Bill’s no stranger to custom Harleys having built a wicked cool Night Train custom, which he still owns, which had a fat front tire replacing the stock skinny hoop and that apparently set the stage for the design of this one. “I don’t want anything that someone else can just go out and buy. I want to be different. I liked the Exile fat tire look; Russell’s a bright guy. I think my...

    To kinda prove my point, how long did it take you to think of John Deere when you took your first glimpse of this bike? It probably is some sort of crazy nano-second recognition average that other corporations would die for. Green frames and bodywork along with yellow wheels and graphics says John Deere in the farm implement world as well as suburbia and anyplace in between. So...

     Today we have our own Harley-Davidson version of the gold standard that includes the likes of vintage engines like the Knucklehead and Panhead. Build a custom around one of these legendary mills and you’re already way ahead of the game. Yes, stuffing a nice one between your frame rails and you’ve entered the Gold Standard of the Harley world. Vintage Harley powered Old School...

    Take the lovely Smoke Out 18 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead bobber Jack found for our article. It’s a perfect example of some of the really nice, really rideable bikes that you’re likely to encounter there as well as rat bikes or whatever ─ just no big wheel baggers. It certainly looks like a fresh build and that’s okay, I’m sure that it’s been acquiring its share of road patina...

     It never dawned on me that such a product was for sale, but I guess a highfalutin watering hole would never be caught pouring off the liquid out of a jar. Olive juice in a bottle, ain’t America great? But that’s not all I learned about olive juice. I also learned it was a color especially for hip clothing. The very most important thing I learned about olive juice today is I’m...

    One thing we do know about this bike is who the builder and owner is because he was an invited builder to the ACO Show at Smoke Out 18. ACO stands for Amateur Chop Off and the event’s sponsor, The Horse Backstreet Choppers magazine, makes it a point to make sure this is no out the back door of a pro shop special. Nope, it’s built by the entrant. In this case that would be Jae...

 In case you don’t know who Johnny Chop is, you might have seen him on a Discovery’s Biker Build Off  where he was the right hand of Chica of Chica Custom Motorcycles fame. Later he went on his own starting Johnny Chop Industries where he continued to create more than build custom motorcycles. He had the eye and the touch of an artist as well as a custom motorcycle builder before...

    I don’t know it for a fact, but I think I can easily assume that Gabor “Gabby” Toth, owner and builder of this motorcycle and trailer combo, from West Palm Beach, Florida,  is a huge Metallica fan and an even bigger fan of Metallica’s front man, James Hetfield. Otherwise why would he build such a tribute bike with a trailered guitar trailing it? It’s well known James Hetfield...

        With that out of the way, it’s time to get back to the subject at hand and what a subject it is. According to the serial number, that is a 1952 Harley FL Panhead sitting front and center for the entire world to see and admire, maybe with a touch of jealousy (I’m speaking for myself). Right up front I gotta say this bike is an absolute knockout in white with a chopper...