Unlike a human transition, the only transition period this 1966 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead belonging to Kevin Persons of Battle Creek, Michigan, was from stock to custom with an added twist. I look at this bike and all I can think of is that it’s one cool ass Shovelhead hot rod. But then I began to notice subtle changes, oh you know things like a laid-down bat wing-style fairing...

  There’s just something so darn nice about a bitsa bobber that looks cool, doesn’t cost a fortune, and makes you want to take it for a spin just to se what it’s like. One way or the other, it’s gotta be an experience that you just won’t get off a any dealer’s showroom floor. It could be good, bad or indifferent, but it will not be the sanitized experience we expect from a new...

  Our feature bike built by Tim Firstenberger of Little Comfort Customs in Sarasota, Florida, is my idea of a blue chip investment. Besides being blue, it’s based on a Harley-Davidson Sportster which is a damn good investment in the first place. Talking an older model like this 1993 XL and recalibrating its Evo goodness into a hot little bastard of a bobber is about as blue chip an...

      Personally, I don’t think there’s a line out of place in the Knucklehead’s persona and that’s unusual as I can always find a fault or two on most engines without even wanting or trying to. Panheads are way cool too, but they’re not the unblemished beauty queen a Knucklehead is. Luckily I don’t have to justify the beauty of this build by Michael Kamalian of Revolution Speed in...

Board trackers have always caught the eye of bikers and builders who love those iconic, yet short-lived racers for their extreme simplicity, honesty of line and brutal performance. YouTube is about the only thing I know of that caters to lovers of board track racing and just seeing them high up on the wooden banking or drag racing each other down the wooden straightaway at...

    Marcus started out on a 305 Honda Super Hawk and through the next 15 either genuine Harley- Davidson or Harley look-alike builds, he never went back to his Honda roots. Barnett’ Magazine Online ran a story I did on one of Marcus’s rides called Spare Change some years back and if you’d like to check it out just click here.   Anyhow, it seems in recent years, Marcus’...

      But that’s okay as my mind is already wandering off to Barnett’s Magazine Online’s feature bike of the day, the stunning modern interpretation of a board track racer built by Jeremy Fogleman of Graham, North Carolina. Before all you nay-sayers start picking apart this award winning show bike, Yes it’s quite radical and yes it’s not going to be someone’s coast to coast tourer,...

     Take this ground-up build for instance, the fabrication especially the welding is muy perfecto and the cleared-over, in-the-raw finish lets any warts show. Although I may not be a medical professional, I’d know a fabricated wart one I see one and there’re none to be found anywhere. Even where you can’t easily see. The build photos hide no lies and this bike is telling the...

     Folklore said (as folklore often does when a fall guy is needed) that albatross supposedly were the souls of lost sailors who just happened to be flying around to eat fish in their new life (I added that last part.). Supposedly some hungry sailor on one of those many-years-long trips killed and ate one probably because he was tired of the same old gruel or maybe they just ran...

     Yup, my “personal” experience with the owner of Combat Cycles in Jacksonville, North Carolina, entirely consists of watching him on Discovery’s BikerLive: The Tar Heel State and YouTube. Combine that with a bit of the bikes he and his two cohorts at Combat, Pig the fabricator and Dave the engine guy, have built and I think you got a pretty good picture of a guy who’s...