Bike Features

Joe Cool is Back

Joe Cool is a bike with a tragic story behind it, but as with disasters some good comes along. Joe Cool’s name comes from a charter boat. Two fugitives who hijacked the crew and ended up murdering the four-crew members contracted the boat. Joe Cool ran out of fuel and was found floating twelve miles […]

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Todd’s Cycle Custom Buell

   Video by Gearhead, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/user/machone351cFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/GearheadInc There are many talented builders in the American custom V-twin scene, but there are few that can tune a motor perfectly, and then competitively ride the bike themselves. Todd Silicato, owner of Todd¹s Cycle in Huntington Beach, California is one of them. Just before he opened his own

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West Coast Style Street Glide

Editor’s note: Jon Yip reached out to us recently with another drop seat dresser example. He photographed and wrote his own feature, and did a helluva job.–Bandit There seems to be no limits to what can be done to Baggers these days. From the high-end custom builders to the unlimited number of aftermarket parts available

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Birth of an Evilution

I’ve often heard, and truly believe, that building your own motorcycle from the ground up is a “biker’s rite of passage.” I haven’t been able to pin down the origin of the statement or if it has a notable person attached to it, but they couldn’t be more right. This Evilution was born of a

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The FXR Master Speaks

This is a good one for several reasons: First, it’s an FXR; second, the owner/rebuilder is a friend; third, he’s a master martial arts trainer and no one to fuck with, even if he is old, and last but far from least, is his bike building mantra. He builds bikes like no one I have

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Golden Sporty

      When I first got the call from Bandit telling me to check out this bike, I was less than enthusiastic. I have been especially bored with many of the “customs” lately and it seems there has been a shift in the biker genre. The “Dark Custom” movement is in full swing and

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’87 XLH Cafe Racer

 Editor’s Note:What you’re about to read is the third installment of the J&P Cycles online series, Readers Ride of the Month, which highlights what the J&P Cycles judges term the most original-looking bike in the bunch for the April 2011. The judges (whom are J&P staffers, select the best bike from photographs submitted by you,

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K&N Employee Takes Trophy At 2011 Grand National Roadster Show For His Custom Sportster Bobber– Teaser Feature

Typically when one thinks of art, and artists, visions of paintbrushes and canvas come to mind. However, according to Webster’s II new college dictionary, first edition, 2004 the word art can be defined as “a conscious arrangement or production of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a way that affects the aesthetic sense.”

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Scout’s “Disaster Blaster”

Hailing from the frozen tundra of northern Michigan and armed with the bare necessities of a Leatherman all-purpose tool, bike builder-on-a-budget aka Scout bolted, carved, glued, taped and ground together what he calls his “Disaster Blaster.” We found Scout and his H-D rat-performance chopper drawing attention at the recent Ink-n-Iron festivities rocknrollin’ at the Queen

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