So what is the Swedish Style?
Stockholm New No. 10 describes it as follows: “It was in the postwar years when the WWII fighter pilot veterans started customizing motorcycles, to ride lower, laid-back, outlaw fashion, turning the bikes into ”choppers“ The custom of extending and ”raking“ the fork, the style made famous by the Easy Rider movie, was quickly outlawed all over the world – except in Sweden, where the legislation still, strangely, leaves a loophole allowing registration of choppers. This is an explanation why Swedish bike builders have become respected and demanded all over the world for designing choppers – plus the natural inclination for a clean, minimalistic, stripped-down expression which characterizes most all Swedish designs.