Many builders get ideas for future bikes at shows, sometimes from what other builders are doing, sometimes from an innovative part, and sometimes from a friend who happens to be the owner of Independent Cycle Inc. “I had used a couple of his frames in the past, but when I met Jesse Jurrens in Myrtle Beach he showed me his new three-inch, drop-neck LOWLIFE frame and talked me into...

Click here for more photos… This bike feature originally appeared in Barnett’s Magazine issue #52, Nov-Dec 2006. SPECIFICATIONS Bike Name: Warhorse Owner: King Dayrit Year / Make: 1995 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra Classic Fabrication: Full Throttle Motors Assembly: Full Throttle Motors Build time: Six Months Engine:...

Click here for more photos… This bike feature originally appeared in Barnett’s Magazine issue #53, Jan-Feb 2007. SPECIFICATIONS Bike Name: The King Owner: Sidney Smith Year / Make: 1996 H-D Road King Build time: 18 months Engine: 2002 100″ RevTech Cases: RevTech Flywheels: RevTech Rods: RevTech Pistons: RevTech...

  The brilliant silver FLHRCI turned out to be a good choice as Kevin’s a big guy and it fit him well. “I wanted a nice riding bike, I enjoy an all day ride,” said Kevin. But like most H-D owners, stock was only good for so long and his wife was probably painfully aware that all those parts catalogs lying around the house were a portent of things to come. “I rode it while I worked...

  Paul Quirini of Johnston, Rhode Island, is out to change that with his custom Road King. It does seem a bit strange to need a touring bike when the state you live in is only 37 miles wide and 48 miles long, but Paul’s got his reasons. “Three years ago in St. Thomas, my wife and I passed a T-shirt shop where one caught my eye,” said Paul. “It had a cartoon drawing of a Road King...

  Buying a new ’07 Deuce and modifying it straight off the showroom floor are the actions of a guy who knows what he wants. Needless to say it was a memorable purchase for the dealership, and according to Kevin Decker, the general manager of Horsepower H-D in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, “John walked right into the store and picked out a pearl white ’07 Deuce and paid cash. Then he...

  Richard Parra is one of the few people I know who rides to work, and it’s no stock bike, he’s got a custom chopper that he built with his own two hands. His first bike was a ’77 Sportster, but life prevented him from getting another one until he bought a used 2001 black and yellow 1200 from a friend late in that same calendar year. “My buddy dropped the bike within the first 100...

Click here for more photos… This bike feature originally appeared in Barnett’s Magazine issue #66, December 2008. SPECIFICATIONS Bike Name: The Smurfer Owner: Keith “Smurf” Cummings Year /Make: ’03 H-D FLTRI Fabrication/ Assembly: Anaheim/ Fullerton Harley-Davidson Build time: 4-months Engine: 107″ H-D...

  Eight years ago Danny started building beautiful Harley customs that retain the stock profile, but raise it to a new level. “I wanted to have it look like a stock Harley-Davidson to give people who are looking at it as a reference point, a starting point that everybody has, everybody rides a Harley,” says Danny. “It’s easy for them to recognize and say, ‘Oh look what he did here,...

  Junior found Tom a 2004 FLSTF for a bargain price. “It was obvious to me that someone had started a project that they couldn’t finish for whatever reason. It was about 70-percent built,” Tom said. The black, stock-framed bike already had a good set of handlebars, a chromed nacelle front end, and 60-spoke 18” wheels with a rear 180mm tire partially covered by a Heartland USA 200mm...