Photo: Bad Land
This year American bike maker Harley-Davidson brought back the Breakout model for the local market with a 117ci engine in its frame. That's something the model never had before. In stock form, and unlike the modified version we have here, the Breakout also never had a fairing.
The custom motorcycle industry has had its way with this Harley model for years, and it means that at times we've seen Breakouts adopt fairings for styling purposes. But never as humongous as the one we see here.
Fairings are something we often see on stock Harley touring machines. The most impressive (and modern) of all must be those fitted on the new 2023 CVO Street Gilde and CVO Road Glide. One of the largest: the frame-mounted two-thirds one fitted on the FXRT Sport Glide of the 1980s and 1990s.
It is exactly such a piece of bodywork Japanese custom garage Bad Land dared fit on a 2017 Breakout. It's not an original FXRT fairing, but a replica of one, yet it looks just as the impressive as the real deal.
As a custom, the Breakout looks impressive. Aside for the fairing, we get custom wheels of undisclosed size, new handlebars and grips to match, a modification of the fuel tank to make it more massive, and all sorts of covers that highlight parts that would otherwise might have been overlooked. Ken's Factory contributed as well, supplying the footpegs and the brake pedal.
The engine is the one the 2017 two-wheeler originally had on, enhanced by means of a new, Bad Land-made air cleaner. The Japanese shop is also responsible for the exhaust system slapped to the left side of the engine.
As a Breakout, the build, called in this form Morphine, looks simply awful. And that's all because of the aforementioned fairing, a body part that doesn't quite fit in with the Softail, and so massive it looks positively weird on a bike meant to appear a lot sleeker.
The fact the paint chosen for the ride is black contributes to the strangeness of the appearance. It's like watching a dark creature with an oversized head trying to win a beauty pageant. I wonder how much worse a pair of saddlebags would have made the entire thing.
The Harley-Davidsdon Morphine is the most recent Bad Land build, bike number 156 in the shop's extensive portfolio. We don't know who it was made for, or where does it roam the streets, and we also have no info on how much it cost to put together.
All that matters little, though, in the grand scheme of things, and chances are we'll remember this thing for a long time as an awful take on a Breakout, yet an impressive custom build nonetheless.
Fairings are something we often see on stock Harley touring machines. The most impressive (and modern) of all must be those fitted on the new 2023 CVO Street Gilde and CVO Road Glide. One of the largest: the frame-mounted two-thirds one fitted on the FXRT Sport Glide of the 1980s and 1990s.
It is exactly such a piece of bodywork Japanese custom garage Bad Land dared fit on a 2017 Breakout. It's not an original FXRT fairing, but a replica of one, yet it looks just as the impressive as the real deal.
As a custom, the Breakout looks impressive. Aside for the fairing, we get custom wheels of undisclosed size, new handlebars and grips to match, a modification of the fuel tank to make it more massive, and all sorts of covers that highlight parts that would otherwise might have been overlooked. Ken's Factory contributed as well, supplying the footpegs and the brake pedal.
The engine is the one the 2017 two-wheeler originally had on, enhanced by means of a new, Bad Land-made air cleaner. The Japanese shop is also responsible for the exhaust system slapped to the left side of the engine.
As a Breakout, the build, called in this form Morphine, looks simply awful. And that's all because of the aforementioned fairing, a body part that doesn't quite fit in with the Softail, and so massive it looks positively weird on a bike meant to appear a lot sleeker.
The fact the paint chosen for the ride is black contributes to the strangeness of the appearance. It's like watching a dark creature with an oversized head trying to win a beauty pageant. I wonder how much worse a pair of saddlebags would have made the entire thing.
The Harley-Davidsdon Morphine is the most recent Bad Land build, bike number 156 in the shop's extensive portfolio. We don't know who it was made for, or where does it roam the streets, and we also have no info on how much it cost to put together.
All that matters little, though, in the grand scheme of things, and chances are we'll remember this thing for a long time as an awful take on a Breakout, yet an impressive custom build nonetheless.
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