Taking a modern Harley and retroizing (Is that a real term? “Yes it is,” says the other voice in my head) it becomes a smite easier when you’re starting with a springer dangling off of it. Springers are a direct link to the past, but with modern updates and manufacturing techniques that still makes it a totally viable modern cruiser suspension. “This is my first Harley, I always...

Actually, this might even be a better version to ride across country than the original as it’s got to be a lot more stable and definitely easier to ride than the original. In case you didn’t know, it was rumored to be such a handful that Jack Nicholson actually broke one of Peter Fonda’s ribs squeezing him with his legs to keep his balance while he was riding on the back. Plus it...

No, this is not some theme bike ode to The Blues Brothers movie, but a bike that was originally born to an actual working life in a police department and later to change its career to sort of a runway model. “It started out as an ’07 police bike, an actual cop’s motorcycle with all the pursuit lights and all that,” said David Covington, son of company founders’ Jerry and Kathleen....

     This is not Copper Mike’s first rodeo at Barnett’s Magazine Online as we previously featured his Steampunk Shovelhead and that bike couldn’t be more different than this one if it tried. But, even though they’re totally different, both show the recognizable signature of Copper Mike and his shop, Gravesend Cycles Inc. in Lindenhurst, New York on the southern shore of lovely Long...

  Our feature bike Mantis Chopster harks back to the Frisco era bikes, but with a twist. A conglomeration of tubing from frame to forks gives a skeletal appearance that heightens the mechanical feel of the design. The rigid frame is almost totally exposed as it wraps around the engine like a continous loop. Frisco-style frame dimensions come from the conservative 32-degree rake...

    What I’m seeing is a bike that I personally don’t characterize as a board tracker or a skinny wheel bobber or whatever typical category something like this would be placed in. Nope, what I’m seeing is a motorcycle that looks like a 3-D line drawing of what an absolute minimalist hot rod with two wheels looks like. The finished result looks as pure as a black and white sketch of...

  Kim’s one of those Renaissance guys that your high school teachers always pushed you to be, but never did. A sculptor for 34 years, Kim’s turning out works of art in metal for little businesses like Donald Trump’s casinos, resorts, and residences, Emeril’s Restaurant and Gloria Estefan’s Bongos Cuban Café in Miami, Las Vegas casinos (The Rio, Harrah’s, and the Monte Carlo), and...

    If you’d like to get an idea of what the evolution of Daniel’s thought process was on this new re-build check out this video of the bike in its former guise. As you can see, the basics are still there, but the end result is totally different and totally different in a good way. “With this bike, our intent was to bring something new to the scene. Not necessarily something that...

     Now just so you don’t think Barnett’s Magazine Online has gone to the total dark side with this formerly British and now totally India-built bike that’s been customized by a German guy who’s recently set up shop in Florida, here’s a link to a recent article we ran on another one of his builds. Yes sir, that is a Harley and it’s pretty damn cool if I do say so myself. It’s one...

      This worked-over Yamaha XS 650 vertical twin has been used a bazillion times as fodder for builds ranging from a street tracker, café racer, chopper, bobber, brat bike or whatever you got. It’s a tough, compact (although heavy) torquey SOHC mill that’s powered Yamahas of various guises from 1968 to 1985 so there’s plenty of those still around holding up garages, sheds, and...