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Any of you guys with highly customized/personalized Speedmasters and Americasever submit pictures of your bikes to The Horse?

I'd like to submit mine for a feature story in their mag.....

I would say my speedy is mainly "personalised" rather than "customized" and that although I loves it, I do not believe it would warrant an exposay in a magazine.
Some of the motorcycles I have seen here are certainly "customized" and may be appropriate.
Dont they just do Hardlys in Horse magazine?

All makes......alot of back yard builds

Unless you are ready to hardtail it, put a sportster tank, and a shite paint job on it, I don't think they would be interested.

A year back there was a chromed out america in the back talk section.

Some of the bikes here would make it with no problem the editor is British and love triumphs though he told me the america/speedy is not a style he likes.

They hang around this forum some.
http://www.thechopperunderground.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50690

How could you not like Americas or Speedmasters???

He's a British cigarette.

and what would ya deem a shite paint job.

Most commonly is when some POUSER take's a perfectly good tank (paint) and DELIBERATELY F's it up (dent it, scuff up the finish) to look cool.

friggin' cigarettes!



I love the mag, and IF you ever read it, they post just about EVERYTHING done back yard style.

Yeah the Horse is more aimed at the garage built/chopped bike, not modified factory bikes. There are plenty of other magazines for that.

I've been reading the Horse for the past two years, they featured one of the hardtailed Bonnies from LC Fabrications in it about a year and a half ago, that bike was also featured in Cycle Source as well. I'd have to dig through them to find exactly what issues they were in. They are primarily a hardtail chopper magazine and don't really cover bikes where the owner hasn't made most of the parts themselves, and not "cataloged assembled" like most of us do.

I've been subscriber for about 5 years. Our bikes are too new, maybe in 5-6 years you'll see them pop up.
Magazine is changing slightly, not for the better either. Too many scantily dressed girls now, they used to be pretty frugal with these pictures but now the magazine comes with a brown wrapper and in plastic. I can see scantily dressed girls a lot of places, I'd rather see more bike details.
One of the guys in my Baltimore riders club, a former Navy aviator has his Triumph in this months addition:

I don't think that it has any more scantily clad women than it normally does, heck you can still buy it off the news stand at Walmart. I'd say you're right though, you don't see any of our bikes for the same reason that you don't see new Harley chops, nobody wants to chop up new bikes. They do a pretty good job of spreading out the coverage, there is usually always at least one older model Trumpet chopper and usually an XS650 along with the requisite pans and shovels. You usually don't even see any evo choppers either with the exception of the occasional sportster chop.

There isn't an issue that doesn't have a Honda, yamaha, kawasaki, Susuki, Triumph, H.D., and sometimes a BMW or a Duke. They REALLY DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS, AS LONG AS IT HAS "SOUL"


This issue has "The ten most common myths about the horse, dispelled or confirmed"

They ran el nomad's (Charlie) story about the 3,200 mile Stampede that he won (arrived first) in 50 hours, ON HIS HONDA 750.

Read it!

No, I don't NEED scantily clad women while reading a motorcycle mag., but I don't believe I'll ever get TIRED of it.

Sometimes the editorials get to me, but I just skip them most of the time. They had Dee Sniders awful bike in there a few months ago, apparently some ploy to get air time on a new A&E tv show he was in. I do like the variety of bikes, they are not all HD's.

What I haven't liked lately is
1. Hammers editorials seem like AAA travel short stories.
2, George's (GTP) stories are all whining about his pain.
3. Englishman seems to be having a mid-life crises, reliving his glory days.
4. The new breed of poseur, TRYING purposely to make their bikes look well worn by sanding down perfectly good tanks, tins, etc. for effect. (including the "greasy tire with whitewall protectant soap left on" tires)

But it does look like their getting over it and getting back on track.

Charlie's bringing youth back to the mag., and I truly enjoy EVERY article from Doug Wothke, and his low budget trips around the world. His light hearted approach is refreshing, and the bits about the small bribes to customs and local police are funny.