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That's a Stretch: Honda VLX 600 Chopper
Charlie Guss's 1989 Honda VLX 600 wasn't a traditional chopper platform. Guss grew up in the do-it-yourself days of the 1960s and '70s --... more |
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Race Bred: Muzzys' Kawasaki 1500
Aftermarket manufacturers can take two routes when it comes to developing parts for a motorcycle. In the past, firms often designed their... more |
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Motorcycle Windshield Care & Cleaning
The plastic used to make motorcycle windshields is not as scratch-resistant as the glass windshield on your car, and as a result you can... more |
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Jet Kits & Carburetion Basics
Fundamentally, increasing fuel flow means installing larger jets in the carburetor. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Trust me, I've been doing it... more |
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Get Ready to Ride: Prepare for a Safe Motorcycle Riding Season
For riders in cold-weather regions, it's almost time to unpickle your bike. If your motorcycle has spent a long winter's night out of... more |
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Powder Coating & Polishing Basics
For as long as humans have been working with metal, we have been polishing it for the simple pleasure that the sheen brings to the viewer.... more |
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Shimmering Stars
NEWS FLASH: Cruiser riders like to customize their bikes. Okay, so you've known it all along, but Japanese motorcycle manufacturers seem to... more |
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All About Wire Wheels
Spoked wheels are popular with cruisers because of their classic style, but customizers like spoked wheels for their flexibility. The look... more |
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Orange You a Vulcan?
If you were the proverbial kid in the candy store, you'd walk around in a sugary daze, chocolate drooling off your mug, nougat glazing your... more |
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Sole Mio: A Ducati Chopper
You don't often catch a glimpse of Italian cruisers on the boulevard. Andy Italian motorcycles that have been seriously modified... more |
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Monitoring Engine Health
Some folks never seem to worry about their engines, and some people fuss over them all the time. The former group is getting larger as... more |
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Denny Berg and the Copper Chopper
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ride one of those super customs you see at shows and in magazines like this? more |
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Denny Berg and the Yellow Submarine
You've just got to love the look of the "Low Star," a custom that Cobra and Denny Berg built for the show circuit when Yamaha first... more |
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Denny Berg and the Carbon-Fiber Pearl Bamboo Jewel
Denny Berg has built all kinds of custom motorcycles since 1970. Starting his career as a tuner, Berg quickly moved to producing cafe racer... more |
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Vulcan 1500 Pipe Dream
What sort of custom do you build if you have won a fistful of world and national Superbike championships? That's was the question facing... more |
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Installing Race Tech Cartridge Emulators in Your Fork
If you read magazines that feature sporting motorcycles, you probably know that cartridge forks have been all the rage for a while. By... more |
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Home-Style Cookin' - A Radical 1400 Intruder
This radical Suzuki 1400 chopper is sort of a bike from a different era. The motorcycle Arnold Garlick started with is little different... more |
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Servicing Spark Plugs
Spark plugs live a hard life: high pressure, extreme temperatures, and constant explosions. Should we be surprised that the motorcycle... more |
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Cliff Randall's Vulcan Keeps Evolving
"The only guys who know the edge are the ones that have gone over it." - Hunter S. Thompson more |
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Customize Honda's VLX 600 with Bolt-On Accessories
In the 15 years that Honda's Shadow VLX has been manufactured, the bike has sold well. The combination of low price, good looks, and decent... more |
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Bust Rust the Easy, Safe Way
Rust never sleeps, as Neil Young observed, and cruisers who live in climates with seasons that include a real winter annually face the sad... more |
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Five Steps to Choosing a Paint Shop to Paint Your Custom Motorcycle
Want to know? Ask a pro. Ever since I wrote the custom paint article for the April '97 issue of Motorcycle Cruiser I've been interested in... more |
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4 Honda VTX 1800 Customs
In many ways, Honda's VTX1800 represents form over function. It is very nearly the antithesis of the "engineering first" asthetic that's... more |
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Riding Patrick Racing's Yamaha Warrior
Drag racing exists in a strange world where time both slows down and speeds up simultaneously. In a sport where winners are determined by... more |
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Rumble Road Speaker System
Most of the aftermarket speakers we've seen for cruisers are cumbersome, ill-fitting units producing tinny wails of sound, so the Rumble... more |
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