Bagger

MC Painting

This week finds me in beautiful downtown Bridgewater, Massachusetts, home to Dave Perewtiz and his merry band of talented misfits. The project is paint, more specifically custom paint, applied for the camera and soon to be part of the custom painting book pictured nearby.

The main focus of Dave’s attention this week is a brand new ‘08 Bagger from Boston Harley-Davidson, and as David explains, “we thought we’d just buy a complete tank and fenders from Russ Wernimont, paint the new sheet metal, clean the bike up a little and be done. But then we discovered that the ‘08s are all different. The tank has a whole new shape, and they changed the frame so much that there’s no way to use an earlier tank. The mounts are different, the dash is different, they changed everything.”