And, that’s exactly how this Ironman theme bike built by Stephen Galvan and the lads at Wikked Steel in St. Petersburg, Florida, ended up in Barnett’s Picasa site. Now before you go and get your panties in a wad over this not being a Harley, it’s the idea behind the bike and the execution of it that makes it worthy of taking front page on Barnett Harley-Davidson’s web site....

       Well if you’re an ex-F1 pilot with 24 F1 races under your belt like Brazil’s Tarso Marques, that something could be possibly the last thing you’d expect. Maybe something possibly as far away from race cars with all their sophistication and electronics like our feature bike you’ve already checked out and given your personal yea or nay to. Yeah, this bike could be a polarizing...

     I took a quick look at Max and his ashen-face told it all. Maybe I had gone too far and maybe I should apologize to him for being so stupid before it all went to hell in a handbag. On the other hand, I’m kinda confident I can get through this and concentrate on keeping that gussied-up convertible K-car POS in one piece all the way to the bottom. When we finally stopped sliding...

   The GEICO bike has been on constant show duty since its completion way back in June of 2012 and not just at motorcycle shows, but military installations and happenings everywhere. The bike and its huge personal trailer that is wrapped in an even more huge likeness of the bike have probably put on more miles and garnered more smiles than any old “yesterday’s” custom still on the...

    Oh it’s a flashy bike, no doubt about that, from the extreme dimensions to the fat rear tire to the bright yellow paint, but that’s not what makes the bike flashy to me. This isn’t the ‘if it won’t go, chrome it’ type of build, but a bike that has the heart and soul of an F-22 Raptor jet fighter sitting between its frame rails. No, there’s no afterburner-equipped turbofan Pratt...

    Hold on a second there, now that I think about it the good old days of outrageous bikes like this pro street custom called Hushabye owned by Ronny Diesel (what a cool name) of Fort Mill, South Carolina, was like a decade ago. Like everything else outrageously custom (other than TV show theme bikes it seems), the times they were a changing. All of a sudden yesterday’s choppers...

    One thing I should mention right up front is that this bike doesn’t have a piece of composite material other than the sportbike windscreen and the headlight. This is a “steel is real” build and what a nice bit of sheet metal work it is. Dave and Kyle Green of DG Custom Cycle in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada, wouldn’t have it any other way. DG Custom’s owner/fabricator/dad Dave had a...

       What “that thing” is is a 1973 Triumph engine that found itself ripped out of its old home and, after being totally refurbished to a high-degree of twin-cylinder jewelry that wouldn’t surprise me if it had Tiffany & Co. stamped on it instead of Triumph, stuffed into a long and low NorCal-style digger frame. In case this digger-style of bike is not familiar to you, think...

            Sam explained the how’s and why’s of the build to begin with. “The bike was built by Jimmy Todorovitch of Profile Cycles in Beaumont, California over a two-and-a-half year period. Jimmy works during the day at Quaid Harley-Davidson in Loma Linda, California, as the service manager and at night he works out of his garage turning out custom bikes. This is the third bike...

    In case any of this seems rather familiar, that’s because Barnett’s Magazine Online featured another one of Todd’s unique takes on building an ultra custom bike recently and that got a lot of readers kinda hot under the collar. When ever somebody takes a different approach on what’s considered okay or cool, everybody’s got to start pounding on their keyboards why it’s not right...