Jeremy Jimenez works in what was (maybe it still is) the hot bed of custom motorcycles, a body shop called Ultimate Rides in Holly Hill, Florida.  I swear more custom bikes came out of body shops than repair shops and when you think about it, it makes sense. Anybody who’s handy with hand tools can do the mechanical work on a Harley-style V-twin, but when it comes to paint and...

    I think you could do the same thing with a roomful of corporate executives in search of a theme bike to promote whatever they think is best promoted by an extravagantly customized motorcycle that will never ever see the open road. Again you know, super long, super low, radically raked forks requiring 24”-over tubes minimum, no wheel lock to speak of, 124” minimum displacement...

A true rat bike is just an assemblage of ratty crap stuck on a ratty bike until it becomes a two-wheeled dumpster. Oh those rat bikes have their bit of strange charm in a funky-cool way and I’ll always look and enjoy them, but they’re basically rolling pieces of oil-leaking sh*t that shockingly surprise most people (especially me) that they roll at all. This unbelievably...

    Mark Daley is the owner of Thunder Struck and has been handling his own heavy equipment for quite a while now with judged validation like a 2nd place in the freestyle class at the 2010 AMD World Championship and an overall win at the 2009 Artistry in Iron Show. That’s just a couple of his wins and if I bothered to list them all there’d be no room for this article, so suffice to...

  As a way to showcase exactly what they are up to at “school” and to have a wee bit of fun doing it, PSI student builders (and obviously kool kids) Brenda Riley, Angelica Hrach, Brandon Timberman, Matt Laughbaum, Tom Lucas, John Fabrizio, Carl Lehman, Samuel Doyle, Nat John, Lucas Berkes, Wade Haller, and Thomas McDaniel ripped apart a 2004 Big Dog and transformed it into their...

  Originally the IronHorse was a typical production chopper that had some outrageous bones, but not a lot of special things about it to make it stand out in a sea of other late-2000-era production customs. The best part about these bikes (for buyers, not owners) is that they’re available wicked cheap and usually with little or no miles. You can’t buy a basic roller as cheaply as...

 “This is where I come in —Start over, disassemble bike, go through everything, reassemble and upgrade with parts like the exposed primary with custom cover, bigger carb to handle the 113” stroker, custom stinger air cleaner, controls, ignition, etc.” It didn’t hurt that the project started with a first-class Rolling Thunder Fat Attitude Softail-style frame sporting six-inches of...

  Okay, that’s all a lot of introductory blather on my part, but what I think I’m trying to get at is that everybody has their own idea of what’s cool and what’s currently the hot thing may not be in their taste palette. Radical beyond belief custom baggers or hot rod bobbers might be the flavor of the moment, but that doesn’t deter those who get all hot and sweaty just thinking...

Contrary to the custom bagger craze that has seriously infected the nation, Joe has stuck to his roots of building a truly custom, custom with no pretense of trying to join any trendy movements. Being a one-man operation he can build exactly what he likes and that’s exactly what he’s always done and that’s exactly what he’s still doing. From his fabricated twin-top tube frame to...

If you aren’t familiar with the Rocket III, let me give you a little background. It’s a tall 2300cc, three-cylinder in-line motor mounted length-wise with shaft drive in a stubby bike with cartoon-ish features. Not a particularly handsome lump of Ol’ Blighty to start with compared to the Bonneville-based choppers of the Sixties and Seventies. Mike called upon John Triplett of...