Then there’s what I think of as the traditional way of building which is really Old School without trying to be even though that was the intention. To do it right, you have to be a real scholar of the genre that exploded after Easy Rider hit the screen on July 14, 1969. Choppers were cool and people built them by the shipload. Some were crazy, but some were a product of the times...

   With all the ups and downs the custom industry’s faced in the last decade, passion probably got a lot more builders through the tough times than sharp business savvy. I don’t think there was a builder out there after the crash of 2008 (and even before) that didn’t wonder if the party had come to a complete stop. But, a lot of them just hung in there doing what they do best and...

   Take this mystery ride that Barnett’s photog-extraordinaire, Jack Cofano, happened upon at the recent Smoke Out 17. Where in the hell does this bike fit into the current scheme of things? It’s rough and it’s ready and couldn’t be a more attractive hard core custom if there ever was one, but I bet it came in at a decent budget price. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that it was...

    All you have to do to understand what I’m saying is to take a good look at Jack Cofano’s photos of George’s latest drag-inspired build he calls Thugnificent and then look even closer. Even the details of details have details. That’s a lotta details and a lotta work, imagination and effort on George’s part and that’s something he never, ever shies away from no matter what he’s...

   At Barnett’s Magazine Online, we have lots of photo galleries that are defined according to a type or style of bike ranging from baggers to bobbers and everything else in between. Sometimes it takes a bit of brain matter to figure out where they might fit in the best as some bikes kinda overlap categories. With today’s feature bike, there wasn’t a millisecond of thinking...

       Bikes like this are also wicked fun because everybody’s got an opinion about every single step the owner/builder made along the way. And I say along the way as bikes like this often take quite a while to build because of money, time, wheeling and dealing, and learning new skills like welding or painting or whatever. So much of a build like this is done in-house or in-garage,...

       He only, repeat only, works on pre-1985 Harley-Davidsons and even if you offered him a pile of money to build a Twin Cam something-or-other, I’m pretty sure he’d walk away. He’s a diehard Shovelhead freak with a side-liking of Panheads, Knuckleheads, and Ironheads, but that’s it baby. He knows what he likes and knows who he is and he’s totally happy with that. Plus he’s got...

       Sometimes, though, the need for more copper might just come from the brain even though there are no studies that show the need. Maybe the need for copper just might be on a totally cerebral level. If I ever get a chance, I should ask the copper expert, Pat Tozzi of Green Devil Garage in Virginia Beach, Virginia, who built this copper chopper for your viewing pleasure. Pat...

     This is not Will Ramsey’s first time headlining Barnett’s Magazine Online nor will it be his last as long as BMO’s jovial Jack Cofano still has a pixel or two left. Will is the retro-spirit-with-an-eye-on-the-future head guy at Faith Forgotten Choppers in Louisville, Kentucky, who’s knocked out this knockout of a Panhead chop that is extremely deceiving in that what you see...

       In case you may have just forgotten about it, Extortion 17 (call sign) was the U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter that was shot down seconds before landing on August 6, 2011 in Afghanistan killing all 38 on board including 31 American military personal. Thirty servicemen from different branches and one military dog died that day and it really hit home with American...