Bike Features

Editor’s Note: You’ve seen the “American Iron” feature. Chris Maida, the editor, asked us to reshoot it, but we kept the original shots near the Wilmington, Califa, Port of Los Angeles rail road tracks. Just happened that a train rolled past in the middle of the shoot. Enjoy.–Bandit I just did the Old School bit […]

A Tribute During the original chopper craze, some 30 odd years ago, you couldn’t just call up your local mail order company and request a hardtail with a 4” stretch and a 43 degree rake. You had to do it yourself. Since there always has been, and always will be more riders then there are

Kevin cook contacted Bikernet not long ago with this killer Triumph bobber. I was all for featuring it, but he told me it was accepted by the outlaw staff of the HORSE for a feature. Great! I have some pics on disc,” Kevin said, “and I will attach the article that will come out in

“You wanted the best,” The announcer screamed into the stage mike. “You got it, the best the hottest band in the world KISS!” That’s what you heard just before one of the most influential rock-n-roll bands of Michael Lima’s time took the stage. ”Now comes the two wheeled version,” Michael or Mike, the builder said.

We have all seen them, upsets. An upset can take a stale situation and breathe fresh new life into it like the sound of a V-Twin roaring to life for the first time at 5 o’clock in the morning. Epic battles comparable to boxing’s Ali-Foreman, Tyson-Douglas. Or take a subjective sport like bodybuilding where just

Rollin‚ Sixes Choppers was formed by family and friends and is run by family and friends. We are third generation bikers who know our way around the shop. We are real bikers who build real bikes for bikers who love to ride. We specialize in custom builds that people can truly afford and also in

Damn, the bikes coming out of this industry are amazing, and Gard Hollinger is one of those builders who dazzle me every time I see one of his bar blasters. No wonder Saxon chose Gard as their custom bike and accessory designer and he was the co-star on the Build-or-Bust television series. But let’s back

I recently had the pleasure of judging a Canadian show, along with Master Builder Chica, Sweden’s Peter Jonsson, from MCM magazine, and Canada’s own top builder Tom Langton. We reviewed Canadian Championship of Bike Building contestants during Labor Day Weekend in Wembley, Alberta. Spending a weekend in the vast Canadian prairie together helped me gain

Roses have a special place in many cultures. They are beautiful to see and to smell, but they do have sharp thorns, sort of beauty with a bite. There are red roses given on Valentine’s Day, the famous yellow roses of Texas, but black roses hold a very special place in magic and mysticism and

Heather from Canada and the Canadian Champ. Just back from judging the AMD Canadian Championships of Bike Building. Bikernet gets it first. I’ll also have a few more articles for you on the show and the next 2 top winners. I also have a feature on Chica’s new 2-Face bike shot in a rustic Canadian

I have been fortunate enough to work at the same place, Pearl Harbor, for 25 years. Working may not always be a “bed of roses,” but I am thankful for what the Shipyard has provided me and what it has allowed me to provide for not only myself but my family. With this in mind,

El Loco, El Loco, El Loco. The name has been running through my head for days like the faded memories associated with a Tequila sunrise. I could almost hear a faint whisper as the wind tickled my ears, while I rode to work. El Loco, El Loco, El Loco. Now I remember. Bandit sent a

This wild chunk of functional motorcycle art was recently featured in Hot Bike Magazine. How could anyone pass up a motorcycle with glass gas and oil tanks, velocity stacks and rocker boxes? It’s a strange mixture of old, new, odd, artistic and yet practical. Check the bare metal seat with a Ford leaf spring for

This is an interesting example of a fully streetable chopper being featured on Bikernet. It gives everyone a notion on how to get your bike featured on Bikernet and the flexibility we have. The shots aren’t the best, but we’ll make do this time. Plus, on Bikernet we can devote as many pages as we

Strange mysterious e-mails flashed onto my screen with images of this sharp Cyril Huze Panhead. At first I didn’t know what the hell was going on. The return address was Accurate engineering, but the bike was signature Cyril Huze. At first I was told I had a sharp feature for Bikernet Readers, then the bike

This story is about a Menlo Park, California, industrial coating shop that started three generations ago, in 1966, with Bob Simpson’s granddad. We’ll cover what they did throughout the history of the shop, info on the bikes and which bitchin’ coatings do what. Not bad for one stinkin’ bike feature hammered out on the Monday

No jive, New York City or Manhattan, as is the case for Nick Genender, of New York City Choppers, is a heaven on earth. We have this notion of NYC as the ultimate crime capital, teaming with druggies, homeless and narrow streets. Old tenement buildings crumble while the traffic screams past, fulla shouting drivers, and

The two builders and their teams met in Two Harbors Minnesota on Tuesday (6/13/2006) in preparation for the ride that started at the Split Rock Lighthouse just north of the rock, on Wednesday morning at sunup. The lighthouse is approximately 100 miles south of Canada on Lake Superior and very scenic. Oh YEAH! It was

It was a really warm morning in Cave Creek Arizona when I was to meet John Shope of SSinster Choppers with the Copperhead 2 and my model, Chainsaw Chelsea, to shoot a feature for Bikernet.com. You can find that feature in the Girls Of Bikernet section, in Bandit’s Cantina. If you’re not a member, you’re

This feature deserves a special award. Twin Club MC is one of the oldest and most respected motorcycle clubs in Sweden. It was founded in Norrtälje in the autumn of 1969. For 34 years, since 1974, Twin Club MC produced the biggest and most prestigious Custom Motorcycle Show in all of Scandinavia. Builders from Sweden,

Fabricator Kevin Verkest is the well-known “Sultan of Steel”.At his shop in Clinton Township, Michigan, Kevin takes hunks of steel and turns them into fantastic parts and accessories for just about any type of bike. This year, Kevin was chosen to be one of the builders in the Horse Magazines “CHOP OFF 2006” at the

Here’s the deal, stirred up a couple of weeks ago with one shot of the above motorcycle, based on a seven-cylinder Rotec rotary airplane engine. Rumors spread quickly and we received another shot of an inline 8-cylinder airplane-based, rotary-engine motorcycle. Of course I contacted my rare-motorcycle guru, Don Whalen, of Sierra Madre Motorcycles in Pasadena,

When my amigo, Tom “The German”, told me that his company, Demon’s Cycle South, had just finished a new project bike, I figured it’d be special. I’ve seen their work before, and I’ve never failed to be impressed, but this time they’ve outdone themselves. Not only that, as you can plainly see, they got the

The finals for the Official World Championship will be held during Sturgis Bike Week in the United States later this year (August 6th-8th). The European and World Championship program, includes endorsements of approved national affiliate events around Europe and elsewhere. It all comes together this year in Sturgis. We’ll bring you the final report and