One can't help but notice the sexy silhouette of the "trucker girl" flapping back and forth on a truck's mud flaps, almost like she's waving at you-or teasing you. We don't know if it's her long, flowing hair, nakedness, curves in all the right places, or the mystery of not knowing what she looks like, but the trucker girl is like a little epidemic, spreading from mud flaps to T-shirts, tattoos, dreams, and even accessories and belt buckles. As a matter of fact, the vision for this bike's design started with a trucker girl belt buckle. Bringing this fantasy girl to life, or at least a two-wheeled form of it, was put in the hands of Matt Elzey, owner of CTM Customs.
Although this bike is the shop's first magazine feature (at the time of writing), CTM Customs has been around for a while, and in fact just expanded into a new facility. CTM Customs was opened in 2003 by Matt and Tracy Elzey out of their basement/garage, and according to Matt, "was based around producing full one-off custom motorcycles. Added into the mix was an occasional custom job to an existing Harley when time permitted." This year the shop moved to a commercial facility in Easton, MD, where it continues the production of one-off bikes, averaging four to six customs a year. "With the expansion into the new facility, CTM Customs has opened its doors to parts retail, service and repair, and the ability to fully customize your existing ride into a one of a kind piece of art," Matt said.
Now that we have a bit of the shop's storied background, let's get back to the naked girl...ahem...trucker girl and how that theme evolved into the scoot witnessed here. The bike's owner, Aaron Stein, wanted the trucker girl on the bike somewhere (how 'bout sitting on it), somehow. CTM first got started with an '05 KraftTech frame with 30 degrees of rake at the neck and no stretch, followed by mounting a 110ci RevTech motor between the rails. Then Matt got to work fabricating a fuel tank and dishing the sides, then adding the trucker girls to both sides in a 3-D effect. (Well, that's pretty close to human.) The girls were inlaid against black and white pearl painted by Driver's Customs-the pearl shimmers and accentuates their bodies.