Part of that “looking” is trying to imagine what it would be like to ride. I mean, this bike has all the basic ingredients I like from extremely reasonable, bordering on stock road geometry to neat-o suspension front and rear.  Neat-o is probably not a good technical term so let’s say there’s an always lovely springer up front and a set of Progressive Suspension’s 970-series dual piggyback shocks hanging out in all their coil-spring glory out back. I’m probably one of three people who really like the prominent look of dual shocks out of all the riders I’ve met over the years, but when they’re quality ones like these I’m totally on board. As a person who likes to watch a springer spring, it should be no surprise I might want to be able to check out the aft action too. Mechanical action stuff just thrills me and hiding it only makes it hidden like that tree falling in the forest thing.

 

    I also like the comfy-looking seat with a lip at the back to keep the Baby On Board when the throttle gets whacked on the torquey Power Plus engine and the bars not only look great, they look right. That whole cockpit looks like a yummy place to spend some serious throttle time. There’s even a semblance of fenders front and rear and nobody’s got the balls to do a front one anymore it seems. Kudos to you, Steve, for going where everybody else avoids and pulling off the impossible with a front fender that would only look missing now if it wasn’t there. This wickedly-custom show bike just looks like a bike you could throw a leg over and ride the dickens out of as long as you know (I don’t) what a dickens is. Sure could be fun spending serious saddle time trying to find out what the dickens the dickens are.

 

   By that I mean Steve’s bike looks like the basics involved making a custom bobber that you could also take off for a weekend on as well as use as transportation. Where Steve really took this whole basic bike to a whole ‘nother lever was the fit and finish. I mean, look at that thing, it’s jewelry on two wheels. Between the extremely subtle, but extremely elegant tri-tone paintjob to unleashing an engraver until he tagged everything he felt should be, this bike has details in its details and then some. This is one perfectly overdone custom by my blue-collar standards anyway that I’d be thrilled to put miles on whether it was down to get a cool one or heading off with a pocketful of cash and no particular place to go or be. Anytime I got bored watching tarmac, I could look down and get lost in the engraving. Wait a minute . . . that might not be wise to do as you could really get lost in time looking at all the beautiful work and forget you were traveling at speeds that you should never forget you were traveling at. Oaky then, I have my solution to a problem I’ve never had to deal with on my own bikes ─ Save the gawking for rest stops.

 

  To find out more of what Steve Studstill’s up to, you could check out this previous Barnett’s Magazine Online article we did on a completely different style of bike or you could punch up http://www.bikersdreamatl.com/ and go to the source.