This is not the first time Barnett’s Magazine Online has featured a custom based on a Yamaha’s venerable twin, but this has to be the baddest bad ass XS 650 hot rod we’ve run across. Devon Eckert, owner of Whiskey Tango Choppers in Thomasville, North Carolina, built a race-style bike like a lot of XS owners do, but it’s not the typical street tracker or café racer you expect....

      Linda Dady has been riding for years and also married to Brian Dady, owner of the Motorcycle Clinic in Kissimmee, Florida, so she technically qualifies as someone who might not be more involved with the mechanical side of things other than dropping off her keys at the shop Brain’s owned since Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon was still in office. Over the past four decades,...

     I don’t know about you, but I know I was totally flummoxed that the first major motorcycle manufacturer to showcase a running/riding fully electric motorcycle (not a scooter or something silly) was the company known for air-cooled pushrod V-twin motorcycles. The last H-D shocker back in 2001, the V-Rod, has the Revolution engine with its water-cooling and engine architecture,...

    Actually, Paul didn’t do a lot of cutting on this 55-year-old Triumph called Cream Sickle as the basic frame geometry is still stock. This bike is nothing like the previous Bones Legacy Triumph we featured recently called Black Rainbow that was about as wild as you could get with lovingly replicating a true Old School build. But, he did do a little welded-on hardtail and that’s...

        Just to make a point, you might have seen a recent article Barnet’s Magazine Online ran on Kyle’s beyond-beyond, totally re-worked Saxon Crown called Speedmetal that has its Saxon roots hidden so well only the Texas DMV knows for sure. That gem was a hard ass, performance oriented V-twin without a lick of paint anywhere and I do mean anywhere. Contrast that to the far out...

Sweet jeebers it’s a pretty thing to just look at, but it gets it up and goes too (notice the current license plate). Lance fabricated most everything you see while the 1971 750cc Norton Commando engine is a very, very stout motor on the throttle while having some of the prettiest polished castings of any engine ever in my opinion. If you’re going to fabricate something beautiful...

      All three of these fine fellows have graced Barnett’s Magazine Online with personal builds, but never in cahoots with each other in one big bowl of motorcycle Chex mix. Such is not the case in this whacky-doodle Brit twin custom that features just about every intricately insane, but groovy ‘60s and ‘70s chopper styling elements on one platform. Go ahead, check out Jack’s...

No doubt everybody has their own little niche of favorite style of bike, but some bring out the brand cheerleaders in greater numbers like a recent article on another Brit bike from Lucas Joyner and his company, The Factory Metal Works in Charlotte, North Carolina. That article brought a lot of requests for more Brit bikes so in the interest of pleasing you no matter what you...

      But, sometimes you just gotta go against the flow like Matt Starling of Marshville, North Carolina, did with his 1974 CB 750-based chop as he explained, “I have Harleys. Everyone has Harleys. I have always liked the in-line 4-cylinder Hondas, so I wanted to build a Honda. I knew what I wanted and I knew I wanted a rider, not something to just look at. I did not care what...

       Certain shows like Daytona’s Boardwalk Show where this bike was shot have a policy of having absolutely nothing near the bike identifying who the owner/builder of a bike is apparently so as not to affect the judging. As an avid showgoer, let me be right up front and say this is a stupid, stupid rule that may have had good intentions, but stupid is stupid and this is stupid....