Class Act Classic: Karen Proctor’s Class of ’07 Heritage Softail
It was that Old School look with modern comfort that drew Karen Proctor of Ashland City, Tennessee, to her 2007 Heritage Softail Classic she calls Stinger; the look, but also the classic paint job. “The bike began as a dealer build and I purchased it off the Boswell’s Harley-Davidson [in Nashville] showroom floor with many of the custom parts installed, including the numbered...
Southeast Custom Cycles’ Super Glide Speedster
This now sleek and clean ex-repo wasn’t always that way as Ric described what he started with. “When I bought this bike, it had a set of 10” struts replacing the shocks and a set of off-brand street-sweeper-style pipes hanging low to the ground.With the lowered struts, any right-turn corner you went around just mutilated the tips of the pipes, digging into the ground on every...
Ross Calvagna’s Bonneville Board
Making things all the more interesting when it comes to building a vintage Triumph is that every one has a back-story of how the builder ran into it unlike ordering up a new S&S engine from a catalogue. A Britt Different is no different as owner/builder Ross Calvagna of Jupiter, Florida, explained his saga. “I helped a friend move and when we were done, he offered me what was...
Fast & Curious Flat Twin
The R90S was based on BMW’s proletarian slash-5-series introduced in the 1971 model year. It’s no surprise that San Jose BMW owner Chris Hodgson with BMW experience going back to the mid-‘70s was aware of the fun factor that was part and parcel of the old Slash-5 DNA. “I had one just after I got out of college, a Slash-5 that I put dual disc brakes on, low bars, and a flamed gas...
DP Customs’ Ironhead Cafe
Justin’s had his finger on the pulse of what’s happening economically and has been turning out a series of really delightful and affordable bobbers for today’s budget minded buyers, but he wanted to try his hand at something new. Luckily for him, brother Jarrod was the spark that made this cool café a reality. “He’s got more of a racing background than I do and that really helps...
The Quail Motorcycle Gathering 2011
The world’s strangest Harley-Davidson vehicle was on display owned by a guy from Petaluma, California—a little white open car with an early Harley engine in it made in Milwaukee and San Francisco for a World’s Fair. Willie G. Davidson said when he saw it his grandpa had mentioned it, but he knew nothing about it. One thing for sure, it is an extremely rare Harley-Davidson product....