Click here for more photos Riding in the Black Hills, Sturgis Coverage Part 8 Story and photos by Cindy Blake Sturgis! 70th Anniversary! Wow! Just say it and it’s just an awesome event to hear about! You always hear stories of all the bikes that were out there: the custom choppers, the classic Harley-Davidsons and the decked-out cruisers. You hear about...

Click here for more photos Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix – Mazda Raceway Part One Story and Photos by Jack Cofano Here’s a new twist in the art of reporting. This reporter is going to write about a subject he knew absolutely nothing about until a couple of weeks ago. I’m talking about MotoGP and sportbikes. I’m a V-twin kind of guy and didn’t know the difference...

Click here for more photos Crazy Jack Industries Builds One Crazy Custom Story by Buck ManningPhotos by Jack Cofano Caught your eye didn’t it? You don’t have to make excuses or apologies for looking at a metric bike when it’s as radically eye-catching as this bike from Jason Pries of Crazy Jack Industries Custom Cycles in Bridgeport,...

“I think I built this bike in ’05, ’06,” he said. “My signature orange and white bike I had worn out; the lower end, the rods were worn out, the heads were worn out. Nothing was abused; it was just worn out because I had ridden it for ten years. I needed something, so I built this bike. It’s a throwback to my beginnings, sort of, because we...

Click here for more photos !- Click here to read the Specifications –> Harley Parking Lot Story by Mark Barnett, Photos by Rodent I don’t know if this department of our paper magazine will transfer to the cyber world or not. But it is where we go through our rally photos and pick out all the cool modified Harleys that Rodent caught while covering...

Click here for more photos !- Click here to read the Specifications –> Running a Blood Drive at Your Local Harley-Davidson Dealership or Chopper Shop Story by Mark Barnett, Photos by Rodent I’d like to share a promotion we do twice a year at both our Harley-Davidson dealerships, the main one in El Paso and the newer one in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We...

  Hell’s Kitchen is a name to be remembered. The history of the chopper, as we know it, started with the movie Easy Rider in 1969, but Hell’s Kitchen is much older. Just the bright and colorful choppers in Easy Rider, the history of the real Hell’s Kitchen — the neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City that covers roughly the area from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River — started in...

  If you’re looking for a Frisco-style chopper, where better to look than San Francisco itself and in this case, our feature bike, Frisco-Style, by California Choppers located on 1490 Howard Street, right in the heart of San Francisco. Owner Wayne Hodges has the skinny on these skinny bikes as he not only works there, but was born and raised there too so I’d think it would be fair...

  Marcus bought this bike as a basket, with most of the parts there but in bare metal, primer, and some rust: your typical grab bag. What turned out not to be typical was that at some point this bike was a Chandler Original, either a kit or a disassembled bike owned or built by Adam Chandler. Not only stickers, but the title showed this to be true. After about six months of...

Click here for more photos Penz Custombikes 114″ TP Engineering Low Rider Story by Mark Barnett and Frank Sander, Photos and Information courtesy of Thunder Media Service, Frank Sander www.thunder-media-service.de Given the title of the article, this may look like another super custom built by Austria’s top bike builders, Peter Penzenstadler and Anita...