Bike Features

This is the rear of the bike Mr. Boxell built in his garage. He used a mille, lathe, and a welder. While Bandit is off in Australia humping Kangaroos, I am getting bombarded with rampant e-mails and incessant death threats. Here’s one small example: Dear sir,Bandit is ten times the writer you are. How the […]

I unfold my best English. Lucky enough the young Belgian understands me. We’re in the middle of Belgium’s nowhere on a dusty large cattle-farm far away from towns and villages. I ask him if we could shoot a bike and a girl on his grounds as location. He looks a little puzzled because I’m all

Hey, I you’ll see below, I was inspired to write this Chica story. I ran into the man at a show and told him he had to buy me lunch so I could interview him. I haven’t been able to reach him since. I’ve sent e-mails and left phone messages. I wish I was delivering

Roger Goldammer is no stranger to the world of wild custom bikes. The front of his shop in Kelowna, British Columbia is crammed full with lathes, milling machines and a huge CNC machine. Roger takes his equipment and his work very seriously. He does not follow trends in custom bike building by building the expected

Here I am again, head pounding, eyes bloodshot, in dry mouthed hangover hell. Bandit just finished screaming at me about having to wrestle with his underlings, Renegade and Wrench, over going to lunch with Layla and Sin Wu. He was red-faced mad and not in any mood for excuses. It seems having to build a

Duane Ballard is no stranger to the custom bike scene.Having made custom hand tooled seats for Biker Build-Off winners Hank Young, Cole Foster and Greg Westbury to name a few. Duane knows how to put a bikes “look” together. Duane is also an aficionado of 1970s pop culture. He's been building model cars and collecting

It’s almost universally recognized that “the birth of the American biker” occurred during the infamous Gypsy Tour in Hollister, California, during the Fourth of July weekend in 1947. Hollister ’47 seriously affected not only the motorcycle culture but the entirety of American society as well. (See the history piece by Bill Hayes in Special Reports.)It

Seven time world champion Formula One racer Michael Schumacher expresses his reaction to surprise present from friends on the occasion of his retirement from racing.Baseball players have their stats based on their batting average and runs, basketball players have their average points per game, but when it comes to Formula One race car drivers, it

Discovery competitor concept drawing.Unbelievable but true. Two build-off competitions in one year. Yes Zeel was a participant in the 5th season of the Discovery Channel Biker Build Off. The engineers at Zeel took part in a trike build off against CC Trikes of Texas. The voting took place at the ROT bike rally in Austin,Texas.

I got an e-mail from Bandit saying, ”hey, ya gotta check out Jessica!” Me being the perverted sumbitch I am, gladly obliged by checking the link to the website he gave me. Following the link under galleries labeled “Jessica,” I was a little surprised by the discovery of a chopper, not a girl. Ah Bandit,