staggered and unfettered exhaust pipes make sure you know every little thing that’s going on during the combustion process and their graceful sweep rearward is like adding speed lines to a cartoon. There’s a tug of lines against an invisible restraint and the bike looks ready to blast off to no where in particular.

  What little bodywork there is comes off as perfectly done. The never-not-good-looking Sporty tank follows the lines of the frame both top and bottom and gives the bike a bit of an attitude ─ good attitude. The oil tank/battery box has a bulbous end-piece that mimics the infamous Sucker Punch Sallys’ H-Bomb oil tank and helps explain the name of this bike ─ F-bomb. I got a feeling there’s more to the story and I’m sur4e you have your own idea, but I’ll leave it at that. One thing I won’t leave at that is the lovely free-floating rear fender. That’s about as clean a setup as you’re going to get and it looks deliciously attractive just hovering over the rear Pirelli.

  Finish it off with a must-have set of mini-apes topped with brass knurled grips that coincidentally match the foot, shifter, and brake pegs and you’ve got a Richard Rawlings’ “Winner, winner – chicken dinner” moment. A very classy touch on a bike like this. All of these brass items are readily available from the classically simple, sprung solo saddle that won’t win any awards, but will take good care of your butt. On a rigid, any comfort is only a plus and allows you to enjoy the bike that much more.

  With all the bits and pieces out of the way, it was time for the spray booth. Somebody took an unusual, but pretty damn neat twist with the red flames over black paintjob. Basically the bike is almost completely red with the black “basecoat” acting as the defining lines of the flames. I like this approach a lot especially where it’s carried over to the S&S Teardrop air cleaner. Somebody somewhere did a nice job giving this bike its own signature look with a spray gun. The F-Bomb graphics on the oil tank adds a bit of personal pizzazz without looking tacky in any way.

  Needless to say, I like this mystery builder’s bike a lot and appreciate the time and money that went into this build. Someone took the time to delve in this neo-bobber style and still come up with a look all their own. And, they did it at a reasonable price too by the looks of things and that’s the cherry on top of the sundae. I wish all the other bobbers of this era and style would just come back out and play again. A look like this done this well is not stuck in time or trends, it just looks right and it doesn’t get any better than that.