Click here for more photos… This bike feature originally appeared in Barnett’s Magazine issue #65, November 2008. SPECIFICATIONS Owner: Big Bear Choppers (BBC) Year/Make: 2008 BBC Fabrication/ Assembly: BBC Engine: 114″ S&SX-Wedge Cases/Rods: S&S Pistons/ Cylinders: S&S/BBC Heads/Cam: S&S/BBC Ignition:...

  Coming from a country where sportbikes rule both the roads and the sales charts, Paul’s entry for the S&S show should come as no surprise. “The U.K., as a marketplace, is much more focused toward performance bikes than customs. When the S&S thing came up, I thought from our point of view representing the U.K. that I wanted to do something that was a very British-type...

  There is so much design and engineering on the bike it looks shockingly complex even by today’s standards. “I spent three months just working with a CAD program to design the bike and its parts. Many of the parts started out as billet that were CNC’d and then sandblasted to look like they were cast,” Keiji said. Each wheel is made from three separate pieces. For the front wheel,...

    Not only was Harley competing with their street bikes, but in 1952 they had a small amount of pure race bikes built from the K platform that would constitute the basis of their racing bikes for both flat track and road races. That continued even after the Sportster made headlines until 1969 when the legendary XR750 flat tracker made its debut. Every year they would knock out...

The Hide Motorcycle Company’s café racer called Glory is another example of this Japanese train of thought that you can catch a glimpse of barreling through the streets of Hidemo’s base of operations in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture on YouTube. The video is no idling drive-by either, but a throttle-to-the-stop, gear after gear run by Hidemo’s owner, Hideya Togashi, who looks to be...

Curt’s TCsport feature bike is latest of a series of production prototypes he’s been re-working and re-engineering until the tiniest-detail-obsessed builder gets it right according to his own exacting standards. “The three versions of this bike I’ve already built had some small handling issues like finding the right motor placement, fork angle, wheelbase, seat height, and so on....

      Brandon Holstein, a partner at The Speed Merchant and owner of Brawny Built was one of the lucky recipients. In his case, he got a Street 750 engine and not the rest of the bike because that was about as much of the original bike as he needed for the race bike build he had in mind. This may not be your usual show bike as it was built within the strict rules of AMA flat track...

  Possibly the easiest part of meeting the rules was starting with the 984cc engine from a Buell XB9R which puts out enough beans in stock form that internal modifications were limited to flowing the heads while the rest of the innards were left stock. Exterior mods did include the adaptation of a Mikuni BN46 downdraft carb, which is usually seen adorning watercraft according to...

    Barnett’s Magazine Online has already featured Bryan’s outside the box approach to customs with his take on a Buell-powered Super Motard called Mindy that looked ready to take on all comers. Now, he’s been busy totally fabricating a hardcore hooligan bike for the street he calls Mabel. I say it’s a hooligan bike because I know just looking at it that I’d really, really love to...