So, if you’re gonna build a bad boy custom, you might as well pick the baddest bad boy Softail to work from, Harley-Davidson’s lean, mean Night Train. During my years selling Harleys, every Night Train went to someone who thought he was a bad ass and frankly, most of them were. Nowadays it’s one of the least expensive Softail platforms you’ll find and I imagine this 1999...

Everybody’s on a bully’s back these days and it’s gotta be getting tough to be a bully anymore. When you conjure up a potential Harley-Davidson version of a motorcycle bully, possibly the last thing you’d think of would be Harley’s still-so-new Street especially in the 500cc configuration. But, just like being a bully, it’s all in the head, well at least as far as the folks at The...

  Sometimes you just find things out as a kid in the darndest way like the time I couldn’t help but hear my neighbor, Johnny LePaige, scraping something on his new car as he was backing out of his driveway onto the street. It was like something had fallen off his car and he was just scraping it along until he pulled away and the noise was gone. No, it wasn’t the hanging low, dual...

        I’m going to take a leap of faith without too much investigation (oh we’re all going to Hell in a hand bag anyway) and declare this an extremely nicely customized Harley-Davidson Breakout. Barnett Harley’s GM and motorcycle aficionado extraordinaire, Mark Barnett, is always sending me middle-of-the-night eBay listings of bikes. Everything he sends me is loaded to the gills...

     Winston had a proper pedigree for making such beautiful and potentially street usable after working with Roland Sands when he was just getting Roland Sands Design off the ground. Needless to say I am an unabashed fan of Mr. Sands too so no surprise that I became a fan of Winston’s as they both tend to customize bikes to look great and ride the crap out of. Brakes and handling...

        Kevin Albritton of Jockeys Cycle Inc. in Morrisville, North Carolina, is a relative newcomer to the professional side of this business being up and running as a full-time shop over the past few years, but you’d never know it by this build. There’s a level of sophistication to this custom turnaround of a stock Harley-Davidson model that belies somebody relatively new to this...

    And, there’s 285hp lurking in the mainframe waiting to be unleashed. Although this bike is so far from it that it’s probably stupid to even bring it up, but if this was a total rust bucket with 285hp, we’d still be interested. Amazing how overwhelming power will do that to riders who love to whack open a twist grip to the stop. The engine room provides a welcome...

      Then, the very next thing that shot through what gray matter I still have was, “Man, would I like to ride that bike. That looks like fun.” Those are probably two of the things I require to start my slide into un-embarrassingly declaring my motorcycle lust for this sassy Shovelhead. There, I’ve said it and it’s out of the way.       By now, if you’re still hanging in there,...

   Absolutely not so with Kenji’s bike as everything has been fabricated with reason and then taken to a different place altogether with a slightly beyond superb detailing that frankly goes beyond my comprehension, but not my attention. Kenji’s Harley Softail is an attention getter if there ever was one and to capture my ADD riddled brain after a first peek says a lot. Actually,...

   Rick took a new 2014 Forty-Eight and roughly a month of time in his shop to make a whole new breed of adventure bike that looks like a real motorcycle and not some plastic-laden bike designed by Dr. Seuss that can do a little bit of everything like most production dual-sport bikes. Without trying to sound totally juvenile, this bike makes me want to jump on and find the nearest...