Barnett’s Magazine Online featured Rick’s previous AIR winner called Pala Duro a year ago and it’s hard to believe that he had the time to come up with another AIR winner that takes his work to another level altogether. In between all of that, Rick somehow found the time to build another bike on Discovery Channel’s BikerLive that won the Nor-Cal builders’ episode against...

     I always thought KRs were classically beautiful race bikes, but after seeing Bryan Lane’s garage-built version of a later XR 750-inspired Panhead, I’m not so sure anymore. What Bryan has done is akin to what custom car builders do to make phantom models that never were built by the manufacturer, but appear like they did. For an example, a phantom could be a perfect rendition...

    Art bikes? How do you know when you see an “art” bike? You just know in a heartbeat. Just like the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous answer when asked what test he used to define something as hard-core pornography, he simply said, “I know it when I see it.”  Now obviously I’m not trying to equate the stunning art bike Flathead built by Dalton Walker of Split...

      Obviously he had every intention of building what was rolling around in his head and the only way he could accomplish this was to fabricate each and every piece you see before you other than the engine and transmission. There is a touch of board track inspiration, but there’s nothing wrong with that. Who doesn’t appreciate a motorcycle in its most elemental form of two wheels...

     Hopefully by now you’ve already watched the Cycle Source Magazine’s excellent video on Zack and got the gist of who and where this kid’s at. It’s all good and, by the way, in the big scheme of things, being in his mid-twenties, he is a kid. An extremely talented, humble, and hard working kid who makes his dad, Scott, and his mother, Kimberly, proud as a pair of those...

     Jamie Hammonds, owner of Cycle Works Inc. in Lumberton, North Carolina, had the board track spell cast on him at some point and it was one of those things he just had to follow up on by creating his own street version of the splinter-filled racers. “If you’ve got an itch, scratch it!” my doctor, Dr. Vinny Boom Bah, always said and apparently Jamie’s been given the same...

      Yup, dressers ─ as baggers were called back in the day when they were either dressers or full dressers. I’m still not exactly sure what the difference is between the two other than when my father exclaimed, “Now there’s a full dresser” referring to a ‘60s Harley dresser riding by covered in lights from the tip of the front fender to the tip of the rear fender and everywhere...

    I think I’ll let Frank tell his history. “I’ve ridden and raced motorcycles for 47 years. I raced motocross as a kid in the ’70s, started riding on the street at 18, took a break as I got married, then in 2000 I bought a CMC [California Motorcycle Company – the custom bike predecessor to the ill-fated Gilroy Indian],” said Frank. “From that point on I’ve been...

     Yes sir, as you can clearly see there’s not a bag in sight and that’s okay by me. This absolutely lovely board track-inspired bike is as clean as a whistle and looks like a fun runner too. I just wanted to illustrate that Joey and his crew are not a one-trick pony, but a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, shop that can turn out any style of bike and make it their own. Like a...

 Yuri’s reply to what inspired him to come up with this bike called Gustav Skippone (for no apparent reason) was, frankly, hilarious to me. “The customer’s money! Well, to be serious, I do like Old School bobbers and used to build them quite often, but this project made it possible to diverge from traditions and give myself more freedom,” said Yuri. “To be frank, in the process of...