Admittedly more of a design guy than a builder, Kevin had become friends with Tom and drew for him the chopper he had in mind. “I’d always liked bikes,”  Kevin said. “Growing up as a kid one of my...

  “I built the bike originally as kind of a street tracker because I’m a huge fan of dirt track mile racing and I miss the mile racing, it’s almost extinct now,” Joe said. “I thought I’d build a fun...

He removed the motor from the Discovery bike; it started out as a 92” S&S Indian mill with round cylinders. Greg kept the displacement the same, but machined the jugs and heads in a hexagonal...

Probably just as well as The Love Machine was already taken by George Barris’ famous shag-carpeted custom van back in the ‘70s. Good choice then. Rear suspension? Have the Detroit Bros. gone soft? “I...

Keeping his costs low right from the start, Steve procured a’99 Sportster Custom as a donor bike. Other than the driveline, there weren’t many stock parts he planned to use on the final version, but...

  Ah, if only the entire build could have been that easy. It took about 18 months to get his bike up and running due a false start with a company that went out of business. But Jerry is nothing if...

  Dan starts with a frame that he built himself. The “elliptical bent” single loop rigid frame features an adjustable rear axle, a 67” wheelbase, and a stretched section between the seat tube and...

The stock frame was put on the operating table to be raked (40-degrees) and stretched (7” out/-2” down) beyond recognition. “I cut the frame in half behind the transmission and put 3.5” behind the...