Blacked Highlight Accessories

1. Here are all the Covington Cycles City black parts, fork bells, axle covers, brake pedal, dash insert and gas fill door, license plate frame, derby cover, points cover, passenger pegs, shifter pegs, bag latch covers, and master cylinder lid.

1. Here are all the Covington Cycles City black parts, fork bells, axle covers, brake peda

Blacked Out
As black becomes the new chrome, we are seeing more and more companies blacking out their parts line, from small covers to full-on frontends. No matter how you look at it, if it's not chrome then it's black to make it look cool. We have been working on a bike that was already getting a color upgrade with the inside of the fairing painted to match the rest of the bike. We added a matching chin spoiler, blacked out the lower legs and the exhaust pipes, and swapped out the stock wheels for a black spoke set. The owner told us how he wanted to get away from the chrome ("everyone has chrome parts," he said), and because the bike is Factory orange, he wanted to go with black accent parts. "You know Harley-Davidson is true black and orange."

We felt that all the accessories would look good black. But to pull everything off the bike and send it out to get painted or powdercoated would mean that the bike would be off the road for awhile, which meant no riding, so what could we do? Surfing the web, we came across some cool black bolt-on parts for Road Glides (there are other models, too) from Covington Cycles City called the Black Diamond Edition. There are parts to go on the bike from the frontend to the license plate frame. We stopped off at Horn Cycle Works in Pomona, California, to bolt everything on the bike as we snapped a few photos. The cool thing was that everything bolted right on and the bike was off the road for less than half a day.