Jack and I differ about paint jobs and what we think is cool, for him, the nuttier the better it seems (maybe that’s the photographer in him), while I’m so much more boringly conservative about paint and the simpler, the better. But after taking a look at Jacko’s photo gallery of Rick Levitan’s Beatles Bike, the paint job by Chris Cruz Artistry (www.chriscruz.com) adorning the...

Making this possible is Jack’s convenient Kaiser, Missouri, home base that also happens to be the home of one of the country’s top hot rod and custom bike builders and a really nice guy to boot, Dave Jordan of Dave’s Rod Shop (www.davesrodshop.com). We’ve featured Dave’s work many times in print and online (see archives) and his high-quality work (including being a Ridler Award...

JF “Hi Jerry, I would like everything and I mean everything changed on my bike but what I need to register it. I want it wild, fast, and no-holds barred. Tell me when it’s finished and I’ll send a box truck full of money out to your Woodward, Oklahoma, shop.” JC “Sounds good. How big is your truck? JF “I’ve also got an 18-wheeler. . . ” JC “I’m your man! Call you in a month.”...

Tracy DeLux of Charlotte, North Carolina apparently feels the same way with her neat looking customized 2001 Night Train built by her husband Chris. Tracy picked up her bike on eBay and Chris worked on it “a little at a time” until she had the super-sano real-world rider you see here. “I wanted the bike to look like a classic Old School Harley,” said Tracy. “I picked out a hot rod...

I walked back inside as Julio, one of Corbin’s master seat builders, was asking some guy if the aforementioned bike was his. He nods in the affirmative and I pipe up that it’s a weird some kind of Sportster. Julio says “That ain’t no Sportster” and walks with the owner out to the bike. As he approaches his eyes get wider and wider and he circles the...

Gerhard Remmert was born and raised on a traditional farm, and early in life he developed an interest in motorcycles. After riding for a couple of years, he developed an interest for building motorcycles. As a farm boy, he had a lot of mechanical experience from working on tractors, and other farm related equipment. What he didn’t have was a bike shop, so his family converted an...

“I wanted a bike that looked old school, but I wanted to keep it simple and leave it pretty much as it was—otherwise I would have had a custom bike built,” Sam said. He did make some changes, adding fishtail pipes and apes, changing out the forward controls and chroming a bit here and there. So far, he’s logged 10,000 miles on it in about two years. “I’ve ridden it to Dallas,...

Shawn’s a thinker and a tinkerer, and he’s always dreaming up better ways to build a mousetrap. He says that he made over 40 modifications to his stock bike over the course of eight months. It features an ’88 Harley Twin Cam engine. His brother Yancey lent a hand with adding 203 cams and push rods and changing out the trans. Shawn exchanged the stock pipes for some sweet Ultima Big...

The owner of this ’65 Panhead is Frank Kulp of Pennsylvania. Photos taken by photojournalist Jack Cofano for Barnett’s Online.

While this 2009 H-D Nightster that Kent customized could probably best be described as a budget bobber, the project began with much more grandiose plans to give this hog a major makeover. “Initially we talked about doing this bike over as a narrowglide chopper and we had plans to put 10 over tubes on there. And as we talked, Cole said he was going to ask me to do a ground up custom...