Hey, I’m not dumping on V-Rods or their owners, matter of fact, it’s just the opposite. I actually am a fan of the engine and I’ve met a lot of V-Rodders who love their bike. The V-Rod engine after a major re-work by Porsche prior to production is a nice power plant in search of a purpose other than the VSRC versions you see getting dusty on showroom floors. I just wish...

       But the boy sure could keep them running and the boy sure could ride the living hell out of them. Even when mirrors and other various body parts kept falling off, he’d just pop them back while he was underway and charge into the next turn very smoothly I might add. He could make a POS BMW go like stink while I wouldn’t want to ride it around a block. When I pointed out what...

  Harley-Davidson says it’s “The only motorcycle jean to achieve CE Level 2 approval, the FXRG Performance Riding Jean features ankle-to-waist ROOMOTO, the only protective lining designed specifically for motorcycle riders. A patented material that offers half the weight of traditional lining materials with double the abrasion resistance, ROOMOTO has been validated and tested by...

  Anyway, that’s how this 2007 FLTRI belonging to Jody Warman of Lakeland, New York, started out. “I was just gonna ride this bike. I wasn’t screwing with it. I wasn’t going to do a damn thing to it,” said Jody. “But then obviously you see that didn’t last. I hadn’t even picked up the bike before I started with plans to modify it.” All those good intentions must’ve lasted for about...

       Shovelheads have the reputation of being a real bad boy’s bike and they’re what I think of when I’m picturing a bad ass Harley in my head. They’re just lovely, archaically-mechanical beasts that have all the subtlety of a howitzer and that’s exactly what makes them so likeable. I’ve always thought of them as Harley’s hot rod equivalent of a 425hp 409 Chevy engine. They’re a...

       Obviously there’s an elephant in the room that’s got to be brought up and that is that Warren is the brother of William David Lane whom we all know as Billy Lane. Like Billy, he’s an ingenious, talented builder, but like all brother relationships I know of there must be some kind of brother competiveness going on. Especially since they are both in the same business and so...

    Thomas Russell of T-n-A Custom Motorcycles in Sanford, North Carolina, is one of those guys and if you’ve even taken just a quick peek at his bike he calls Leaves In The Wind, you know he fits the description to a tee. There’s not much going on here that isn’t truly one-off in a world that refers to anything with just the tiniest possible difference to something exceedingly...

     No surprise then that old Jacko loves his white baggers even with all the multi-colored, multi-themed, airbrushed-to-a-fare-thee-well custom baggers he runs into at every show. Personally, I’d think after a while you’d be just looking for the wildest and most colorful paintjob on a bagger, but not Jack. It seems like any individual shot of a bike he just photographed he sends...

            I’ve noticed that at a lot of the car shows I attend now have more and more motorcycles being shown. Especially the antique car shows, so hey, what’s good for four wheels is good on two.             It also seems like in the last few years quite a few of the people building custom bikes have added cars to their habit. I especially like the idea that many of the bike...