Harley’s complete redesign of the dual-headlight fairing got rid of my only real complaint which was insufferable wind buffeting. The only older model I half-enjoyed had no windshield at all and that kinda kills the idea of a fairing providing wind, bug, and weather protection. Maybe it was just me, my short stature, or whatever, but the old girls with any and every wind...

     One thing that we always liked was Jerry’s penchant for performance even with all-out custom bikes. It still mattered to him that a custom bike should peel your eyelids back when you hit the throttle. His love of two- and four-wheeled high performance machinery came through with every build we featured in print or online. Thinking about it, probably the only genre of custom...

   The scuttlebutt on the show was that this bike was designed around Nick’s recollection of the first bike his dad built and that’s a cool memory to work from. Actually I’d like to see photos of his dad’s bike as I love vintage builds, but some things might just be better left to memory. But, it’s a great inspirational idea and the end result is lovely to look at with some neat...

    For me, this bike hits all the right notes of what a custom bagger could and should be. Ryan’s 2011 FLTR called Frosted Cash will never get lost in the proverbial parking lot full of Harleys, yet the basic DNA of a real tourer is not lost in the transition from stock to wow! Yup, it’s a looker that can hold its own in any crowd and you gotta give credit to Ryan and his crew for...

    Probably not I venture to guess when you’ve got a bagger that’s as custom as custom can be like our feature bike aptly named Snow Bunny. That’s exactly the dilemma that Garrett Onetime Lewis of Onetime Customs in China Grove, North Carolina, creates every time he does one of his fabulous bagger makeovers like his recent Barnett’s Magazine Online feature we did on his clear...

     Leave it to beaver, in this case, Jason Beavers of Crazy Beavers Customs in Clayton, North Carolina, to attack an innocent 2012 Harley-Davidson Road Glide until it’s a shadow of its former stock self. Sorta like Marlon Brando as Dr. Moreau morphing a real beaver into a sleek Doberman Pinscher. The basic parts are the same, but the end result is totally different. In any case,...

     One thing I don’t have to explain if you’ve followed Barnett’s Magazine Online is that this absolutely pristine custom is the work of the Joey Hensley of Back Yard Bagggers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Each Back Yard build is slightly over the top compared to the last Hensley creation and makes me wonder how Joey can keep topping himself bike after bike. You’d think he’d...

     Leave it to Shannon Davidson, head honcho at The Chopp Shop in Taylorsville, North Carolina, to come up with a radically customized bagger that looks like it could be parked on any Harley dealer’s showroom floor. It’s no the latest upsized 32-inch wheel bagger, but it looks like it has the ability to actually hit the road and that’s saying a lot as most big-wheel baggers are...

     Born as a nice little 2013 Harley-Davidson Street Glide that is probably the most popular tourer in Harley’s cavalcade of bikes, it had no idea what was in store for it once Brian got his hands on it. It’s been tweaked, twisted, and torched until it’s only a shadow (and a very small one at that) of itself. But that’s okay. Brian’s no bagger virgin having knocked out one...

     Think I’m exaggerating a bit? Well check out Mr. Cofano’s lovely photos of the exposed rear wheel and tell me the rear tire to fender tip isn’t close to three feet and maybe a touch more. This has to be a record of some sort although I don’t know if anybody actually keeps those stats, but if they did, I declare this bike the winner. Edward’s bagger he calls The Master Piece...