Jeff has the ability to look at a derelict bike and see something entirely different like the hunk before him doesn’t even exist in that mode anymore. It probably has something to do with his other favorite pastime, photography, where he looks at bikes like looking at an image through his viewfinder. There’s nothing in his viewfinder that shouldn’t be there and it’s the same for...

   Joe built this trike around a rigid trike frame he builds and sells specifically for those looking for a pretty over-the-top custom that doesn’t need to necessarily conform to what we think of as trikes today. Most of those have extreme amounts of bodywork for style and storage space reasons. As you can see, Joe’s trike is about as spiritually and stylistically far away from...

  Ever since the introduction of the rubber-mount Sportster in 2004 the bike’s ability to pile on the miles in comfort was a change for the better even if it did add a chunk of weight with the revised frame. Our own late and lamented Rodent never could stop extolling the virtues of rubber mounting and backed it up with a lot of long distance, high speed riding on his own...

  I loved everything about the early Sportys from the size and the power and the experience. That’s something I’ve always carried right up to the rubber-mounted Sportys of today in all their various and lovely itinerations. Whether it’s the currently-hip blacked-out or the fat front tire versions of Harley’s do-all XL model that’s put it back up on its rightful pedestal is not as...

   One thing we custom bike loving Americans are pretty much unaware of is how deep our influence is on all corners of the planet. Whether it’s the movie industry, music, television, any media, whatever, our innocent little motorcycle past time has hardcore devoted followers everywhere you go. I’m not sure if it’s the look and the sound of the Harley-Davidson V-twin or the biker...

       Custom big wheel Harley baggers dominate the show scene at least at events like this and especially in the Southeast as we have some of the best bagger builders in the business knocking stuff out like crazy. If this is your cup of tea, cool, but is the extreme bagger thing headed to an end or is it here to stay?

     Dalton Walker is one of those young enigmas who can channel their inner Old School child and build a chop that can defy time through authentic-style building just like when Arlen Ness was his age and doing the same thing. I don’t know if Dalton has discovered his own time portal to jump into and check out how things were done back then, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he did....

Growing up in Connecticut where he worked on his first chopper in the early ‘60s, a ’47 Knucklehead belonging to his brother, that laid the spiritual design foundation for his future builds with a radical rake of 53-degrres with a 20”-over springer. Later he enrolled at Boston’s prestigious Berklee School of Music where he studied piano with hopes of becoming a rock star, but a...

            If you want to see all the winners in every class go to: http://capitalcitybikefest.com/bike-show/2016-winners.  Their web site coverage is awesome and is one of the few events that post all the winners as well as their bikes. Take note everyone else.             I was very happy to see that one of my favorite builders, Kenny Williams of KW Customs, took best of show...

  So it’s not the bike or the builder in particular, so it must be about the back story and it obviously is. If you’ve seen the 2011 movie, Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler as our story’s real life person, Sam Childers, you already know the story behind the story. But if you haven’t, check out the movie trailer here. Or, you could read Sam’s book that led to the movie,...