Harley Bagger Audio for Watts

We are not in Watts. AMS Pods is the Harley bagger-audio side of Audio MotorSports, 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745. From Watts take Century Boulevard or Wilmington toward Avalon and the 110 south — 7.6 miles, fifteen to twenty minutes. Street Glide, Road Glide and Road King, built around the Hertz Neo speaker and a crash-bar bracket that comes with the pods.

Watts is 7.6 miles from the Avalon pin — one of the closest cities on this list. Century Boulevard or Wilmington toward Avalon and the 110 south to the pin. Fifteen to twenty minutes on a bagger. The alternate is 103rd Street west to Avalon Boulevard south. Maps pin 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.

Watts has generations of the same families building cars on the same blocks, and the standard for what counts as a finished build here is higher than most of the county realises. Bass culture in particular is old and serious. A bagger coming out of that context is not judged by whether it has speakers on it — it is judged by how the work looks when somebody who builds things themselves takes a proper look at it. The ride out is Century or 103rd to the 110 and down toward the harbour.

AMS Pods start at $649 a pair. Chrome or gloss, crash-bar bracket and screws included, built to order in-house, about three weeks. Nothing gets invented beyond $649 a pair — the rest is quoted on your bike at the counter. A full bagger build is usually up to about ten business days in the shop, confirmed in person.

Richard makes them in Carson, in-house since 2003 and in the trade since 1998. That is why the pod shell, the bracket and the angle on the crash bar are made parts rather than adapted ones, and it is the difference somebody who builds things will spot immediately. Hertz Neo goes inside. Street Glide and Road Glide take a fairing amplifier and a tank pull. On a Road King, where there is no fairing to hide anything in, the pods carry the job outright and the amplifier lives in a bag on a carpeted board with an AMS quick disconnect.

Street Glide, Road Glide and Road King. Harley radios in the shop are Diamond Audio, plus Sony and Soundstream. Bag bass is where the real work shows on a Watts bike — lids cut, concave drilling, carpeted spacers, inverted speakers, soldered quick disconnects and lock ties. Done right the inside of a bag lid looks as considered as the outside, which is the part most shops skip because nobody is supposed to look.

The Road King is the bike people say cannot have a proper system because there is no fairing, and that gets it backwards. A fairing is a place to hide a speaker, not a good place to put one — it sits low, points forward and fires away from the rider. Starting with no fairing means starting without that compromise: the pods go where the sound should come from in the first place, and the amplifier goes in a bag where it is accessible and ventilated rather than buried.

A Road King with a system that does not apologise for the absence of a fairing. Bag work that holds up when the lid is opened and looked at. Made parts rather than adapted ones. Weatherproof pods. Nothing showing along the frame. And a shop fifteen minutes down Century.

Century or 103rd to Avalon and the 110 south — 7.6 miles, fifteen to twenty minutes. AMS Pods from $649 a pair, chrome or gloss, bracket and screws included, about three weeks built to order. No fairing is an advantage, not a limitation.

Same bay, same trip. Car audio is LA Car Beats at lacarbeats.com — a G-body or a Caprice that gets built rather than driven. Window tint is LA Car Tint at lacartint.com — 3M Authorized Dealer, Solar $249 and Solar Ceramic $329 installed. Vehicle security is LA Car Alarm at lacaralarm.com — a built car parked at the kerb overnight.

Monday through Saturday, 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM. Sunday closed, walk-ins welcome. Pods are about three weeks built to order, so the first visit is a measurement and a conversation. Nick writes the quote, Zack runs the floor. A Payment Plan is available at the counter once the bike is quoted. Google shows 4.8 from 654 reviews.

If you ride a Road King out of Watts, having no fairing is where the build gets better — not where it gets limited. Call or text (310) 513-8800 and ask for Nick. 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.