Just imagine this radical Road King without the bags and you’d have a pretty damn nice chop right there. All the elements of a modern day chopper are there with a lot more sophistication than what we think of when we think chopper, but it’s getting hard to really see the big friggin’ difference unless you’re comparing it to a real Old School chop. That’s the David Mann stuff...

   Even though Jack Cofano photographed this knockout at the recent Smoke Out, it just might look a bit familiar to you if you caught the fourth episode, Rust Belt Edition of Discovery Channel’s BikerLive. Pat and the Led Sled crew duked it out with Porky’s Chopper Co. and Raw Iron Choppers. Who won? I don’t particularly care as I’m not a huge fan of builder shows that don’t show...

    Flash forward five or six decades and what’s considered Old School today was no-school to me until the late ‘60s when real (and often half-ass) custom builds began to occasionally show up on the streets of the industrial town I lived in. If a fine-looking bobber like our feature bike ever passed through my town, it would have knocked me over seeing it go by. Instead of a...

  Case in point, Barnett’s Magazine Online’s feature trike originally came from Brigette Bourget’s shop, Bourget’s Bike Works in Phoenix, Arizona, before what I’m pretty sure was (and still is) the unfortunate closing of the shop. There are some definite Bourget trademarks in this build like the drop seat frame that holds its engine oil within the tubing and the Bourget look that...

     The new unitized-construction 30hp 750cc 4-cam side valve twin was a heavily revised version of the old WL 45 twin. It didn’t take long before it was stroked to 888cc and putting out a respectable 40 horses or so. There were both street and race models straight from the factory and the beautiful and famous KR road racers and dirt trackers raced and won against the Brits in the...

   Usually taking a walk on the wild side as far as custom baggers go involves some new crazy bodywork twist or an audio system that would drown out an F-22 Raptor on takeoff or it could be a completely mind blowing paintjob. All honorable things that a lot of honorable big wheel bagger fans can’t get enough. For Zach Johnson and Travis Hathcock of Kendall Johnson Customs in...

              If you like custom baggers this is the show for you with some of the best builders in the Southeast exhibiting their incredible creations that are some of the best in the business. I don’t know how long this big wheel Harley bagger trend is going to last, but we might as well enjoy it while we can.             Who knows what the next trend in custom motorcycle builds...

  Starting with a Wild Child frame constructed within the bowels of Indian Larry Legacy, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what direction this build was going to take. There’s been many a Larry tribute bike done already, but most that I’ve seen have little or nothing in common with Larry’s ideas other than using him as a theme. BAKER R&D’s Chad Behrendt, Tom...

     What we’ve got here is a most interesting variant of bobber, a board track-inspired Sportster-powered design built for stylin’ roadworthiness for what had to be an attractive price (I’m guessing) for the bike’s owner, Holy City apprentice Tommy Grady, to call his own. It’s not pure board track with the wise choice of higher bars and mid-controls, but it’s got the look and...

   As any motorcycle enthusiast who has only paid even the very slightest attention to what’s going on in the world of custom motorcycles knows, right now, baggers are where it’s at. And, there seems to be no expiration date involved. Tons of builders have jumped on the bandwagon and hopefully have found great success building big wheel baggers for an adoring audience, but not...