A Bike Full Of Thrills
Rough Crafts is is a handmade bike customization workshop from Taiwan. They were already featured on our website before with an amazing model and they are back. This time, with a Harley Davidson Forty Eight which they baptized “Hooligan Tactics”. Why so? That’s pretty easy to answer to: a picture is worth a thousand words, so why not let them speak on these guys’ behalf?
The fact that everything is made manually makes this two-wheeler a recognizible presence. What would you do if, one day, one Forty Eight looking like this would start roaming the streets in your neighbourhood. If turning your head around is the answer, then you need one of your own. This is the kind of bike that makes an action movie hero look badass, no matter who he is. Or better said, on which side does he fight.
A Set-Up For A Heavy Metal Band
The owner of the original bike gave the creator free will into doing whatever he deemed necessary to shift the tides for his beloved motorbike. Winston Yeh took the chance and combined the Harley with parts of bikes he already had lying around. An Xr1200 swingarm, with inverted forks from a Suzuki GSX-600 and some piggyback shocks made by Progressive Suspension.
The wheels are a conspiracy. How can something so raw look so beautiful and natural on a build such as this. They are made of forged billet aluminum by Arlen Ness’ 10-Gauge range. Apart from the vanilla Harley Forty Eight’s 17″, Yeh opted for an 18″display, with tires provided by Dunlop and their Sportmax. Rotors are a great fit, delivered by Lyndall Brakes. But I wanted to let the best for the finale. I mean the paint. The creator described as “digital camo”. The mix of blue and grey are perfectly described by those two words, like a modern warfare between the classical and the extreme. The paint was executed by Air Runner, with the pixelated effects giving life to the “tactical” side of things.
