E. J. Cole is a Texan who bought the only three-story building on Main Street in Sturgis. He installed an elevator, not for the handicapped, but to move his extensive collection of American-manufactured motorcycles to the upper floors. Over the years, he bought as many old American bikes he could. Finally, after over 50 years of collecting, it was time to cash out his...

      In the 1940s Las Vegas was being looked at by certain gentlemen and Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel built and opened the Flamingo out of downtown into what was the desert and the die was set with the mob owning what was to become known as the Las Vegas Strip. Due to some business irregularities, Bugsy got wacked in Los Angles in the late ’40s, but he is memorialized today in a...

 I’ve been looking for a solution and I think I’ve finally found it with the new Black Distressed Leather Saddlebags (P/N 90201306, $659.95) from Harley-Davidson Genuine Motor Parts & Accessories.   They are designed to add rugged style and luggage capacity to most 1994-later Sportster models. The combination of heavy die-cast buckles and rich black leather with a distressed...

              There were bikes of all shapes, sizes, and makes on the floor of the beautiful Raleigh Convention Center. I took advantage by photographing over 70 bikes for future features and don’t worry, there are lots of Harleys. Keep an eye on Barnett’s Magazine Online to catch them all.             The Invited Class featured some on the best customs you will see anywhere built...

  Think about that 30-inch wheel and realize that it’s almost double the size of a wheel on a stock dresser. Throw on a Vee Rubber tire ($800) and it’s almost up to my waist. To put things into perspective, Ballistic’s 18-inch (!) rotor is actually larger than the stock Road Glide’s wheel and dwarfs a Buell perimeter rotor which most of us think of as a giant rotor. That (now)...

      One thing I should mention right up front is that this bike doesn’t have a piece of composite material other than the sportbike windscreen and the headlight. This is a “steel is real” kind of build and what a nice bit of sheet metal work it is. Dave and Kyle Green of DG Custom Cycle in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada, wouldn’t have it any other way. DG Custom’s owner/fabricator/dad...

It wasn’t always this way, as Harley customs morphing out of stock bikes often come about in strange circumstances and this one was no different. “It’s my personal bike, I got it for long trips like to Florida, Myrtle Beach, and California every year and long local rides,” says Pat. “It was a couple of years old when I bought it and it was kind of a lemon. I had problems with it,...

     Of course, unless Discovery Channel comes calling with a challenge that’s too god to pass up and that was how Porky’s got on BikerLive’s Rust Belt Challenge. What you’re looking at here is the stunning end result of that impossible build time and two-thumbs up to Andy and all the other builders who made the impossible into reality. Andy couldn’t have dome it without the help...

     Barnett’s Magazine Online featured Rick’s previous AIR winner called Pala Duro a year ago and it’s hard to believe that he had the time to come up with another AIR winner that takes his work to another level altogether. In between all of that, Rick somehow found the time to build another bike on Discovery Channel’s BikerLive that won the Nor-Cal builders’ episode against...

“Baby it’s cold outside” will be a lot harder to use as an excuse for not riding in cool or even cold weather now that Harley-Davidson has brought out its new Legendary Skull Bomber Jacket (P/N 97558-16VM, $160.00) featuring aggressive style for fall and winter.   Featuring intricate embroidered details on the back and sleeves, this heavy nylon twill jacket has an insulating...