The Wheels on This Custom Harley-Davidson Breakout Should Be in an Art Museum
The nature of my job is so that I often come across incredible motorcycle builds. Most of the time, they stand out through the combination of the elements that make them …
The Wheels on This Custom Harley-Davidson Breakout Should Be in an Art Museum
The nature of my job is so that I often come across incredible motorcycle builds. Most of the time, they stand out through the combination of the elements that make them custom, and it rather rarely happens for something specific to stick out like a sore thumb.
The Giotto Altre 33, as this bike here is called in customized form, is pretty much the same at first glance: a complete package.
We get the usual amount of body modifications for this kind of Softail to become more aggressive than Harley intended it to be – custom fenders, an increase in the size (visual size, that is) of the fuel tank, and a shortening of the rear to allow more of the rear rubber to become completely exposed.
Then we get the complete removal of markings and wording, and the replacement of everything that was chrome with the simple and effective black. When all that is done, custom covers go where covers are due, and the bodywork gets a complete repaint – in our case, a very alluring shape of coppery-gold.
In 99 percent of cases, the wheels play a central role on custom Harley projects. Yet, despite all of them being exquisite in some way, they rarely stand out as pieces of hardware that should be classified as works of art.
From afar, the wheels on the Giotto Altre 33 look the same: special, but not something out of this world. And this is where you should zoom in on one of the photos. You choose which.
Doing so will reveal a pattern design for this piece of forged metal akin to art. Styled and uneven hexagons form on top of each other, some of them hollow, others full, growing outward from the wheel's central cap to form a kind of flower only an alien world could produce. All in the same exciting color scheme displayed on the bike's body parts.
I'll give you the technical details of the wheels just in case they still matter after you've been hypnotized by the psychedelic design. The front wheel is 21 in..
