Some of the foulest language came out of my husband’s mouth the day he put apehangers on his Softail. It wasn’t due to the bars; it was due to the cables that he had to install to fit his 14” bars. In fact, I think that was a tougher job than pulling the top end off of my FXR. Burly, where were you back then? In addition to choosing the correct height, most want matched extended...

              Many of the great works of art that you will see in the photos galleries come from an array of young builders, mostly from the Southeast being that the show was in Charlotte. Through the years, Barnett’s Magazine, both in the old print version and the current online magazine has always tried to give coverage to the future of custom bikes by showing a little of what we...

     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....

      Jason Beavers is a super talented guy with a sense of humor who is just trying to do what he loves best and frankly, he’s working his ass off doing it. Originally started in 2009 as a small, family run custom paint business where they also built their personal custom bikes, it quickly morphed into a one-stop, award winning custom motorcycle shop. Barnett’s Magazine Online...

Taking a modern Harley and retroizing (Is that a real term? “Yes it is,” says the other voice in my head) it becomes a smite easier when you’re starting with a springer dangling off of it. Springers are a direct link to the past, but with modern updates and manufacturing techniques that still makes it a totally viable modern cruiser suspension. “This is my first Harley, I always...