Handbuilt Show 2025: Best Choppers & Bobbers

The Handbuilt Show always attracts some of the best and most interesting builds from around the country, and 2025 was no exception. As in previous years, our photographer Kody Melton was on hand to capture as many of the bike as possible, bringing the show right to your screen.

With nearly 500 photos of the 130+ bikes on display, we decided to divvy up the machines into three features: cafe and road racers, scramblers and trackers, and last but not least: choppers, bobbers, baggers, cruisers, and “wild things.” We’ve included a few comments about each bike from the builders themselves, where available.

Got a favorite? Let us know in the comments!

Handbuilt Show: Chops, Bobs, Wild Things, and More…

Photo credits: Kody Melton for BikeBound.

Hickory Flat Hot Rod II: Freddie Arnold

Panhead Bobber/Racer. 88 ci Panhead.. Ironhead sportster rear brake/ 1971 Triumph front brake. Handmade/ one off handlebars, exhaust/heat shields, fender bar, foot controls, tool box cover, seat/pan, tree/headlight shroud, modified 35mm frontend, etc.

The Hooligan: Butteras Metal Werx

Completely handcrafted polished stainless steel hotrod Panhead!

Rango: Gordon Olliff (@flaked_paint_and_design)

’86 FXR chopped 1 3/4 backbone, modified heritage front end with shaved lowers, 80 evo with sputhe 5 speed hand made oil tank, controls,exhaust frame and rear cowl. Bike was built to rip.

Triumph Thruxton 900 Bobber: Corban Gallagher

Mayhem: Xavier Muriel

Currently for sale. Contact [email protected] for details.

Sledgehammer: Hell’s Holler Chop Shop

70s style with a modern bulletproof drivetrain. Set up for my uncle to be able to rip in style!

Midnight Rider: Destroyer Garage

1978 FLH, matching motor, trans, frame, Weld on replica hard tail section, W&W springer front end windowed neck and smoothed. Dark burgundy pearl paint with pearl ghost flames Hand built stainless exhaust polished Hand built stainless strut support Hand built wheels 16”-21” wheel setup High frisco gas tank Narrowed and radius manta ray lowbrow fender Vcp brass top clamp Bates headlight Hand made suede leather seat Amethyst stones throughout Gold plated/brass accents throughout My design inspirations came from vintage drag racing. Dialed into my 60’s chopper scene inspo.

Kensei: Oscar Salas

KENSEI is a sleek and elegant…yet confident and aggressive street machine. Not unlike the true Samurai sword masters known as the KENSEI.

Hummer: Lee-L-Lange

Three-owner 1949 Harley-Davidson Hummer. Mostly original. Restored by Lee-L-Lange in Monroe, Washington. I received the bike from my younger brother’s father-in-law, Bart Clennon, in summer of 2024. He is the second owner. I also have original marketing materials and parts catalog.

Veloce: Dozer V

All aluminum alloy handmade chassis and full suspension using a big twin 1937 Flathead Harley drivetrain

Backwards Brit: Jody McClure

1967 T-120 Bonneville. Reverse head, Harley wheels, Triumph Sprint ST brakes, one off custom caliper brackets exhaust bracket and front motor mounts, candy apple red flake paint, hand tooled leather seat.

Stella’s Mettle: Snap Fab

A 1946 Chief with a 1948 engine. Rolling on 18’s when I got it. The bike looked light and airy comps to typical Chiefs. Joe at Snap Fab was commissioned to build the bodywork based on a fictional story of a WWII army air corps mechanic inspired by his wartime skills and interest in British Cafe Bikes. He named the bike after his tough wife and sought solace and peace riding to airports around the country.

Dirty Nickel: Aero Precision Metal Works

Handmade frame with art twist main support. The whole frame is black nickel plated. Horizontal girder front end. Bike is riding on 26s front and rear. Has beautiful satin paint with pin striping and leaf work.

The Grackle: John Mark Luke

I ordered a bunch of parts that just happened to be delivered as an inexpensive enduro motorcycle called a “Hawk”. Since then I have cut up and deleted everything that I found ugly on the Hawk and rebuilt the bike to “my kind of ugly” now called, “The Grackle”.

Metric Chopper: Builder Unknown

Let us know if in the comments if you know!

Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide RR

One of 131, the CVO (Custom Vehicle Operation) Road Glide RR is as close to a King of the Baggers race bike as you can get in road-legal format. Tuned 153bhp version of the Milwaukee-Eight engine bored out to 131 cubic inches (2147cc), with 2mm bigger Inconel valves, 68mm throttle body, billet clutch, and titanium Akrapovic exhaust. Öhlins FGR253 forks, Öhlins race rear twin shocks, machined billet aluminium swingarm, Brembo nickel-plated GP4RX front calipers, and T-drive 320mm calipers.