chopper Articles
The Star Raider SCL has a holographic tank badge
In 1989, Upper Deck began producing baseball cards. They were the innovators that brought us high quality card stock, tamper proof foil packaging and most importantly, holographic logos. By 1992, Topps was selling cards that had the player's name and team stamped in a banner gold foil. Soon enough, the entire card became holographic and you could collect sets of them from such upscale establishmen...
Born Free 3: metal is the message at California's coolest bike show
Hi, my name is Dave and I'm a concours-holic... Recovering, happy to say, but oh I had it bad, a certified carnauba-in-the-blood addict always with a Q-tip on hair-trigger, ready to banish that last offending fleck of dust. In the five years that I spent as a d'elegance devotee, I took home my share of hardware, including numerous bests-in-class and even a best-of-show. Then it all changed. I was ...
Custom: Pangea Speed Zion Express
“The bike was originally going to be called ‘the transient’ with a bunch of hand painted homeless dudes painted on a super narrow stretched tank,” says Andy Carter from Pangea Speed. “After staring at it for a long time I started to change my mind on it and want to do something a little more out there. I started sketching some wild looking stuff, this is what I came up with.” Wild i...
The race-engineered Buell hardtail
How do you turn a profit operating a tiny European race team that runs bikes from a tiny American manufacturer? If you’re Pegasus, you leverage your experience and expertise racing Buells into designing parts for the hundreds of thousands of brand loyalists who suddenly find themselves hung out to dry by Harley. First, they unveiled the EBR 1190RR Typhon and plan to sell conversion parts for the...
Time Machine Triumph: when Trackmaster met Tracy
My friend Brian Dietz is a cruel man. Like me, he shares an unhealthy fascination for the non-stock – cafe-racers, street-trackers, bob-jobs, choppers...anything uncommon, interesting or flat-out oddball. So a week before Christmas when he e-mailed photos of a strange and wonderful Triumph with the note, "This needs to be under your tree for Xmas, I'm in a dealing mood, make me an offer," I knew...
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