Old Jack Cofano captured this Forty-Eight trike at rest looking comfy in the wild at Smoke Out 17. Comfy enough with itself to possibly be a factory model looks-wise on a Harley platform that looks like it was made for this USA-made trike conversion by Yelvington Trikes of Seminole, Florida. Designed by Richard Yelvington, this patented conversion allows one to take a...

Well it’s about damn time Barnett’s Magazine Online is featuring a custom trike and it’s even better it’s based on a Motor Company-built trike and not a conversion. We’ve been hoping to feature more custom trikes especially since the introduction of Harley-Davidson’s Tri Glide and especially the sporty Freewheeler model, but they’ve been a little far and few over the past couple of...

     I pulled in, parked off to the side, and shut the engine off. Dead silence. I wondered what the hell was up as it was strangely quiet for a body shop during work hours. There’s always something extremely noisy going on in any body shop and usually a combo of loud air-powered tools backed by a bit of hammering. I got out, hit the horn button hard through the driver’s window and...

    Now, the thing about this is that I’m so used to seeing Kenny Williams’ ultra-radical, long, low and s-m-o-o-t-h bikes and long, low and s-m-o-o-t-h baggers that probably don’t have a Motor Company part anywhere. Nothing wrong with that approach, of course, unless you’re invested financially in Harley-Davidson in one way or another. But, and yes it’s a big but, this time he...

    While I’m confessing away, I should add that it was an unfinished VW trike I bought from my buddy Randy Costa. More of an unfinished mockup than a unfinished trike, I built up a hot rod VW engine, got the wheels and tires I wanted and dabbled in fiberglass for my very first time. That’s where my stolen style of Mr. Roth came in (or so I thought proudly at the time, but not...

   T.D. Ward of Rods & Rides Motorcycle Company in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of those guys. Oh I’m sure he could do a regular old trike conversion for you, but the way he rolls he probably wouldn’t on sheer principal. The good news about one of T.D.’s trikes is that you get to keep your old bike as is. What? Yup, like all things T.D., it starts with a bunch of heavy-duty...

     Matt Ruthig, owner of Gateway Customs Trikes & Cycles in Odessa, Florida, just might unknowingly subscribe to that formula and his business seems to totally reflect it with this radical show-winning trike build. When he’s not busy building radical custom two and three wheeled motorcycles, he’s really busy converting stock Harleys into trikes with his company’s own bolt-on...

    Rodney Smith, owner of Southeastern Customs in Supply, North Carolina, is a total gear head with a love for hot rods and motorcycles so it’s no surprise to find out that he too loves anything Shelby. Building a Shelby Cobra themed trike he calls Shelster is not that far out of the ordinary as it’s about as elemental as one of Carroll’s ‘rorty roadsters. How he got to that point...

     Unfortunately we don’t have any info on who owns it, but whoever it is, he’s one lucky guy. It’s bones are a 1959 Harley-Davidson Servi-Car in use by the Patterson, New Jersey, police department before someone got their hands on it and customized the hell out of it. I’d guess it was probably just an old meter maid bike that went to auction and sold for a song like they all did...

       Steve wouldn’t have it any other way as he’s just a guy with a taste for extremes even in a custom world where extreme is just a starting point. Take his CBX six-cylinder chopper you can see (and hear!) in this video for instance, there can’t be too many CBX-powered choppers floating around in the world, but he’s got one and it’s a pip. Might not be your cup of tea, but you...