“I wanted the gas tank to disappear, so you could show the motor off, so we moved the gas tank under the seat,” Steve explained. The oil tank is in the frame, in the front nose of the bike, so Steve and Bandit did a disappearing act on that too. “The bike looks like it shouldn’t really run,” Steve said. The build took about nine months to complete, most of that due to the...

Now fifty-four, He’s not using bubble gum to plug holes these days, and he’s upgraded from mini-bikes to Harleys and custom choppers. The bike you see here is his own, but it was built in his driveway, not his shop. This one was created before Bandit Bikes officially opened. “The build took place in my driveway,” Bandit recalled. “Originally, there was a builder in town—I...

”I’ve always loved choppers, but way back when, there were no custom bike shops in Ireland so I had to try to learn to do everything myself. From custom painting, which is my main income, to making my own frames, pipes, bars, tanks, saddles, the whole lot. I’m still learning all the time. I think the bike turned out better than I expected. But, if I had to do it all over again, I...

Brothers JC and Jimmie Lee Coen, owners of Three Two Choppers in Dallas, Texas, designed this hot chopper.

Sonny White has a lot to be proud of. First off, there’s his family: wife Esther, and kids Miller, 20, and Mandolyn, 16. There are his friends, a group of Harley aficionados known as the Black Widows. Then there are his bikes, the ones he’s constructed from the ground up and those he’s customized for friends and customers over the years. When asked how many bikes he’s built, Sonny...

El Pasoan Dan Barker’s MIA/POW tribute chopper, Little Toad, is both a labor of love and his way of showing ultimate respect. “I’m a disabled Navy SEAL, from 1973 to 1982,” Dan explained, “and I built this in memory of my fallen bros.” Navy SEALS are known for making it through one of the toughest special operations training programs in the...

  Having grown tired of people commenting that “Sportsters are for girls,” Peter said, “I’ve come across this ignorance when I was building my Sportster Chopper. I wanted to show that I could build a good looking bike from a Sportster. Often I was asked why I didn’t build a real bike! But I think my bike is more real and handles better than many big twins. The...

This bike’s theme came from the 1982 developed cartoon character which was made into a Walt Disney movie in 1991. The late thirties art deco style of the cartoon made its way into this bike as well. The project started with a Redneck frame and a 12” over classic springer front end. An S&S 96” engine with only a few modifications was bolted in place during the intense four-day...

  If you’re looking for a true Frisco chop, where better to look than in the city it’s named after, lovely San Francisco, and who better to ask than Rob Valenzuela of 415 Choppers which is part of 415 Clothing Inc on 155 12th Street in the heart of ol’ San Fran. Needless to say, he’s no newcomer to riding and when asked how long and how many bikes he’s owned, he answered with a...

Jonathan never intended to take so long building it and little things like ready cash and a broken leg among other things kept him from meeting his original time schedule. Not a bad thing, though, as he changed a lot of the initial direction of the bike until he ended up with this copper beauty you see here. “It was just a dream in my head and I wanted to see it come to life,” said...