The Secret Of Excess
Sometimes in life you just got to say…. F’ it. Sometimes you have to just not worry about the cost and go for (and quite possibly become) broke! Excess breeds success and in order to show the world what is possible to do on two wheels, look no further than this 2009 Road Glide from Baggers Concepts.
Alan Gregory, from Baggers Concepts, is certainly no rookie in the big-dog-bike-building game. He’s been pumping out some of the most innovative two-wheel creations for years. Alan explains. “When I invented the first speaker lid, known as Loud Lids, little did I know that it would lead to designing and building some of the sickest Baggers to ever hit the streets. When it came to build a new demo bike for the company, I went to the drawing board and came up with the bike you see here and called it FTM (F%$K the Money). I wanted to build a show stopper that would keep everyone talking, no matter if they loved or hated it!”
So with some gravel in his guts and some spit in his eye, and with no time frame or financial ceiling to hold him back, he started down the road to excess. Going big starts first and foremost with big ass wheels and (at the moment) the dirty thirty is the reserved for true players only. “After deciding to use a Metalsport 30-inch Duan Juan for the frontend, I went to work putting all the other pieces of the puzzle together. I knew I wanted the bike to flow with that big ass wheel on the front, so I needed big parts and went with Arlen Ness down and out bags and rear fender and a set of Perewitz custom LED taillights. For the tank, I went with a modified Ballistic kit and a set of custom side covers.”
With all that mass of rolling metal, you better have some serious power to push it. But Alan didn’t want to just putt-putt down the boulevard. With the same F’ it attitude there was only one way to go and that was to blow it (and more money) for some serious power. “I knew I wanted the bike to be low and mean with big ass horsepower. It needed to be a complete package, not just a decorated cake. I went to work on the perfect motor combo. I wanted it to be fast, so I went with a Screamin’ Eagle 120r blown by an ATI Procharger. Thanks to help from Walt Sipp, it took some tuning to really make that thing run.”
No sense in putting that much into the motor to stop short (literally) and not have a matching set of serious suspenders along with a loud ass system. “Once the motor combo was done it was on to the suspension. It also had to be on air, front and rear. I was really concerned with what it looked like parked, I wanted it to sit down low, but also be able to get up enough to ride, because its pointless to dump all this money into a bike if you can’t ride it! Of course the bike had to have a big audio system, so I built a custom inner fairing with six 6.5-inch speakers. The rear lids are our signature design that really started the whole speaker lid craze. To amplify all the speakers, I went with three Bagger Concepts amps to really give it the kick it needed. I wanted it to have my personal touch, so every panel was changed or modified in some way so it wouldn’t look like it came out of a box.”
At this point, if the bike were painted all black, it would still be one of the baddest bags to hit the streets. Remembering that this was a “FTM” build, there was no way it was going to stay a monochrome machine. No way. “I already had a theme in mind for the paint. It needed to be bright and some serious artwork. I got with my painter Max Maxwell and we came up with a crazy two-sided paint job with a wild-west theme. We both knew that a PPG custom mixed candy pink would keep everyone talking, no matter if they hated it or not, and it worked! I’ve heard all kinds of comments. After completion of the paint and assembly I called on my good friend Stoney at Thunderhead seats and came up with a sick hand tooled leather seat that looked like a saddle to compliment the paint theme.”
When it was time to cash in the chips and see what was leftover, Alan couldn’t be a happier guy. “Overall I was pleased with the outcome FTM. It definitely turned heads and got my work and products recognized. Thanks to everyone that helped me get this bike done you know who you are!”
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Specifications
General
Owner Alan Gregory
Shop Bagger Concepts
Website baggerconcepts.com
Year/Make/Model 2009/Harley-Davidson/Road Glide
Fabrication Bagger Concepts
Build Time Too many hours
Engine
Year/Type/Size 120R Screamin’ Eagle/Procharged
Builder H-D
Cases Screamin’ Eagle
Cylinders Screamin’ Eagle
Heads Screamin’ Eagle
Rocker Boxes Roland Sands
Cams Screamin’ Eagle
Throttle Body Screamin’ Eagle 58mm
Air Cleaner Pro Charger
EFI Controller Screamin’ Eagle/Power Commander
Exhaust D&D Boarzilla
Transmission
Year/Type ’09/six-speed
Clutch ATI/ Barnett
Primary Drive H-D
Frame
Year/Type 2009/H-D
Rake/Stretch 40 degrees/ + 3.5”
Suspension Air ride front and rear
Frontend H-D/ Bagger Concepts
Length +4
Triple Trees HHI 12s
Swingarm H-D/ Bagger Concepts/ CTC
Rear Shocks Arnott
Wheels, Tires, and Brakes
Front
Builder/Size Metalsport Don Juan 3D / 30-inch
Tire/Size Vee Rubber / 30-inch
Calipers Performance Machine
Rotors Metalsport
Rear
Builder/Size Renegade/17×6.25”Tire/Size-200/17
Caliper Performance Machine
Pulley chain conversion
Finish/Paint
Manufacturer PPG
Colors Custom mix/Hot Pink candy
Paint/Graphics Max Maxwell
Plating/Polishing Atlas
Powdercoating Custom Coatings
Accessories
Front Fender Sinister/Bagger Concepts
Rear Fender Arlen Ness/ Bagger Concepts
Gas Tank H-D Ballistic/ Bagger Concepts
Dash Balistic/ Bagger Concepts
Gauges Dakota Digital
Handlebars Custom one offs by Sinister
Grips Performance Machine
Hand Controls Performance Machine
Foot Controls Performance Machine
Floorboards Performance Machine
Taillight Perewitz LED
Turn Signals Perewitz Led
License Mount Yaffe
Seat Thunderhead seats
Stereo Kendwood
Amplifier Bagger Concepts
Speakers Hertz/ Kicker