Baggers
The reason why I say full bursts from his money gun is that even though the stock profile of a Road Glide still shows, Earnest changed or modified just about every little bit until he almost had a stock Road Glide sitting in pieces on his dusty old parts shelf. The stock TC 96 is no slouch, but it’s also not a barn burner. Earnest rectified that little tick with a complete Motor Company 110” Screamin’ Eagle upgrade featuring Diamond Cut cylinders and heads letting the world know its presence with a V-twin shout-out beginning with the sock puppet Screamin’ Eagle air cleaner and ending in a melodious baritone finale courtesy of a set of high performance D&D pipes. Couple that Twin Cam on steroids motorvation up to the stock H-D 6-speed overdrive tranny and you’ve got a bike that loafs at the West Texas 80mph speed limits and begs for speedometer and the odometer to spun hard. Yup, that’s a real world riding priority for Earnest as he said,” I just love riding motorcycles, I ride the entire year. It’s a lot of fun and brings me great joy and peace. My bike is very special to me. I ride 12,000 miles a year and there are 20,881 miles on my motorcycle now. The longest trip I have ever ridden on my motorcycle was from Dallas, Texas, to Akron, Ohio.”
For most people, upping the engine ante would have been enough to call it a day, but not for Earnest. He changed the rolling stock from a then-new 17-incher to a stylish 21 wrapped in Metzeler’s finest along with a similar-style rear while keeping the stock MotorCo Brembo braking system in place. Anything that he actually touched was also in for a change from his Battastinis foot controls to Paul Yaffe Monkey Bars sporting Battastinis grips to the there’s-no-doubt-it’s-an-alligator seat by Calvin Greer Creations by Ray Design. Topping it all off is Earnest’s idea of the ultimate, but subtle paintjob for his Road Glide. “I wanted my bike to stand out from the rest so I wanted the right paint job. I started to look in different magazines to find the right paint and that is how I came up with the black candy marbleized paint,” he said. Bill Davis of World of Motorcycle Painting laid on the tribal graphics and it was finally time for Earnest to call it a day, at least for now. It wouldn’t surprise me if he had a spare money gun customizing clip hidden somewhere and you know the old story about how a hot rod is never done. As a guy who says “For me my bike is my baby,” there’s a lot of nurturing left to do and the struggling aftermarket thanks you for it.
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