Road Tests

The Man, John Covington, and his new ride. The coolest thing about being involved with a motorcycle company is being able to build a new personal bike to ride. My last bike was fully practical, bags, windshield and even a cigarette lighter to plug my cell phone into while on the road. My old prototype […]

There’s something very different about Victory. This line of ever-refining cruisers is purely American and unique to any Harley-based cycles on the market. Not only is the line-up unique, but it’s got class, style and they work. Last year I took a road test ride with four experienced moto-journalist from American Rider, including the editor,

RB 200 BobberOld school bobber resembles the competition look of the 30’s and 40’s.Features:Old style rigid with 36 degree rake, single down tube, mustang tank, polished stainless oil tank, bobbed rear fender, 200 mm rear tire, 96 inch S&S engine, LSD 5 speed transmission. RB 250/300 Neo-BobberAt stretched out bobber for bigger riders. The Neo-Bobber

A blue finch sang merrily from atop a gargoyle leering from the roof of the long, squat, black warehouse. The silver Special Agent Zebra Express, a tricked-up Thunder Mountain Custom Cycles 240 Blackhawk, rumbled outside Bandit’s sprawling lair in Wilmington. I sat patiently waiting for the tall iron gates to part, occasionally executing zesty throttle

Bikernet readers here is an SPS update with all oftheir newest products. Sucker Punch Sally’s, locatedin Cincinnati, Ohio has been in the bike business forgenerations. Donny Loos and Jeff Cochran both comefrom a long line of old school bike builders, and thereis no chance you will ever see them riding some billetbarge. Jeff and Donny

FIRST ANNUAL Thunder Mountain DEALER MEETING – RECAP 2005Thunder Mountain Custom Cycles (TMCC) held its first annual dealer meeting Friday July 22nd which was a great success not only for our dealers but also for Thunder Mountain Custom Cycles. We would like to thank the 60 plus dealers that made the trip out to see

Hey, there’s been a major change to this story. As the Editor in Chief of Hot Bike we scheduled something completely different for the 13th issue of 2005. It was a five-chopper weekend run road test, written and photographed by five different guys with five different perspectives on five different bikes. That’s toast. The new

This is the Second Custom bike I’ve built for Jim White. Jim just happens to be the first guy to drive an NHRA Funny Car 299 MPH in 1991. He just barely missed the record books with the elusive round number of 300. In the same “I’m on fire!” year, Jim became the Number 1

New CVO hot rod Springer Softail with 110-inch Twin Cam.MILWAUKEE (July 14, 2006) – Harley-Davidson will launch the Twin Cam 96, an all-new Big Twin engine, as it introduces its 2007 line of motorcycles. The Twin Cam 96 will power all models in the Harley-Davidson Dyna, Softail and Touring product families, each of which will

China’s been in the news big time, not just lately but for the past couple thousand years. People there came up with everything from gunpowder to the compass to paper and ink. They needed lots of paper and ink since the Chinese language consists of 80,000 different symbols. And about that gunpowder. It was discovered