Bike Features

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, Finland,

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