After reporting on the custom scene for over ten years, it takes a lot to stop us dead in our tracks. But this incredible Harley custom from Smoked Garage is one of the most radical builds we?ve seen in the past decade.
It was commissioned by the organizers of the huge Suryanation Motorland event in Jakarta, one of the biggest custom shows in the East. The brief was simple: blow the collective socks off the thousands of visitors.

The Smoked Garage guys are no strangers to these pages: their custom Royal Enfield Himalayan was a massive hit a year ago. The company has two bases: one in Brisbane, Australia, and one just west of Denpasar city in Bali.
The Bali outpost is where founder Nicko Eigert built this bike, calling in help from his 15-strong team of crack fabricators and mechanics.
?We had a phone call from Suryanation asking if we wanted to build an ?iconic motorcycle?,? says Nicko. ?We had to show what we thought such a bike should look like in 2019, so we designed a ?neo board tracker??and they agreed to the concept.?
The show was just three months away, but Nicko had enough manpower to get the job done.

The chosen donor was a 2001-spec Harley-Davidson Softail. But not much is left of this all-American bike?essentially just the ?Twin Cam 88? 1450cc engine, which pumps out a solid 88 pound-feet of torque in stock form.
Now fed by a ramjet-style air filter, it?s slotted into a completely custom frame bent out of chromoly steel tubing, with the top tube running...