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Seventy-nine years old and still stopping people mid-step. John and Craig of The Eazy Co. rolled an all-chrome 1947 Knucklehead into the inaugural Idle Hands Chopper Show at Manchester Harley-Davidson, and we grabbed a walk-around of the whole thing. Click the photo to watch John and Craig walk through the build. ▶ Watch the Full Walk-Around on YouTube A Pile of Parts and a Borrowed Motor "It was the easiest bike we've ever built, if I'm going to be honest," the guys say. "It's just a pile of p …

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 …

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 …

Doug “Rainman” Jones built this 2005 XL1200 chopper the hard way. Five years in a home garage, late nights after work, and a whole lot of figuring it out as he went. No shortcuts, no fluff. Just a real bike built to ride. Builder Profile Doug Jones is 32 years old out of Greenville, South Carolina, where he runs a small garage setup called Rainman Garage. Before all this, he grew up in South Jersey riding mini bikes, dirt bikes, and skateboarding. From early on, he was drawn to gar …

This week we’re staying local in Massachusetts to spotlight a builder who does things his own way. Meet Junior Burke, 35, of Burke’s V-Twin in Westport, MA, and his FXR inspired 1999 Road King. Junior jokingly calls it the “FLHRSTXRLMNOP,” but most people know it as the Magenta Glide. How It Started Junior built his first chopper back in 2014, but the obsession started long before that. Like a lot of us, it began in middle school during the Fast and Furious era. Nobody …