Photo: No Limit Custom
You all know Harley-Davidson's Breakout, that breed of Softail that's been making the rounds since the early 2010s with quite an appreciable success. It's that sleek cruiser usually drowned in chrome that at the moment is selling off the Harley lot in a choice of four-color schemes, none of which make the bike look overburdened.
Like all other Harleys ever made, the Breakout too is not to the liking of many of its customers in its natural form, so a lot of them had their Breakouts modified at the hands of more or less talented crews from across the world.
Most of the time the end products of customization work come across as mutated machines that still retain the main attributes of the base Breakouts, down to their apparent lightness and agility. Yet sometimes a small yet important detail such as the paint job can ruin the whole thing.
Take the No Limit, for instance. It's a custom Breakout of unspecified model year assembled by a German garage we know as… No Limit Custom. Speaking from an engineering point of view, we're dealing with an incredible two-wheeler, the likes of which we're so used to from these guys.
The Breakout suffered the usual modifications, from the fitting of custom wheels wearing wider rubber, to changes in body parts. Starting with the fenders, these were replaced by fiberglass bits that are smaller but much more aggressive than the original ones.
The front end of the bike's frame was fitted with a spoiler to give the ride a more aggressive visual appearance. Higher up, a new handlebar No Limit likes to call Godzilla was installed. Made from aluminum, it comes with an integrated speedometer and turn lights.
Various covers have made their way on the sides of the Harley, binding the entire build together in a beautiful fashion. At the rear, the Breakout was specced with a side license plate holder to avoid ruining the look with a center one.
We are not given any indication as to what the modifications to the engine are, but the aftermarket exhaust system slapped to the right side is more than obvious.
So far so good. But now comes the paint job. It's a combination of white, black, and yellow, with special graphics and lettering spelling out the bike's name. Normally, white, black and yellow come together to form visually appealing combinations, but that's not what we get here.
Maybe it's the place chosen for each of these colors, or the way they come together, or the graphic, but the end result looks heavy and overburdened. A visual overload, if you will, something that gives you the same feeling of fullness you get after a very, very rich meal. And no one likes that feeling.
The total cost of the build, paint job included, was not disclosed by No Limit. We do know the parts listed above amount together to 4,100 euros, which is about $4,450 at today's exchange rates.
Most of the time the end products of customization work come across as mutated machines that still retain the main attributes of the base Breakouts, down to their apparent lightness and agility. Yet sometimes a small yet important detail such as the paint job can ruin the whole thing.
Take the No Limit, for instance. It's a custom Breakout of unspecified model year assembled by a German garage we know as… No Limit Custom. Speaking from an engineering point of view, we're dealing with an incredible two-wheeler, the likes of which we're so used to from these guys.
The Breakout suffered the usual modifications, from the fitting of custom wheels wearing wider rubber, to changes in body parts. Starting with the fenders, these were replaced by fiberglass bits that are smaller but much more aggressive than the original ones.
The front end of the bike's frame was fitted with a spoiler to give the ride a more aggressive visual appearance. Higher up, a new handlebar No Limit likes to call Godzilla was installed. Made from aluminum, it comes with an integrated speedometer and turn lights.
Various covers have made their way on the sides of the Harley, binding the entire build together in a beautiful fashion. At the rear, the Breakout was specced with a side license plate holder to avoid ruining the look with a center one.
We are not given any indication as to what the modifications to the engine are, but the aftermarket exhaust system slapped to the right side is more than obvious.
So far so good. But now comes the paint job. It's a combination of white, black, and yellow, with special graphics and lettering spelling out the bike's name. Normally, white, black and yellow come together to form visually appealing combinations, but that's not what we get here.
Maybe it's the place chosen for each of these colors, or the way they come together, or the graphic, but the end result looks heavy and overburdened. A visual overload, if you will, something that gives you the same feeling of fullness you get after a very, very rich meal. And no one likes that feeling.
The total cost of the build, paint job included, was not disclosed by No Limit. We do know the parts listed above amount together to 4,100 euros, which is about $4,450 at today's exchange rates.
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