A wild Harley-Davidson Softail street tracker from SMCO

Southern California’s biggest motorcycle show, Born Free, is synonymous with choppers. But brothers Aaron and Shaun Guardado’s tendencies lie elsewhere. Working as Suicide Machine Company out of Long Beach, they like to build—and ride—machines that go fast and turn well. It’s right there in their company slogan: “Fast Loud Deathproof.” So when SMCO was invited to build a custom Harley-Davidson for this year’s Born Free show, things were only ever going to go one way. They took a 2020 H-D Softail Standard