JF “Hi Jerry, I would like everything and I mean everything changed on my bike but what I need to register it. I want it wild, fast, and no-holds barred. Tell me when it’s finished and I’ll send a box truck full of money out to your Woodward, Oklahoma, shop.”
JC “Sounds good. How big is your truck?
JF “I’ve also got an 18-wheeler. . . ”
JC “I’m your man! Call you in a month.”
Yeah, one month is all it took for the Covington clan to makeover John’s Street Glide so radically it should be the spoke’s model for Covingtons’ extremely huge line of bagger parts and then some. In this case, “then some” casually includes little things like raking out the stock frame to a radical 46-degrees and popping a 26” Monte Carlo wheel up front where a measly 17-incher lived. Or, making sure the engine is completely filled with Screamin’ Eagle performance pieces and parts and then diamond-cutting the heads while topping them with Pan-style covers along with Covingtons’ exhaust and air cleaner and absolutely whatever Jerry’s got in his catalog which as I said is extensive. John likes power and that includes his upgraded Alpine stereo and a complete digital gauge makeover to keep track of it all.
What gives this bike its name, Dragon Custom, is the subtle, but wild at the same time Dusty Brown and Brain Loker paint job. From ten feet you see a clean and not overpowering design and then up close, it’s all about dragons and more dragons, but not in a bad way. Kinda like those chameleon paint jobs where the color changes as light hits it, except this bike’s paint changes from a bold, but simple design to intricate dragons as you get up close. If you’ve got to have dragons, this is the way to do it.
Be sure to visit Covingtons Cycle City website (www.covingtonscyclecity.com) for the lowdown on all of the cool stuff Jerry’s been doing on both custom motorcycles and cars and a line of beyond-cool custom parts for what seems like a hundred years of so.