I kinda feel like a school kid again just looking at Michael Ojala’s gorgeous Salt Flats custom that seems to be spewing its own series of built-in speed lines. Even though you can clearly see the bike’s sitting on its side stand, there’s a sense of movement going on from the front wheel which looks like it’s almost being pushed forward by the fork legs to the low swept-back...

     Take the engine for instance, I mean who starts a build for an invitational show around a 250cc single? Not anybody I know, but Pete had his reasons and actually, they’re pretty interesting. That little engine dates to 1935 and was one of two Triumph L2-1 racing engines built to race in 1936. Whatever’s inside must have been the best they could offer so it’s a pretty special...

   Like I said, I’m still reeling at the unbelievable amount of hand and machine work and the outside of the box thinking and imagination that went into this absolutely incredible build. If you haven’t watched the video that goes along with this story you are really missing out on a lot of the detail work that went into this. Yeah it’s a kinda long video but it’s worth every second...

   All I hope is this absolutely lovely Shovelhead chop straight from the historically slanted, yet modern mind of über builder, Rhett Holley, owner of the Butcher Chop in Dry Fork, Virginia. If this isn’t a pip and a tip of the hat to Old School without the least bit of forced effort, I don’t know what is. If you picture your vision of what choppers were like back in the day, this...

Growing up in Connecticut where he worked on his first chopper in the early ‘60s, a ’47 Knucklehead belonging to his brother, that laid the spiritual design foundation for his future builds with a radical rake of 53-degrres with a 20”-over springer. Later he enrolled at Boston’s prestigious Berklee School of Music where he studied piano with hopes of becoming a rock star, but a...

I don’t know Daniel Maag personally, but I do know a couple of things about him and when I say a “couple of things” I’m only off by one. First off, he’s an artist located in Zurich, Switzerland, second, he wants to save the tigers, and third, he loves motorcycles. If you were only known for three things, those three would not be a bad thing. Not only does he love motorcycles, he...

   Randy just seems deliriously happy with life getting to do his art and have people pay and really appreciate what he does. When you get something from Randy Grubb, you’ll never ever see yourself coming down the road and you’ll never ever lose it in a parking lot unless the crowds gathered around it are too deep. If you want to find something different that you had no idea...

  Starting with a Wild Child frame constructed within the bowels of Indian Larry Legacy, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what direction this build was going to take. There’s been many a Larry tribute bike done already, but most that I’ve seen have little or nothing in common with Larry’s ideas other than using him as a theme. BAKER R&D’s Chad Behrendt, Tom...

   As any motorcycle enthusiast who has only paid even the very slightest attention to what’s going on in the world of custom motorcycles knows, right now, baggers are where it’s at. And, there seems to be no expiration date involved. Tons of builders have jumped on the bandwagon and hopefully have found great success building big wheel baggers for an adoring audience, but not...

    What we’ve got here is one of Eddie’s Coke bottle-style designs where it’s pinched at the waist and gets all Kardashian at the back with a big ol’ 300mm back tire. The Eddie Trotta signature rigid frame stretches out sleekly and comfortably with an eye to riding. The clean and striking five-spoke 23” front wheel with a single-disc brake looks right and not like an insulting...