Bike Features

Take a sunlit beach and surround it with arching palms, and blooming ruby hibiscus plants and you’re nearing heaven. Then peer into the turquoise waters to the pearly depths that are so warm they call to you in the night. That’s Hawaii and in a deeper sense stock cars and bikes shouldn’t be allowed to […]

Bob T. on his latest acquisition, a 2003 FLH Standard. Bob T. supplies Bikernet with antique motorcycle images on a regular basis. As it turned out I rode with him in the early ’70s. Through Bob I met his Brother Chris T. who also contributes to Bikernet and produces stickers for Bikernet.com and Jesse James.

Photography from C.H.C. With his nothing-was-left-untouched wizardry, Cyril Huze will go any length to make those few chopper parts look even more minimalist. In a competitive chopper world one of Cyril’s signatures is detail. He takes the time, and whatever talent needed in addition to his own to form each component into some form of

I usually shoot features on hard chopped Harleys. They’re my main course meat and potatoes. Long front ends and chopped frames with tons of chrome flashing in the sunlight. Every once in a while I run across a tasty morsel to temp my palette. I call ’em dessert, all fancy, done-up with a cherry on

I got the call on a cloudy Monday morning as I was drinking my morning coffee and trying to figure out which hand to jerk off with that morning. Just as I had made up my mind, I think it was the left hand; the phone began ringing with the resonance off my morning alarm

Here’s a bike feature that tells itself, which is often the best kind. The owner actually spelled out his lurid story from a school teacher and chopper enthusiast to ultimately, in his future, a bike builder. His bike recently won best of show at the second annual Choppers Only Show on the island of Oahu

Not long ago an issue of American Rider was devoted to lowered models contrived for shorter more compact riders. It was natural to feature a custom devoted to the tight-is-right crowd. In a custom world gone nuts with bigger, stretched, wider, fatter and pumped up motorcycles it was a lengthy chore for Buzz Buzzelli to

It all started when the Horse Magazine issued a challenge to four talented builders for their annual Smoke Out this year. The challenge, to build a cool rideable bike, for under 10 grand, and have it at the Rowan County N.C. fairgrounds for judging on June 25th. The builders accepting the challenge were Josh Mills,

</centerThe new issue of Cycle World features this bike on the cover and a rather bizarre article that’s not really a lot about the bike. This piece does a little better job telling the real story and is told by a secret agent imbedded within the Performance Machine compound… Strangely enough, bike building has become

I’ve been intending to send a few shots of the FLHS, the “S” believe it or not means Sports. It is a 1990 Sports bike and for those familiar with this model will verify, it is far from a Sports bike. But it must be because my insurance premium is about $300 more than my

Alex is a techno/engineering guy who builds stuff to blow up terrorists by profession, so naturally he went hunting for his dream bike on the Internet. He was searching for a fat tire bike, and wanted a performance bike that he could ride. He actually narrowed the field down to 3 builders, and intended to

No, it’s not a trick of the camera. We’re not squishing down this bike through some chicanery of digital lens/Photo Shop machinations. It is muy limbo low to the ground.The guys at the Garage Co. in L.A. got their inspiration from vintage Bonneville racers…big fat tires, skinny profile, kicked out springer, high pipe, we don’t-need-no

There are many unique things about being an American. Being able to begin your life in humble circumstances and rise to greatness is the pilot light in the furnace that makes up the American soul. You can do anything here. Another part of American culture is that the people who often fully appreciate the American

Roger, Chris and Darren. Everyone has their dream bike in mind but very few people have the vision, let alone the money to make it all happen. But once in a while, a customer comes along that gives builders the chance of a lifetime. My friend Chris was one of these customers. Returning from a

Jake and Jerrod Walter are 21 and 22 year old brothers who worked side by side to build this bike, and what a bike it is. Their main business is farming but dreams of cultivating mechanical masterpieces co-exist with corn. They’re from New Berlin, Il., which is approx. 15 miles from Jacksonville, Il. This is

The Steed 200 Pegasus isn’t your dad’s land yacht bike. The Pegasus 200-TM is the performance Touring Steed. PERFORMANCE, it’s just a word to many gear heads. At Steeds we view motorcycles as the ultimate freedom machine. To us, performance means that you can get on your bike, ride it anywhere, and have the confidence

Sometimes you have to head west when the crowd is heading east to find something truly unique. This was the case during Biketoberfest. Rather than joining the bustling throng in Daytona Beach yet again, I headed west to Santa Fe, New Mexico to hook up with Carlos Calles and his Irish Rich/Shamrock Fabrications built Santa

It was hard to imagine, when we stood in front of the garage doors, starring at a pile of boxes, that somewhere in there, somehow, a custom bike lurked. As it developed, except for a non-existent nut or bolt, the CCI Goliath kit was complete. The chromed quandary, could a novice builder, an average American

“Here’s some new shots of Bree, the naughty schoolgirl. If you can get pastdrooling over Bree, there’s one of our bikes with a cool devil chick in redpainted on the tank,” Said John Covington, president of Steed Muscle Bikes. She’s straddling one of John’s Steed 300-VM AppaloosaChoppers. Bree has straddled plenty of Motorsports modeling and

Hang on for this feature. This poker hand will take you from the bare shotgun frame to big-titted babes posing on the finished monster at the Smoke Out. Plus the owner of the shop and the builder, fabricator from Bitter End Old School Choppers wrote the story. Bitter End Old School Choppers is a chopper/machine

You must be a hard core Harley-Davidson rider if you bought a brand new motorcycle in 1980 (when Harley-Davidson was owned by AMF) and you’re still riding it today, everyday. Joe Radnich bought this AMF Shovelhead 25 years ago, and massaged it into the road eating configuration you sere here. Joe handles all maintenance and

Rick, the US Choppers master. The variety of builders growing up around the planet is expanding daily, but only a few have the touch. They garner the ability to form metals, machine parts and select components that deliver a sense of oneness with the machine’s design. Rick, from US Choppers in Santa Ana, California, has

It looks like a radical big twin chopper packed with a monster, gasoline munching monster S&S motor. It should sound like a Patriot Missile and set off car alarms just sitting still. But forget those earplugs and don’t bother stopping at the gas pump, just look for a wall plug and some 110v juice. Believe

Here’s a fine looking Knucklehead from an old school builder who dumped his ol’ lady and opened his own shop in Lake Elsinore, California two years ago. “I got this motor in 1969,” Algie said of his roadworthy Knuck. “I haven’t run it all these years,” but he held onto it for the perfect chassis.