Personally, I’d like to think they’re still whole and getting ready for a tasteful makeover to modern style standards. A perfect example of this is Jason Gosnell’s S&S-powered pro-street Softail that was originally built by Tom “The German” Steinbacher of Demon’s Cycle in Pompano Beach, Florida. Tom’s company does more than just build ground-up customs and probably the bike building aspect is more of a showcase of parts for his international custom motorcycle wholesale company.

 

   After doing the rounds for Demon in a plain white paintjob, it ended up in Jason’s hands where he changed things like bars and seat among others to suit him and decided to use this bike as a showcase for his painting talents. From far away it looks like a dandy black and white paintjob, but get closer and things change radically. Now the bike looks like it has a white flame paintjob over an intricate base of black skull graphics. Oh, did I mention he owns a shop called Pro Customs in Spartanburg, South Carolina? Well he does and this makeover not only won over some new customers for him, but also took the People’s Choice Specialty Chopper first-place award at the recent Easyriders Show in Charlotte.

 

   So maybe I’ve been just looking in the wrong places for my missing pro-streeters or maybe they were all being rejuvenated into updated versions of themselves. Obviously I came into this without a clear answer, but I’m beginning to wonder if one of the most usable of yesterday’s radical custom bikes is going to make a return on the show circuit like Jason’s bike and then be cool enough to take back out and beat on the street. Only time will tell, but if you’ve got one sitting around, go pull the cover off it and take a fresh look at what you can do to it to get your pro-street juices flowing again.