Tim teamed up with a buddy of his Scott Schneck, owner of Schneck’s Hog Farm in Grantville, Pennsylvania, over a winter to make a (well here’s where it gets interesting without trying to get insulting) rat bike, beater, tough guy, or whatever the hell you want to call it that is a practical get on it and go rider. It ain’t trying to be purty, but it has its own beauty. It’s...

  My cheap shoe theory also applies to motorcycles. Yeah we all love our Harley-Davidsons or whatever somewhat antiquated, but still loved air-cooled V-twin we’ve got hanging around. But just like shoes, it sure can be fun to put on something totally different just for the hell of it. That could be one of the reasons that café-style bikes are currently going through their...

  With St. Patrick’s Day being celebrated, the Annual Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair show going on downtown, and spring breakers everywhere I was surprised at the turnout. San Antonio and the surrounding area supported this event well with over 19,000 people in attendance. The motorcycle community was well represented. What was really impressive was the quality of the vehicles which...

  Perry is unusually tall for a racing driver, so we decided to stretch the hard tail beyond the normal 4″ to 6″. A longer stretch in tandem with our DPC clip-ons mounted low would give his long arms the reach that he needed. He also wanted a scuba-style oil tank, so we modified the dual down tubes below the seat into a single tube, and bent in the upper hard-tail tubes...

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Written by / Story by Mark Barnett    Excerpted from Barnett’s Magazine Print ArticleWith the death of Buell, there is now an opening for a beginner bike in the Harley-Davidson line up, something for first time riders who don’t want to invest in a Sportster. Looking back through Harley’s history, there was a single-cylinder,...

Written by / Story by Mark BarnettExcerpted from Barnett’s Magazine Print Article I have to admit, this concept bike deal is even more fun than I thought it would be. Last issue I explained that Barnett’s Magazine had retained the services of Italian designer Oberdan Bezzi to put pen and paper (actually a mouse and keyboard)...

So about this Harley-Davidson Roadster, why should Harley-Davidson consider building this? My feeling is that since the pie doesn’t seem to be getting any larger at the moment, The Motor Company should reach out to non-Harley riding customers and make a few models to compete directly with some Japanese and European models. The Japanese yen is going through the roof right now and I...

Written by  Story by Mark Barnett.Excerpted from Barnett’s Magazine Print Article We are winding down this series of concept bike articles and have gotten to the one which gave me the most trouble. To remind everyone, we’ve been putting together some ideas that we think would help Harley-Davidson with conquest sales: bringing...

Written by  Story by Mark BarnettExcerpted from Barnett’s Magazine Print Article Talk about stupid fun, coming up with new prototype bike ideas for Oberdan Bezzi to mock up has probably been the most fun I’ve had producing this magazine for the last fourteen years. Most of the time, I’ve been trying to make up models that...