An opportunity for you to engage in Harley-Davidson’s history, The HD Museum launched a new website Harley-Davidson Images where you can order a wide range of Art from the H-D Museum® Archives. Are offered several reprint options, allowing customers to find photos they want and have them printed on various media, including stretched canvas, wooden signs, […]
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Published by April 24th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.Customized Harley Sportster Still Serviceable By Harley Dealers
Published by April 23rd, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Many custom motorcycle lovers have this dilemma. How radical can they go with their new Harley-Davidson without voiding all factory warranties and keeping their bike serviceable at any official Harley dealership. Florida shop Lightning Rod Motorcycles brings an answer to this question when you intend to customize a Sportster. The “Trackster” featured here is still […]
Show Me Your Office. Roland Sands.
Published by April 22nd, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.It makes life much easier if not only you do what you love but also if you go to work to a place custom made to feel like a living place, an extension of your home where you can surround yourself with your preferred personal pieces of furniture, objects, books, etc. On the second floor […]
2012 Cannonball Endurance Run. September 7 To 23, 2012
Published by April 22nd, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.In 2010, you loved to follow in my website the brave riders of the Cannonball Endurance Run who proved that antique motorcycles could be put again to the test of crossing the country from east to west coast. This year, only motorcycles built in 1929 or earlier can compete and of course must be powered […]
2012 March Revenue Of US Motorcycle Dealers Up 20%. The data comes from ADP Lightspeed, an organism maintaining a database of over 1 billion sales records from motorcycle industry dealers. Every night, over 1400 Lightspeed dealers automatically transmit the day’s Parts, Service and Sales information to a collective database held at the Lightspeed offices Salt […]
Who doesn’t want to see a pretty woman flying on a pink Ducati and wearing a pink and black body suit to match…. Ok it’s for a commercial. Still, worth watching. Enjoy.
World’s Biggest Motorcycle
Published by April 19th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Another strange record to enter the Guinness Book Of Records. Supposedly the largest motorcycle in the world, weighting 8818 pounds (4000 kg or 4 tons), measuring 32.81 ft long (10 meters) and 16.4 ft high (5 meters). It is powered by a 5700 GM motor, features cables with an OD of 7.2 ft (2.2 meters) […]
When unveiled on February 1st, 2012 ,many qualified the new Harley Slim as just another Fat Boy. As its name indicates, the Slim is exactly the opposite of Fat. It’s, a stripped-down Softail with narrow styling, pared down to its essential elements, almost no chrome and lots of details inspired from the parts used on […]
Volkswagen’s Audi Said Set to Buy Italian Ducati for $1.1 Billion
Published by April 17th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.An agreement was reached for German Volkswagen’s Audi to buy Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ducati from its owner Investindustrial SpA for about $1.1 billion (860 million euros) including debt of about $260 million (200 million euros.) The deal, minus debt, should be signed today and would value Ducati at about seven times last year’s earnings before […]
Convincing Harley-Davidson Print Magazine Ad?
Published by April 17th, 2012 in Builders and Editorial.Harley-Davidson wants you to personalize your bike only with genuine custom Harley parts, not custom after-market ones. So, they tell you that a Harley customized with non-Harley parts is not a Harley-Davidson motorcycle anymore. Something that they will never dare to say openly in a US advertising campaign, custom builders being the brand “best friends” […]
Tornado Outbreak. A Message From Jerry And Kathleen Covington At Covingtons Customs.
Published by April 16th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.As most you living in the USA know, last Saturday and Sunday, more than 120 tornadoes were reported in a two-day outbreak in Oklahoma. One of the twisters (classified EF-3 tornado generating speeds of 136 to 165 mph) caught many unaware in Woodward, a town of 12,000 people, when storm sirens failed to sound after […]
Having distributed their radical Softail type and rigid frames in the US during many years I know very well custom builders Peter & Anita Penz from Austrian based shop Penz Custombikes. Evidently, for self promotion of their proprietary frames, they have to use their multiple own chassis as platforms for all their creations, their challenge […]
Oldest Known U.S. Made Motorcycle To Be Auctioned April 21, 2012
Published by April 14th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.It is supposed to be the oldest unrestored motorcycle made in the US, the only known 1903 Indian. Steve Rinker, who runs Buck’s Indian, an Indian motorcycle restoration firm in Romney, explains: “The handful of 1902 Indian models that were built were deconstructed, their parts used to build the 1.75-horsepower 1903 models. And as far […]
First Cuban National Meeting Of Harley-Davidson
Published by April 14th, 2012 in Builders and Events.Since January 1959, when Batista was finally ousted and replaced by Castro’s revolutionary government, the Latino riders of Cuba, calling themselves Harlistas, overcome the difficulties of maintaining their Harleys, repairing and re-fabricating the parts that they can’t import because of the U.S. blockade. This weekend, during 3 days, the Cuban Harlistas across the country are […]
Michigan Helmet Law Repealed. Since yesterday Friday April 13, 2012, helmets are no longer mandatory for all riders and passengers in Michigan. Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bill, which received bipartisan support, on Thursday and announced the change Friday.T he law has immediate effect but sets conditions to legally ride without a helmet. Motorcyclists must […]
Show First. Then Race. On His Way To The Bonneville Salts.
Published by April 12th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Because of a resurgence of interest in Bonneville racing and because more machines are built by traditional custom builders who want to taste the Salts, more of these racing motorcycles are shown on the bike show tour before traveling to Utah. Although Mike Beland has a background in motorcycle racing, too busy at his West […]
Classy Wishbone Springer Forks
Published by April 12th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Suspension.In Super Narrow, Narrow Glide or Wide Glide these made in the USA Springer forks are formed out of cold-rolled steel bar stock (front & rear legs) and use CNC’ed rockers, top clamps and components, stainless steel spring rods with Teflon-coated Delrin shock isolators to eliminate squeaking and chatter. Very pure flowing lines with elegant […]
Custom Built In East Europe
Published by April 11th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.If you follow attentively the custom bike scene around the world and its representation in US bike show competitions like Sturgiis, you already know that East Europe counts many talented custom builders who have already demonstrated during the last decade their ingenuity and unique style. Because East Europe is still economically an under- developped part […]
Breaking News. Saxon Motorcycles Is For Sale.
Published by April 10th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Mark Borodkin, Chief Executive Officer of Saxon Motorcycles is looking for a buyer for his small production custom motorcycle business. Saxon was originally founded in 2004 at the top of the custom choppers craze, trying to offer production motorcycles at a more reasonable price point than the competition. A lack of originality, multiple warranty issues, a […]
Harley-Davidson Motorcycles Given A New-York City Look
Published by April 10th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Videos.Trying to appeal to a hipster, younger, urban crowd, Harley-Davidson New York (in Brooklyn) gives an old look to the new bikes it sells. (Video from WSJ)
Three months ago I published a custom from Thunderbike Germany in exactly the same Drag Racing style and overall stance, painted in the same typical Harley black and orange colors. So, why to do it again when this new one could be considered just a simple variation of what you have already seen? Of course, […]
Jesse James Outlaw Garage. New TV Show On Discovery Channel. Monday April 9, 2012.
Published by April 8th, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Jesse James gets back to his roots in Texas as he focuses on his newest venture and challenges himself to rebuild a 32 Ford Roadster in only a month. Outlaw Garage TV Show (60 minutes) Tomorrow Monday April 9 on Discovery Channel at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Below a preview.
Women Of Harley-Davidson Have Their Own Website. The Digital Buzz Wall.
Published by April 8th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.Harley=Davidson created a new interactive website called The Buzz Wall for all women who either already ride a motorcycle or want to learn how. “Freedom to be.” “It’s Harley or Nothing.” “It’s in my blood.” “2 Wheels Move the Soul.” These are just a few of the things women are saying in this digital space […]
Show Me Your Office. Rick Fairless.
Published by April 8th, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Rick Fairless office at Strokers Dallas is not what you thought. It’s much more Rick Fairless that you imagined… In cardboard, Rick is always present at the office even when he is far away on the show tour flashing his bikes paint jobs and tie dye tees. During a visit you will talk to him […]
Rolling Thunder 25th Anniversary Coast Guard Tribute Bike. Preview.
Published by April 6th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.During the 25th Anniversary of Rolling Thunder in Washington, D.C. on Memorial Day, four custom motorcycles by four builders Mike Tomas, Billy Lane, Brigitte Bourget,Dar Holdsworth) will be unveiled. Each bike is built around a specific theme, a branch of the military. After showing you Billy Lane’s bike at the beginning stage of the fabrication […]
Fast Motorcycle Industry News
Published by April 6th, 2012 in Accessories, Builders, Editorial and Events.Royal Enfield’s Twin Cylinder To Become a Reality. Strong of its renewed success around the world, the Indian owned British retro classic Royal Enfield brand will have in the next 2 or 3 years a twin cylinder model in his lineup which could displace between 600 to 1,000cc. Royal Enfield is said to be leaning […]
