Of course it sports bags and some swoopy bodywork to try and keep the bagger connection, but half of this bike thinks it’s a bagger and the other half thinks it’s a chopper. That crazy-cool front end incorporating air suspension reminds me more of chopper time than baggerville. And, yeah, the big-ass, big spoked, brakeless, fenderless front wheel looks more chopper than bagger...

   And that’s not even taking into account any of the other sensory modalities like balance, pain, temperature, vibration and proprioception (the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement). In other words, this bike is a full frontal assault on everything that makes you who you are. Just don’t take any of this...

    All of a sudden he was jumping up and down laughing hysterically and let forth a totally annoying song/rhyme (below) that came out of nowhere. If you’re old enough maybe you remember it.                               Made you look. You dirty crook.                               You stole your mother’s pocketbook.                               You turned it in. You turned it...

     That’s certainly not the case here with this 2011 Harley-Davidson Road Glide built and owned by Jeff Cuddy of Bag Draggers Customs in Gray, Tennessee. But, one thing that might make me think otherwise is that this same bike has been through a couple of makeovers. I guess that’s no biggie as any custom builder is always thinking about how to improve his design shtick and if...

   For sure it doesn’t have the latest 30- or 32-inch front wheel and that’s okay. Sometimes smaller is better. The profile chosen by Zane Culleton, owner of Southern Cycle in Buford, Georgia, along with his brother Sean, for this bagger called Freak-Show stays a little more true to factory even though anything and everything’s been changed up quite a bit to say the least. There’s...

There’s plenty of normal stuff to do and see there, but I gotta believe that Neil Dellinger’s radically customized Harley-Davidson Road Glide is quite a sight to see rolling down the streets of Hickory. Now I’m sure there are other Road Glides and other Harleys in Hickory as it’s a typical small American city, but there probably isn’t another Road Glide around quite like Neil’s....

    Sometimes that freedom has been challenged like the horrific attack on the Twin Towers, but it only made our resolve to be free that much stronger. Showing that resolve in a custom Harley became a regular feature of builders back when the 9/11 tragedy happened with many a patriotic bike built as a tribute to those poor lost souls and the police and fire departments who tried to...

Even with my advanced lack of observation and awareness of what’s going on around me, I’d never miss this bike or any of the other baggers Phil’s turned out over the years.  Maybe the joke’s on us, but this intensely worked over 2016 Harley-Davidson Road King shouts out Sons of Anarchy anywhere and everywhere you look and as I said, that’s far from stealthy. But for lovers of the...

   Well, probably the best Goldilocks compromise of all, the 26-inch wheel which still has the look, just not too much of it. As Jon Lovitz’s SNL perpetual-liar character, Tommy Flanagan, would say, “Yeah, that’s the ticket.” And so it is with this lovely Street Glide built for Alex Mabe of Germantown, North Carolina, by Joey Hensley of Backyard Baggers in Winston-Salem, North...

  Sometimes that dream just might not be what you expect, but you just go with it anyway. That’s the way I feel about this eyeball-grabbing Harley-Davidson bagger build by person or persons unknown. It’s quite a stunning build with a lot of high quality work from the stretched neck to accommodate the front wheel to the tail-dragging rear fender and bags. Nothing’s been left to...