Apparently the same thoughts are harbored by builder Kenny Williams of KW Customs in Benson, North Carolina, with his 2013 Daytona Baddest Bagger winner as a prime example. This is one smooth custom Road King that has the same calming effect and is just as naturally beautiful as staring at a wilderness pond. The lines just flow like a stream of water continually flowing over polished rocks. There’s a rhyme and a reason to natural beauty and Kenny’s FLHR he calls Voodoo echoes all of Mother Nature’s good taste in hardcore Harley-Davidson trappings.

 

   Things have changed a lot in baggerland since Kenny built this bike way back in 2012, but sometimes you just gotta go with what you do best and let things fall where they may. Kenny’s always had his own design aesthetic towards custom motorcycles and smooth is the first word that comes to my mind. Not smooth as in smushy, but as a cohesive design element that flows from the tip of the front fender to the bags harmoniously integrated without the need of overly-exaggerated lines. Maybe it’s just good design and good taste rolled into one build. Possibly that for sure, but there’s also a purposful incorporation of finishes that makes a Kenny Williams’ bagger recognizable as a KW Custom. You know, the Indian Larry or Russell Mitchell/Exile Cycles look that’s immediately recognizable.

 

   Kenny’s choice of building around a 26-inch Colorado Custom Ryker front wheel keeps things from looking just a tad over the top like a 30 or 32 does at least to me anyway. Funny how something once as outrageous as a 26-inch front wheel now looks a bit more reserved compared to its much bigger brothers. In some ways, the bike even looks production ready should a big name manufacturer of V-twin baggers ever seek some outside input into a truly special CVO model. It’s basically there in a nutshell except for the now-dated Twin Cam drive train.

 

   As far as referring to the drive train as “now-dated” that’s only because this bike was built from an older, but still late model Road King. Kenny upped the Twin Cam fun factor by doing the old 95-inch conversion along with pepping things up with a healthy bump in compression, a Crane cam, a Daytona TwinTech ignition, and a beautifully home-built bastard of a 2-into 1 stainless exhaust that should negate the need for any additional audio in my opinion. The whole engine’s finish along with all its ancillaries is a brilliant work of visual art unlike any chrome, black, or whatever combo of finishes we normally see. It’s a pretty engine to look at with enough punch to make it wicked fun to twist the right-hand grip right to the stop.

 

  The bodywork, though, is where Kenny shines with a flawless flow from the headlight and chin spoiler back through the KW-stretched tank directly to the bags that look like bags, albeit wicked nice custom ones, and rear fender. Nothing interrupts the flow, not a tank dash or even the KW mini-apes that only add to the look with their unbelievable cleanliness. The House of Kolor Voodoo Violet paint with the tiniest tad of pinstriping quietly shimmers in the sun looking confident as hell doing it. This bike knows it looks good, but it’s not going to bother you with a loud shout-out about it. Between the engine’s matte finishes and the silver matte finish on the wheels, there’s lots of tasteful restraint shown that could have easily been replaced with something blingy for shock value. But that’s not the way Kenny does it and I couldn’t be happier with the end result. This is one show-winning bagger I wouldn’t be embarrassed to be seen riding.

 

  Fpr more information on what Kenny’s been quietly up to, just click on http://www.kwbaggers.com/ or visit his Facebook page.