Harley-Davidson Radical Queen Has New Chevrolet Camaro-Worth of Custom Parts on It

That's more or less how much the custom parts, man-hours, and paint job are worth on this highly customized Harley-Davidson. Yep, mods that expensive in a world we know doesn't cut corners when it comes to cost.

The bike is called Radical Queen, and it's one of the latest projects performed in the garages of the Germans from Thunderbike. It was made for an unnamed custom who clearly didn't care how much it cost to convert the Street Bob from a manly two-wheeler into a beautiful, somewhat feminine presence.

Thunderbike lists over 30 custom parts as having been included in the extreme build. We won't go through them all, but we will tell you about the most important (and expensive) changes that have been performed on the ride.

We'll start from the ground up and tell you that Street Bob's original wheels were swapped for hardware made in-house by Thunderbike. Called FLH, the wheels come in a ten-spoke design and in this particular case they have one peculiar thing about them.

You're used to seeing custom motorcycles rocking massive wheels at the rear, more in a bid to impress the crowds than actually gifting the ride with extra grip abilities. That's not the case here, as for the piece at the rear Thunderbike chose one of the slimmest wheels we've seen in a long time, a 180 mm wide one.

If you were expecting the size of the thing to make the project look bad, think again. It's actually quite elegant, especially given how around it wraps a whitewall tire.

Simple fenders can be seen above both wheels, which are also backed in their mission of getting the rider safely to where he's going by an air ride suspension system.

The Milwaukee-Eight engine of the Street Bob sits largely unprotected in the frame, shielded only here and there by carefully chosen covers. It seems to breath through an aftermarket exhaust, but we are not told who's responsible for making it.

The bike's centerpiece is the fuel tank, a stretched chunk of hardware handled by the German crew itself. It features one of the simplest yet most attractive paint jobs we've seen in a long time, and is adorned on the sides with a stylized crown meant to remind everyone this bike is the Radical Queen (the Radical bit is owed to the namesake front fork and handlebar used for the project).

The 30-something parts that went into this thing are alone worth 20,000 euros ($22,000). That doesn't include the exhaust system, paint job, man-hours, and the base bike, so we're clearly looking at one of the most expensive builds Thunderbike rolled out recently.

To these eyes it's worth every cent, as the Harley-Davidson Radical Queen seems to me one of the most beautiful custom bikes of the year.