Harley-Davidson Street Bob Goes Low and Wide as Simply Street Build

But there are simpler ways of making custom motorcycles, and closer to our time shops seem to have begun trying this approach as well. Take for instance Thunderbike, a German garage that usually does not shy away from completely transforming stock Harleys.

We’ve already talked about the heavily-chromed La Montana, a Deluxe that received a subtle yet effective upgrade meant to make it unique, yet not far-fetched. And today’s two-wheeler star, a Street Bob originally, kind of received the same amount of limited changes.

Built at the request of a German customer, the bike was christened Simply Street. It doesn’t show massively changed body parts, but only a slightly lower stance and a tad wider appearance thanks to the custom rear.

Painted all black (what is simpler in the world of paints than this color?) the motorcycle retains the stock Milwaukee-Eight 107 engine and all the other Harley-designed hardware, as mechanically it is unchanged from how it usually leaves the assembly lines of the Milwaukee bike maker.

A closer look reveals several custom elements, like the rear and front fenders, the vinyl black seat, or the upper fork cover, but other than that there’s not much going on.

As usual when coming to their projects, Thunderbike does not say how much the conversion cost. We do have a list of parts used though, and their prices on the garages’ website, and simple math brings us to a total of a little over 3,000 euros ($3,500).