How to Build a Cheap Chopper
Custom bikes, choppers and bobbers in particular, don’t have to cost thirty thousand dollars. A chopper or bobber built at home can be had for less than five thousand dollars. The key is the use of a donor bike for most of the components. How to Build a Cheap Chopper documents the construction of five inexpensive choppers and bobbers with complete start-to-finish photo sequences presented in full color.

Least expensive are the metric bikes - like the Honda and a Kawasaki projects documented here. Next up, price wise, are bikes built using a Buell or Sportster as the donor. Check the sequence from Redneck Engineering or Motorcycle Works to see how quickly a Buell can be converted into a simple hardtail.

Most expensive, but still dammed cheap by comparison with most of today’s bikes, is the big twin chopper built in the shop of Dave Perewitz from carefully chosen aftermarket parts.

If you are long on desire but short on cash, this is the book to buy. The first thing you need to assemble that new chopper or bobber is in your hand. Spend thirty-nine bucks on Cheap Chopper and start building your motorcycle.

5 Start to finish assembly sequences with over 400 color images

How to Build a Chopper
Choppers are back in a big way. This book from Tim Remus helps builders choose the right stretched frame, aftermarket V-twin engine and radical chassis components. Interviews with long-time builders like Pat Kennedy help put the chopper in perspective and give sound advice to new builders. Three start-to-finish photo sequences document and explain the assembly of a chopper in the shop of Arlen Ness, Donnie Smith and American Thunder.

Eleven chapters cover History, Frames, Engines, Suspension, Sheet metal, Wiring, Wheels, Tires and Drivetrain choices. With 144 pages and over 250 photos (50% in colour) this book contains the information needed to choose and assemble a very unique chopper.

How to Chop Tops
Nothing defines a hot rod like a chopped top. How To Chop Tops takes a photo-intensive look at the best way to lower the roof on the project car in your garage. Over 300 images document the start to finish chopping of six cars, from a Model T to a 1960 Oldsmobile. Also included is a convertible top chop, one roof-filling sequence and numerous welding sequences. Interviews with professionals help to explain not only the actual cutting, but all the other items that must be determined before the actual chopping starts. Planning the chop includes deciding how to reinforce the body, what to do about the glass, and where to position the cuts to minimize warping and later body work. Whether you need help picking the right tool or deciding where to position the new seam, How to Chop Tops provides the how-to steps you need to chop a top on both new and old hot rods.

How to Wire Your Hot Rod
The one job we all dread is the wiring. Yet, with help from this new how-to book even the neophyte mechanic can install a wiring harness. Dennis Overholser, longtime technical-specialist for Painless Performance Products and avid hot rodder, walks you through nine chapters sure to clear away your fear of electricity. Topics include the basics of DC electricity; installation of additional circuits; choosing and installing the best battery, starter and alternator; installation of the gauges; finding and installing a new EFI harness; and wiring a complete scratch-built hot rod. Photo-intensive, hands-on sequences document and help explain the installation of both an EFI harness on a late model V-8, and the installation of a complete harness kit into a newly built hot rod. Written in easy-to-understand language, this new book is a necessary addition to any hot rodder's book shelf. With over 350 colour photos this wiring book is the electrical bible you need for that next electrical project.

How to Build an Old Skool Bobber
Old Skool is kool. A fact celebrated in this great book. No theme bikes here, learn how to build a real American motorcycle based on a Panhead, Shovelhead or Evo engine. Don't buy expensive new parts, build your own bobber or chopper from mix-and-match swap-meet parts.

Written by Kevin Baas, the Kennedy High School shop teacher with the Build-a-Chopper class, this book takes a back-to-basics approach to motorcycle assembly. Follow along as Kevin explains which engines fit which frames, and which transmission and primary drive is the best fit behind a particular V-Twin. The book includes three start-to-finish assembly sequences and is available for only $39.00. This book uses over 350 colour images to illustrate some kool parts and even kooler motorcycles.

How To Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop
From a corner of the garage set up for routine maintenance to a dream shop housing precious classic machines, How to Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop, Second Edition will help you make the most of your space. Packed with easy-to-read practical advice, author Charles Masi walks the reader through designing, building, and equipping the workshop you need - whether you plan to restore, repair, and maintain your own bikes or hope to open a small commercial facility.

How to Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop starts by helping readers determine their work space and storage needs and equip it with the tools necessary to get the job done and create a shop layout that matches their budget. The author then addresses basics such as providing adequate electrical power, lighting, and heat and air conditioning. With the workshop design in place, Masi helps readers identify the must-have and want -to-have tools to appropriately equip the space.

Whether you plan only to keep your bike clean and in good repair or you want to restore, customize, or even become a professional mechanic, this book will show you how to do it. Shop profiles are provided to give you ideas of what is possible: personal garage shops, professional shops, restorer shops, painting, fabricating, and welding shops too. Each profile has a layout diagram of the shop with photos as well as ideas and tips from the owner or designer.

This new second edition of the book includes additional profiles of real world workshops, from small garage spaces to purpose-built restoration and race-prep shops, and features a new comprehensive and up-to-date directory of resources for equipment and tools.

With more than 200 photographs and detailed illustrations, this book is a valuable, money-saving reference you'll want to have in your workshop--one you'll return to again and again.

Professional Airbrush Techniques
Custom painting is truly an art form and Jon Kosmoski is the high priest speaking to anyone with a desire to learn or improve their painting abilities.

Written by well-known Airbrush artist Vince Goodeve, this book uses over 500 colour images to explain a lifetime's worth of learning. Follow Vince through multiple photo sequences that explain his choice of colour, sense of design and preference for tools and materials.

Early chapters explain shop set up and preparations of the metal canvas. Later chapters walk the reader through Vince's airbrush work with both motorcycles and cars. Projects include simple graphics as well as complex and intricate designs.

Accustomed to teaching, Vince uses a style that is easy to follow and understand. His enthusiasm for the airbrush comes through, making the text easy to follow. Vince Goodeve has something to say to all airbrush artists - whether beginner or advanced.

Triumph Motorcycle Book
From Timothy Remus comes a new look at some of the finest classic bikes ever manufactured. Triumph Motorcycles, is a new, all colour, hardcover book focused entirely on Triumph twins and triples. Starting with Edward Turner's best-known design, the Speed-Twin, the book moves to the T 100, TR5, Thunderbird, TR6, Bonneville and all the rest. Using a large format and deluxe paper, this anthology of classic triumphs covers all the significant models produced from 1938 to the early 1980s. The Triumph story doesn't stop there however. The "new" Triumph corporation, under the guidance of John Bloor, took up the challenge of producing modern motorcycles, many of which are included in this same book.

Whether your personal favorite is the ever-popular Bonneville from the late 1960s, or a more obscure TR5 with "generator" top end, the Triumphs you remember and lust after are sure to be found between the hardcovers of this new book.