JF “Hi Jerry, I would like everything and I mean everything changed on my bike but what I need to register it. I want it wild, fast, and no-holds barred. Tell me when it’s finished and I’ll send a box truck full of money out to your Woodward, Oklahoma, shop.” JC “Sounds good. How big is your truck? JF “I’ve also got an 18-wheeler. . . ” JC “I’m your man! Call you in a month.”...

Making this possible is Jack’s convenient Kaiser, Missouri, home base that also happens to be the home of one of the country’s top hot rod and custom bike builders and a really nice guy to boot, Dave Jordan of Dave’s Rod Shop (www.davesrodshop.com). We’ve featured Dave’s work many times in print and online (see archives) and his high-quality work (including being a Ridler Award...

The owner of this ’65 Panhead is Frank Kulp of Pennsylvania. Photos taken by photojournalist Jack Cofano for Barnett’s Online.

Shawn’s a thinker and a tinkerer, and he’s always dreaming up better ways to build a mousetrap. He says that he made over 40 modifications to his stock bike over the course of eight months. It features an ’88 Harley Twin Cam engine. His brother Yancey lent a hand with adding 203 cams and push rods and changing out the trans. Shawn exchanged the stock pipes for some sweet Ultima Big...

“I wanted a bike that looked old school, but I wanted to keep it simple and leave it pretty much as it was—otherwise I would have had a custom bike built,” Sam said. He did make some changes, adding fishtail pipes and apes, changing out the forward controls and chroming a bit here and there. So far, he’s logged 10,000 miles on it in about two years. “I’ve ridden it to Dallas,...

Gerhard Remmert was born and raised on a traditional farm, and early in life he developed an interest in motorcycles. After riding for a couple of years, he developed an interest for building motorcycles. As a farm boy, he had a lot of mechanical experience from working on tractors, and other farm related equipment. What he didn’t have was a bike shop, so his family converted an...

While this 2009 H-D Nightster that Kent customized could probably best be described as a budget bobber, the project began with much more grandiose plans to give this hog a major makeover. “Initially we talked about doing this bike over as a narrowglide chopper and we had plans to put 10 over tubes on there. And as we talked, Cole said he was going to ask me to do a ground up custom...

It was a bright clear sunny day when we took the Fat Boy down to the west bank of the Halifax River to photograph it with the space shuttle launch in the background. This was to be a historic shuttle flight, it being the next to last flight ever for NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the last flight for this particular vehicle and who knows if this might be the last flight if...

The 13 Rebels Motorcycle Club is an historic, American Motorcycle Association sanctioned group founded in 1937 by Tex Bryant. The club was the inspiration for the movie The Wild One, which featured a cap-wearing Marlon Brando facing off against a goggle-wearing Lee Marvin in a big, 1950’s-style outlaw biker brawl. Brando plays Johnny, the leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle...

Phil took those pancakes home, and with the help of stepson Jeff Holmes, combined the two smooshed H-Ds into one beautiful new bike. “My stepfather had to buy all new cases, a new frame…he replaced a lot of stuff,” said Jeff. Jeff, who lives in Spring Valley, Arkansas, visits his stepfather in Nebraska every year and was on hand for the transformation. “We started with a Paughco...