Back to the “it’s your custom bagger” thing, obviously the only people that should have unrestrained opinions are the builders/owners as they’ve put their money where their mouth is and dove into the deep end of the custom bike pool. If they don’t give a sh*t about interstate travel and like all the attention their bike gets both pro and con, that’s their choice. Obviously,...

      Normally you expect things to run their course before some new trend takes its place as the new hip thing, but that’s not the case from what I can gather. Maybe it is because they are high quality builds using good solutions to problems instead of stop-gap measures and brain adjustments so that they can be ridden. Maybe not cross country like their original intention, but...

     There seems to be two basic styles of custom baggers to me or at least that’s the way I’ve broken them up ─ fairing and non-faring. Yeah, that may seem totally obvious and overly simple, but I think each initial design takes its own route to custom nirvana. The fairing bagger has as absolutely as much bodywork and electronic gizmos as possible while the non-fairing (which I...

       From my interpretation after dealing with him over the years means he either got some wicked cool choppers, bobbers, café racers, street trackers, etc. or the only thing at the shows were baggers. More often than not it’s one bagger after another. That’s not necessarily bad except as Jack often says. “It’s hard to tell the difference other than paint. It’s all about the...

      I’ve never met Roger Harper, but after taking one look at his extreme custom 2011 Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic, built by Camtech Custom Baggers in Summerville, South Carolina, I think I have a bit of a handle on him. Obviously he’s a successful guy, probably middle-aged (whatever that is) as they always say and a multiple bike owner ─ probably all Harleys of some sort. This...

     What you’re looking at here is a quite lovely looking bagger called Killer Klown that I’d dare say is a bit restrained (yet extremely stylish) custom from the House of Kendall. Kendall’s bikes over the years were pretty over the top in design as well as power and maybe not everyone’s cup ‘o tea. Nowadays it seems like Kendall’s son Zach Johnson and Travis Hathcock are running...

       Joey Beam was a retired new car dealer who opened a custom motorcycle parts and apparel business, Vindictive Wayz, which his lovely wife Samantha successfully runs today. The bike building off-shoot, Godfather Baggers, does the custom grunt work. Located at the same street address in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, both actually work together in some sort of separate, but...

      Now, almost two hundred years later, Chris Eder and the crew at Misfit Industries in lovely Addison, Texas, finally finished this bad to the absolute bone of bones bagger with an unknowing nod to H.C. Ørsted possibly in more ways than one. There is at least an alternator on board so I guess he gets credit for that electromagnetism thing too. But enough of the Ørsted...

       If the object of building a custom Harley is to grab attention, all the attention you can possibly get, then this King of Bling wins on all counts. I’m so used to insanely radical big wheel baggers that I first thought Jack Cofano photos showed a more or less stock MotorCo bagger zinged up with a paintjob you can’t take your eyes off even if you hate it. But I was wrong,...

       Okay, okay, I’ll explain what I’m vaguely trying to explain so far. Picking a bike to write about is not easy as Jack Cofano’s photo galleries that we use for online articles are beautifully extensive. The first two bikes that caught my eye to write about were two that Barnett’s Magazine Online had previously featured a year or two ago, but they’re still out and about on...