Now just so you don’t think Barnett’s Magazine Online has gone to the total dark side with this formerly British and now totally India-built bike that’s been customized by a German guy who’s recently set up shop in Florida, here’s a link to a recent article we ran on another one of his builds. Yes sir, that is a Harley and it’s pretty damn cool if I do say so myself. It’s one...

      This worked-over Yamaha XS 650 vertical twin has been used a bazillion times as fodder for builds ranging from a street tracker, café racer, chopper, bobber, brat bike or whatever you got. It’s a tough, compact (although heavy) torquey SOHC mill that’s powered Yamahas of various guises from 1968 to 1985 so there’s plenty of those still around holding up garages, sheds, and...

    What was “in” for years is on a downhill run and a new venue holds the potential to be the go-to venue. Demo rides at the Harley shop along with a beer garden and a few vendors. Pretty neat ─ have a quick brewski while waiting your turn to test ride a brand new 2015 model. Ignacio‘s only attraction is a casino of mediocre quality and since they barred vending in town, the...

     Okay, okay, I’m gushing, but it’s pretty restrained Palermo-gushing for me. Yeah, I got a problem, but have you taken a look yet at Jack Cofano’s photos of this BMW-powered custom?  You don’t have to be a BMW freak or even like anything about the Bavarian boxer, but you have to appreciate whatever the hell is going on there. You’ve never seen anything like this before and if...

   Well everything worked out quite nicely as we parked and got in for free. I hope you enjoy my photos of a real antique swap meet. The bikes, parts, vendors, buyers, and photographer were all antiques. The star of the event was Jim Carducci’s heavily-modified Sporty, that Barnett’s Magazine was the first to feature some years back when it was first built.     After all the...

     Part of that “looking” is trying to imagine what it would be like to ride. I mean, this bike has all the basic ingredients I like from extremely reasonable, bordering on stock road geometry to neat-o suspension front and rear.  Neat-o is probably not a good technical term so let’s say there’s an always lovely springer up front and a set of Progressive Suspension’s 970-series...