So it’s not the bike or the builder in particular, so it must be about the back story and it obviously is. If you’ve seen the 2011 movie, Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler as our story’s real life person, Sam Childers, you already know the story behind the story. But if you haven’t, check out the movie trailer here. Or, you could read Sam’s book that led to the movie,...

   B.K.’s mental itching finally came to a close when he finished building the classic Old School chop you’re looking at right here. That’s not too much of a surprise as just about all of us would love to have a beefy old chopper to muck about on and not go anyplace in particular. Just sit back and take in the Old School vibes that we’d all love to believe we’d adore. But, that was...

   Even though Jack Cofano photographed this knockout at the recent Smoke Out, it just might look a bit familiar to you if you caught the fourth episode, Rust Belt Edition of Discovery Channel’s BikerLive. Pat and the Led Sled crew duked it out with Porky’s Chopper Co. and Raw Iron Choppers. Who won? I don’t particularly care as I’m not a huge fan of builder shows that don’t show...

    My last episode at age 12 of having anything to do with a horse did have one good aspect to it even if it was one of those backdoor things that led to something so much better than any horse. It was a summer Saturday morning and my father made me hop in the ’50 Ford woody wagon for a ride and I was hoping it wasn’t Saturday-morning horse related as usual. There was nothing I...

     Not only are Scott’s bikes interesting, but his whole approach to building and the detail work involved aren’t immediately noticeable until you get up close and start checking out the intricate work involved. His aesthetic is pure as hell, but he’s still got a sense of humor about the whole process and it shows in things like the embedded chicken man photo in the tank. Of all...

     Can’t say the same for Dick Briggs and his crew at Behind Bars Motorcycle Co. in Ballston Spa, New York, as someone came up with the idea of building and finishing an Old School chop during the Syracuse Super Swap Meet & Cycle Expo event. “This bike was built at the Syracuse Super Swap Meet by my crew while I walked around buying the parts for it. Total build time...

The photo caption referred to him as Madman E.J. Potter and for once, the press hyperbole was spot on. I was convinced you had to be a madman to ride a motorcycle with a damn 500hp V8 car engine redlining between your legs. Making it even nuttier was that his bike was direct drive with no clutch so he had to stage his bike on a triangulated rear wheel stand like old vintage bikes...

    Somehow Eddie’s always been able to make a bike with his classic proportions of long, low, and bigger than life that makes them dominate their space they’re in and everything surrounding them. Smooth flowing lines, big wheels, big frame, big engine, big paint, Eddie’s bikes are a lot like their builder, bigger than life. Standing beside any Trotta bike I’ve run into, I’ve...

     Of course, unless Discovery Channel comes calling with a challenge that’s too god to pass up and that was how Porky’s got on BikerLive’s Rust Belt Challenge. What you’re looking at here is the stunning end result of that impossible build time and two-thumbs up to Andy and all the other builders who made the impossible into reality. Andy couldn’t have dome it without the help...

The result is the sleek eye-catching machine on these pages, the first solo effort of this young builder from Winston, North Carolina. With skills acquired from working in his family’s body shop to later working for the likes of Kendall Johnson and NASCAR’s Robby Gordon, Casey was ready break out on his own. The Goobers 52 bike seemed like the perfect opportunity to take his own...