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...

Click here for more photos… This bike feature originally appeared in Barnett’s Magazine issue #64, September-October 2008. SPECIFICATIONS Owner: Dracula Year/Make: 2005 Victory8-Ball Fabrication: Kent Weeks/Lucky Devil Metal Works Assembly: Kent Weeks Build time: Just in time Engine: Victory 100″ Cases: Victory Flywheels:...

Alligator Bob’s Advanced Custom Design Alligator Bob’s Advanced Custom Design is a one-of-a-kind motorcycle leather shop. Bob’s shop is unique because of the personal attention and “old world” craftsmanship that stems from someone doing what he loves. Not only does he work on motorcycles, he’s been riding motorcycles, since he was five years old. Bob and his wife are riding...

Harley-Davidson Announces Women Riders Month By Wendy Manning, Photo courtesy of Harley-Davidson For too many women motorcycle memories are made from the back of the bike. In recent years Harley-Davidson has been changing all that, and to date The Motor Company is happy to report that 12% of all new Harleys sold are sold to women riders. Now that’s the kind of girls gone wild we...

This story started a long time ago, about 20-years to be exact, when Alain bought this bike from Barnett H-D’s then new-guy-salesman-on-the-block, my friend and watch-loving buddy, Johnny Hernandez, as the first sale of many thousands to follow and he’s still at it today. “It was a police special FLH from Virginia. When I got it, I started by taking the bags off, it had the big...

Zach Saligoe, co-owner of Atlanta Monster Cycles with his dad, Mike, is no stranger to this flat-lined Buell phenomena and had recently finished a Buell-based ride for himself. An admiring customer known only as Ainars was so jazzed by the result he wanted one too. “I told him to get a Buell and we’d use everything we could according to the style he wanted. He got a 1996 S1...