Even though he’s a mystery owner, I was able to trace down someone who had done a little repair work on this bike who had the wrong answer to my question about the bike and owner. All I could find out was that this dynamite hot rod of a Sportster was unfortunately totaled not long after it was finished by an idiot motorist. Man, that makes me more than a little sad as I really was...

This now sleek and clean ex-repo wasn’t always that way as Ric described what he started with. “When I bought this bike, it had a set of 10” struts replacing the shocks and a set of off-brand street-sweeper-style pipes hanging low to the ground.With the lowered struts, any right-turn corner you went around just mutilated the tips of the pipes, digging into the ground on every...

    The rest of the build sure looks like it could be quite a bit of fun to run around on and reek a little hooligan havoc on the street. For getting attention, and you know you want it, while having a good round of fun bapping around, this bike pushes all the right buttons. I’ll admit when I first laid eyes on this build, I really wasn’t sure of who the builder was, but when I did...

   Steve Carr, owner of Samson V-Twin in Samson, Alabama, and builder of our feature bike, has been at this custom thing for quite some time. So, he knew exactly how to cut to the chase when it came time to build a bike for his own riding pleasure. How wonderfully selfish is that? It sounds good to me ─ no customers to go back and forth with, no waiting for payment, and if there is...

  Sometimes what you see is what you get, but it’s not always as easy as that. Take one of the most misunderstood motorcycle brands of recent times, Buell motorcycles, and try to remember the last time you ran into one on the road. Unfortunately it’s not that often considering total Buell production numbered just over 137,000 bikes and that’s too bad. They were an interesting brand...

   Yes it is sir and it’s not because he’s found an untapped market or feels kids should have their own chopper to match dad’s or something. Nope, the story’s a lot simpler and kinda shows a soft(er) side to a hardcore guy. Actually it involves his son Axle Dodson who is around seven-years-old at this time and who’s already owned this highly modified 1999 Harley-Davidson Night...

     What I saw was a nice looking and much enjoyed FXRP with some big changes that aren’t readily apparent at first. It still had the look of an ex-cop bike, but without all the lights and siren and ticket books. Changes were made where it counted for this rider who rides the hell out of it as you can tell by the road grime which is a badge of honor to some of us and not just a...

     You know, I took one look at this Sporty after all the hard core show bikes we’ve featured recently on Barnett’s Magazine Online and my first thoughts were, “That’s a nice bike.” Now that might seem a bit lame if you’re looking for some ground-breaking, insightful comment, but that’s really about the highest compliment I could give a bike. It’s a really good looking bike that...

       Shovelheads have the reputation of being a real bad boy’s bike and they’re what I think of when I’m picturing a bad ass Harley in my head. They’re just lovely, archaically-mechanical beasts that have all the subtlety of a howitzer and that’s exactly what makes them so likeable. I’ve always thought of them as Harley’s hot rod equivalent of a 425hp 409 Chevy engine. They’re a...

        No surprise then that old Jacko loves his white baggers even with all the multi-colored, multi-themed, airbrushed-to-a-fare-thee-well custom baggers he runs into at every show. Personally, I’d think after a while you’d be just looking for the wildest and most colorful paintjob on a bagger, but not Jack. It seems like any individual shot of a bike he just photographed he...