Dawn’s ’98 Super Glide had about 35,000 miles on it when she brought it into the Suicide Cycles shop. Coop decided to tear the motor out of the frame and rebuild it sans the original natural-cast finish of the motor, replacing the aluminum color with a sinister black covering everything from the cases to the rocker boxes. Before he bolted the motor back up, he also added a...

  My Bagster had a couple of weeks vacation sitting in Daytona waiting for Southwest Airlines to deliver me to Bike Week. As I’ve mentioned before, as I get older I ride much less, averaging around 10K a year (more or less) for the past few years. I’ve been flying a lot on Southwest (never crashed) Airlines, my carrier of choice, and I never listen to the flight attendants’...

  Strangely, many parts manufacturers, production custom builders, and pro builders had great things to say about the rally, regardless of the lack of people. I spoke with a representative from Big Dog Motorcycles who said that they sold more bikes during Sturgis than they had sold in the entire first half of the year. Parts manufacturers selling wares at the event, like the guys...

  Normally, Doug personally picks the frame he’s going to use when creating a custom. In the case of Agnes, he acquired a damaged rigid frame from a friend who didn’t know what to do with it. It was severely bent, but he put it on a fixture to straighten it, replaced a few tubes, and because it was going to have to be replaced anyway, he turned the left lower frame rail into a fuel...