Jon did what any prolific and talented builder of show bikes would do with a brand new free engine and started to ramp up a ground-up board track/bobber build utilizing that 135hp SE Pro 120R engine for the next event. Talk about getting a head start! Needless to say, there was no teardown or hopping up involved with this engine that’s theoretically an off-road-only (yeah,...

   You’ve got to remember that Arizona is a no-permit-required state where you can legally carry a loaded firearm either hanging off your belt like Wyatt Earp did or concealed on your person. The only exception is that some establishments have signs stating “No Firearms Allowed” which trumps Arizona’s law. I didn’t see such sign at Roadrunner’s. Everyone was...

     Court House Custom’s D.J. Jenkins and Jason Stritenberger have been knocking out a wide variety of showy riders that catch my attention every time Barnett’s Magazine Online features one. From their first appearance of The Dirty Sanchez in the print edition of Barnett’s to the online features of Glory Hole, the Tattooed Triumph, and their bust-ass workingman’s Evo Sportster,...

         Dale Walksler, the owner and curator of the Wheels Though Time, all-American motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, travels the country in search of vintage motorcycles and the parts that he uses to restore and display them. The museum is known as the “museum that runs” because everything in there starts and runs. If you ask Dale to start it and it doesn’t, I...

       Holy City Designs’ Robbie Closson is responsible for both bikes and that’s something to be damn proud about. The Nonpareil Knucklehead was a delight to look at with all its spindliness and line-drawing aesthetic that Robbie cleverly kept from becoming a cartoon of a vintage board tracker/bobber just by being honest with itself. Put simply, he let the clean and sparse lines...

              Because there were so many quality builds Barnett’s Magazine Online is going to run three days of bikes, different bikes every day. There will be twenty-plus different bikes each day in the gallery. It’s like viewing three different bike shows each day.             This show had everything bobbers, baggers, trikes, café racers, and some I don’t know how to describe....