And yes, there are plenty of women to ogle in the SEMA gallery so get ogling.

If you aren’t familiar with the Rocket III, let me give you a little background. It’s a tall 2300cc, three-cylinder in-line motor mounted length-wise with shaft drive in a stubby bike with cartoon-ish features. Not a particularly handsome lump of Ol’ Blighty to start with compared to the Bonneville-based choppers of the Sixties and Seventies. Mike called upon John Triplett of...

  What this bike called Recycled Rat that Sic Chops (short for Scott’s Insane Chops) built specifically for the Café Class at the Daytona Rat’s Hole Show (where it won the Café Racer Showdown) says it all in its name. Scott apparently had a 250cc V-twin Yamaha Virago hanging around and decided there was still some life left in the old girl. After stripping it down and assessing...

The builder of this bike, Mickey Holcomb, owner of Groovey Street Customs, acquired many of the main components from a guy who used to work for him. His former employee built the ’37 Knucklehead motor over a number of years with the intention of building a bike around it. Time passed and he got married, leading to a bun in the oven and the need to move into a larger house for his...

Rucker’s Predator series is Bill’s idea of a balls-out, pro street-style bike that delivers the ground pounding sensation of a top-fuel funnycar. Long and low, it replicates the look of the blown, big-block pro street cars with their fat rear tires and skinny fronts. “I wanted to do a bike you could set down into, that had a real low inseam height,” said Bill. “I wanted a bike that...

Ah America, where you not only have an option of buying a V8-powered production motorcycle, but you even have a choice of brands. Ask someone to name a V8 motorcycle company and odds are they’ll answer “Boss Hoss” and that’s not surprising as Boss Hoss definitely made the first usable production V8 bike and still is turning them out today. But, like everything else, sometimes...