Having a plan before you start any Harley project is important if you want to end up with the bike of your dreams. Jorg Will of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, wanted to integrate billet components with painted and plated pieces to form a bike of beauty. Lo
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The look of a Harley-Davidson is unmistakable. A booming, chrome-laden V-twin slung in a long, low chassis will forever be associated with Milwaukee iron. Marie Todd of Maryland, New York, and her husband Skeeter built her bike to accent that classic look.
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Jeff Solak got tired of building righteous Harleys for everyone else all day then riding home on his beater Shovelhead, so he decided to take his old reliable and give it the treatment. After two years and 35 large ones, Solak’s Shovel is one hot customer
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The man who owns this bike has created the graphics for many magazine cars, including the last three Troy Trepanier cars (the ’50 Buick, the ’60 Rambler, and the ’39 Chevy) and many of Scott Sullivan’s latest cars, but you might not have he
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The tank on Scott Anderson’s Harley should look familiar. We used it as an example of cool graphics in the June issue of HOT ROD (“Trick Out Your Tank”). Well, now you get to see the rest of the bike. The Softail custom runs a stock motor with a
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We all want a bike that looks bad but rides like a dream. Johnny Plant of Amarillo, Texas, has such a bike. His Harley sports a Sumax Softail frame with a rubber-mounted engine, giving Plant a bitchin’ Softail look minus the shake of a factory solid mount
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Todd Peppard has always “fixed up” everything he owns, whether it’s a bike, a car or a truck. So the first day he owned this ’87 FXR, he started detailing it. After entering and winning quite a few shows with only a little work invested in
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When we were younger, we all had a grown-up superhero we wanted to be. But as we got older, we just wanted to be younger. Unlike any of us, when Mike Grieco of Hesperia, California, got older, he started building super-trick “character” bikes. One of
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With the amount of aftermarket parts available for Harleys, it’s amazing what can be built using nonfactory pieces. For example, check out Allen Claug’s ’95 Softail. The only factory-type pieces are the engine and the transmission—and even
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It’s tough to be a patriotic sport-bike rider when all the hard-core speedy bikes are built in Japan. But what many unfortunate souls don’t realize is that there is a red, white and blue alternative that will satisfy any canyon-carving craving you ha
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Motorcycles require a minimalist approach to life in many ways, one of which involves the fact that there really isn't anyplace to pack stuff on a bike. When you go, you take yourself and little more. Add a few hard luggage cases, though, and you now have a pl
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Building a bike from the ground up requires technical knowledge, a clear vision of the final product and the resources to pull it all together—all things that Linda and Mike Nobile obviously possess, since they ended up with this clean Harley they call Th
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Many hot rodders are building hot rod bikes to match their four-wheel creations, so it should come as no surprise that “Wizard” Terry McConnell of Tulsa, Oklahoma, built this ’94 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy to match his Pro Street ’49 Chevy. Wh
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Building a bike doesn’t always require a king’s ransom. Just ask Jeff Reno of Lancaster, California. He put together this Springer on a budget but still made it look good and run hard by accenting the bike’s original form with tasteful modificat
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It's got cop tires, cop shocks, a cop motor, a cop transmission. It's a model made before the trendies latched on, so what d'ya say, is it the new Bluesbike, or what?
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One thing about these Harley guys, they don't waste time when it comes to bike projects. Take Robert McLeod of Waterford, Michigan. In the course of only four months, he transformed his stock '93 Fat Boy into "Un-Easy," the bruiser cruiser you see here. The bi
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