Custom Motorcycles

Custom Motorcycles
Author: Howard Kelly
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009-11-07
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780760336076

Whether you're building a chopper, a bobber, or a customized bagger--or simply adding personality to a stock cruiser--you want your bike to stand out. It is, after all, an original. For inspiration or direction, from the big idea to the finest detail, look no further than this book. With hundreds of examples of what builders and painters and passionate owners have done with their bikes, Custom Motorcycles is a great way to get started--or to fine-tune a concept. Custom front ends, tanks, paint, frames, wheels, and more--every inch of a motorcycle can be customized, and every step of the process is covered in this book. Packed with over 700 photos and detailed information on any problem you might encounter, the book is the first and most valuable tool that anyone customizing a bike should have.

How to Build a Bobber on a Budget

How to Build a Bobber on a Budget
Author: Jose de Miguel
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2008-02-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1610609654

In the old days all a person needed to build a killer custom motorcycle was a bike, a set of tools, a little know-how, and a creative vision. But with the rise of the high-dollar, haute moteur Gucci choppers, the true custom bike has gotten out of most riders’ reach, right? Dead wrong. In this book Jose de Miguel, a custom builder from way back, sets out to prove that those good old days never ended. In the clearest and simplest terms, he shows readers how they can turn odds and ends found around the shop into one-off motorcycle parts--and make a cheap, run-of-the mill custom build into a drop-dead show stopper. Following de Miguel’s lead, along with his straightforward illustrations, any resourceful owner with rudimentary mechanical skills, a basic tool kit, and--most importantly--a modicum of imagination can build the bobber of his dreams for less than the price of a new bike.

Choppers and Bobbers 2012

Choppers and Bobbers 2012
Author:
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780760340899

Choppers and bobbers are rebellion, art, and freedom of expression on two wheels. They are forged by craftsmen in shops ranging from one-stall garages to large, ultramodern facilities. Choppers, Bobbers, and Baggers 2012 features the best custom bikes from some of the hottest builders in America. Each month features a full-bleed, studio-shot main image accompanied by a secondary detail or builder photo. Captions offer details about the bike and its builder.

How to Build a Chopper, Bobber, CafT Racer, Street Tracker, and Other Custom Motorcycles

How to Build a Chopper, Bobber, CafT Racer, Street Tracker, and Other Custom Motorcycles
Author: Paul Wideman
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780760345405

All the tricks, tips, and techniques necessary to fabricate your own custom bike, from start to finish. Paul Wideman started Bare Knuckle Choppers nearly a decade ago, driven by his passion for motorcycle fabrication and his penchant for precision. Coupling perfection with his drive for innovation, Paul has brought Bare Knuckle Choppers to the forefront of the American custom motorcycle scene, building numerous award-winning bikes and earning features in every major American motorcycle magazine. Now, it’s your turn. In How to Build Choppers, Bobbers, Café Racers, Street Trackers, and Other Custom Motorcycles, Wideman offers the first complete step-by-step fabrication manual for the hands-on DIY custom motorcycle builder. Where other books have spent too much time focused on only the bare-bones basics, or been more concerned with celebrity than actually building a bike, Wideman’s manual is the first and only fully illustrated, fully informative how-to guide all the way through: from conception and design to the fabrication of a complete motorcycle. And he doesn’t stop at just one or even a few types of machine—with a book title that’s true to its word, you’ll learn how to build traditional choppers, bobbers, café racers, street trackers, and many more, along with the finer points of materials, tools, applications, mounting systems, and other motorcycle accessories. Anyone can go buy a bike . . . it takes a real enthusiast, and a book that keeps up, to make one.

How to Build an Old Skool Bobber

How to Build an Old Skool Bobber
Author: Kevin Baas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781941064313

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Billy Lane’s How To Build Old School Choppers, Bobbers and Customs

Billy Lane’s How To Build Old School Choppers, Bobbers and Customs
Author: Billy Lane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release:
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781610608244

Billy Lane is the fastest-rising star among the high-profile custom chopper builders, and in this book he offers many of his secrets for building a chopper that will stand out in a crowd. This is the ultimate resource for any chopper builder-a book designed as a step-by-step guide to building any type of custom motorcycle. This book also covers custom-building beyond the chopper genre, including the building of "bobbers," an old-school style of custom that has been revived as a hot trend. Predating choppers, they are on the cutting edge of current biker "cool", for real riding, and are much safer and more functional than choppers. Billy Lane has been featured several times on the Discovery Channel's top rated series Biker Build-Off and the Monster Garage premiere episode. Plus, He was Easyriders Builder of the Year, and winner of numerous national Best in Show awards. This book shows Billy's inside secrets of constructing a complete motorcycle, from hand fabricating metalwork to adding the detail parts that will make your bike your own creation and stand out from the crowd. Hundreds of color photographs will lead the builder through the construction process.

British Custom Motorcycles

British Custom Motorcycles
Author: Uli Cloesen
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781845846213

This book takes a look at some of the fantastic British motorcycle-based custom bikes around the globe. From the old to the new, it shows that when it comes to customising British bikes, things go much further than the simple chopped Triumph parallel twin. A celebration of all things ‘custom Brit,’ it is the only book devoted entirely to the British custom motorcycle, revealing the innovative, fresh approach to British-based custom bike building. Whether you’re a Brit-bike devotee, or a fan of the custom motorcycle scene in general, this book is for you.

Outlaw Choppers -ECS

Outlaw Choppers -ECS
Author: Mike Seate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release:
Genre: Motorcycles
ISBN: 9781610591447

Choppers, originally the favored rides of outlaw bikers, represent the pinnacle of today's motorcycling chic. Choppers designed by top builders routinely command six-figure prices. Once relegated to the scrap heap of pop-culture history along with wide lapels, mutton-chop sideburns, and macram\233 vests, the chopper has returned to the cultural forefront. Today's choppers, rigid-framed, 125-horsepower steeds thrusting their extended forks down America's public highways, violate our sensibilities with their sheer outrageousness. Outlaw Choppers tells the story of these wild machines, where they came from, what's going on today, and where they're going in the future.

Art of the Bobber

Art of the Bobber
Author: Spencer Drate
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2006
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0760325316

Before choppers, there was the bobber. When American-brand motorcycle owners needed to change their rear tires decades ago, the rear fender featured a hinge near its center that would flip up to make room for the tire to be removed. At some point ,an enterprising rider decided to permanently remove the hinged rear portion of the fender - shortening the fender like the "bobbed" hair cuts popular during those days - or so the theory goes. The tradition of stripping down to a bike's bare essence and celebrating its simpler forms - making a bobber - was begun. As these lean, mean machines come roaring back onto the scene in a big way, this book offers a look at where the bobber came from, where it’s going, and what it’s about. With over 200 exclusive photographs of the most cutting-edge bobbers, biographies of the men and women who build them, and inside stories on top shops like Indian Larry, Von Dutch Kustoms, Orange County Choppers, Arlen Ness, Mitch Bergeron, and more. This book captures the rebel spirit of the ultimate custom bike as never before. Publisher's Note: This edition includes a poster on the reverse of the book's jacket.