And, it’s kind of fun too and fun is what this whole motorcycle thing is supposed to be. Even if you gotta be dead serious about it like Jimmy Holstein Jr. who not only does this for fun, but to win awards like Paul Yaffe’s Bagger Nation Best of Show and Editor’s Choice at the Columbus Easyriders Show this year.      Jimmy is the owner, designer, metal sculptor, and chief bottle...

Sure, the huge 30” front wheels have set the style standard that builders financially have to follow whether they like it or not and until they figure out how to install a cellar in a bagger, they’re about as low as you can go, so what’s keeping it going? Well I’d venture to guess they’re still a bit of an anomaly to the average Harley rider so even though there’s quite a few of...

      Or, like Jerry Covington of Covingtons Cycle City in Woodward, Oklahoma, you could do what you do best ─ show ‘em what you got in the best and easiest possible way. That would be to take a stock Harley-Davidson bagger and put each and every piece you make and sell along with some prototype pieces you’d like to sell on that innocent model and turn it into your very own...

After seeing the photos of his work done over a period of five months with the “help from a couple of good friends,” it sure looks like he totally accomplished what he set out to do. Every aspect of the stock FLHRI has been tweaked from frame to drivetrain to tinwork and then some. The original 88” Twin Cam just didn’t have it in the lungs department for Terry and was reworked by...

    I definitely don’t mind being wrong when it benefits me and the Thug-built bagger Jack Cofano shot in Daytona this year puts Tom’s twist on custom baggers up there with the absolute best in the world. I know this may sound kinda stupid, but I just assumed that all of the wild and whacky custom baggers are all late model bikes. At least any I’ve written or read about have been...

     Len and Gord threw every piece Azzkikr makes for baggers and then some along with some choice aftermarket parts until the heavily-modified profile of a Road Glide was all that was left. Take the signature look of a Road Glide, the frame-mounted dual light fairing You can still see the RG’s DNA in the fairing’s twin headlamps, but the grill over them is more auto reminiscent...

     In the meantime, something as relatively wild/mild/wild as this subtle, but extremely tastefully black 2008 Harley-Davidson Street Glide belonging to Scott Romijn can almost slip by in a gathering of outrageously plumed custom baggers. Yeah it’s got a front wheel probably worth more than my truck (not a great gauge of worth) and that’s not including the brake, tire, fender,...

       Tim Sutton’s 2011 Street Glide feature bike is a custom bagger that tries to bridge the gap between crazy custom and show room fresh with a sophisticated approach. What’s sophisticated got to do with it when a lot of what he’s done is basically replacing or modifying just about every stock piece he could with something he liked better. The sophisticated part is that he...

    Yup, this over-the-top-as-usual Camtech Custom Baggers’ custom bagger has a rather large, but rather clear front wheel. Yeah, I know it’s been done before, but somehow when you see it (especially in person) it still has a lot of shock value. Something doesn’t look right because it doesn’t look wrong. All the components like brakes, tire, rim, and fender are there, but how the...

       What was once an unsuspecting 2010 Street Glide intended to wile away the miles in cruiser comfort has now become a highfalutin shadow of its former self. Not a big surprise there as Curly’s been knocking out one radical ride after another for the past 12 years or so and he’s not about to resort to chrome Motor Company bolt-ons to do his work. This little baby was taken down...