Bike Features

    Norio, a key player at Kustom Fab, actually relocated here from Japan. From the first day that I met him, much has changed. When Norio first arrived here in the islands, he opened a shop in Oahu called Phoenix Cycles.    It was during a time that the whole “Chopper” craze was nearing […]

The “Jack Daniel’s Experience”, that travels the country to all kinds of events from NASCAR to various Motorcycle Rallies, will now proudly display two promotional Indian motorcycles customized by Klock Werks. This striking Indian Vintage ‘Barrel Bike’ sports a unique and highly detailed ‘woody’ panel paint scheme. The starting point for the builds were the

Akrapovic just unveiled its Full Moon concept motorcycle at the Bad Salzuflen Custombike Show in Germany.   Developed with the assistance of Slovenian Dreamachine Motorcycles—the same partnership that produced the legendary Morsus in 2011, the Full Moon concept bike is an extravagant, technically exceptional, promotional bike for the manufacturer.       This concept machine

These limited production motorcycles are designed at the Ronin Motor Works factory in Denver, Colorado. Each production Ronin features 11 cast aluminum parts that are hand-sanded and painted. Other components including the seat, carbon fiber air box cover and fenders, sheet metal parts, and wiring harness are all designed in-house and then sourced locally. The

    I have a high school partner who sweeps in and out of my life, like every couple of years. I get a phone call; we hook up for 15 minutes, share a few stories, and then he disappears. This time he showed up at the Bikernet.com Headquarters with some shots of a chopped

  This bike was built by Hal’s Harley-Davidson in New Berlin, to pay homage to the dealership’s racing history. Avid Dirt Track enthusiasts, Hal and Kirk traveled the Midwest watching races since the mid ’70s. Like many dealers they turned a hobby into their livelihood when they acquired J&S Cycles in 1978.      Huge

    Gaylord Street rests on the west side of Long Beach, California, a bunched industrial community of little stucco shops, cinder-block buildings, even a small home or two, and oil refineries next to the Port of Long Beach. It’s the low rent district. There’s an unmarked shop next to a blacked-out iron gate very

Editor’s note: I’ve been chasing Yaniv Evan for several months to write a feature about the P-16. He’s like trying to interview a starving field mouse, darting from one empty container to another one in search for food. No time to talk. I finally ran into him at the shop opening. He had a shop

I’ve been interviewing feature builders and owners for 40 years. You can imagine, I’ve conversed with every personality under the stars, including a prick or two. Sometimes we start to talk and suddenly it’s like shooting the shit with a brother of 20 years. And often this one conversation will lead to a decades-long relationship.

Our features have become a Bikernet collection of favorite motorcycles for various reasons. Sometimes the owner or the motorcycle contains an amazing story. In this case, this bike represents so much, and it’s a classic build with historic significance and absolutely vintage lines. Matt Hotch stayed true to the Vincent code, including the all-black paint.