Building Custom Motorcycles

Considering America's well-known love affair with custom motorcycles, you might think that the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building would be dominated by U.S.-based builders. Interestingly, though, this year marks the first time the top BMW Motorrad France commissioned award-winning motorcycle builder Fred "Krugger" Bertrand to build a custom one, and Krugger's finished work of art, above, puts the "rad" in "Motorrad." It's certainly polarizing. Love it or hate it, the Krugger K1600 View more images of the custom choppers built at Territorial Correctional machine shop supervisor, who created "Old Max Choppers" to teach inmates how to build a motorcycle with parts fabricated at the prison. This is a serious program, run in a Billy Joel is building a custom-made motorcycle for fellow rocker Bruce Springsteen. Joel owns a cycle shop in Oyster Bay, Long Island and says that Springsteen came down to take one of his best bikes for a spin and asked for Joel to build him one just It’s not a secret that Waukesha, Wis.-based Markel American Insurance Co. insures motorcycles and other recreational vehicles, but it is a surprise that its employees are accomplished builders of motorcycles. The company recently announced the completion So when I heard about a guy named Walt Siegl who was Building Custom Motorcycles in Harrisville, New Hampshire, I made a point to stop by. Siegl is a former Austrian cultural attache (and long-time motorcycle racer) who came to Harrisville from New York .

the two will build custom “World of Warcraft”-themed motorcycles, documenting the process in a Web series (see the teaser above). The Web series will launch April 17, with Teutul leading design teams guided by Blizzard’s Chris Metzen and “Samwise As the start point for the annual Distinguished Gentleman's Ride, it was a gathering of classic and custom motorcycle enthusiasts shop inside an old industrial building in Wong Chuk Hang, on the south side of Hong Kong island, Guillaume describes Arlen Ness and his son Cory are collaborating with The Kyle MacFarlane Foundation, to build a custom motorcycle that will help demonstrate, and draw attention to the importance of making healthy nutritional choices. The Kyle MacFarlane Foundation is Paul Jr. started Building Custom Motorcycles (choppers) in his father's shop, Orange County Choppers (OCC), which soon became popular with the debut series of Discovery Channel's "American Chopper". For years, father and son built uniquely and innovatively .