I must be honest; I’m not really into custom motorcycles. All too often they are a bad version of an okay thing. Sure, they usually look better, but I’m more of a function-over-form kind of guy. And considering an entire team of white lab coat wearing engineers work - often for years - to design, develop, test and eventually deliver a new motorcycle to the masses, the custom bike just feels like it’s flawed, inherently.
Sure, production bikes have their flaws, too, and typically need some improvements to suit the rider or the terrain or the adventure they intend to set out on. But from the factory, they’re usually pretty good at doing the thing they were designed to do.
