I’m not trying to denigrate Curly who usually builds first-class radical custom baggers or any other bagger builders, but it’s just nice to see something different. Matter of fact, if you’d like to see a Barnett’s Magazine Online article we did on a Curly-built bagger, well punch up this link and enjoy. But, if you like your bikes custom with a nod to road as the main use, you...

  First, the guys involved – Sandy Poglavec and his partner known only as Erick are the principals behind the whole Belgian-based Q-Tec Engineering super high-quality front trike, rear trike, and quad conversions for Harley-Davidson’s finest. Yup, that’s right ─ there are two completely different, totally bolt-on trike conversions that allow you to put Q-tec’s independent front or...

    Take this lovely little Sporty that Barnett’s Magazine Online’s expert eye for the photo prize, Jack Cofano, shot at last year’s Smoke Out. It’s possibly one of Bill’s most conservative customs I’ve ever seen with nary a knobby tire in sight, but it’s shockingly striking in its cleanliness and simplicity. This is a perfect case of where the builder focused on the lines and...

        Take this lovely little Sporty that Barnett’s Magazine Online’s expert eye for the photo prize, Jack Cofano, shot at last year’s Smoke Out. It’s possibly one of Bill’s most conservative customs I’ve ever seen with nary a knobby tire in sight, but it’s shockingly striking in its cleanliness and simplicity. This is a perfect case of where the builder focused on the lines and...

    There are many people building bikes wiser, handier, and just plain smarter than me and Mark Tibbel and Michael D’Atri of Burnout Alley Motorcycle Garage in Aberdeen, North Carolina, are two of them. Our feature bike started out as a spic-and-span stock 2005 Harley-Davidson Softail Standard before the Burnout boys got their groove going and ripped it apart to the bare frame....

  They received a few different recommendations and after looking around and interviewing numerous people, they decided that Terry Faulkner, of Terry Faulkner Designs of Albemarle, North Carolina, was the right person to handle this project. Having seen some of his work before, they knew that Terry was extremely talented as a painter and fabricator. The bike quickly became a team...

     Court House Custom’s D.J. Jenkins and Jason Stritenberger have been knocking out a wide variety of showy riders that catch my attention every time Barnett’s Magazine Online features one. From their first appearance of The Dirty Sanchez in the print edition of Barnett’s to the online features of Glory Hole, the Tattooed Triumph, and their bust-ass workingman’s Evo Sportster,...

Taking a modern Harley and retroizing (Is that a real term? “Yes it is,” says the other voice in my head) it becomes a smite easier when you’re starting with a springer dangling off of it. Springers are a direct link to the past, but with modern updates and manufacturing techniques that still makes it a totally viable modern cruiser suspension. “This is my first Harley, I always...

Martin Hurtado must feel the same way I do about enjoying big things that go fast, wicked fast. If he was looking for absolute max punch for the dollar, he might have gone the hopped-up Dyna route, but instead he’s taken a big body bike (in my opinion) and absolutely stuffed it with a power plant that could light a medium-sized city if necessary. Martin’s 2003 Anniversary Edition...

This is not Tim’s first Sportster rodeo as Barnett’s Magazine Online previously featured another Sporty of his and, wait for it, here’s another looker, but this one has got that “It” factor bikers look for along with a price that makes it affordable to just about anyone.   Keeping it real, so to speak is what Tim’s all about as he said, “My idea is to take something that had been...