Anybody stating that Rick’s Motorcycles is a „Fat Boy“ specialist, has certainly “hit the nail” – on the head. Or rather made an „understatement“, if familiar with Rick’s history: Naturally, all Harley-Davidson models are „customized“ with the same passion and care at the Baden-Baden workshops, but if the model designator „Fat Boy“ comes up in any contract or discussion, the “early days” of Rick’s Motorcycles, when the then Rastatt-based shop started business by modifying “Fat Boy” disc wheels pops up in the back of the mind. Today, Rick’s extensive program of design wheels has been responsible for numerous, likely hundreds of stock “Fat Boy” wheel sets changing place into storage shelves or other purposes, substituted by more stylish but also much wider Rick’s Design Wheels. As on this example, a wide-tire conversion of the 2022 model year FLFBS – the difficult choice to select one of the many popular Rick’s designs for the desired fat-tire-look was only the beginning of this sophisticated and extensive custom-job.

The “Hollister” design 3-piece assembled wheels are named for the myth of the little California town that in July 1947 was the site of the subsequently christened “Hollister Riots”, nothing more than a little “rumble” between race-fans and police, later immortalized by newspaper articles, movies and a “legend” for todays custom scene. Customizing styles and times have changed, not just because of the evolution of Harley-Davidson models. New technologies allows to build and homologate extraordinary custombikes never thought possible only years ago.