Modifying motorcycles to make more speed by reducing weight is a tradition stretching back to before WWII. These "bob jobs" or "bobbers" strip anything not necessary, leaving a lighter and nimbler ...

Orange County Choppers (OCC) is the sometimes troubled, but always entertaining motorcycle fabricator chronicled on the reality television show "American Chopper" for over a decade. OCC was founded by ...

There’s nothing quite like a chopper. That stretched-out, low rider look, courtesy of extended forks with custom steering head angles, hardtail frames, and ape hangers. It’s like poetry in motion. In ...

If you’re a custom motorcycle builder and there’s one event where you fantasize about showcasing your build, it has to be Japan’s Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show. It’s the crème de la crème of custom ...

Adding gold to anything, let alone a motorcycle, isn’t in itself a guarantee that the thing will be classier, more beautiful, more valuable or otherwise more special. In the wrong hands, it could turn ...

These radical machines were never meant to be practical, and that was the whole point.

With experience of handling leading global sites like ZigWheels, Punya is an avid motorcyclist who has been in the industry for over half a decade. He is always up for a ride to the canyons or the ...

Like it or not, the custom motorcycle industry is heavily dominated by men. In fact, if it weren’t for a few notable exceptions, one could easily say that the industry is not dominated by men, but it ...

If you had to pick just one thing that the Cboys are known for, it'd be taking machines that are only ever meant to see pavement and torturing them off-road. The first time we at RideApart covered ...

Back in the Noughties, when cafe racers were all the rage and the global custom scene went through a renaissance of sorts, it was easy to see choppers as a dinosaur-style of bike. Representing the ...

Coming from a big Italian family, Anthony relishes in being the black sheep as the only adrenaline junkie. Even though he has gone bungee-jumping, rock-climbing, cliff diving, fought in mixed martial ...