Story and Photos by Rodent {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=857|imagecategories=0|} Back in 1968, San Francisco was celebrating the Summer of Love, Easy Rider was in final production, Woodstock was a year away, and a bunch of bikers at their old ladys’ insistence had cleaned out their garages and sheds and loaded up their excess junk, take-offs and other parts, and were...

Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=815|imagecategories=0|} When you cross the line into this tiny Victorian tourist town, the first thing you might notice is the sign that says, “WELCOME TO EUREKA SPRINGS: Population 2278- Please Ride Quietly.” The entire village is on the National Register of Historic Places, and though it’s nestled...

Dave St. George of beautiful Lake Havasu City, Arizona, spent six years building this head-turning bagger, now his daily rider, and he enjoyed every minute of it. “I built it here in my home garage,” he said. “I work on motorcycles as a hobby, and I build a lot of custom parts, one-of-a-kind parts for motorcycles. My buddy Mike Love, who did the paint, we work...

Story and Photos by Wendy Manning {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=777|imagecategories=0|} It is close to 11 o’clock on a winter morning in Massachusetts, and it’s raining snow in the town of Northboro, home to Stone Motorcycle Company on Route 20, better known as Main Street. It’s a dark morning, made darker by the car radio announcing minute-by-minute reports of...

Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=941|imagecategories=0|} During the four days of the Bikes, Blues and Barbecue Rally, everyone in Fayetteville, Arkansas, falls asleep to the roar of motorcycles (thousands of them), and they wake up to the same tune. It’s fantastic, hearing tens of thousands of bike engines rumbling around town — like a big...

San Diego’s sci-fi convention features the film and print world’s most fanatic followers. Herds of costumed characters and caped crusaders spilled out of the convention center and into the town’s Gaslamp Quarter, parading, primping, pimping, growling, posing and becoming the hero or mad monster they adore most. Sci-fi premiers were everywhere, but as I rode the 2011 Road Glide down...

Story and Photos by Jack Cofano {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=878|imagecategories=0|} It’s time again for my favorite Old School chopper browsing, hell raising, hard-core bike rally of the year. This year was the twelfth gathering of like souls who love nothing more than hanging out with their peeps, drinking some beer and checking out the great rides and maybe a...

Café bikes, hot rods, and street fighters are the flavor of the month at this design moment of custom motorcycles. Baggers are still in, but board trackers are fading into obscurity just like they previously did. It’s no surprise that a lot of garage builders are working on something they can ride the pants off as well as talk about. This is blue collar building at its best with...

Edited by Wendy Manning, Photos by Horst Rosler. {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=833|imagecategories=0|} Continued from here. With an impressive display of hard work, ingenuity and workmanship, builders from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Japan competed for the title of North American Champion in four distinct classes of custom Motorcycles, Championship,...

German Customizers have a thing for low, stretched bikes, and the unlimited speed on the German autobahn assures such bikes have to be buily to the highest standards world-wide. After two European Championships and a Vice-World Championship, it ain’t really neccessary to introduce German top shop Thunderbike, but this hotshot of the German custom bike businss has hesitated to step...