Nobody can pretend to have started sooner in the motorcycle industry than Cory Ness, except maybe his own son Zach. Raised in the atmosphere of steel shaping, engine tuning, chrome plating and paint spraying, step by step his professional presence grew to the point where he is since a few years the man both in […]
Archive for the 'Customs' Category
Grip Ace Digital Motorcycle Switches
Published by September 21st, 2010 in Builders, Controls, Customs and Editorial.If you can’t, like me, stand all the clutter on your handlebars but still want to maintain all the necessary switch controls to keep your bike street legal, there is no system cleaner that that these digital switches that you can incorporate either inside your grips or directly in your bar or even wherever your […]
Custom Chrome Championship Of Bike Building At European Bike Week.
Published by September 21st, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.The European Bike Week at Lake Faak, South Austria located on the border of both Italia & Slovania, is by far the largest biker event and the last outdoor big party before cold weather hits Europe. As usual, the 2010 edition, September 3rd to 12th, started by a parade around the Lake that they call […]
Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic Custom Motorcycle
Published by September 20th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Wabi-Sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of traditional Japanese beauty. Its aesthetic includes asymmetry, simplicity, modesty, intimacy, and the suggestion of natural processes. In the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values, this style is equivalent to the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection of the Western World. Examples of Wabi-Sabi aesthetic motorcycles? Look at […]
Brass Fuel Petcocks And Low Profile Outlets
Published by September 18th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Engines.I was expecting these ones in brass since a long time. Have used Golan fuel valve ad outlet products since a long time because they perform well and offer many options beyond the traditional choices. First, their petcock (polish, chrome, brass and last minute now in black!) delivers a flow of 12 oz per minute, […]
The Return Of A Great Classic
Published by September 17th, 2010 in Builders, Controls, Customs and Editorial.Classic never goes out of style. So, it’s a great idea from Rivera Primo, years after buying ART – the original manufacturer – to offer again a style of grips and pegs that has been installed in the past on so many factory and custom motorcycles. But finely knurled grips are not so easy to machine […]
Sam Wills Races A Big Dog Motorcycles Bulldog To A New World Land Speed Record Of 158.766 MPH
Published by September 17th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Events.During the Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week, Oklahoma City based Thunder Cycle’s Sam Wills raced a Big Dog Bulldog Model, setting a land speed record of 158.766 mph in the 3000/MPS-PBG class. Thunder Cycle is Big Dog’s OKC dealer as well as an award-winning bike builder. Sam Wills set out to reach the pinnacle of […]
Techno Retro Custom Motorcycle
Published by September 16th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.He doesn’t matter if it’s a recent build if I like it and think that most of you didn’t see it. So, let’s give a push to Satya Kraus for a quite amazing custom job stepping outside of what most builders are designing. Quite a few tricks and fabrication innovations grace this machine. Satya started […]
The Secret Life Of Russell Mitchell
Published by September 16th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.California based Exile Cycles is synonymous with tough and minimalist industrial styling. And its founder, Englishman Russell Mitchell, with his full-body tattoo and mohawk (blonde most of the time) is one of the most recognizable Custom Builders of our industry. Backstage, learn a little bit more about the man who continues to preach against over-chromed […]
Building a motorcycle by putting a Vincent engine into a Norton wideline frame has been done by the Brits since a long time. It’s called a NORVIN. And now, coming again from England, putting an American Sportster engine in a Norton looking frame will create a NORLEY motorcycle.
Limited Edition Solid Brass Rapide Headlight
Published by September 15th, 2010 in Customs, Editorial and Electrical.In little touches on retro looking or vintage bikes, you all know that brass looks bad ass. You can have your own parts highly polished then brass plated and polished again, or hunt for the very few good parts available in solid brass. Crime Scene Choppers has available a very small quantity of its Rapide […]
Indian Larry Motorcycles Grease Monkey Block Party Is Saturday September 18th
Published by September 14th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.The seventh Annual Indian Larry Mayhem Block party is this Saturday September 18th at the new facility located at 400 Union Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. All his friends and fans will meet again, continuing the tradition of the famous party, New-York and Coney Island style. An opportunity to see again Larry’s bikes and original shop […]
Baker DD7 Transmission. Way More to It Than An Extra Gear.
Published by September 14th, 2010 in Customs, Driveline and Editorial.The Baker Direct Drive 7-Speed was developed as a direct replacement of the Cruise Drive Harley-Davidson factory 6-speed to improve it in many ways besides just adding another gear. The DD7 is all about gear ratio management. The gear ratios leave you the rider, with the experience of smooth, crisp, continuously pulling acceleration from 1st […]
Do-It Yourself Stripes Fo Your Harley-Davidson Street Glide
Published by September 14th, 2010 in Customs, Editorial and Painters.Many don’t want or can’t afford a full paint job on their motorcycles. What about some very simple graphics just to show it’s yours and recognize it in a sea of bikes on the parking lot. Hell’s Foundry® offers complete do-it-yourself striping packages for Road Glide® and now Street Glide® owners. The seven-piece kit (Saddlebags, […]
Frisco Glide. A Murdered Out Harley Bagger.
Published by September 13th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Few builders would take a brand new 2010 Harley Road Glide to start a full custom project. Even less would touch the “old” 96″ stock engine with only 40 miles on it to transform it in a monster 131″ Screaming Eagle/Jim’s motor. Wait, there is more. Sean Belitsos of Empire Engineering has a very simple […]
New Limited Edition Retro Helmets
Published by September 12th, 2010 in Accessories, Customs and Editorial.Loving throwbacks and retro lids? Me too. But vintage helmets, as beautiful as they can be, will not offer the protective technology of the new ones. These 2 models (Stunt on left, Speed Soul on right) were created by Bell to pay homage to Bell’s founder Roy Richter who created his first helmet back in […]
Acme Oil Tank. Made By Hand With Love In The USA.
Published by September 11th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Engines.Probably one of the best looking after-market oil tanks with a quite reasonable price. Made with love in New Hampshire by the crew at Acme Choppers out 6061 T-6 aluminum, tig welded with a polished mirror finish. Will hold 3 quarts of oil and is provided with threaded cap with o-ring, a pair of 1″ […]
Roland Sands Introduces A Two-Tone Tougher Black Finish.
Published by September 11th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.It’s called Black-Ops, a RSD two-tone proprietary black finish claimed to result in mil-spec strength & hardness. Result, a much tougher black billet aluminum look for most of your motorcycle parts. Watch the commercial. Info at Roland Sands Design. .
Arlen Ness Soft Touch Grips And Pegs.
Published by September 10th, 2010 in Builders, Controls, Customs and Editorial.Great feeling and good traction when you throttle, when you clutch, when you brake,, when you shift. These are premium Soft Touch hand grips, matching foot pegs, shifter and brake pegs are made from Kraton rubber material, with a choice of billet aluminum end caps and collars (Engraved, Scalloped and Smooth) In chrome or black […]
Hybrid Electric Chopper Concept Motorcycle
Published by September 10th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Be ready for an avalanche of proposals and concepts motorcycles claiming to resolve what some are claiming is the number one priority on our planet ! Here is one of them with explanations by it’s “inventor” that I let you debate. He explains that “The rear wheel has permanent magnets embedded in it. The wheel […]
With Jesse James I start a new weekly series where I ask personalities and friends of my industry – only the best at what they do – to answer my questions. You know, the ones you would have never had the opportunity or even dared to ask. (Jesse picked the right picture, telling me it’s his best one. Agree) Cyril. […]
New Seat Choices For Your Harley-Davidson Bagger
Published by September 9th, 2010 in Customs, Editorial and Seats.To complicate or facilitate your task of choosing the way to sit comfortably and beautifully (and your passenger) on your Bagger, C&C Seats offer a new line of embroidered seats available either in solo saddle or as a fitted double saddle with pillion with or without passenger backrest. The optional Driver’s Backrest is easily removable […]
Past Present Wild Custom Gold Yamaha.
Published by September 8th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.If you don’t know this Gold Yamaha, you are not a baby boomer, and good for you. Or maybe you know it because you know your custom motorcycle history and the man behind it, John Reed, who built it in 1982!… Am I supposed to give you the latest news? Yes. But also to show […]
10th Anniversary Las Vegas BikeFest. Sep. 30 – Oct 3, 2010.
Published by September 8th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Well you know the drill. 3 days of fun, Sin City style, of multiple vendors showing and selling their ware, of many bands performing (Branscombe Richmond and his Posse will be there), of wet tee-shirt contests, a bike show on Fremont Street, etc and of course the famous Artistry In Iron where 20 builders, on […]
2010 Kiwi Indian Tracker
Published by September 6th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Since discovering during his teenage years an old decrepit Indian 741 in a farmer’s barn in his native New Zealand, Mike Tomas didn’t stop forging, hammering, wrenching, restoring, making parts to keep the Indians alive. From his new home of Riverside, CA Mike now offers the Kiwi Indian rebuilding services to recreate almost any part […]
Full Face Krazy Klown Motorcycle Helmet. Ha, Ha.
Published by September 5th, 2010 in Accessories, Customs and Editorial.Do you love to clown around while riding your motorcycle? Or do you suffer from Coulrophobia, or in laymen’s term, a completely irrational fear of clowns? Justin Knauer, Senior Developer at ICON® Motosports, sent me the following text, to entertain you? or to make you buy one of his Helmets, most more serious. “Coulrophobia, […]
