The part about swapping a perfectly good bike that basically does what I want it to for another that’s quicker, cooler, flashier, more comfortable, etc. is what makes it so financially dangerous. I know all my soft spots and can’t win an argument with myself if the thrill is gone. Sometimes there are practical reasons like Lori Jordan’s reasons for upping the ante on her...

        The flamed trike you see before you is the work of Steve “Big Daddy” Stirewalt of Dirt & Street Cycles in Rockwell, North Carolina. Steve’s been a busy lad owning and running Dirt & Street for the past 35 years while also winning numerous AMA titles dating back to 1966. I don’t know if all that racing over 40+ years and the inevitable tumbles led to his interest...

        Sitting there on a dirt mound in the middle of nowhere wearing a for sale sign was what I eventually found out to be a 1937 Morgan Super Sports three-wheeler with two of the wheels in front of all things. There was a big ass Matchless V-twin engine mounted sideways between those wheels and I just kept circling and circling this thing until I got the guts to hop in and sit...

       What makes the V8 trike so special in this case is that it’s really easy to ride in normal circumstances, believe it or not, it really shockingly is. But, it’s also easy to ride hard, fast, stupidly, whatever you want to call it, but it is easy and it is wicked, wicked fun. Fire it up, whack the throttle wide open like an idiot (although a happy idiot) and let those big...

       In the meantime, one emailer/later phone caller brought up an interesting point and that had to do with the lack of custom trikes out there and his solution for it. As anyone with a pulse and an interest in custom bikes knows, there’s a glut of low (really, really low in most cases) mileage, basically brand new custom bikes from the crazed early 2000s...

  Trilogy is powered by a 1971 Triumph Trident engine.  The 750cc stock motor has a big bore kit, resulting in 836cc.  The heads were ported and polished and a racing cam was added.  Ron extended the fins on the heads and rocker box covers for added dimension. The three gas tanks, of graduated sizes, were formed from sheet metal in cone shapes.  Finch used a Chinese cooking wok for...

  Even with approximately 3,700 miles between Stockholm and where I’m writing from on Cape Cod, nothing was lost in translation as far as building a bad ass Harley-powered custom trike. If somebody told me this trike was straight out of Hoot Owl (pop. 4), Lotsee (pop.2), or Shady Grove (pop.2), Oklahoma, I wouldn’t doubt it for a minute. That trike and its owners along with a hell...

  Like most projects, things start out one way and can totally take a different turn especially when there’s some interest from an outside source and, oh say like a big company like Rockford Fosgate gets involved. Yeah it’s no surprise that what originally started out as a smart project to take a new Harley trike and make some trick trike parts to add to the already extensive...

  The smart choice of whitewall slicks is only one aspect of a smart build by Tim Sneed, one of the three owners of Mobtown Cycle in Baltimore, Maryland, and if anything looks like fun on three wheels, this trike is it. Impossibly low and simple in design, but intricately detailed the more you look, Tim’s ’78 FXE-based trike has got it all going at once. Not a big surprise, though,...

We previously featured David’s two-wheeled V8 Choppers bike (check archives for January 6, 2012) and that was one hairy ride, but in retrospect, that bike only made 520hp (In case you’re wondering, I’m not very tough at all and that “only made 520hp” was said totally tongue-in-cheek as 520hp is something to be feared, but enjoyed at the same time.). Now, a month later, I got a call...