Part of that “looking” is trying to imagine what it would be like to ride. I mean, this bike has all the basic ingredients I like from extremely reasonable, bordering on stock road geometry to neat-o suspension front and rear.  Neat-o is probably not a good technical term so let’s say there’s an always lovely springer up front and a set of Progressive Suspension’s 970-series...

       One thing that might be a clue is Jeff’s description of what Speedking’s all about on his website and that is “Handbuilt Motorcycles and Alternative Photography.” Jeff’s photography is about three steps above top notch and that same eye for a great photo surely carries over to critical assessment of any of his builds from beginning to end.     Take this latest Speedking...

      Built about 165 miles south of Daytona at Austin’s Stuart, Florida, shop called The Garage by Austin Weiss, this bike is about as clean as you can get and still be a show stunner.  Matter of fact, it’s raring to be a road stunner too by the looks of the bar end mirror that show judges would probably deduct points for, but only impresses me as Austin is apparently as...

    So right up front, do I like this real Harley bobber? Does the Pope wonder what’s for dinner? That I don’t know, but I know I like this bike because it’s just real as in real nice, real American, and real honest. With his photographer’s eye, Jeff took the best lines of various eras and combined them with choice American parts and his own fabricated parts to build a bike that...

      I can more than appreciate the horror of having this bike beat-down happen as it also happened to a good friend of mine except the latex paint addition was substituted with a subtle loosening of all the brake lines. After fixing all the bodywork damage over a winter, when he nailed his brakes on his first spring ride, brake fluid shot out everywhere followed by brake controls...

     If you don’t know Billy’s story by now, I’m not going to bother to re-hash it as it’s been news for far too long. Currently he’s doing his time in a man’s way and you gotta give him some respect for that. Jay Allen, founder of the Broken Spoke Saloon and a motorcyclist’s motorcyclist who enjoys himself way too much (yeah I’m jealous), was the man behind all this. Jay, a close...

   Jeff is a busy guy these days happily indulging in the things that deeply interest him for a living like building bikes and photography at SpeedKing USA.  Straight up, I say Jeff’s creating some of the most devastatingly beautiful Old School-style bikes ever. Jeff’s super-right combo of parts, customizing, and taste created this to-die-for Panhead and an AMF-badged Shovelhead...

     Every style element Ray went for has its roots back in the day, but with a very modern build quality that was not something 99% of the builders back then could do either with the tools or the lack of resources available. You have to remember that motorcycles were more of a blue collar thing and people of stature (read wealthy) were interested in anything but those noisy and...

     Adam’s web site declares that his bikes are all “garage built since 2003” and you’ve got to take that one on faith as the Karns Kustoms finished products are finished to a fare thee well. Built with a purpose of turning heads and winning shows, they are also bikes you could bomb around on and enjoy them just for that. Nope, these are not something you’d try and fit a set of...

  Will even wrote a piece about this dilemma of motorcycle versus art on his blog and here’s a piece of it. “The artistic form of the build must absolutely follow the engineered function of a motorcycle. You have to build a bike first! If function is thrown out the window in lieu of artistic expression then we are simply visual artists constructing metal sculptures. If someone...