Photo: Bundnerbike
Bad Habits is a song so powerful it even has its own Wikipedia page. It also has three big awards to its name (including a Best Song at the MTV Music Awards in 2021), countless nominations, and was streamed over 450 million times on Spotify. And now it has its own Harley-Davidson.
The bike is not the result of some official collaboration between the Milwaukee motorcycle maker and Ed Sheeran, and it's probably not even something the man himself would ride or sing about. It is however the work of one of the world's best-regarded custom garages in the world, the Swiss guys from over at Bundnerbike, so success is equally ensured.
The ride started out as an unassuming Softail playing in the touring segment, and for all intents and purposes it remained so even in this form. In fact, most of the bike's elements seem to be the stock one, and you'd be fooled into believing the ride 100 percent stock, and was only painted differently. You'd be wrong, at least in part.
There are, of course, stock elements on the ride, and they are of the most important variety. The frame is Harley-made, and so is the Milwaukee-Eight 117 fitted inside it, from where it sends to the road 103 hp and 168 Nm of torque. But it was fitted with an aftermarket heavy breather, complete with a forward-facing air filter.
The front end is where many of the modifications were made. The fairing of the ride is of Bundnerbike make, and holds a LED headlight that was not originally there. Further back the eyes fall on the custom handlebar with low-mounted mirrors, and sporting Swiss-made controls for the clutch and brake.
The rear the Bad Habits presents us with is quintessentially that of American baggers, with cases fitted to either side. There is no top case, but the custom seat of the motorcycle more than plays its part in highlighting the uniqueness of the project.
Because it is named after one of the famous songs of our time, and on account of the two-wheeler's birth in the Bundnerbike shop, we were kind of expecting all sorts of hidden or less so references to the music hit on the body.
We get none of that, but we do get a beautiful play between just two colors, black and red, chasing each other all over the machine, until they settle into a wicked-looking touring for night travels.
Part of the same line of custom builds as the Bad Guy (a Low Rider by trade), the Bad Habits is one of the more recent Bundnerbike projects. Like most others before it, though, it comes with no information about its worth in this configuration, leaving us wondering just how expensive even mild modifications such as these could be worth.
The ride started out as an unassuming Softail playing in the touring segment, and for all intents and purposes it remained so even in this form. In fact, most of the bike's elements seem to be the stock one, and you'd be fooled into believing the ride 100 percent stock, and was only painted differently. You'd be wrong, at least in part.
There are, of course, stock elements on the ride, and they are of the most important variety. The frame is Harley-made, and so is the Milwaukee-Eight 117 fitted inside it, from where it sends to the road 103 hp and 168 Nm of torque. But it was fitted with an aftermarket heavy breather, complete with a forward-facing air filter.
The front end is where many of the modifications were made. The fairing of the ride is of Bundnerbike make, and holds a LED headlight that was not originally there. Further back the eyes fall on the custom handlebar with low-mounted mirrors, and sporting Swiss-made controls for the clutch and brake.
The rear the Bad Habits presents us with is quintessentially that of American baggers, with cases fitted to either side. There is no top case, but the custom seat of the motorcycle more than plays its part in highlighting the uniqueness of the project.
Because it is named after one of the famous songs of our time, and on account of the two-wheeler's birth in the Bundnerbike shop, we were kind of expecting all sorts of hidden or less so references to the music hit on the body.
We get none of that, but we do get a beautiful play between just two colors, black and red, chasing each other all over the machine, until they settle into a wicked-looking touring for night travels.
Part of the same line of custom builds as the Bad Guy (a Low Rider by trade), the Bad Habits is one of the more recent Bundnerbike projects. Like most others before it, though, it comes with no information about its worth in this configuration, leaving us wondering just how expensive even mild modifications such as these could be worth.
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