The street address of Rick's motorcycles in Baden-Baden is Flugstrasse 1 and this name has a story. It was on this site that Zeppelin landed his air-ships when touring the southern part of Germany. Originally, Baden-Baden's flight terminal was really a stop on the very first flight route Friedrichshafen/Baden-Baden/Mannheim. And Anthony Fokker evaluated his prototypes right here, before they took over the skies on the Western Front in The First World War.

Couple of years ago, the airport, just a shadow of its original size and value, commemorated one hundred years, and aside from the vintage planes, it's the low-flying bikes at neighboring House of Custom that attract significant attention.

There's always several top, custom built motor bikes in the big display room at Rick's and sometimes only a review with the original product uncovers how innovative Rick's motorbikes are. When Harley launched the latest VRSCA V-Rod, the team quickly spearheaded the effort to transform and enhance the new model.

In the first years, almost all VRSCAs was missing tank capacity and it was Rick's that created alternatives. Rick's 280 V-Rod modifications are probably the most popular on the market today and tend to be in high demand from accredited H-D dealers. But an entirely built-by-Rick's motorcycle is another thing, as this Low Flying Rod proves. It is quite simple to say Rick's paints the motor and framework, only if you took your bike entirely apart to do this kind of project would you visualize that incredible workload makes the distinction between stock and rock! This motorbike has been taken apart virtually to last component, painted, powder-coated, after which put together into a low-rider muscle motorcycle. A lot of the complete line of Rick's V-Rod parts has been utilized: front fender, short-cut tail end, saddle, and the tank cover that incorporates the Speedo taken off its stock handlebar cover place.

All drivetrain parts as well as rims are with the 10-1/2"-wide rear end wheel hosting a 280 Metzeler tire. To install such a big rubber on the stock V-Rod frame, they work with a specially developed offset pulley featuring an additional support bearing that takes the additional forces and more. Loaded with Legend air shocks, the bike could easily be lifted from low profile to a high set up.

The stock V-Rod offers an astonishing 121 horses, which the 280 can steadily give on the road. This motorbike doesn't pretend to be a muscle motorbike, it's a muscle motorbike! It's hard and ready for the road, yet it's still a stock Harley that can be serviced by any Harley-Davidson dealership throughout the world.