Jim Brando’s artwork is a very personal tribute to bikers, but until this weekend he had never mixed the ashes of a deceased person into his palette of paints. Saturday, Brando and five other artists ...

There are a lot of reasons why you might want to paint a motorcycle engine. Maybe you're doing a custom paint job and you want the engine to match. Perhaps you dropped your bike and there are now ...

Several months ago I bought a used chopper from its original owner. Great bike, but it had a ridiculous-looking “Tribal tattoo” paint job that was pretty much the exact opposite of anything I would ...

In the world of custom motorcycle shops, the base bike is the most important element, then come the added pieces of hardware, and only at the end, the cherry on the cake, the paint job. That generally ...

Cory SaintClair airbrushes intricate details of a model’s face onto the hood of a car. His technique involves applying paint in very faint layers, so faint, in fact, that the spray is not visible in ...

Harley-Davidson has been busy – and with 2021 coming to an end, the American motorcycle manufacturer shows no signs of slowing down. Harley has just released a special edition of their Street Glide ...

For Harley-Davidson motorcycle lovers, Christmas actually comes in January. That's when the American bike maker reveals the plans it has for the year that just started, covering everything from ...

Lowriders have been obsessed with custom paint since the invention of bunny ear antennas and 14-inch Cragar wheels. If candies, flakes, and pearls were drugs, you could say that plenty of us have had ...

For as long as there has been motorized vehicles, there have been those owners who want to customize those vehicles, to make them stand out, to achieve a different look. BackYard Kustoms, of Ware, is ...

Custom painted motorcycle helmets are now easier than ever to get on your head thanks to a new partnership between Bell Helmets and Helmade. Right now, the personal touch is limited to the Star MIPS ...

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — Rick Murray treats his life like the cars and motorcycles in it - custom. “Full custom. I don’t like normal cars at all,” he said. Murray’s daily driver is hand-painted candy ...