In case you don’t know who Johnny Chop is, you might have seen him on a Discovery’s Biker Build Off  where he was the right hand of Chica of Chica Custom Motorcycles fame. Later he went on his own starting Johnny Chop Industries where he continued to create more than build custom motorcycles. He had the eye and the touch of an artist as well as a custom motorcycle builder before...

    Every one of his builds reflects the name of his shop, Widowmaker Custom Design & Repair in Rougemount, North Carolina, right back at you at first sight of pretty much all of his builds. There’s a bit of intentional scary in every one. Whether it’s something as drag-bike whack as his Mushu Suzie feature bike or his almost conventional charity bike that raised a nice chunk...

    With everything done in-house except the suede seat covering which was done by Rich Phillips Cycles, you know Adam’s one hard working and talented builder of show bikes. Yes, show bikes. Adam makes no bones about that and all his different styles of builds feature show bike in their Karns Kustoms DNA. Barnett’s Magazine Online has showcased some of Adam’s previous builds like...

    Even though Prism Supply Co. was one of the featured builders on Discovery’s BikerLive series a few years ago, which is where I first became aware of them, they were newcomers to the custom motorcycle biz. And, by “them” I mean Zack and Jake Hindes, the young builders who shocked the hell out of me with their deliciously tight and right Panhead bobber. In a five-week build...

   You can only imagine my surprise when I saw this murdered-out Indian Larry Motorcycles Shovelhead from the company known for their extremely colorful (and beautiful) retro-style paintjobs. At first I thought that Bobby Seeger and the rest of the crew at Indian Larry Motorcycles in now-trendy Brooklyn, New York, had given in to a trend themselves. But I got over that in about a...

    Personally, I like this hard core Shovelhead a lot just as it sits, but I imagine Chris had some super-duper paintjob in mind that didn’t get done in time. If he had only built it on TV, there’d have been no problems. But I’m assuming this was built in the real world to be used in the real world and time and/or money just ran short. As I write this, Chris is probably just...

   Our cool feature bike that Barnett’s photographer, the always smiling Jack Cofano, caught in its natural habitat of lightly cracked tarmac looks like a million bucks even if it didn’t cost it. There’s just something about a bobber with a good stance, nice lines and flashy paint that gets the job done in my book. Take a tight little frame and add a Harley Evo crate motor with a...

   This type of ride may not be as altogether versatile as a Road King, but until you’ve knocked around on something like this you haven’t really experienced the complete American V-twin experience. Hot rod bobbers that are really equipped to putting on the Ritz like this one for insanely serious fun. One of the more interesting aspects of this build that Jack Cofano caught at the...

  There’s just something so darn nice about a bitsa bobber that looks cool, doesn’t cost a fortune, and makes you want to take it for a spin just to se what it’s like. One way or the other, it’s gotta be an experience that you just won’t get off a any dealer’s showroom floor. It could be good, bad or indifferent, but it will not be the sanitized experience we expect from a new...

  Our feature bike built by Tim Firstenberger of Little Comfort Customs in Sarasota, Florida, is my idea of a blue chip investment. Besides being blue, it’s based on a Harley-Davidson Sportster which is a damn good investment in the first place. Talking an older model like this 1993 XL and recalibrating its Evo goodness into a hot little bastard of a bobber is about as blue chip an...