There are plenty of places here in Los Angeles selling every sex toy imaginable. Not that an innocent naive writer like me would know or anything. That’s, um, just what I hear around the office. But if you want the type of vibrating pleasure device that runs on gasoline and is legal to ride in public, you’re not going to find it at some seedy corner joint in Hollywood. No, you need a sweet custom job for that, like Hog Killers’ Acsexxx here.

Shop owner Aki Saka corrupted it from an innocent ’84 Wide Glide Shovel into the lean, dare-to-go-bare chop job

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Aki Saka corrupted it from an innocent ’84 Wide Glide Shovel into the lean, dare-to-go-bare chop job

you see before you right now. Hog Killers calls LA’s Hawaiian Gardens area home, and custom iron is just one of the services it offers the riding public. Acsexxx is Aki’s idea of a shop bike.

At least, that’s how it started. Little did he know at the start the path his relationship with this FXWG would take. What began as a beat-down mule didn’t stay that way for long. The mid-mount controls and dual front brakes formed a gateway drug into a chopper build. Not that he went whole hog (pun intended): “I tried not to spend too many hours on fabrication,” Aki told us, “so I could price it affordably after it was done.”

Apparently, Aki made the call as soon as he swapped controls. It’s like the change flipped a switch in his mind’s eye from riding the shop rat to transforming it into what he calls “a good beginner’s chopper with jockey-shift…for a wide range of people.”

Aki kept the motor pretty much the original animal. Aside from the finned rocker boxes up top and the Andrews cam setup down low, it’s close to stock. Although it does breathe better than it did back in ’84 thanks to the S&S throttle body. Hog Killers turned to Chopper Dave for the minimalist round air cleaner and made the pipes in-house.

The biggest changes came with the bones, not the heart. Accsexxx saunters around the LA streets in a rigid frame with the shop’s own 35mm fork set and spoked wheels. The shop kept the hoops on the modest side of the size spectrum; 19-inch diameter up front and 16-inch at the rear keep this chopper beginner-friendly through twists and turns.

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Old-school chop influence is obvious throughout the rest of the bike too.