Considering America’s well-known love affair with custom motorcycles, you might think that the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building would be dominated by U.S.-based builders.

There’s nothing quite like a chopper. That stretched-out, low rider look, courtesy of extended forks with custom steering head angles, hardtail frames, and ape hangers. It’s like poetry in motion. In ...

Having started building motorcycles in 2002, at the age of 28, Jesse Rooke was one of the promising young bloods of the custom bikes industry. Sadly, he passed away in 2019 following a motorcycle ...

The idea of having a custom motorcycle is one to pump up any true bikehead, no doubt. For some, building one themselves is even more satisfying. Even so, a big question lingers: Are home-built or ...

Ron Blum's 6,000-square-foot workshop in the Willowbrook area has airbrushed murals along the walls, a bright red floor, furniture he's made out of steel and Medieval-era decor. His workshop for ...

If you are into motorcycles, whether you own some, dream to ride one, or just appreciate the craftmanship, then this weekend ...

The Monster Chopper is equipped with custom hydraulic steering. This video explores whether the hydraulic steering will work ...

Like many people who take up bicycle building, Tony Pereira and Ira Ryan are avid cyclists who began experimenting in their home garages, welding together bike frames. Several years after founding ...

At the 2014 gathering of the One Show, on the second floor of a Portland warehouse packed to the rafters with the nation’s finest custom motorcycles, one bike clearly stood out: a bike known as “The ...