Ultra Craft Customs (UCC) Custom Softail Chopper
A Mean, Clean, Super-Sexy Hot-Rod Machine
writer: Stephen berner
photographer: Scooter Grub

Car guys have it right. They understand swoop, they understand flow, and they understand lines. They also have a lot of tin to work with, as well as nice big canvases to make their own styling statements.

The little details can make a bike a big winner visually as well as functionally.

"Let your eye wander over the smooth, sexy rear section with the swingarm-mounted Fat Katz fender, flowing swingarm, and boxed-in rear section. The boxed-in area not only provides additional strength, but it's also a great spot to hide all the necessary details-such as a battery to start the billet heart of this smoothie. It is this type of work that is the sign of a pro, both in design and fabrication; in a word, it is seamless. Look at the flow from rear meat to gas tank-there are sensuous lines aplenty."

"A modified Fat Katz front fender wraps the Xtreme Machine front wheel almost as tightly as does the Avon tire. Look at that modified Fat Katz rear fender, held in place by a modified independent swingarm, and how cleanly it wraps the Xtreme wheel."

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