One Monster Of A Clutch
Baker Drivetrain's King Kong Klutch is known for its ability to handle the increased power of big-inch motors, but it is now making a name for itself from the easy clutch effort it promotes. The King Kong Klutch has a tremendous gripping ability that doesn't rely on hard spring tension, which can be heavy on the hand. The light, slipproof clutch effort heavily benefits anybody who is subjected to stop-and-go traffic.

Want to get famous without killing someone or taking off your clothes? Then send us a few pics of your bike. We really dig sifting through piles of mail seeing what y'all out there in baggerland have been building and riding. Send all snail mail to Hot Bike Baggers Readers' Rides, 2570 E. Cerritos Ave., Anaheim, California 92806, or better yet,e-mail them to baggermag@sourceinterlink.com.

2005 H-D Road Glide
There is a misnomer with some of the motorcycle public that owners of mom-and-pop custom-motorcycle shops customize their own rides all the time and ride everywhere. This is not the case with Scot, Mercedes and Randy, owners of Redhill Motorcycle Werx in Lyons, Colorado. They would love to have the time to go on all the local rides and spend hours customizing their own rides, but typically they only get to go on a few rides a year and try to squeeze out a few changes on their rides before Sturgis. Sturgis is a mere 350 miles away, so they ride up there every year. This year, co-owner Randy Hocker wanted to do some customization to his Road Glide before the ride. He bought it in 2005 and had a few ideas, but they needed to be items that he could knock out after work when all the paying customers' work was done. The first thing he did was order an FBI kit that included the fender, swingarm with bearings installed, transmission offset kit, spacers, brackets, gaskets and hardware. Randy opted for the turn signals to be mounted in the fender spacers and for the taillight and the license plate to be frenched into the rear fender, so all he would need to do is plug them in and be done with it. He also ordered up a front fender, since he was going to swap out his front wheel for a 21. This was going to be a quick and inexpensive way to make his Road Glide stand out from the pack. He decided that since he was going to have to go into the tranny to replace the mainshaft to accommodate the larger rear tire, he would throw in a Baker six-speed transmission for highway riding.

What: Victory Vision Street and Vision Tour
When: January 2008
Where: Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange County, California
Why: Riding impression, evaluation and commentary

The Crew From Hyevon Choppers Puts Together A 100th Anniversary Road King That Is Strictly BusinessA lot of people outside of the East LA bike crowd haven't heard of Hyevon Choppers. Heck, there are a lot of people who have driven past their nondescript shop on Painter Avenue for years and never even known that there was a bike shop tucked in next to the McDonald's. That is because the crew at Hyevon Choppers isn't all about the bling and flashy window dressings that other shops are known for. They are more interested in things like horsepower and making your bike look good than they are about making diamond-plate window frames. They are the kind of guys who would rather impress you with a pack of their customers passing you on the highway like you were welded to the pavement rather than impress you with a bunch of gaudy furniture filling their waiting room.

Harley-Davidson Guts & Stuff
By the 1990s, the Evolution proved to be a phenomenal engine and was a critical ingredient to the revival of Harley's success. Although the Evo motor revitalized the charisma, feel and rumble that made a Harley appealing, it also was saddled with design and production flaws, like crankcase breakage, left-side case leaks, weeping cylinder base gaskets and pulled cylinder studs. The early to mid-1990s Evo cases were the most prone to catastrophic disaster. Building an 80ci engine beyond roughly 80 to 85hp with the early '90s-style cases became risky at best. That meant that aftermarket components were required to fix the Evo's design and production flaws. The factory realized the Evo bottom end needed a complete redesign to make it robust enough to handle mild modifications let alone serious performance work. Moreover, EPA regulations were dictating the elimination of the clicking and whining noises from the cam gears.

2007 H-D Road Glide
The popularity of trucker caps and mudflap girls are all indications of just how connected pop culture and America's truckers really are. In the interstate-traveling frenzy that fuels so many a gearhead's life, truckers are the ultimate expression of life on the road; this is where they work, sleep and play. They are one with the highway, in much the same way a motorcyclist is connected to the road.

So it is the week before Super Bowl weekend, which is also the weekend we have our V-twin trade show in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sure, there are a bunch of parties for the big game, but by the time it is on, everybody is so tired from dragging their asses up and down the aisles of the Duke Energy Center that we are too tired to cheer anyway.

Here at the Hot Bike Baggers Base of Operations, we've been getting a ton of quality Readers' Rides submissions from all over this great land of ours. We really dig seeing what the man (or woman) on the street has been doing to customize/personalize his/her bike, so keep 'em coming!

One of the biggest changes you can make to your bike is the addition of a set of bag extensions. They traditionally get molded to the bottom of the factory fiberglass saddlebags and look great. Most of the bag extenders also look nice with a set of filler panels between the fender and bags and are cut out for dual exhaust. The thing about putting a set of bag extensions on your bike is that you're really not gaining anything except a new lower look.

Route 66
The number 13 is considered the unlucky number. Many people even have a fear of the number, which is called triskaidekaphobia. Lots of buildings don't even have a floor numbered 13. Then we have the scary movie named after the unlucky date of Friday the 13th. Since I lucked out by not getting eaten by a toothy reptile in Missouri, I was feeling pretty lucky, until I noticed that in Kansas, there are only 13 miles of the Mother Road.

What A Difference Hard Bags And Fairings Make
Anyone in the market for a new Harley-Davidson touring model should take a moment to reflect on what they may already own or can acquire at a much slimmer price. This is, however, the realm of customization, and there are oftentimes prefabbed kits to feed your healthy imagination. With that said, let's try an idea on for size, shall we? What about considering the Sportster as a viable bagger solution? Think about it: The Sportster is light on its feet, agile, and its performance parts aftermarket is exceedingly bountiful. Who wouldn't want this bike as their next bagger? True, the one thing the Sporty does not come factoryequipped with is, well, bags. Come to think of it, it doesn't have a fairing, either-but don't let these minor setbacks kill your dream. It can be done. The Sportster can, in fact, become the next bagger you take to tour the country.

The guys from AFT Customs make it much easier to do so whether you are well endowed or not. AFT has a reputation for clean work with a well-thought-out attitude and attention to details that most would overlook. So much so that some of the big manufacturers have been know to call in for their services. Drawing influences from all forms of vehicles, their bikes have design cues from hot rods, Harleys and sportbikes. Take a look at the bikes featured here, for instance. Anybody who is into bikes would be drawn to these beauties no matter which shore they were made on.