Spider designs have replaced the Maltese Cross emblem has a theme developped on many of today’s choppers & bobbers. Spider frame gussets, spider covers (for open and enclosed belt systems), spider risers, spider rotors are already available from several manufacturers. But if you want to extend this theme up to your mirrors (in case you need 1 or 2), there […]
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I love Italy. For many reasons I may explain to you some day. One of them is that Italians have always produced some of the most innovative designs in the world: for fashion, architecture, automobile and decoration. Let’s not forget the motorcycle industry and the design of custom accessories. The leader is called Livio Rebuffini […]
I always loved ape hangers and often had to fight the skepticism of my clients. A lot of people continue to think that they are uncomfortable and that at high speed they create a bike wobble. It’s quite untrue. I used with success mid and high ape angers on my customs but had always to […]
I regret that Jesse James doesn’t design more custom parts. But from time to time his Long Beach WCC company manufactures a brand new item and it’s always all good and beautiful. Everybody knows the meaning of FTW. In this case it is FTW of billet aluminum. These hard core foot controls are unusually made […]
Exclusive: New Air Suspension With No Compressor To Hide. No Hose To Run. Wow.
Published by November 30th, 2006 in Controls, Editorial and Frames.It’s called S.A.S. and it stands for “Simplified Air Suspension”. And it comes from the people of CCCS (Custom Cycle Control Systems, Inc), the ones who designed and created the first concealed handlebar controls with hidden master cylinders & cables inside good looking bars. The name “Simplified Air Suspension” says it all & CCCS does […]
There are many brands of Internal throttles available. Some made abroad will not fit your 1" grips without remachining the grip to make it fit inside. Others will fit but are hard to twist, A company called Streamline Designs offers a "strret legal" internal throttle running smoothly on bearings. The twist needed to reach full throttle is […]
O School Chopper, out of Las Vegas, offers these minimal mirrors for Choppers & Bobbers. Small but that you can use to see behind you, not only as a decorative piece. At 1.5” x 2.375” inches or 3.56 square inches these radical new mirrors are probably the smallest available that pass State minimum requirements (Amazing, these […]
