The concept started as a sort of joke between the two close friends while working on Greg’s Benchmark Bagger several years ago. “Tom Motzko from Drag Specialties had built a bike he called ‘Black Attack’ that had been featured in several magazines and he was kind enough to let me ride it in Sturgis,” Greg explained. “All of the sudden, I had an affinity for FXRT style fairings. One...

  “It was discovered buried in sand at El Alamein, North Africa, in 1953 and is one of the US Army’s secret weapon prototypes produced for the big battle in 1942. It had been designed as a superior bike compared to Rommel’s BMW R75s.” A bunch of stuff that I hung on the bike is old time stuff. The dashboard is from an old helicopter and the shovel on the right side of the frame...

Click here for more photos Travertson V-Rex Story and Photos by J. Joshua Placa What happens when you drop a 1250cc, liquid cooled V-Rod drive train into a crazy, dual-swingarm, steel tubing and cast aluminum chassis, then wrap it in revolutionary bodywork? You get the wildest head-turner you are likely ever to ride. The futuristic solo-seater looks like it’s...

Click here for more photos Jack the Ripper: John Meade’s V-Rod Destroyer Carves Up the Track Story by J. Joshua PlacaPhotos by John Meade and Hannah Simmons John Meade has a hunger for speed, straight ahead, none of this turning crap, eyeballs bouncing off the back of his brain, get ‘er down the quarter-mile in a whoosh and three heartbeats full of...

Click here for more photos Pete’s V-Rod Story and Photos by Rodent In Pete Ridet stable of vehicles resides a Harley-Davison V-Rod that needed to be featured, so we brought the V-Rod to the top of the hill corner of Union and Leavenworth streets in the Russian Hill section of the city so we could capture the bike against some outstanding San...

Ethan Bond of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, wanted a bike for his wife Erin. Or maybe it was just that Erin wanted her own bike, a “cooler bike” than Ethan’s. So the Bonds turned to Performance Cycles to build Attention Deficit 82, a sister bike to Ethans’s Attention Deficit 76, which is a supercharged, intercooler, nitrous injected V-Rod previously featured...

  His latest creation really brings out the macho in a high-powered Street Fighter style. I had the pleasure of riding one of Harley’s first V-Rods and I felt the stock machine had more than enough power, but then I’m used to cruising down the Autobahn on an Ultra Glide at a comfortable 80 MPH. Most builders and riders are satisfied with the stock, slightly over a hundred...

  Lexington, North Carolina, proclaims it’s “The Barbeque Capital of the World” and with 20-some BBQ joints in a city of only 18,000 people, they might be right. But, if the smoked meat purveyors don’t watch their backs it may soon also be “The Fat Motorcycle Tire Capital of the World” if Dave’s shop, Garwood Custom Cycles, has its way. Now that I think of it, maybe these two...

     When I got out of the bathroom, I couldn’t help notice that Eddie had promptly leapt into action casually leafing through a phone book trying to find the fire department’s number to no avail. “Just call 911!” I yelled as I headed out the door to a burning Peugeot that was probably just trying to commit automotive suicide because it was just a POS car. I grabbed a garden hose...

       Hey, I’m not dumping on V-Rods or their owners, matter of fact, it’s just the opposite. I actually am a fan of the engine and I’ve met a lot of V-Rodders who love their bike. The V-Rod engine after a major re-work by Porsche prior to production is a nice power plant in search of a purpose other than the VSRC versions you see getting dusty on showroom floors. I just wish...