I just described exactly what I like about this tough bastard of a feature bike affectionately called Toe Cutter after the charming leader of the bad guys in the movie Mad Max. Built by Will Ramsey of Faith Forgotten Choppers in New Albany, Indiana, was one of the more surprising aspects of the bike as I think of Will’s work as retro-inspired, but a technological tour de...

    Compared to one of my own bikes where you try and find the handcrafted parts, Tim’s bike is an assembled plethora of handcrafted parts. Everything is made so individually beautiful and then welded so beautifully it’s almost too bad that the parts had to be bolted together. Tim’s right-hand man and welder extraordinaire, Josh Cipra, was responsible for the perfect clone welds...

    Having a natural keen eye for photography helps Jeff Cochran of SpeedKing USA to see and isolate life through the lens of a camera and I think that same talent is carried over to the jaw-droppingly gorgeous bikes he builds at his one-man shop in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some people just have an eye and some don’t and a damn good photographer should be on the good side of that...

     With that out of the way, it’s time to get back to the subject at hand and what a subject it is. According to the serial number, that is a 1952 Harley FL Panhead sitting front and center for all the world to see and admire, maybe with a touch of jealousy (I’m speaking for myself). Right up front I gotta say this bike is an absolute knockout in white with a chopper profile...

       The 45’s production run went from 1929 to 1973 before Harley pulled the plug on them so they weren’t exactly unpopular even if they weren’t glamorous like a Knucklehead or a Panhead. They were the workhorses of Harley’s lineup and probably the equivalent of a straight six in an older pickup. But, there are Flathead freaks today that adore this finned wonder like it was the...

      The name alone, Bullet-Proof Death Machine, tells this bike’s story in that proverbial nut shell. Built by Brad Gregory of Glenwood, Iowa, out of select pieces from Twisted Choppers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, used parts, great deal parts, and a lot of fabrication, it fits the Smoke Out bike category to a T. Part of that honestly fitting the Smoke Out M.O. mandates it not...

  This is not Tim’s first Sportster rodeo as Barnett’s Magazine Online previously featured another Sporty of his and, wait for it, here’s another looker, but this one has got that “It” factor bikers look for along with a price that makes it affordable to just about anyone.   Keeping it real, so to speak is what Tim’s all about as he said, “My idea is to take something that had been...

       Especially when it’s a Softail-style frame with modest frame dimensions and what’s now come to be the all-important seat shock sprung saddle. As anybody who’s ridden a lowered Softail can attest, the ride is horrible with minimal suspension travel out back. Mounting a thin saddle directly to the frame makes for a teeth-chattering ride. But, install a couple of seat shocks...

    Shovelheads have the reputation of being a real bad boy’s bike and they’re what I think of when I’m picturing a bad ass Harley in my head. They’re just lovely, archaically-mechanical beasts that have all the subtlety of a howitzer and that’s exactly what makes them so likeable. I’ve always thought of them as Harley’s hot rod equivalent of a 425hp 409 Chevy engine. They’re a bit...

   Matter of fact, I think the late and lamented print edition of Barnett’s Magazine was the first to ever publish a Bling’s Cycles bike, a rompin’ stompin’ dirt-bike inspired bobber called Asbury Dirt. Maybe that’s where Jack’s Bling’s Cycles fascination began, But, that’s still not enough for Mr. Cofano as he constantly prods us to write more about Bill and then repeatedly pokes...