It?s not easy to build a good-looking custom bike. The classifieds are littered with abandoned projects?and even the top pro builders sometimes struggle to get it right.
If the donor bike is electric, you can multiply the difficulty level by ten. Without a traditional engine to anchor the visuals, it?s fiendishly hard to create an attractive machine. Which makes this Zero XU street tracker from Colt Wrangler even more remarkable: it?s one of the freshest-looking bikes we?ve seen so far this year.

Former rodeo rider Colt Lyons hails from Mason, Texas, and over the past three years, he?s built 16 customs. He modestly describes himself as ?the self-taught, new kid on the block??but obviously has talents way beyond the norm.
?I?ve always been the type to make things my own and unique,? he says. ?I enjoy working with my hands and being creative. When I realized that I could make money doing just that with motorcycles, I dived in headfirst.?
We don’t see many electric customs, and even fewer that look as good as this Zero. So how did this build come about"
?A customer came to me with the idea for a custom electric motorcycle,? Colt reveals. ?My original thought was to build a cafe racer, possibly with full fairings. But after riding the bike in its original form, I really enjoyed the stance it already had. So I decided to go for a street tracker look.?

Colt?s customer tracked down a 2013-year Zero XU at local dealership, but it spent nearly a year gathering dus...