You gotta love the Smoke Out if you’re into garage-built, street- ridden customs and I don’t mean trailered and then a little parade and back in the trailer. Nope, they’re all riders and I honestly believe the owners I’ve met ride the crap out of them. That’s what they were made for and that they happen to look cool is only a plus. And, I should say that the conversation above...

   The gasoline part of the Anthony’s shop’s name is obvious from looking at this vintage-looking Triumph bobber he built for 2016 Artistry In Iron Show in Las Vegas, but the coffee aspect might take a little more explanation. It seems that this is an after-hour gig for Anthony after his day job as the owner of a successful garage door business. Burning all that midnight oil...

    Fitting that Artistry In Iron builder bill perfectly is a really likable guy from Akron, Ohio, who goes by the name of Austin Martin Andrella and owns a shop called Austin Martin Originals. Richard Rawlings of Gas Monkey Garage fame would be happy with this name as he can’t seem to say the name of the James Bond carmaker’s name correctly and always refers to it as “Austin...

    Right off the bat, Andrew Usich and his shop, Usich Customs in Long Beach, California, probably don’t fall off the tip of your tongue when you think of builders, but after only his third motorcycle build and either winning or placing each one in every show he’s entered, you will in the future. Coming from a background of auto customizing working under the likes of legendary...

    Nowadays there’s a lot of crossover in the custom motorcycle world be it styles, trends or brands. Adam’s one of those guys who builds what he likes and builds it how he wants simply because he loves motorcycles just for the sake of motorcycles. His engineering and construction skills are evident on every square-inch of this almost-raw bike and if you appreciate quality work...

  Like any motorcycle has the possibility of, something will burn in your motorcycling soul about certain models or a specific color on certain models that nobody else might understand. The proverbial dream ride people often refer to doesn’t have to be practical, the V-twin norm, or whatever else struck your fancy at a certain point in time. Dreaming always leads to perfection, but...

   The story goes that after graduating high school he got an itching for a bike, a fast bike, to help let out his teenage angst before he got himself into trouble with doing things we all did but shouldn’t have. Something to focus on. He’d worked all through high school and had a bit of cash stashed – enough to pick one of the two bikes he had narrowed his choice to. Plus...

    One guy who always illustrates that point with each and every build has been Lucas Joyner of The Factory Metal Works in Concord, North Carolina. Somehow I feel he designs each bike by not looking at what he has to work with, but has a design in his head he clearly sees and just happens to use some of the donor parts to get there. What he doesn’t have or needs, he fabricates...

     Our lovely feature Triumph bobber certainly seemed like something I’d seen before, but I couldn’t put a finger on it so I went searching through the extensive Barnett’s Magazine Online’s archive (almost 2,000 articles!) and lo and behold, it really was déjà vu all over again. I pulled up a feature on a cool Triumph bobber called the Pimp Slap built by Lucas Joyner of The...

       One guy who always illustrates that point with each and every build has been Lucas Joyner of The Factory Metal Works in Concord, North Carolina. Somehow I feel he designs each bike by not looking at what he has to work with, but has a design in his head he clearly sees and just happens to use some of the donor parts to get there. What he doesn’t have or needs, he fabricates...