Cover: Bill Schomer’s Sportster; Feature Bikes Past & Present: A Stab from the past – Bill Schomer’s Sportster was ahead of its time in ’72; The Magic Mushroom; Mildly Technical: Triumph Resurrection; Tests & Protests: Harley-Davidson XLCR – a Sportster with a nose job; Suzuki GS1000 – are you man enough for Big Suzie?; Special Features: Silver Castles; Daytona Doings; Daytona Scrapbook; more
GS-1000
1978 June Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Classic Racing Prospects; The Christmas Spirit; On the Four Winds; The Bikes Bob Currie rode in 1966; Tweseldown TV Scramble; Editor’s Mail Bag; Pull-Out Sport Calendar; Boxing Day Scramble; Sparks to Order; Rough-stuff Scene; East Meon on TV; Your Help Club; Magnetos for High Revs; more
1967 5 January Motor Cycle Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Monday Roll Call; Mallory Battles Ahead; Simple Sprint Iron; On The Four Winds; Hard-Work Victory Trail; Letters to the Editor; Test: Ducati Monza Junior; Riding Gear Market; Wilkie’s Lamborelle; New from Yamaha; Potent Lightweight; Your Help Club; more
1967 2 March Motor Cycle Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: The top left picture shows John Aitken coming down hard at St. Jean. In the centre, Yvon du Hamel, the 1966 winner of the White Trophy shows his style at Kingston during the Torsten Hallman event. He is not only the White Trophy winner, but also number one for scrambles and half mile.
Features: By BMW to Spain; Impeccable Torsten; 1967 Shopping Guide; Ontario Motorcycle Laws; Kawasaki Samurai Impressions; Departments: People and Products; Round the Regions; Speak Your Mind; more
1967 March Canadian Motorcycling Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: The 100 c.c. class tackles the mud hole during the recent Totem Club Scramble. Torsten Hallman, the Swedish World Championship moto-cross winner, starred at this event, where he commented that “front wheels are for parking your bike”. The Totem Club, under the leadership of Stan Johnson, have done a tremendous job of building a course and promoting their events.
Features: Scramble Championship; 1966 Motorcycle Show; 1967 Shopping Guide; Departments: People and Products; Round the Regions; Editor’s Hot Line; more
1967 February Canadian Motorcycling Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Junior class rider John Boutwell shows his style on his 250 c.c. Husqvarna. The shot was taken at the Paskapoo Scrambles near Calgary, Alberta; Road Test: Cotton Trials Model; Features: Isle of Man TT; Internationally Speaking; Massassauga Enduro; Piste de Moto; Fairings; Departments: People; Come Out Fighting; Pictorials; Round the Regions; Editor’s Hot Line; more
1968 July Canadian Motorcycling Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: “Four in Exchange” – Through the magic of capitalism, Bob Von Sol turned his 1923 bucket T into a 750 Honda Four. That’s a neat enough trick in itself, but when you add an E.M.E. girder and a peanut tank, you’ve got a conversion process which smacks of alchemy and witchcraft. They used to bury people under rocks for that in New England. Alive. But that’s OK. Von Sol is from the San Fernando Valley, and the only thing they bury people for there is smog poisoning.
Feature Chops: Four in Exchange, It Seemed Like a Good Idea, Craftsman’s Triumph, Double Exposure; Tech Things: Speed Secrets for the Honda Four; Don’t get a hawg in a poke; Honda Coil for your Triumph; S.U. for the 45; Special Features: Of Directors, bikes, films and the angels – Roger Corman and Richard Rush discuss their cycle flicks; Project Hond Four part 4; more
1972 December Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: “A Classic Case” – This is a rare photo of Derek Davidson and his 74. True, Davidson’s bike is a classic roadster that has the credentials to be the ultimate serious profiling machine, but it was built to be more than just a showpiece. The fatbob was built with the idea of running seven days a week all year long, with a minimum of mechanical DNFs, and Davidson tells us that that’s just how it works. The particulars are inside.
Feature Chops: A Classic Case, What’s a Nice English Girl Doing on a Scooter Like This?, Chopper John Rides again and again and…, Giveaway Chopper; Tech Things: Rake it Right!; Choosing your bike; Honda Coil for Triumphs 1969 and later; Project Honda Four part 10; Bolt-On Disc for your Girder; Special Features: A Day in the Life of a Chopper Mechanic; My First Chopper; more
1973 July Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: “Bug-Stoppin’ Sportster” – Stew Storar’s prize-winning Sportster has gone through a lot of changes before winding up in its present, all-angled form. Storar has put over a year’s worth of work into the ’60 Harley, and values the bike at $4500
Feature Bikes: Bugstoppin’ Sportster, Heavy Pan for a Heavy Dude, A Hog’s Life Frisco Style, Dragster turned custom, Beginner’s Skill = A Solid Chopper; Features: The City That Bikers “Destroyed” – how Storm Lake, Iowa met the great chopper menace; Grampa Eddy’s Last Run – 200 outlaws bury a brother; Technical: Chop Talk; Building a Skull-Bodied Trike; How to Lace and True a Wheel; Stop a ripoff for $4; Triumph Tuning Tips; Building the Coffin Lid Tank; more
1971 October Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: “Skinned Knuckle” – Sometimes it takes a rebuild or two to get a bike right. For Bill Roberts, it took three tries to get his knucklehead right. Mainly because every time he got it up, he got centerpunched by an old lady with kamikaze tendencies. Three times. Roberts uses his scoot for careful putting around the Bay area, watching for those damned left-turners.
Feature Chops: Skinned Knuckle, Gilt-Edge Sportster, If At First You Don’t Succeed, From Customer to Mechanic in Difficult Stages, Long Haul Panhead; Tech Things: Chop Talk; Go Fast Goodies for the Super Glide; How to Dish a Sportster Tank; Big Inches for your Triumph; Old Knuckles Never Die; Park Puttin’ – On Any Sunday with cops; more
1972 August Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Tom Cass built his scooter with one idea – long jamming on Southern roads. Since he’s a partner in the Chop Shop, Chattanooga, Tennessee, his ’67 Harley shovelhead in a hardtailed swingarm frame went together without too much hassle or expense; Feature Chops: Tennessee Redhog; Harley and Davidson Meet Count Dracula; Two-Way Shovel; Flame-Proof Pan; Chopped Guzzi; Tech Things: Chop Talk; Tricking the Tillotsen; Healthy binders for your hog; One-piece tank; Product Analysis: CDI Pointless ignition for the Honda 750; Special Features: Project Honda Four; One for the Money, two for the show; more
1972 October Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Our own humble Dean Kirsten takes to the back roads of Saddleback on a 1983 Honda ATC 185S, that boy can ride!; Features: Frontier 500; Blitz Test: Suzuki ALT 125 3×6; Baja 1000; ATC 185S / 200 Clutch Hop-Up; Bolt-On Parts for the Yamaha 200; Night Rider; Rocket Ship PK; Extrude Hone Porting; Familiar Farces in every crowd; All about shocks part 1; ATCI – All Terrain Cubic Inches – can you dig a 450 ATC?; San Diego Supercross; Reader’s Rocket; Ride Spot – Silver Lake Sand Dunes, Michigan; more
185-S ATV
1983 February 3-Wheeling All Terrain Vehicle ATV ATC Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Super Cycle, Memphis, Tennessee, built this Sportster “Sprung Sporty”. We don’t know who built the bridge in the background over the Mississippi.
Contents: the 1st U.S. Motorcycle Jamboree; Techincal: How to build a hot-rod Harley; Evaluations: How Good is the Yoshimura 812; R.C.’s Four-Into-One Exhaust for Chopper frames; How to get your bike in Choppers Magazine; Feature Bikes: White Limey Fever, Broke, Our Honda Who Art In Heaven, Sprung Sporty; Rat Bike of the month: The Great Deceiver; more
1975 September Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: “Iron Arrow” from Carlini Cycle Creations in Dearborn, Michigan. Designed and built by Tony Carlini and Ron Ferrell, the turbocharged Honda 750 chop is a one-of-a-kind machine.
New Journalism Life-Style Coverage: Weeknight Cruisin’ – Wednesday night ritualism on the street; Technical: Putting up a Fatbob Honda; Simplified Wiring for Harleys; Feature Bikes: Long and low Honda from Venice, “Angel Four” from Great Britain, “Classic” FXE from Ohio, Ruby red Trumpet from Idaho, “Iron Arrow” from Dearborn, Country Honda from Columbia; Special Features: The MMA story (Modified Motorcycle Association; Two-Page Color Poster – “Iron Arrow” and friends; more
1977 March Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: 1947 Indian Chief was built and owned by Willie Geneth (Van Nuys, California). The pretty little lass adorning this classic chop is Diana Clifford, also a native Southern Californian.
Feature Bikes: Indian Summer, Bluebeard’s Treasure, Trojan Trike; Getting into the nuts & bolts: Hallcraft’s new Superwheel; Six-Bolting your tranny – Sportster riders attention; Testing the Rides: 1978 Triumph Bonneville 750; Special Features: Abate – A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments; Diamond’s Custom machine and design; Fun & Fiction for the reader: One for the Road; Down Time; more
1978 August Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Paisano’s road scooter and chick, Kathy; Special Features: Party for the cause – MMA; United States Motorcycle Jamboree in Bakersfield; Everything you ever wanted to know about building a chopper – intro to 12-part series; Drag News – SoCal Classic at Carlsbad; Bikerville USA – Kern River on Memorial Day; Technical: Performance Machine Brakes; Replacing worn connecting rods; Feature Bikes: Vader’s Raider, Joint Effort; Story Time: Just a Job -sometimes just getting by is a bitch; more
1978 September Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Special Feature: Beech Bend – where 30,000 bikers say “You show me yours, I’ll show you mine”; Ride Test: Yamaha XS750; Easyreadin’: One for the road; Come and Gone; Kind of a Trip; Technical: Everything you ever wanted to know about frames; The History of frame suspension; Walker Engine and Frame Works; How to modify your frame; Our project bikes get framed; Frame Catalog; Feature Bike: Mr. Mean’s Machine; more
XS-750
1978 October Choppers Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Hal O’Neal’s “Oneal 3″ – a far out double duty Honda; Special Features: In-the-groove bike designs; Painting with fabrics; Special Interest: Vesc Rip-off; Technical: Save that Panhead Head; How to tune your carb; Installing double-duty highway pegs; Feature Bikes: Along Came Jones, Ace of Spades, Oneal 3, Bishop’s Banger, Long-Tom Honda, Homebuilt Trumpet, Davidson’s Harley, Stock Chop; more
1974 November Custom Chopper Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Doug Wilson’s “Big-Hop Honda Cruiser”; Special Features: The Big Frameup -an assortment of scooter skeletons you wouldn’t believe; Special Interest: How to sand paint; Meet Cinderella Cart; Technical: Four-Five Muscle; 4-in-1 Bracket; Solid-State your Harley Electrics; Metal Molding made easy; Feature Bikes: Greek’s Mythology, Flying Purple Highway Eater, Blue Meanie, Firehouse Trumpet, Rosebud, Big-Hop Honda Cruiser, Cyclops, Smoothie; more
1974 December Custom Chopper Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
Cover: Horst’s Honda; Special Feature: C&G MFG. -the new no greed breed; Special Interest: Shopping for Chopper Fodder; Technical: “Bullet-Proof” Con Rods; Belt Driving your Sporty; Building the Indy Tri-Cycle part 4 conclusion; Disc Brake Razzle-Dazzle; Feature Bikes: Horst’s Honda, A Framed Shovel, Cushy-Cushy Comfort, End of the World, Frenchman’s Flyer, Hip Hon, Creamsicle; more
1975 May Custom Chopper Motorcycle Magazine Back-Issue available at www.DadsVintageAds.com
