Custom Bikes Recap: Harley-Davidson Breakout on $27k Wheels, Plus Four More Insane Rides

Last week's custom bikes featured here on autoevolution offered us, as usual, a lot of Harley-Davidsons. Four of them, reinterpreted in garages located in Japan, Germany, and Switzerland, came to light in guises so extreme they'll probably be remembered for a long time by those with a passion for modified American bikes.

Facing them off in the battle for the public's attention was a Ducati XDiavel taken to the extreme by a crew headquartered in Russia. And as you'll see in the lines below, the Italian-born beauty can more than hold its ground against the other four Americans.

Ducati XDiavel Piombo-X

We'll start our recap with the Ducati, not only because it's the only non-Harley we've featured here last week, but also because it's a machine so extreme-looking that it is certainly worth the honor.

You all know how even in its stock form the two-wheeler is not something that can easily be ignored, but in this form, bestowed upon it by the Russians from Box39, everything about it has been greatly exaggerated.

The original blackness of the ride was made even deeper by the color chosen for the build. It covers not only stock body elements, plenty of which can still be seen on the machine, but also the custom bits Box39 threw in there.

The bike is called in this modified form Piombo-X and comes with new wheels, produced in-house in Russia, so extreme in design they (especially the one at the rear) are perhaps the most visible bits of the ride. We then get custom fenders over both wheels, protection elements for the bike's frame, and of course a beefed-up fuel tank.

Box39 does not say anything about the cost of the build, but we do get word this is the first of seven customized XDiavels we're to expect for them, so if you fancy this modified machine, keep an eye out for what's to come.

Harley-Davidson Emburo

Our favorite custom Japanese garage, Bad Land, returned with something called Emburo last week. We're talking about a modified VRSCAW version of the mighty V-Rod, styled in such a way as to look like a scary demon spawn from hell.

Darker than night itself, the American muscle bike rides on new wheels supplied by Performance Machine and sized 19 inches at the front and 18 inches at the rear (this one is also 260 mm wide, larger than what Harley-Davidson offered on the stock machine).

A wealth of other custom bits and pieces, including the headlight, handlebar, and engine covers, have been fitted on the V-Rod, but so were Harley-supplied pieces of hardware, like the 2012 Harley-Davidson fork supporting the front wheel.

The Revolution engine that powers the VRSCAW, on the other hand, remains in place and, with the exception of it getting a new exhaust system, it remains largely unmodified.

Bad Land does not share any info on the cost of the Harley-Davidson Emburo.

Harley-Davidson Glatzzomobil

It sometimes happens for large custom motorcycle garages to create projects for the enjoyment of their own people, and the Harley-Davidson Glatzzomobil, made by the Germans from Thunderbike for one of their own, is no exception.

The motorcycle started its adventure into our world as a Low Rider ST, and it still retains most of the elements that make it recognizable as such. All of that however was given a custom treatment that makes it unique in its family.

First, the stock wheels, which usually come in at 19 inches front and 16 inches rear, have been replaced with larger pieces of hardware, coming in at 21 and 18 inches, respectively.

To match the design envisioned for the bodywork, the rims and spokes, wrapped in Metzeler rubber, were painted in a shade of coppery gold.

As usual, Thunderbike didn't limit itself to swapping the wheels, and for the Glatzzomobil project they also threw in a rather large 9-inch riser to give the Low Ride a club-style look, and a custom leather seat to better accommodate the new riding position.

The parts used on the Harley-Davidson Glatzzomobil are alone worth about $6,600 according to the custom list we got from Thunderbike.

Harley-Davidson Ocean Force

Perhaps the most extreme custom bike we featured last week is another Thunderbike creation, something called the Ocean Force. And that's because this thing's wheels alone are worth as much as a brand-new Chevrolet Camaro.

The bike was originally a Fat Boy, but was taken down a customization path with no concern about cost. In all, the unknown owner of the ride blew 39,000 euros ($42,100) for the extras that went into it, not including man hours and the paint job. Of that, $26,700 was spent on the two wheels alone...

The elements are made in-house by Thunderbike and are part of a line the German shop calls Grand Prix. Monoblock by design, they come in this application in impressive sizes, 23-inch at the front and 21-inch at the rear. The latter is wrapped in a properly wide 260 mm Cruisetec piece of rubber.

Harley-Davidson Blue Breakout Wonder

A while back a Swiss custom motorcycle garage named Bundnerbike came out with the most expensive custom Softail Slim S the world has ever known: the $2 million Harley-Davidson Bucherer. It was perhaps the first project to make the color blue look good on a custom Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

Since that time the garage released other blue American two-wheelers, and since the Bucherer conditioned us to like the color, we properly enjoyed them all. But few come even close to the effect the Harley-Davidson Blue Breakout Wonder has on our eyes and brains.

The motorcycle was originally a Breakout, one of the favorite base motorcycles for Bundnerbike. It got propped on wheels the likes of which we rarely get to see deployed on motorcycles.

We don't have the exact dimensions for them, but we do know the rear one, for instance, was made from a single solid piece of metal, cut in an impressive shape and held in place by a single-sided swingarm. It's an element that took Bundnerbike, as per its own admission, a full year to develop…

The full cost of the Harley-Davidson Blue Breakout Wonder is not disclosed, and although we don't expect it to be as huge as that of the Bucherer, it probably wasn't cheap either.

That's it for last week's custom bikes recap. Stay tuned for the next five days, as we'll dig up (hopefully) even more exciting custom motorcycles for you to enjoy.