We all want a bike that looks bad but rides like a dream. Johnny Plant of Amarillo, Texas, has such a bike. His Harley sports a Sumax Softail frame with a rubber-mounted engine, giving Plant a bitchin’ Softail look minus the shake of a factory solid mount—which is why the rest of us are green with envy!
Starting with a ’94 Sumax CX frame, Plant had Derrick Drown at Tripps H/D in Amarillo, Texas, toss an Evo engine into the frame with a Screamin’ Eagle cam, milled heads, an S&S carb and air cleaner, and a Strader exhaust.
Drown then combined a billet RC Components 21-inch front wheel with an 18-inch Custom Chrome solid rear wheel, wrapped both wheels in Metzeler rubber and hung an RPM fender over the front and a Ness fender over the rear.
The front wheel hangs on stock Wide Glide forks that have been shortened 1½ inches. Ness drag bars, handgrips and footrests call to action the engine, the GMA brakes and the stock gearbox. Plants’ posterior rides on a Bobby Fox–constructed seat. The custom dashboard and taillight were smoothed over by Bobby Walden.
When all the fabrication was done, Soncy Road Bodyshop slathered everything with candy-organic-green paint and graphics.
Plant wanted a smoothie Softail that looked and rode different. He got both.