South Africa boasts the current UFC middleweight champion and the world’s top-ranked rugby team—neither of which we’d want to go toe-to-toe with. There must be something in the water, because this Harley Shovelhead from Cape Town’s Stoos Customs bristles with the same ferocity.
Based in one of the city’s industrial areas, Stoos Customs was established 13 years ago by Alex Stoos after an internship at Exile Cycles in the US. The workshop’s address hasn’t changed, but the team has grown to seven and earned a solid reputation locally and abroad.
The Shovelhead project was conceived at last year’s Bike Shed Moto Show in London. There, Alex crossed paths with Joe from El Lobo Cycles in Suffolk, and a boyish sense of competitiveness took over.…