A little Salt Flat influenced | XS650 Chopper

A little Salt Flat influenced | XS650 Chopper

A little Salt Flat influenced

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- Finished!

Hello, My name is Mike McFadden and I live in Owensboro, KY and work out of my shop beside my home going by the name of M&M Customs below is the info on the “Salt Shaker” build. I finally finished up the XS650, as you can see here. The bike came to me from a Yamaha District Manager after talking about a 72 CB500 Café I was working on at that time. The bike was sent to a local Yamaha dealer and I picked it up with the Bill of Sale in hand.  The bike is a 1980 XS650 Special and has about 8000 miles on the odometer. It hadn’t ran in awhile due to some brake issues up front. I brought it home started to cut and just went with what I could do in the garage

A little Salt Flat influenced | XS650 Chopper

A little Salt Flat influenced | XS650 Chopper

A little Salt Flat influenced

Posted in Monthly Feature - Comments { 11 }

- Finished!

Hello, My name is Mike McFadden and I live in Owensboro, KY and work out of my shop beside my home going by the name of M&M Customs below is the info on the “Salt Shaker” build. I finally finished up the XS650, as you can see here. The bike came to me from a Yamaha District Manager after talking about a 72 CB500 Café I was working on at that time. The bike was sent to a local Yamaha dealer and I picked it up with the Bill of Sale in hand.  The bike is a 1980 XS650 Special and has about 8000 miles on the odometer. It hadn’t ran in awhile due to some brake issues up front. I brought it home started to cut and just went with what I could do in the garage

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DesignApplause | Shaw f1-xlr harley nightster.

DesignApplause | Shaw f1-xlr harley nightster


Very fond of the Harley Davidson Sportster for many reasons. The size, the handling and the styling. When someone tweaks the original design I’m interested. The Shaw F1-XLR Harley Nightster is a design transformation of the mainstay HD Sportster, a somewhat de-chromed (blacked out) Nightster, and the English custom design shop [ Shaw Speed and Custom ] HD does itself offer black-out custom DIY models.





This bike is a prototype. The big 21-inch wheels and the heavy redesign of the seat, rear fender and swingarm gives the bike a very aggressive profile. The pipes are one-off that look very loud.

Custom Harley Night Train

Custom Harley Night Train

CUSTOM HARLEY NIGHT TRAIN

Harley hasn’t attempted to create a modern-looking bike since the 2002 VRSCA V-Rod. And you can’t mine the past forever, even if parts of that past—the XR-750, for example—are very evocative. So I got to wondering, what should a cool, contemporary Harley muscle bike look like? I think the answer has got to be pretty close to this one, built by photographer Richard Krall. The bike is a 2007 FXSTB Softail Night Train with relatively subtle but very effective mods that transform the look of the machine. The biggest change that Krall made is at the front end, which now comes from a Suzuki 750 and will probably improve handling. 

WASTED WHEELS: Sportster

WASTED WHEELS: Sportster

This japanese inspired sportster was build by Atari-san Kustom Chopper Works from France. Besides being one of their coolest bikes is Atari-san's personal ride. The gas tank is a piece of beauty.