Actually, there’s nothing simple about building a big wheel bagger, just ask anyone who’s successfully built one and they’ll tell you it’s a ton of work that never stops. But, keeping a complex build clean and beautifully simple looking is incredibly hard to accomplish. I’m sure Jason would agree with me on that one as prepping a Harley FL frame for a big wheel installation is...

  Think about that 30-inch wheel and realize that it’s almost double the size of a wheel on a stock dresser. Throw on a Vee Rubber tire ($800) and it’s almost up to my waist. To put things into perspective, Ballistic’s 18-inch (!) rotor is actually larger than the stock Road Glide’s wheel and dwarfs a Buell perimeter rotor which most of us think of as a giant rotor. That (now)...

It wasn’t always this way, as Harley customs morphing out of stock bikes often come about in strange circumstances and this one was no different. “It’s my personal bike, I got it for long trips like to Florida, Myrtle Beach, and California every year and long local rides,” says Pat. “It was a couple of years old when I bought it and it was kind of a lemon. I had problems with it,...

      Maybe what I’m trying to say is that this is one clean, good looking custom bagger that doesn’t need to go way over the top to make its statement. One look and you can tell that somebody wanted a crazy custom bagger that didn’t look cartoonish in any way and with the turbocharged firepower to back it up. I wouldn’t suggest putting your money where your mouth is. Just walk...

To top it off, the Lake Ozark, Missouri, resident is only 28 and he did everything on the bike from power to paint except for the frame welding. “Steve Bonaker out of Camdenton did the welding for me,” said Tony. “That way I knew for sure it was going to be safe.” Cutting the neck off, raking it out quite a bit, and re-welding it back in is not a good time to work on your welding...

     I don’t know about you, but the latest round of big wheel Harley-Davidson Road King-inspired baggers Barnett’s Magazine Online’s been exposed to are just enough out of the norm due to the lack of flamboyant bodywork to be chopper-interesting. More like a beautiful, but tough ass pro-street bagger than a George Barris-inspired custom with acres of voluptuous bodywork...

  Now I know it’s kinda an insult to so focus on INK’s paintjob when Deadline spent so much time changing everything else they could to make this wild bagger including an engine that not only makes 148rwhp (and that’s not even firing off the additional 30hp shot of nitrous!), but it’s a stunner. Oh sure, Deadline stretched and raked the frame, changed or heavily modified every...

       How this all came about was thorough a conversation Joey and a friend were having about what a bike could be if one really put himself into the build. “We didn’t want ordinary, we wanted exceptional. And for every part to carry a theme with parts many have never seen to turn the bike into a work of art. We developed a strategic plan with many man hours of research to find...

But just in case your factory bagger is not exactly what you want, you can always do like Horace “Dollar Bill” Griffin did, and customize it to your very own personal standards. Back in 2005, Horace walked into Fort Washington Harley-Davidson and bought himself a brand new Electra Glide Classic in Sunglo Blue. “I was very excited buying and owning my first Harley-Davidson...

  While I continue to dream, drool, and wish for a Street Glide, riders like Raymond Thrift just log onto the Internet, search the motorcycle websites, make a click with a mouse and “Whammo,” buys himself a fully customized FLHXI from a Harley-Davidson dealer 650 miles away. “I personally visited all the local Harley dealerships within a 100-mile radius of my Washington, D.C. home...