It was that Old School look with modern comfort that drew Karen Proctor of Ashland City, Tennessee, to her 2007 Heritage Softail Classic she calls Stinger; the look, but also the classic paint job. “The bike began as a dealer build and I purchased it off the Boswell’s Harley-Davidson [in Nashville] showroom floor with many of the custom parts installed, including the numbered...

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...

There was this guy, and he lived in a little town in the Midwest and he was barreling down the road on his Harley 2004 Heritage Softail and he spun out and had a horrible accident and landed in someone’s yard. That someone just happened to be a doctor who just happened to be at home doing yardwork and he ran over and jabbed an ink pen into the guy’s trachea and saved his life....

Marvin Estes has been riding motorcycles since he was four years old. He’s 49 now, so when he offered to let me ride on the back of his beautiful ’96 Dyna Wide Glide, I felt that he’d probably had enough experience for me to agree. I knew he was responsible. He’d told me about how, for years, he made his monthly child support payments without fail, and when his son turned...

Click here for more photos Sven Cycles Stocker Chopper Job – Made in Switzerland Story by Horst Rosler and Mark BarnettPhotos by Horst Rosler Europe’s oldest democracy has charming landscapes as well as skilled people who know their jobs and work with passion. Sven Traber of Sven Cycles built up this highly modified...

 Sportster Becomes Touring Bike in GreeceStory by Wendy ManningPhotos by Costas TsianakasI’m a complainer by nature, and also a letter writer. I’ve usually got some bee in my bonnet about something, and I don’t hesitate to jot off an email of complaint to iTunes, say, about the lack of free iTunes music cards at...

Click here for more photos Len Kodlin’s FXDB Street Bob Story by Mark Barnett and Horst RoslerPhotos by Horst Rosler Model: Johanna – www.pro-vogue.de Custom bike building is well into its second generation, even third with the Ness family. In Europe, one of the most famous builders is Fred Kodlin. We featured a V-Rod Fred...

Click here for more photos 2007 Harley-Davidson FLSTSC Softail Springer Classic Story by Mark Barnett, Photos by Frank Rangel There’s not much of a story to tell on this 2007 Harley-Davidson FLSTSC Softail Springer Classic but I thought I’d share the photos with you since it is so well done. Everything from the beach bars, the satin, non-glossy paint, the...

Click here for more photos Curt Gardner’s 2000 Harley-Davidson FXSTB Night Train Story by Wendy Manning, Photos by Curt Gardner This mean machine belongs to Curt Gardner of Vallejo, California. Starting with a 2000 Harley-Davidson Night Train he purchased from Barnett Harley-Davidson in El Paso. Because Curt was riding the bike to work each day, a...