Now before you get all hot and bothered about how this custom is not the ticket for a NYC to LA ride, I’ll put it right up front and state this is really intended to be a show bike. Not that it’s not been ridden, but it’s not been ridden much. First and foremost, this is Brian’s tribute to his bros in the military and even more specifically so to the top secret intelligence...

    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...

Nope, not just an extended front end or a slightly raked-out-necessitating-longer-forks bike, but a really, really long bike like our feature bike called Denim and Chrome (still trying to figure out that name myself and maybe it’s this ) by Dr. Chaos himself, George Stinsman of Chaos Cycle in Mastic, New York.        A little explanation about the whole Chaos Cycle thing is...

       At first I thought Tampa Bay Storm might be one of those NHL expansion hockey teams like the Phoenix Coyotes or the Florida Panthers that play where there’s never been a dollop of ice other than in a mixed drink. Much to my surprise, Tampa Bay Storm is an arena league football team which, frankly, I had forgotten about. Apparently to try and get through to dense people like...

A cut-and-bobbed Harley Panhead ex-police bike was the first American V-twin I ever rode so needless to say, it left an indelible impression on me. Plus I like bikes that don’t try and hide their mechanicals and that you can actually fling around and beat on a bit and wild and crazy bikes just never allowed me to do that. Maybe I’m just custom conservative, but that doesn’t mean I...

     If I was keeping a check list of what made a custom bike cool and hip just a few short years ago, this bike would have checked all the right boxes. Long-check. Low-check. Radical-check. Not a custom bagger – check. Big-inch show-polished engine-check. LOUD pipes – check. Unbelievable sheetmetal work-check. Billet and then some more billet – check. Super-wide rear tire-check....

      Obviously a 100-point restoration requires lots of knowledge, patience, skills, and deep pockets, but for some people that’s the only approach they would ever consider taking and any less would be considered blasphemy.  But for some builders like Paul Cavallo of Spitfire Motorcycles in Rancho Cucamonga, California, having a Panhead engine and tranny is only a starting point...

    Yes it was spot on for it’s intended purpose which wasn’t to take the outside curve around you on a tight, fast back road turn or even to patrol the mean 5mph streets of Daytona during Bike Week, but to showcase in the easily understood flesh of a star of an upcoming video game and maybe get you a wee bit excited about the whole digital proposition. That’s all fine and good and...

The big engine powers a big wheel in the rear fitted with a 250 Avon. A clean PM pulley brake leaves the right side of the rear wheel super clean, showing off the Bill Phillips designed, Amen manufactured wheel. Mark Coats applied the paint and aided with the sheetmetal bending, creating the smooth fender/frame cover/seat base piece along with the air dam and modified frame...

One of the first things Bob let me know was he makes the coolest bikes for only cool people. No bozos. The project was initiated when the guys at Merch asked Bob for a unique bike that would turn heads. Merch had one directive. “Make it look fast even when it’s on the kickstand.” That was the right challenge for the right builder. It all got started with the help of...