Sorry, but it seems most of the motorcycle sweepstakes, giveaways, whatever, are won by people who are not motorcyclists and only want to turn it into some cash and move on to the next sweepstakes. Well, at least it seems that way to me. Either way, you got to wonder if they ever found a good home right from the start or at least eventually. And, that’s exactly what you’re...

   Well, all of you fans of that era, your time has come. If you were ever going to make your custom motorcycle dream into a reality, you couldn’t have picked a better time. From what I can gather, most of these 2000-2008 fans of what was hot on TV still would chose a bike from that time and be happy as a proverbial clam. The good part is that there are a ton of these for sale in...

     Marc Austin Designs in lovely Dallas, Texas, is the designer of this hell-bent-for-leather pro streeter. Exactly what and how is not easy to find out about as M.A.D. has somehow sidestepped Google. I didn’t think that was possible anymore, but I’ve been proven wrong. What I do know is that the build was centered around one of Kendall’s proven 124-inch performance engines with...

     Marc Austin Designs in lovely Dallas, Texas, is the designer of this hell-bent-for-leather pro streeter. Exactly what and how is not easy to find out about as M.A.D. has somehow sidestepped Google. I didn’t think that was possible anymore, but I’ve been proven wrong. What I do know is that the build was centered around one of Kendall’s proven 124-inch performance engines with...

    Anything Goes oil tanks are not only on a lot of big name builder bikes as well as the rest of us, but he’s well known enough for what he does that he ships a lot to Europe, Australia, and even the volcanic archipelago off Northwestern Africa known as the Canary Islands. Curt’s been as busy as the proverbial bee trying to keep up with demand while keeping his high standards of...

  Their knowledge of the road and mechanical know how shows through in the completeness of their kits and the extra effort put into making the same parts available to all builders come together a little better for Big Bear customers.  As I count from their website, www.bigbearchoppers.com, there are six models available. Four of these models have two versions so the total count...

Such was the case with Mike Stafford of MGS Custom Bikes in Lancaster, CA and Mike’s customer Clayton Ensminger from Tennessee. Clayton knew Mike was a talented builder. He had seen his work and knew Mike could build him the bike of his dreams, but Clayton did not know exactly what he wanted, only that it must be long and low. Mike’s reputation was persuasive. Clayton coughed up...

      Personally, I’d like to think they’re still whole and getting ready for a tasteful makeover to modern style standards. A perfect example of this is Jason Gosnell’s S&S-powered pro-street Softail that was originally built by Tom “The German” Steinbacher of Demon’s Cycle in Pompano Beach, Florida. Tom’s company does more than just build ground-up customs and probably the...

     We’ve all got built-in preferences in some sort of descending order up to the point there are certain colors you would never use if your life depended on it. You’d have to hold a gun to my head and eventually fire it if you were trying to force me to paint my bike brown for instance. “Just do it!” Base color is relatively easy, but paint scheme, well that’s another story. The...