Blake decided on an Independent Cycle drop-neck, HARDLIFE frame for its long, low shape. Plus the driveline components would fit without any extra modifications, and it was a completely different platform than his previous build. The frame was built with a little stretch in the backbone and the downtubes, with 5” and 2” respectively. The neck was raked to 36-degrees, but Blake...

  Nope, you just don’t run into Confederates every day, but when you do, it might as well be a flying saucer as that’s the look I’ve observed at shows where people ran into one for the first time. Some people seem to be afraid to get too close and others just spend their time trying to find something, anything that looks familiar. The barest of principles connect it to what they’re...

    We first became aware of Steve’s work (which almost has to be seen in person to really understand and appreciate) back in the old printed Barnett’s Magazine days with I think his first feature article in a magazine. The bike we referred to as The Brooklyn Hot Rod was simply a lovely harmony of lines with a hot-rodded Harley-Davidson Twin Cam rigid bobber that got more and more...

   There’s just something incredibly pure and authentic about 40 Cal’s builds I can’t quite put a finger on, but if I’m to believe Matt, it’s called southern style. “It’s raw, gritty with that little bit of flavor to it,” Matt said adding, “A lot of thought and ingenuity goes into a southern-style bike.” Yeah, I think he nailed it on the head even though I think Matt and the crew...

   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 bit...

        I don’t know if Jeremy Cupp of LC Fabrications in Grottoes, Virginia, is into mechanical watches, but I do know he is into mechanical beauty. And I’m not the only one by any means as his absolute mechanical jewel of a motorcycle won the 2015 Las Vegas Artistry in Iron Show against fierce competition. For something other than a traditional Harley-style V-twin to take top...

     I get the feeling that Max has an itch that only he can scratch by looking at his work. The amount of thought and work that goes into any piece he makes in any bike he makes is incomprehensible to me. The even more amazing thing to me is that he’s somehow inhumanly capable of not spending ten years building a bike of this rather complicated nature by fabricating and each and...

I mean it’s just too bad because someone spent a lot of time, money, and effort building this bike and probably wonders why they never get the respect they think they deserve for all their work. Sure would be easy just to supply a minimalist bit of info for us to work with so we can continue to hopefully entertain you, our dear readers and highly-opinionated Internet judges of all...

      Not on as tight a budget as when he was young, he built up his dream with Shell racing parts, a modern ignition and all the trick little items people have discovered over the years to help these Yamahas keep up with Harleys on the big mile and half-mile tracks. When the day came for him to fire the beast up, he kicked it over and went out to the street for a few quick...

  1.  Your name and where you live  Daniel Ludwigsen  Fayetteville, North Carolina    2.   Please give some basic specs on bike.      The bike is a 2013 Bobber from LMC, LLC.  The engine is a stock 985cc XB9R Buell with Ultima programmable ignition and a Sportster CV carb replacing the stock Buell EFI.     3. Who actually built the bike and how long did it take?      I designed and...