Danielle McReynolds knew exactly what she wanted when it came time for her husband Jason's shop, Sik N Twisted Psycles in Las Vegas, Nevada, to build her a bike: pink. Although she thought she was getting a girl's bike, she ended up with a toy all the boys wanted to ride, too. See, she wanted a classic bobber painted in pink metalflake; sort of an Evil Twin Barbie vibe, but with lane splitting. She designed it and had Sik N Twisted build it to her specs.
Which, as it happened, called for reliability and fun handling in a pretty package. The shop used an unstretched Paughco rigid frame and American Suspension frontend that was 1 inch under stock for a short profile, and then added spoke wheels in the finest old-school tradition. Since Danielle likes easy cornering, Sik N Twisted kept the rear tire to a modest 200mm wide. Nor did they go big with the performance package, tapping an 88-inch RevTech V-Twin and five-speed gearbox combo with a BDL clutch and primary. The overall effect: an easy-riding chop with power that is still controllable.
But Danielle also gets to look good at the same time, courtesy of the bobber touches throughout the rest of the chopper. Sik N Twisted made her a coffin gas tank and chopped back fender, sprung seat, and a set of drag bars with two angry bends in them where they meet the risers.
And yet, so far none of this sounds girly, which is kind of what she wanted to begin with. Even after it was painted, the bike still didn't look like something you'd find in the Barbie section at Toys 'R' Us. Why? Because Danielle went with badass instead of candyass in the looks department. The frame was done in pink metalflake, as were the pinstripe patterns you'll find tattooed all over the bike's surfaces, but the rest of it was done in basic flat black to let folks know this machine is nobody's bitch.
The easiest way to tell if a motorcycle is girly or not is to park it next to a bunch of other bikes and see how bikers react to it. In this case, they tend to look at it and want to ride it, which is usually a good indication that they don't think it's effeminate at all. It seems Danielle didn't get a totally feminine machine but instead got one all the boys want to play with, too. And that ain't a bad thing.