1948 Bobber Is Everything You Need & Nothing You Don’t
The spirit of the Bobber is the same as that of the hot rod movement. Less weight and more simplicity leads to more speed and better handling. Shedding unnecessary weight in the name of speed has been a tradition in the motoring world almost since its inception.
That means ditching anything and everything that isn’t necessary for going fast. And that mantra is at the heart of the Bobber movement, once that is personified perfectly by this 1948 Bobber. It just so happens that by removing a bunch of stuff, the owner also added a whole lot of cool in the process.
The bike itself is somewhat of a hodge podge of parts, which is quite typical of a real Bobber. The Wide Glide front is a ’49 Harley unit, while the frame is a 1950 H-D ridge piece. Brackets were cut and modified to make room for a Sportster tank, and the rear fender is an aftermarket piece from the ’70s.
The result of all that piecemeal construction isn’t some sort of jalopy – it’s one of the coolest Bobbers we’ve seen in a while. So cool in fact, that it was featured in Horse Magazine. Proving once again that you don’t have to have a well-optioned showpiece to make a statement. In this case, less truly is more.
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