Click here for more photos Kosmo Drive By Italy’s Garage 65 Story by Mark Barnett and Horst RoslerPhotos by Horst Rosler Seven months went into the development of this extraterrestrial, European AMD Championship winning bike. Italy’s Marco Cinquini, proprietor of Garage 65 in Viareggio, Italy managed to push the design and...

Click here for more photos Fred Kodlin’s Born to Die Pro-Street Story by Mark BarnettPhotos by Horst Rosler My family met Fred about twenty years ago. He was buying and selling used Harley-Davidsons like everyone else back then. I lose touch for a few years and before I know it, Fred has become the Arlen Ness of Europe. He not...

Click here for more photos Osmane by A.T. American Cycles Story and Photos by Horst Rösler (www.motographer.de) You can’t stop custom bike builder Aykut Tartaroglu of Neuffen, Germany. He knows how to catch the eye of the European custom scene and always hammers out spectacular rides. When introducing his radical lowrider Stage 1 in 2005 at European Bike...

  Our feature bike No Jokes is aptly named as it’s a serious custom in all respects. It’s loaded with some of the highest quality V-twin parts available in Russia and Yuri’s aggressive design definitely sets it apart from other builders. No Jokes is armed with a 113” Ultima engine breathing through a good old American S&S Super G carb while exhaling through a YSC exhaust and...

So how do you decide what to build after taking over three decades off? “It’s the bike I always wanted to build. It was always in my head,” said Russ. “It’s a combination of 60s, 70s, and rolls clear on up to the present.” The basis for this bike was Russ’s love of the custom Edward Bohlin silver saddles he saw his western movie idols riding in the Rose Parade when he was a kid. “I...

  Well, it’s quite obvious that Aldo loves his profession and it’s without difficulty seen in his products. The letters AQG are also the name of Aldo’s custom motorcycle shop, which is located in northern Italy and where he runs a one-man operation. His custom bike building business has been in operation since March of 2003 and since its inception, he has produced approximately 25...

  Italian master builder Aldo Querio Gianetto found his inspiration from an old motorcycle that his grandfather rode for years. It was a clean, minimalist design with only what was necessary to get from A to B. The frame’s backbone stretched straight from the headtube to the rear axle and a single seat tube angled down to hold the engine. That was it, no downtube, no chainstays,...

 Possibly the easiest part of meeting the rules was starting with the 984cc engine from a Buell XB9R which puts out enough beans in stock form that internal modifications were limited to flowing the heads while the rest of the innards were left stock. Exterior mods did include the adaptation of a Mikuni BN46 downdraft carb, which is usually seen adorning watercraft according to...

David began by buying a frame jig and working out his ideas on it, but with all the customer work passing through his shop he just couldn’t appropriate the necessary time to build the frame. A call to Mike Weimer in the deep woods of central Virginia at Dirty South Choppers Inc. (www.dirtysouthchoppers.com) was all that was needed. “I faxed him a sketch of what I wanted. It took...

Click here for more photos… This bike feature originally appeared in Barnett’s Magazine issue #65, November 2008. SPECIFICATIONS Owner: For Sale Year/Make: 2006 Sabers Specialties Fabrication/ Assembly: Blake Sabers Build time: one year (off and on) Engine: 124″ S&S Anniversary Cases: Polished Flywheels/ Rods:...