Adding even more pressure was the fact that the crew at Xotic Customs only had three weeks to pull it off as they had been busy finishing other builds and the coming out party at Sturgis was already scheduled. Now that’s a deadline if there ever was one. Goat dropped his well-used (some might say abused) 2008 Harley Street Glide with the only building stipulation that it was to...

   See and be seen is what Allstate Insurance and Rick Fairless was promoting when this bike first came on the scene a few years ago. It still is out and about promoting Allstate’s way of “Raising awareness and asking motorists to look twice at intersections for motorcycles because Once Is Never Enough.” That even led to this being called the O.N.E. bike and I’m sure you can figure...

  First off, the sleek overall profile still smacks a bit of factory but with a lot more flow from stem to stern like a beautiful powerboat on plane and that’s okay. A design we love has taken a turn for the better with a nice massaging of parts and pieces artfully integrated to take the dowdy and turn it into rowdy. Things look comfortably familiar, yet totally different. It’s...

   Working in the custom motorcycle industry has a lot of advantages when it comes time to build a bike of your own. You’ve got connections for all sorts of services and advice (whether you want it or not) and you probably know the inside skivvy on who to go to. There’s even the pretty good chance you’ve got the line on getting parts at a reasonable cost to help keep things in...

  So what happens when you finally finish up your balls-to-the-wall custom bagger? Do you enter it in the first show you can find or maybe ride it around a bit and show your handiwork off to the great unwashed masses? Or, maybe a little bit of both. Those are the avenues most owners will try, but there’s always someone who takes the road less traveled. In this case, it’s a guy from...

Man, it’s getting to be 15-years ago in the custom motorcycle world. Especially in the custom bagger segment where builders can’t seem to build a radical bagger and hold onto it for any length of time like their forbearers did with those wild and whacky rad modern choppers straight out of TV land. I couldn’t help but notice that whenever a camera went into the back rooms or outside...

Harley-Davidson Road Glides with their frame-mounted dual-headlight fairings were never my cup of tea, I’m more of a batwing kind of guy. I totally understand all the so-called benefits of a frame-mounted fairing, but I’m a sucker for looks and the FLTR fairing just didn’t do it for me. Call me traditional or whatever you want, but from the original ’79 Shovelhead Tour Glide model...

       I literally get to scan over thousands of his photos and every now and then something pops up that catches my eye and not for the usual reasons. Take this 2010 Harley-Davidson custom bagger in pink owned by Tiler “Booger” Weston of Elm City, North Carolina. When I looked at the relatively tiny .jpg in the gallery, all I could think of is that “They’ve finally gone too far”...

       Back to the “it’s your custom bagger” thing, obviously the only people that should have unrestrained opinions are the builders/owners as they’ve put their money where their mouth is and dove into the deep end of the custom bike pool. If they don’t give a sh*t about interstate travel and like all the attention their bike gets both pro and con, that’s their choice. Obviously,...

     Looking at Jack Cofano’s photos of this bad in black with a high dose of orange, radical turbo Road King built by Tyler Foster, owner of SikPipes in Tioga, Pennsylvania, I couldn’t help but notice a few racer’s touches have infiltrated the build. The bike usually tells a story about the builder and in this case the view over the bars broke the case. Adjustable CNC billet...