Modifying motorcycles to make more speed by reducing weight is a tradition stretching back to before WWII. These "bob jobs" or "bobbers" strip anything not necessary, leaving a lighter and nimbler ...

Choppers were around before Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper starred in the 1969 film "Easy Rider," where Fonda rides the now-famous "Captain America" chopper. The movie, however, most ...

"This thing's gonna be a chungus!" In the northern tip of Idaho, 70-odd miles from Spokane, Washington, a magnificently silly project is underway: a colossal batpod of a motorcycle with a KTM motor, ...

If you’re a custom motorcycle builder and there’s one event where you fantasize about showcasing your build, it has to be Japan’s Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show. It’s the crème de la crème of custom ...

Back in the Noughties, when cafe racers were all the rage and the global custom scene went through a renaissance of sorts, it was easy to see choppers as a dinosaur-style of bike. Representing the ...

“It’s not a motorcycle, baby, it’s a chopper.” So explains Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) to girlfriend Fabienne (Maria de Medeiros) before they roar right out of Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 game changer, ...