Your Motorcycles: Hippochicks Pink Honda VTX 1300S

Bubbles the hippo inspired this ride

By Margie Bierman, Kimberling City, Missouri

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Margie Bierman’s 2004 Honda VTX 1300S was originally black. Hard to imagine this flashy pink bike as anything else!

I love the color pink and have collected hippos since I was in the fourth grade. I had my Honda VTX 1300S custom-painted pink with lifelike water drops. Water and hippos go together.

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Margie’s bike memorializes Bubbles, the two-ton hippo that managed three escapes from California’s Lion Country Safari in 1978. Bubbles name is airbrushed under the illustration of the hippos on the tank.
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Margie’s handle is “Hippochick,” and it’s airbrushed on the trunk as well as her helmet.
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Pinky, Margie’s pink stuffed hippo rides along with her. She’s decked out in leathers and has a scarf with her name on it.

The Honda VTX 1300S has been customized with Oxford heated grips, chrome trim, and an accessory trunk. I also added an Ultimate X seat and driver’s backrest. I had saddlebags shipped from a company in California, Mutazu, that has a variety of bags and accessories for Harleys and metric cruisers.

Nobody sold a pink-tinted windshield so I bought pink tint off eBay and tinted my windshield and lowers myself. I’ve added highway bars and crash bars to the Mutazu MU saddlebags. The front fender proudly displays a “Road Queen” logo. Most recently, I’ve replaced the spoke rims for cast wheels.

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Margie has ridden her pink VTX 4,600 miles from Missouri to the Grand Canyon in Utah and Colorado and back. Way to go, Margie!

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5 thoughts on Your Motorcycles: Hippochicks Pink Honda VTX 1300S

  1. I know Margie Bierman personally, and I know the hard work they have put into her “Hippo Chick” bike. I am amazed at the different things she has done to the bike each time I see it! She and her family are very amazing people!!

  2. Lookin’ good sister Marge! Love you guys!

  3. Thank you Sandi and Bobbie. Yes I love the chrome trim too! I have it around the front fender and trunk too. I agree to each their own and I think it gives it a nice finished look. Mike Hopper at Hoppers Choppers in Bolivar, Missouri, painted my bike. I also have a car tire on the rear of my bike. Love the ride it gives.

  4. Love the bike, Margie, and the story behind it!

  5. I love this bike! And I noticed the chrome trim on her gas tank seam. We have put that on all our bikes. It makes me crazy when bike reviewers gripe about tank seams when adding the trim works great! Love the story of the hippo escapes too!

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