Exclusive: CW Zon’s Mooneyes-winning Harley shovelhead
Yuichi Yoshizawa is a rare custom builder that can conquer multiple styles, while still giving each build an organic and immediately recognizable…
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Harley-Davidson is an icon of American culture and the most popular marque for custom builders. Shortly after the company was founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, customizers started bobbing, chopping and dirt tracking the famous V-twins.
After WW2 Harley motorcycles were at the center of the bobber craze, and kept their lead as Californian bikers turned to choppers in the late 1950s. The 45-degree engines have their own nicknames and folklore: from flatheads, knuckleheads, panheads and shovelheads to today’s Evolution and Milwaukee-Eight motors.
The Sportster is the basis for more Harley-Davidson customs than any other model. Originally fitted with an ‘Ironhead’ motor, it turned 60 years old in 2017. It’s probably the single most customized motorcycle on the planet, and certainly has the largest supply of aftermarket parts.
Million Dollar Harley: This Strap Tank Set a Record for Mecum
WE LOVE CAFÉ racers, we love bobbers, and we love a killer scrambler. But we also love great classics, and sometimes they…
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Speed Read, January 22, 2023
A stunning Moto Martin restoration headlines this weekend’s round-up. It’s followed by a pair of lightly modded modern Triumph twins, a look…
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Mike Wolfe’s Moto Collection Isn’t for Sensible People, But Who Cares?
THESE ARE NOT BIKES for sensible people. Sensible people don’t want a vintage, rusting, non-running motorcycle in their garage. Alas, we are…
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Sportsters Forever: A custom Harley Evo Sporty from Australia
On November 18, 2022, Harley-Davidson rolled the last air-cooled Sportster ever to be built off their assembly line in York, Pennsylvania. The…
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Hardly simple: The Dyna that won ‘Best Detail Work’ at Mooneyes
What does it take to win the ‘Best Detail Work’ award at the illustrious Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show? You’ll need oodles…
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Full out: the 2022 Chirihama Sandflats vintage beach race
Of the 800,000 miles of thoroughfare winding across the islands of Japan, there’s only one five mile stretch where you can drive…
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Evo ain’t dead: A Harley Sportster chopper from China
It’s barely been a month since Harley-Davidson announced they were ending the Evolution-powered Sportster line, but great custom examples continue to roll…
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Game On: Rough Crafts builds a gaming-inspired Street Bob
The Harley-Davidson Street Bob is one of the most stripped-down big cruisers that The Motor Co. sells. With trimmed bodywork, little to…
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Modernized: OWM’s custom Harley Softail Standard
During his first decade of building custom bikes as One Way Machine, Julian von Oheimb worked exclusively on older Harley-Davidsons. Then, about…
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Asphalt Glider: Rough Crafts’ menacing Harley Breakout
Black. Menacing. Muscular. Three words that describe the quintessential Rough Crafts custom build. This long and lean Harley-Davidson Softail Breakout, nicknamed ‘Asphalt…
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Sportster d’eleganza: A slick 70s Harley ironhead bobber
Copper Chopper wowed us earlier this month with an impossibly elegant SR400 bobber, built from scratch and laden with tasty handcrafted bits.…
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