Bar owners beware: If you see this sweet, little bobber outside your place of business, chances are, once it's gone, you'll be missing a minute, yet integral, part of your establishment's equipment.
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STREET CHOPPER ® Magazine Article - SEPTEMBER 2005
Seeing Red
Rejecting the Theme Machine By Todd Canavan/Photography: Hector De La Garza
THEME BIKES. IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK NOWADAYS. You've gotta love 'em or hate 'em, because they're all over the freakin' place. While they have been the staple of TV shows, T-shirt sales, and event attendance for a couple of years now, there was once a simpler time. Join us now on a journey into the past, where we'll investigate the evolution of the motorcycle and the creation of...[ read more ]
The Easyriders Bike Show Tour for 2004 kicked some serious ass! The Centerfold Tour featured many master hike builders that you may have seen on The Discovery Channel's The Great Biker Build-Off series. When you attended an Easyriders Bike Show last year, you had the chance to hobnob with the likes of Indian Larry, Billy Lane, Paul Yaffe, Kendall Johnson, Eddie Trotta, Rick Fairless and Kirn Suter...[ read more ]
The Easyriders Bike Show Tour for 2004 kicked some serious ass! The Centerfold Tour featured many master hike builders that you may have seen on The Discovery Channel's The Great Biker Build-Off series. When you attended an Easyriders Bike Show last year, you had the chance to hobnob with the likes of Indian Larry, Billy Lane, Paul Yaffe, Kendall Johnson, Eddie Trotta, Rick Fairless and Kirn Suter...[ read more ]
Unless you watch MTV's Spring Break or live in Texas , you may have never heard of South Padre Island . South Padre Island (or "The Island" to the locals) is located in Texas near Brownsville just above Matamoros , Mexico , on the Gulf of Mexico . Known regionally for its snow white sand and crystal clear water, South Padre Island is also the home of the "Roar By The Shore" Bike Fest held each year in October...[ read more ]
This is not your ordinary "build a pretty cool bike for no reason" story. This is a tale of a man who was trying to support a family of six as a trucker and made a bad career choice. That error in judgment cost him five years in the cross bar hotel. While in the big house, his family did the best they could to make ends meet and provide for each other; one of Santos "Pops" sons became a truck driver, his daughters worked around town and Johnny opened a custom bike shop...[ read more ]
When I build a bike, I want to have the picture of how it will look in my head before I turn my first wrench. I usually have at least a rough draft of the final product before I even start. Some call this vision, others call this a "theme." There has been some debate as to what the term "theme" actually means when speaking of custom built bikes...[ read more ]
When most people think of Texas , they think of The Dallas Cowboys, Lance Armstrong or maybe Lone Star Beer but, when I think of Texas , I think of Johnny's Custom Shop. Johnny's Custom shop is located in McAllen , TX , 65 miles west of South Padre Island on the Rio Grande River . Johnny's is an old school Harley Shop specializing in all years and models of HDD's from Flatties to Evos...[ read more ]
Johnny Gil and Javier Pena have combined skill, craftsmanship and tenacious attention to detail to create "The Devil's Daughter," a radical 1959 Pro street Harley-Davidson Panhead. Gil and Pena have been working on the motorcycle for the past three years and both are extremely proud of the their 'daughter.'...[ read more ]
As times change and technology improves, styles and trends also change. But as history shows, trends and styling are cyclical and true art never goes out of style. One prime example is Sean Sweeney's 1952 BSA A10 chopper known as "the Beast." Sean has been riding bikes since he was 14 years old...[ read more ]
