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The $10,000 grand prize at the Idle Hands Chopper Show went home with Josh (@doom_cvlt) and his bone-white machine, Pale Horse. Raw, hand-built, and ridden into the show, the bike stood out in a field packed with killer custom motorcycles. Josh with Pale Horse and the $10,000 grand prize at the 2026 Idle Hands Chopper Show. ▶ Watch the Full Build on YouTube Pale Horse is built around a Paughco frame with a six-over wide glide front end mounted in narrow trees. Power comes from a 110-inch Evol …

The Idle Hands Chopper Show went down Saturday, July 11th at Manchester Harley-Davidson in Hooksett, New Hampshire, and it turned the whole lot into a sea of homebuilt choppers. Presented by the crew behind The Lowlife Podcast, the show was built around one simple idea: give garage builders a real stage and let the bikes do the talking. Choppers only, just raw hand-built machines that got ridden in. The Lowlife Podcast crew took it to another level too. Through their Patreon and a whole lot of l …

The Proper Baggers Meetup and Performance Show went down Friday, June 19th in the upper lot at Laconia Harley-Davidson during the 103rd Laconia Motorcycle Week, and it did not disappoint. Laconia H-D billed it as an evening of thrills and motorcycles. That is exactly what we got: wall to wall performance baggers, FXRs, and club style builds, plus burnouts and stunt riding until the smoke rolled over the whole lot. Deadbeat Customs was set up as a vendor alongside a killer lineup including Kraus …

Biltwell just dropped the all new Tahoe Helmet and it is available now at Deadbeat Customs. Sitting right between the Bonanza and the Gringo S, the Tahoe is the first Biltwell open face helmet engineered to meet both US DOT and European ECE R22.06 safety standards, and it comes with a built in bubble shield straight out of the box. Biltwell’s First Dual Certified Open Face Helmet Biltwell has been building helmets riders actually want to wear for two decades, and the Tahoe is the next ste …

Photos courtesy of Chris Kong Chris Kong built this 1975 FLH Shovelhead the way good bikes should be built. A clear vision, a pile of parts he’d been sitting on, and the patience to make things fit that were never meant to. A barebones tough-guy chopper with retro heart, built entirely by one person in a small personal workshop in Perth, Western Australia. Builder Profile Chris Kong is 35 years old out of Perth, Western Australia, where he runs a small personal workshop capable of hand …