So, that’s exactly what we’ve got here with this lightly, yet tastefully modified 2015 Harley Breakout that looks great and still has all its basic Breakout DNA intact. No matter what, this bike built by Hank Thibodeau is also a great showcase for his custom exhausts and intake systems he sells through his company, Widowmaker Custom Design & Repair in Rougemont, North...

   Erik’s got a wild imagination that he can turn into reality when the “What if . . .?” part of his brain starts churning up a new build. This bike called Trail Breaker couldn’t be more different, yet shares many background similarities with his neat as a pin Café Sportster bike Barnett’s Magazine Online previously featured. Although they were entirely different Harley models with...

  Built over a period of two months, Rodney explained how this all started in the first place. “The frame and motor was bought by a customer of mine. I was building a Shovelhead for him at the time and he was running low on money so we made a deal on this bike,” said Rodney. “I had an idea of which way I wanted to go and just started ordering the necessary parts. Once I had the...

     I probably should confess I’m a huge fan of Heritage Softails for purely aesthetic reasons and this white 100th Anniversary Harley hits all the right Harley buttons for my taste with a few possible exceptions that has nothing to do with anything more than my own personal taste. I think that’s what makes feature bikes like this pretty damn interesting since I can look at Jack...

   Sometimes you gotta spend money to make money or at least that’s what we’ve been led to believe. Somewhere there’s a line we always cross investing gobs of time and money into those loveable Harley-Davidson V-twins, but that’s because we’re seeing red whenever we want to change something to make it, you know, a little more personal. That’s fine for us, but I remember some of the...

  Ever since the introduction of the rubber-mount Sportster in 2004 the bike’s ability to pile on the miles in comfort was a change for the better even if it did add a chunk of weight with the revised frame. Our own late and lamented Rodent never could stop extolling the virtues of rubber mounting and backed it up with a lot of long distance, high speed riding on his own...

  I loved everything about the early Sportys from the size and the power and the experience. That’s something I’ve always carried right up to the rubber-mounted Sportys of today in all their various and lovely itinerations. Whether it’s the currently-hip blacked-out or the fat front tire versions of Harley’s do-all XL model that’s put it back up on its rightful pedestal is not as...

     El Fuego’s owner, Chris Garrison of CG Customs in Buford, Georgia, had a couple of things in mind for his 2003 Night Train and none of them involved a 100-point restoration as you can easily tell by checking out Jack Cofano’s photo gallery (If you don’t, you’re missing out!). First off, a custom motorcycle painter like Chris needs a showcase for his work and one of the best...

Joe’s first bike was a dead stock 1995 Wide Glide that he rode for a very short time before the Harley customizing bug bit him hard. “At first I started to add little things, but then I wanted more, something different” said Joe. “Ever since I was 12 or 13 I was working on cars, never went to any school for it or anything, it just came pretty natural for me to work on Harleys...

That’s not always the case as you can easily see in the Dyna makeover called The Beach Cruiser by Ric Greene, owner of Southeast Custom Cycles in Concord, North Carolina. One look and it’s obvious this is no Heidi Montag surgical aberration of a perfectly good, but often unappreciated Harley Big Twin. Ric’s taken a Plain Jane Super Glide and turned it into a sexy supermodel without...