DeWalt recently commissioned the creation of a custom motorcycle that was designed to represent the brand during a company event. The tool manufacturer makes a few products aimed at general automotive ...

Royal Enfield is one of those rare brands that naturally lends itself to one-off custom builds. Case in point: the "Project Delta," a classic custom motorcycle that draws inspiration from the ...

It's hard not to compare Harley Davidson and Indian Motorcycles. Harley has an incredibly powerful reputation when it comes to American-made bikes. The brand is what Levi Straus is to denim, what Coca ...

All motorcycles need to be customized to some extent. New motorcycles are set up for a rider of average height and weight, and there is, strangely, no real industry standard for this. Each ...

Waterjet cutting is increasingly used by custom motorcycle builders who need exact shapes without heat-related distortion. Combining creativity with precision fabrication, it enables complex parts ...

ST. HELENA — More than 40 years ago, Mike Nieman and Tom Harding learned about Harley-Davidson motorcycles while they attended William Bowers’ classes at St. Helena High School. “He was the machine ...

Boyd Dingman sits atop his Blackbird custom built motorcycle. Dingman has five custom built bikes on display at the Papillion Dingman's Collision Center location. Boyd Dingman does custom work to the ...

The hardest thing a custom motorcycle shop can do is not create a project based on an existing two-wheeler, but go for a full custom build. That would be one together from scratch, or by using parts ...

Ever heard of a “cool down lap?” It’s the circuit you do of a racetrack on your bike between trying to set your best time and pulling back into the pits. Usually there’s still other bikes on track, so ...

Dmitry is a former Motorcycle Safety Foundation Rider-Coach, a writer of several fiction novels, a travel junky and an occasional YouTuber. He's owned and ridden a lot of motorcycles, loves vintage ...