From front-to-back and side-to-side, Italy’s master builder Aldo Querio Gianetto, has created another subtle masterpiece. The overall proportions are perfect and the bikes looks great from a distance. As you approach it, more and more details pop out like the winged statue on the springer fork, the elegant, but still old school front caliper mount, and the hip metal flake paint...

     If you’ve read any of the previous articles on SBC via Barnett’s Magazine Online like his Death or Glory Bonneville racer or his Evo-powered chop that is part of his invited Artistry in Iron entrants over the past three years, you’d expect some aspect of performance on the street or track as well as looking good. Obviously, taking a quick look at this exquisitely clean...

     If you’ve read any of the previous articles on SBC via Barnett’s Magazine Online like his Death or Glory Bonneville racer or his Evo-powered chop that is part of his invited Artistry in Iron entrants over the past three years, you’d expect some aspect of performance on the street or track as well as looking good. Obviously, taking a quick look at this exquisitely clean...

     And that rather leads us to Barnett Magazine Online’s feature bike built by Stephen Galvin and the crew at Wikked Steel in St. Petersburg, Florida. This apparition in black just happens to answer that nagging question “. . . what do you do with it now?” When Jack Cofano shot this Batman theme bike at a show it was paired up with another recent Barnett’s feature bike by Wikked...

    The kit (P/N 92500035 Black Highlighted, $1,849.95) includes everything needed to make it a 110 and there’s no machining cases or any other Herculean effort required. A set of SE 4-inch bolt-on cylinders filled with forged flat top pistons upping the compression to a spicy 10.2:1 might just be enough to fill your needs, but as the infomercials say, “Wait there’s more!” A lot...

     Can’t say the same for Dick Briggs and his crew at Behind Bars Motorcycle Co. in Ballston Spa, New York, as someone came up with the idea of building and finishing an Old School chop during the Syracuse Super Swap Meet & Cycle Expo event. “This bike was built at the Syracuse Super Swap Meet by my crew while I walked around buying the parts for it. Total build time...

     A lot of what would now be old customs I saw when they new could look pretty damn good because there was nothing else to compare them to. In retrospect, there were a lot of hinky gas welds, thick globs of Bondo molded into and onto things, paintjobs that looked like their sale date was a few months at most in the future, dubious handling and mechanicals at best, and a bunch...

The photo caption referred to him as Madman E.J. Potter and for once, the press hyperbole was spot on. I was convinced you had to be a madman to ride a motorcycle with a damn 500hp V8 car engine redlining between your legs. Making it even nuttier was that his bike was direct drive with no clutch so he had to stage his bike on a triangulated rear wheel stand like old vintage bikes...

    Emily, the British lady owner, starts telling me about the ground-up restoration done on this Isolastic frame (rubber-bushing mount engine) Norton. Sorry, people, no, Harley did not invent the rubber-mounted engine, Norton-Villiers in England did. This 1969 750 Norton Commando was the successor to the venerable Norton Atlas.      The entire sheet metal is painted a shade darker...

       Hey, I’m not dumping on V-Rods or their owners, matter of fact, it’s just the opposite. I actually am a fan of the engine and I’ve met a lot of V-Rodders who love their bike. The V-Rod engine after a major re-work by Porsche prior to production is a nice power plant in search of a purpose other than the VSRC versions you see getting dusty on showroom floors. I just wish...