Rodney Smith, owner of Southeastern Customs Chopper and Hot Rod Shop in Supply, North Carolina, always has a customized personal rider hanging around the shop that he’s not only proud of, but more than happy fire up and ride on a moment’s notice. Barnett’s Magazine Online has already featured his previous shop bike a couple of years ago, a customized Ironhead Sporty, but I...

   Some of you just might know of Evan for things other than the Artistry In Iron invite or his shop, Speakeasy Motors in Wallkill, New York. For those that don’t, he did a fairly long stint on OCC’s American Chopper during its CMT era. His shop began before that bit of CMT TV and continued on through until today. All of that only shows how driven this young guy is to succeed in...

           This event includes one of the largest custom bike shows on the East Coast with $15,000 in cash and prizes. Also taking place during the weekend were almost constant musical acts, numerous thrill spectacles, a tattoo expo, vendors, and even a pin-up contest. One of the events that I enjoyed most besides the bike show was the Cole Freeman Stunt Show. The dude can handle a...

    Here we present you with a custom bagger that might just win a few of the haters of custom baggers over although there will always be something to complain about whether it’s the paint or the model chosen to name just two obvious ones. Our über talented veteran (Navy) lens man and senior rally editor, the always smiling Jack Cofano, captured this late model Harley Street Glide...

     Heritage Softail Springers have to be one of the coolest showroom bikes Harley-Davidson has ever made. If any modern (relatively speaking) deserved the term Heritage applied to it, this first year, 1997 Heritage Springer does reaching back to Harley’s grand past and presenting it to a waiting future. I was flabbergasted when I saw my first one in a Harley dealership back in...

     Dynas have come a long way as far as respectability goes in the Harley world. Going back 15-years ago, a lot of Harley folk didn’t have too much good to say about Dynas with a response to them that’s the equivalent of “Meh?” today. My how things have changed. Personally, I have to give a lot of credit to Jax Teller and the fictional crew of Sons of Anarchy for helping...

  Art Steele at All Star Baggers in Dallas, Texas, took a completely different route in building a lay frame bagger out of a 2012 Harley-Davidson Road Glide and not just by eliminating its trademark frame mounted fairing. According to Art, this is the first lay frame bagger with a bolt-on neck. Instead of the usual cutting and welding involved in making the fame suitable to run a...

  Well if bigger is better on a bagger, why not on a more traditionally outrageous chopper? I think it really does fit the chopper modus operandi better and, if done right, it doesn’t lose its end-to-end chopper flow like a bagger does to its big wheel pulling a pile of bodywork behind like a trailer. A big front wheel (and a corresponding size rear wheel that you can still see)...

    The Big Daddy Rat lead photo filled me in a bit on the who, what and where the second I saw Todd “Gilby” Gilbertson, owner of Gilby’s Street Dept. in River Falls, Wisconsin, standing there with a smile of satisfaction on his face. I couldn’t help but think, of course, it’s a Gilby’s bike as Mr. Gilby is not afraid to take on a crazy build, make it even crazier as he went along...

   What? Paint? Huh? Yeah, I don’t blame you for thinking that, but it is. Whenever anybody has built a custom bagger we’ve featured over the years, it’s all about how eye-catching a paintjob someone has come up with. Honestly, that’s the way I feel about what makes a custom bagger a custom bagger. It’s the paint more than anything as everyone seems to have unceremoniously agreed...