Tony has owned this Bad Boy for six years and he finally decided to go all out and dress it up.  He contacted El Paso’s premier custom painter, Danny Bally, and together they went to work.  A 200mm tire was fitted on the back, covered by a Milwaukee Iron fender.  Danny stretched the tanks and applied a super flame paint job with chameleon paint that changes colors as you move...

Kalle owns a hotel and two restaurants, so between work and spending quality time with his family, he finds it challenging to find time to ride.  But like all true Harley riders, finding time to ride seems to just somehow happen, and Kalle managed to rack up several thousand miles annually on his Fat Boy and his Deuce before deciding he wanted something different.  What he wanted...

    In the meantime, we can speculate as to what this fine ride is and isn’t. I’d guess that it’s an old build probably based on an old police bike bought at auction and from numerous items like the sky-shot sissy bar, extremely narrow and radically-angled bars, and the enclosed chrome shocks among many other things. The engine patina with just the right amount of real-world rust...

  So what’s all that blather got to do with the cool Roland Sands’ Softail pictured here? Well, after checking it out, it’s hard to believe that this was an unloved Deuce in a former life. “We had a Deuce that we built that had gone through a couple of modifications and had some PM parts on it. Somebody had painted it orange and it didn’t work very good, it was a bad color,” said...

    What Ross has very skillfully done is to combine some of the nicer features of Buells over the years into one model that’s so subtle at first it’s deceiving. Personally, I think it’s deceiving because it’s so well integrated that it brings together some of my favorite features of Buells into a model I wish old Erik was still making. I’m a big fan of the steel frame Buells over...

  Beginning with the 2008 Softail originally commissioned by the late Bruce Rossmeyer, Jesse set out to build a bike where performance and rideability are first and foremost. “There’s no fab really on it. Everything’s kinda bolted onto it,” he said. Taylor is named after the ultra-hip artist who painted it, Taylor Reeve. “She’s a really cool artist,” said Jesse. “I think she’s done...

  Up to this point, Delbert had been riding the daylights out of his first-ever motorcycle, a 2003 Sportster, when someone decided they should take it off his hands without any remuneration. He formed a plan to build a ground-up custom for about the cost of a new Dyna. The term “low-budget ground up” is an oxymoron if there ever was one. Not to Delbert, though, “ I’m a cost...

It was that Old School look with modern comfort that drew Karen Proctor of Ashland City, Tennessee, to her 2007 Heritage Softail Classic she calls Stinger; the look, but also the classic paint job. “The bike began as a dealer build and I purchased it off the Boswell’s Harley-Davidson [in Nashville] showroom floor with many of the custom parts installed, including the numbered...

Don’t get me wrong, the old steel-framed Buells are a surprisingly fun bike to ride at a good backroad clip and I’ve spent some quality time on a track where I did really enjoy smoothly scooting around. More than ample torque makes it fun to power out of a corner even if you’re not in the right gear and that’s what makes them pleasant and ultimately satisfying to ride. The...

Hey, the web’s great and all, but print still has its merits especially when SuperUnknownMC tells how this build came about. “He (DownLow owner Jack Hunt) saw the blue 21 bike in the September issue [#69] and said, ‘Wow, gotta have one. What do I have to do to get one of those?’ He told me to find him a bike so I did.” What SuperUnknownMC found was a decent running ’89 Softail...