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, that’s what they’re looking for and the nuttier the better. Fine by me as I do like looking at ‘em and that’s what it’s all about to owners whether at a show or cruising around town.

 

  Plus, if you’re a professional bagger builder and you want to attract new clients it only makes sense to whip up something over the top to showcase what you can do. Such is the case with this 2006 Road King called Coco that got the whole enchilada done to it and then some by Colton Lollis of Woodlawn Baggers in Greenwood, South Carolina. As you can see in Señor Cofano’s photos, Coco likes to sit on the ground ─ really, really on the ground. Colton made this possible courtesy of his lay frame setup that involves not only the usual drastic frame mods to accommodate the Gorby’s Machine 30-inch wheel, but quite a few more including swingarm mods on these earlier H-D frames. And to answer a question I always get asked, the headlight does not sit on the fender when it’s ridden. Please, adjustable air suspension front and rear brings this resting show bike to ride height faster than you can read this sentence. Unless, of course, you’re a successful graduate of the Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics, but it’s still shockingly quick.

 

  A Road King theoretically doesn’t have as much bodywork as a faired bagger, but Colton teamed up with the lads at Dirty South Designs in Hodges, South Carolina, to make a one-piece body that stretches things quite a bit. Coco’s windswept lines end in a bagger gale of glass as the rear flow continues long after it would normally. The way the gas tank with its own set of design rules flows into the bags is pretty damn wild with many different swoops and dives on the way aft. Making the frame an integral part of the design like the chin spoiler for example is definitely cool almost leading one to think this is a frame-less design. Nothing looks Harley-familiar and I’d guess that was the point.

All I know is that there was a lot of handwork involved to pull this off.

 

   Coco originally appeared in a coat of white when she was first introduced to her many admirers and I mean white like in there was nothing else but bright white you could see including the engine except its chromed bad boy FSD exhaust and Performance Machine air cleaner. She was pretty startling in her stark white coolness and you might have caught her in places like Sturgis in case the sight of pure white still is stuck in your head. But like any Harley, she hadn’t had her last custom rodeo yet. Colton dug the white, but he was looking for a bit more so he turned to an old South Carolina standby, Brian Morgan of BKP Art who’s not actually old and has had many, many of his paintjobs on Barnett’s Magazine Online’s feature bikes. He’s a prolific painter, but it doesn’t seem to have hampered his imagination. The purple panels (with a bit of ‘70s psychedelia going on inside them) he came up with transformed the bike and accentuated the lines rather than hide them in pure white sight. Toasts all around for everybody involved. 

 

   So it just goes back to the beginning, not only did an owner/builder do what he wanted in the first place, but when that wasn’t enough for him, he did some more. Owner/builder criticizes self about outcome of big wheel bagger build and does something about it. That’s the kind of criticism we can all handle.

 

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