What does it take to win the ‘Best Detail Work’ award at the illustrious Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show" You’ll need oodles of imagination, ingenuity and skill?and Takuya Aikawa isn’t short on any of those.
Aikawa-san runs the Japanese custom shop Sureshot in Chiba, just east of Tokyo. With two HRCS ‘Best in Show’ awards already under his belt, he entered this custom Harley-Davidson Dyna in last month’s running of the event. He might not have bagged the overall this time, but an award for the best details at Mooneyes (as the show is commonly known) is nothing to sneeze at.

Dubbed ‘Phase III,’ this 1998-model Harley-Davidson FXD Dyna Super Glide follows Sureshot’s mission to build custom bikes that are ?fast, lightweight, and skinny.? But that’s not all it has going for it. The closer you examine it, the more you find the plethora of neat details that earned it its award. The mono-shock swingarm and twin downdraft intakes are obvious changes, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to notice that the frame’s been tweaked. But you’ll need a sharp eye to spot the non-standard front suspension, or the radical custom hand-shifter design.

At the heart of the machine, Takuya rebuilt the motor with a pair of burly billet aluminum cylinder heads from Speed and Science. Next, he fabricated a custom manifold to fit a Keihin FCR41 downdraft twin carburetor with velocity stacks, and a handmade co...