If anything makes me think of spring it’s a bike with an eye ball catching paintjob like this wild orange turbocharged Road King from Lance “Curly” Waugaman, owner of Curley’s Custom Cycles in Hobart, Indiana. Somehow crazy bright colors makes me think of warm weather for reasons I’ve never understood, but it’s gotten me through a bunch of long winters so I’m not questioning it....

    With this bike, though, Rob seems to have pushed things a bit more to the show side and why not? A guy with a custom motorcycle business has got to grab your attention to show you what he’s capable of and what he can do for you whether it’s a ground-up or a new set of bars on a Road King. It doesn’t hurt to have a “guy” who knows what he’s doing after you get totally infected...

    So, that’s exactly what we’ve got here with this lightly, yet tastefully modified 2015 Harley Breakout that looks great and still has all its basic Breakout DNA intact. No matter what, this bike built by Hank Thibodeau is also a great showcase for his custom exhausts and intake systems he sells through his company, Widowmaker Custom Design & Repair in Rougemont, North...

     The sexy Road Glide custom by XBS Customs in Chesterfield, Virginia, is its own rolling rave on the road but with a lot more class than a bunch of crazed ravers could ever muster. XBS prides itself on not only creating tasteful, yet extreme baggers like this one,  but specialize in sound systems that are so far beyond my comprehension I’m almost embarrassed to admit it. Okay,...

Curt’s TCsport feature bike is latest of a series of production prototypes he’s been re-working and re-engineering until the tiniest-detail-obsessed builder gets it right according to his own exacting standards. “The three versions of this bike I’ve already built had some small handling issues like finding the right motor placement, fork angle, wheelbase, seat height, and so on....

              As you will notice from the two days of bike photos taken during Myrtle Beach Bike Week, you will also see a whole bunch of baggers. The reason for this is that no matter where I go anymore, 75% of the bikes I see are baggers. It seems like in the last few years baggers have become the SUVs of the motorcycle industry. Everywhere you look there are stock baggers, big...

   Our feature bike, a 2014 Street Glide customized to the tee is a perfect example of an efficient, yet still cool build from what BX Custom Designs has figured will tickle the fancy of some individual somewhere. So far, their tactic really seems to work. Even though all the expected cues of a well-built, high-content custom bagger have been checked off, it’s still a one-of-one –...

     When I got out of the bathroom, I couldn’t help notice that Eddie had promptly leapt into action casually leafing through a phone book trying to find the fire department’s number to no avail. “Just call 911!” I yelled as I headed out the door to a burning Peugeot that was probably just trying to commit automotive suicide because it was just a POS car. I grabbed a garden hose...

      Since the East Coast seems to have a incredible amount of builders who specialize in custom baggers, the show was loaded with every kind of luggage-equipped two wheelers on hand. I’m glad to see that the Hot Wheels gargantuan front wheel baggers seem to have dwindled and a reasonable front end is coming back.       What hasn’t changed is the ridiculously-intricate paint jobs...

The ever-debonair Jack Cofano, Barnett’s YDKJ columnist and all around motorcycling bon vivant, saw this one coming when he wrote in Barnett’s April 2007 Issue #54, “Tim Franks has got the bikin’ bug bad, real bad. So bad, that the ol’ bass boat is sitting in the yard collecting spiders. I have a strange feeling that the Gladiator [Tim’s Heritage feature bike] is the first of many...