Click here for more photos !- Click here to read the Specifications –> Running a Blood Drive at Your Local Harley-Davidson Dealership or Chopper Shop Story by Mark Barnett, Photos by Rodent I’d like to share a promotion we do twice a year at both our Harley-Davidson dealerships, the main one in El Paso and the newer one in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We...

  Hell’s Kitchen is a name to be remembered. The history of the chopper, as we know it, started with the movie Easy Rider in 1969, but Hell’s Kitchen is much older. Just the bright and colorful choppers in Easy Rider, the history of the real Hell’s Kitchen — the neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City that covers roughly the area from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River — started in...

  If you’re looking for a Frisco-style chopper, where better to look than San Francisco itself and in this case, our feature bike, Frisco-Style, by California Choppers located on 1490 Howard Street, right in the heart of San Francisco. Owner Wayne Hodges has the skinny on these skinny bikes as he not only works there, but was born and raised there too so I’d think it would be fair...

  Marcus bought this bike as a basket, with most of the parts there but in bare metal, primer, and some rust: your typical grab bag. What turned out not to be typical was that at some point this bike was a Chandler Original, either a kit or a disassembled bike owned or built by Adam Chandler. Not only stickers, but the title showed this to be true. After about six months of...

Click here for more photos Penz Custombikes 114″ TP Engineering Low Rider Story by Mark Barnett and Frank Sander, Photos and Information courtesy of Thunder Media Service, Frank Sander www.thunder-media-service.de Given the title of the article, this may look like another super custom built by Austria’s top bike builders, Peter Penzenstadler and Anita...

Click here for more photos American Heat Rally in Palm Springs Story by Eric Bass Photos by Fiona Metcalfe he event promoter, Roadshows, Inc. claims about 5,000 bikers roll into Palm Springs for this three-day event, but it seems that number is at least matched by the Palm Spring-ians. Heavily attended by locals during the day, American Heat has the feel...

Click here for more photos 1982 Sportster Ironhead by DP Custom Cycles Story by Wendy ManningPhotos by Jed Strahm Brothers Justin and Jarrod Del Prado, owners of DP Custom Cycles in New River, Arizona, took this 1982 Harley-Davidson Sportster Ironhead to the next level by channeling the classic days of Le Mans racing. Of the Le’ Mans Bobber...

Click here for more photos 16th Annual Republic of Texas (ROT) Rally Part 2 Story and Photos by Jack Cofano As I stated in the previous article, the 16th ROT Rally part one, this event was one of the largest weekend rallies I have ever covered. It had so much going on that it was impossible to check out all the events and bands unless you could be in...

Click here for more photos !- Click here to read the Specifications –> Shake the Sheikhs: Dubai Week 2010 Gulf Bike Expo & 5th Annual Dubai Bike WeekNickelback and Status Quo Rock the Dunes Story and Photos by Thunder Media Service, Frank Sander The fifth edition of the Dubai Bike Week turned out to be the biggest ever and was made...

  Vince Vaccaro drag raced on the street and track until recent years, when he felt like his reflexes were no longer as sharp as they should be for a sport where a micro-second flick of a wrist can mean the difference between winning and losing your pink slip, or your life. Vaccaro has been a realtor for 40 years, all of it in Phoenix, where he said he has sold some 2,000 homes. He...