Mark Roberts’ 1999 Harley-Davidson FXST Story by Mark Barnett, Photos by Rodent Purchased new ten years ago, Mark slowly modified his bike with bits and pieces over the years. When the bike was paid off, he got serious and contacted then El Paso- and now Albuquerque-based custom painter Danny Bally to apply the unique, understated, but definitely cool...

Joe’s creation is not some tarted up “Live to Ride” theme bike built to grace the dealership floor and sell silly trinkets, but an all out custom in the Old School tradition of using imagination, fabrication talent, and a bevy of used parts to turn sh*t into Shinola. “Doing the same stuff is boring, everybody’s kinda copying off everybody else and I wanted to do something...

  Mike Hennike of Hurdle Mills, North Carolina, apparently has the same affliction and happened to catch an auction of a 2006 Black Denim Street Bob that had been modified by Racine, Wisconsin’s Dave Neu, owner of ASI Customs. “Most of the things I liked he already had incorporated into the design,” said Mike. “I asked for some changes which I thought were improvements on it...

  Fred Kodlin hadn’t done a lot of dressers and the E-Glide proved to be an interesting challenge. One of the foremost changes involved putting a decidedly meaty rear tire out back, a 240 Metzeler in this case. Fred modified the stock frame and made a swoopy tubular swingarm to accommodate the 240 and installed Progressive Suspension air shocks for improved ride and handling....

  Taking this idea one step further is our feature bike owner, Lew Martin, from the town with a really cool name, Halfmoon, New York. How this project even came to be has a twist to it since Lew didn’t even own it when work began. “My brother Scott bought it brand new in ’97 and he started working on it and did quite a bit of stuff to it. I bought it in 2001 from him because it...

Click here for more photos… This bike feature originally appeared in Barnett’s Magazine issue #66, December 2008. SPECIFICATIONS Owner: Dub Performance Year/Make: ’07 Dub Road’ster Fabrication/ Assembly: Dub Performance Build time: 3-months Engine: ’02 Sportster 1200 Cases/ Flywheels: H-D Rods: H-D...

  Take a guy like Brad Krueger and his customized Evo-powered bike for instance. It’s one of those typical stories of young man discovers motorcycles, young man discovers wrenching and customizing motorcycles, young man gets married and has children, young man puts away and parks anything to do with motorcycles until he’s able to comfortably refer to himself as an old guy, and,...

     In my opinion, there’s a lot of that razzle-dazzle going on right here with this gemlike Harley-Davidson Pan/Shovel chopper built by Jon Shipley of Hoosier Daddy Choppers in Bloomfield, Indiana. Everywhere you look and I mean everywhere, there’s something kinda crazy cool going on that’s all working in harmonious discord to bring this build together as really something...

     That’s exactly the same thing Todd Anglani’s got going on heading up After Hours Bikes in Cooper City, Florida. Like Larry and Russell, Todd’s come up with a high-tech rat bike style I’d have to call his own and owns it he does. I’m sure he has to endure a lot of strange looks and the occasional verbal confrontation about his work, but he keeps on creating bikes that are like...

      The talented guy behind this build is Derek Spitsnogle, owner of Xotic Customs in Lincoln, Nebraska, whom we’ve featured before with a striking build for the well known character/emcee of Full Throttle Saloon, Gregg “The Goat” Cook. Funnily enough it’s called the Goat Glide and had a great amount of reader interest. Click on the link Goat Glide and see for yourself. But, that...