Wire Plus Introduces Black Contrast Style Replacement Housing Winfield, KS- Wire Plus Powersports Electronics is proud to introduce their new contrast style “Old School” seat post replacement assembly which includes billet housing, power control module and key switch. This state-of-the-art system features a CNC machined “old school” ball-milled look on its teardrop shaped billet...

Something Old “Back in the early ‘90s, I was working with Kevin Starke in Canada who was making frames and boy, the quality was there. We sold a ton of his Softail frames back in the ‘90s. He called me up one day and said, ‘I’ve got an idea for a rubber-mount Softail using an FXR drivetrain.’ Kevin did this one frame for me that we had fun with, it had a gooseneck and some rake and...

A perfect example of simple-done-right is Satya Kraus’ Snatch. bike. It may not strike you as an outrageous design until you look over any, yes any, part or piece of this bike and realize absolutely nothing is superfluous, every beautiful piece has a purpose, and everything combines to make a fun-to-ride motorcycle. “That’s a big thing to us, that’s pretty much our whole philosophy...

Shop owner Paul Binford, being a huge fan of the show, started it all off; the idea was that we really wanted to build a bike that appealed to the masses, a bike people would get some enjoyment from looking at! First we knew there had to be a mural of Tony Soprano himself on the bike, then came the Bada-Bing hand made seat. The next two features are what we really think sets the...

Click here for more photos Fine Art from Speed Shop Design Story by Buck ManningPhotos by Jim Gianatsis Model: Stefanie Blase My first reaction to seeing Speed Shop Design’s 2009 LA Calendar Show winner was, “Now that’s a pretty bike.” Probably not the reaction most builders want to hear about their tough-as-nails, made-for-real-men custom motorcycles,...

  The only thing comfortably familiar is Rafik’s choice of donor bike, a Buell XB 1200 series that would probably still be the donor bike of choice in a parallel universe. Good power, reliability, and a tidy unit-construction engine/trans makes it a perfect affordable choice for building a light (400 lbs), fast, and good handling compact ride. “I buy wrecked bikes and keep the...

  Eddie built this as a personal ride and company showpiece and when you find out how much this guy built from chunks of aluminum and chromoly tubing, it’s astounding. “I drew it full scale exactly like I wanted it and built it off my own plans. Everything I’ve ever had has been supercharged, so I wasn’t going to back down now,” said Eddie. Basically all the polished billet stuff...

  The genesis of his Ducati builds actually traces back to a Sporty that he kept tearing apart to make it lighter and faster, eventually achieving a 10.9 on the drag strip. According to Mat, “I thought, ‘What if I just built a bike from scratch?’ I was thinking of doing a Sporty engine with an overhead cam but then I started researching motors and the Ducati engine was everything I...

  The genesis of his Ducati builds actually traces back to a Sporty that he kept tearing apart to make it lighter and faster, eventually achieving a 10.9 on the drag strip. According to Mat, “I thought, ‘What if I just built a bike from scratch?’ I was thinking of doing a Sporty engine with an overhead cam but then I started researching motors and the Ducati engine was everything I...

When I first saw this bike, I was totally taken aback as it really has the look of one of my favorite ‘60s English roadsters, a Royal Enfield 750cc Interceptor. So many of the styling cues are the same like the chrome fenders, chrome panel on the tank and a lot of black on everything else much like the enameled black paint on an Interceptor that prowled the streets of the town I...