Our pal George from Chaos Cycle in Long Island, NY checked in with some pics of his latest build. The bike (dubbed the Mudhound) was built for a chop off that had George pitted against “a high dollar cnc, laser cut, OCC look alike that probally paid more for their rear wheel then I had out of pocket to build mine” (his words). Guess who the crowd picked as the winner? Congrats on the win George, always nice to see the low dollar take a win from the overpriced tomfoolery that still seems to pervade the industry.

Check out Chaos Cycle at www.chaoscycle.com

Our pal Benny from Boneshaker Choppers in the UK checked in with some info & pics of the new project he’s starting up. Boardtracker frames for Sportsters - righteous. I’ll let Benny give you the low down:

These are are own, all made in house. The basic premise is similar to the Flyrite stuff, you can build a bargain basement one with an old 4 spd donor bike, you can go nuts and build an all out deathtrap with a stonking motor in it, or we can build them for you and supply them ready to ride. The idea being a vintage styled bike that you aren’t afraid to thrash the living daylights out of.

I teamed up with the Harvey brothers and I am building two complete bikes to show around and get a bit of interest. We are building them under the name Thomas-Harvey wich is a part of Boneshaker Choppers. We have a website but it’s still in early stages, here’s the address: www.thomas-harvey.com/index.htm

I know there are boardtrack inspired chassis about but they mostly lean towards the chopper side of things, with curved tanks and gay bits. Ours are pretty basic, no compromise bikes loosley based on 1915 KT Racers. There will be two models - the Racer, which you can see in the photos and we will be doing the Thomas-Harvey Flyer wich will have leaf spring forks, narrower tanks etc. and be a bit prettier. Things are still in the development stages but we are looking for selected dealers and are taking orders for the chassis and complete bikes now.

Bitchin. Nice to see more custom platforms geared towards Sportsters.

Trent from Atomic Customs built this bitchin’ Panhead chopper for Tim from Skateloaded.com and then Gary Griffin from Good Luck Photo took some seriously killer pics of it.

The bike is really straight up classic, all the bits and pieces fit and flow together really well. The megaphone muffles great and yup, that’s a Warbird taillight chillin on the sissy bar.

The photo above and the first photo below were shot by Gary. The others are from Trent.

Caleb at Cro Customs built this bad ass shovelhead for his pal Will. Caleb sent me just a short note about it…

My good friend JD helped out in the final days, pulling together the light mount, pipes, tank and other odds and ends. This thing was thrown together from Will’s pile of parts in a week or so.

What could you “throw together” in a week or so? Exactly. Saying he nailed it is beyond obvious. For some reason this bike reminds me of thrash metal. Looks raw, fast and ready to mosh… that’s right, mosh.

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Ian Barry builds some gorgeously simple british motorcycles.
Clean, elegant and tough all rolled into one. A functional work of art some might say.
Check out the his work on the website for his shop: Falcon Motorcycles

Let’s open up April with a solid fist to the jaw shall we? Benny from boneshaker choppers sent in this sweet low slung zero engineering / chica inspired pan. Lots of killer details, some subtle, some right in your face - it’s a nice mix. No doubt it’s got the “looks fast and mean standing still” thing going on. Click the read more link below to see a bunch more pics and read the whole story, with tech specs from Benny.

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Listen up chumly, I’m gonna turn the mic over to Josh, he’s gonna give you the downlow on this this righteous XS650 chopper.

This 1977 XS650 D was built by G&L Choppers in Colorado Springs, CO with
help from the owner Ron B. from Castle Rock, CO. We originally built
the frame and the battery box last year for Ron. The rest of his first
go around was built in his garage taking three weeks. He then rode her
to Sturgis. This year Ron came back to G&L Choppers to upgrade his
forwards controls with our set. At least that’s where it started. With
the help of Ron we totally transformed his original build into what you
see before you. Here’s a short list of what was done.

Owner: Ron B. Castle Rock, Co
Bike: 1977 XS650 D
Frame: G&L Choppers
Electric Box: G&L Choppers
Carbs: 34mm Mikuni’s w/G&L Choppers Turnout intakes
Pipes: stockers Mikes XS
Fender: G&L Choppers/Owner Ribbed style rear
Tail light: Side mount Model A style G&L Choppers
Headlight: 5 3/4
Wiring: G&L Choppers
Tank: Sportster mounted by Owner
Bars: Clip on bars
Forward Controls/Pegs: G&L Choppers
Right Hand Jockey Shifter: G&L Choppers
Paint: G&L Choppers (HOK) Kandy Root Beer Base over Gold Base

Richard Ford, owner, G&L Choppers
719-550-0096
glchoppers@msn.com
www.freewebs.com/glchoppers

Hands down, this is one of the nicest XS650 choppers I’ve laid my peepers on. I talk about the lines of a bike a lot because to me, with out a good flow from front to back, the whole thing is shot. No doubt that this one’s got the flow. The throw back retro paint design fits in perfect, it’s a simple design but it’s got a lot of style. The clip-ons and sporty tank work real good together, bugger looks mean. The battery box and fake oil tank is done perfectly, I can really dig that as someone who is having to deal with the same thing on my project. Shit is hot, dig into it.

As promised, a legitimate shit-ton of photos of the new Choppahead modern Triumph build. Some lucky SOB in California is gonna get his grubby mitts on this. Dig it.

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A small sampling of photos of the French Kiss Kustoms setup at the Smokeout this year.
The lime bike is still one of my absolute favorite bikes around, and it looks even better in person than the pics I had seen.

If you were at the Smokeout in North Carolina this year, you probably ogled this bike for a while - rightfully so. I did a quick photoshoot with the bike on Saturday - here’s a quick preview of what’s to come. Choppahead seems to have chopping these new Trumps down solid - sick.

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An early preview of one of this years Smoke Out West chop-off bikes.
Can’t wait to see this one finished.
http://www.fouracescycle.com/

Mark “Duckman” over at dbbp.com has posted a bunch of pics of the winning bikes from the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building on his site. The bike above was built by Cook Customs, who many of you might know from the Horse, or by the crazy Norton they built for last year’s Horse Smoke Out. Great looking scoot, it came in 4th. The bike below, which was the over all winner, built by SE Service out of Sweden ranks high in my book. While the rest of the show is filled with a lot of swoopy, over done examples of one-upmanship - there are a handful of nice bikes littered throughout the winners.

Spice MC is a shop out of Tokyo Japan that builds some killer chops. Lots of cool American iron done up Japanese style. Check out their site and click on the works section to see a ton of their work.

Spice MC Website: http://www.spice-mc.com/

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Here’s a few more pics I took at the Choppahead Booth at the Boston Motorcycle Expo. Dig into this sweet olive green trump and check out a bunch of detail pics by clicking on the read more link below

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Simply said, Bill Mize builds some sick fucking choppers. I really dig the green chopper he built… actually I really dig all the choppers he’s built. Can’t wait to see more from him in the future.

Check out his website at: www.mizedesigns.com

More pics of his bikes by clicking on the read more link below. (All pics (C) Mize Designs)

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