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Sure, this custom Honda ACE 750 is radical from every angle, from its look-at-me shape to its humongous rear tire. But when parked next to customs with seven-grand paint jobs, it’s the rust that draws the attention.
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The New Honda Pro-Street
In the world of custom metric cruisers, two V-Twin models really stand out in terms of popularity. At the higher end is the Yamaha Roadstar, a big air-cooled motor boasting more than 1600cc displacement. It’s been a huge success with both riders and bike builders. At the lower end is the Honda 750 Shadow in its various guises of Sprint, ACE and Spirit. It’s small, compact and cool. Get either, and you’re sure to have a ready supply of aftermarket parts to make the bike your way.
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If You Can’t Have Lambo… Candy Tangerine Dream
“I was raised on dirt bikes,” says Martz Galura, “but when I got on a friend’s cruiser, I fell in love with it.” Martz bought a Suzuki Volusia 800 to help satisfy his streetbike jones, but soon decided that the V-twin was too small for the highways in Oklahoma where he lives. He soon doubled his pleasure by buying a big Kawasaki 1600 Vulcan. “I loved the way the tank was designed and how the bike is low and has a longer stance,” he said.
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Brian Caudle’s Bike On A Budget
It was Brian’s dream. “I always wanted a hardcore chopper, old-school, plain and simple. “I knew it was going to happen one way or another.”
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In V-Twin, we feature a lot of bikes that are built by shops for customers. While they’re often quite impressive, the most impressive bikes tend to be the ones the shop owners build for themselves. This radical red ride is not only the personal bike of Jason Conley, owner of Coyote Customs ( www.coyotecustoms.com) on Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, but it was also used to prototype a number of his new products. |
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Thirty-six years ago, when the film Easy Rider came out, people started chopping their Harleys. The reverberations from that movement are still being felt. Now another such movement is underway; one of the hottest trends in customization today is to chop metric bikes, and it’s wild.
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In 2002, Rick Barnett of Pinehurst, Texas, bought a Yamaha Road Star Silverado, the touring model with windshield and saddlebags. While he was reading V-Twin one day, he saw a bike called the “General Lee” that was customized in the style of the car on The Dukes of Hazzard TV show. That bike was built by Jason Conley of Coyote Customs in Oklahoma City. Barnett wanted a bike like it, so he arranged to meet Conley at the Dallas Easyriders Show. They struck a deal, and, “I told him to go crazy with it,” Barnett said.
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In the competitive customization world, the customizers are competing not only with each other but also with themselves. When Coyote Customs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, went from a little 1,000-square-foot shop to over 4,000-square-feet, owner Jason Conley, not only wanted to build a better shop, but also a better motorcycle.
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"Un-chromed Cool". In 2004, the guys from Coyote Customs decided at the last mintue to make the 13 hour drive to Knoxville, TN for the annual Honda Hoot event. We took our customer Max's "Mad Max" chopper, our green 750 ACE, and Papa Wheelie came along with his custom VTX 1300. When we pulled into the event, a photographer flagged us down and asked if he could take a few pictures of our bikes. About 6 months later we received a phone call at the shop from Bill Stermer, who has written every article about us in V-Twin magazine to do a story on "Mad Max". This bike is a raw, bare bones bike built with nothing special. Just built to be different and cool. It is the motivation behind our custom frames that we will soon be releasing for the Honda 750 line. I like the layout of this magazine because it gives you a price breakdown of what the work cost and who did each item. Make sure and pick up a copy and check out the article. Bill did a great job as usual.
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It all began with a broken clutch cable. Jeremy Fallis was out riding his Vulcan 800 one day, when the cable popped. So he called his brother-in-law, Jason Conley, and asked him to come get the bike. Luckily, Conley owns Coyote Customs in Oklahoma City (www.coyotecustoms.com), so he had all the tools, equipment and know-how to deal with such a minor problem.
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