In this issue

Our cover bike is a beautiful and unusual Pan/Shovel bobber built by ex-Buckcherry drummer Xavier Muriel – it is bike building at its finest. As well, we feature a neat street bike based on the H-D Street 500 learner bike. Impressive, and very cool! We review a couple of the great events over Summer in Australia including the iconic Brighter Days, a charity fundraiser held each year in the Victorian alpine township of Bright. And what a great weekend it was. Over $450,000 raised for three charities and we were there to cover the whole event. We travel to Baja Mexico. And we have a tribute to Arlen Ness, the world famous custom king and great friend to this magazine who sadly passed recently. Plus we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Mad Max! All this and much more in the latest issue of HEAVY DUTY!

Charging Forward

Once unthinkable, an electric Harley-Davidson is now a reality. Doc considers ...

4 mins

Engraved

Sturgis Motor Museum Hall of Famer Mark Shadley rolls out another stunner.

4 mins

The King Of Customs

With Arlen Ness set to turn 80 and his business in the midst of its 50th anniversary, this feature was prepared to honour him, his incredible customs, his great life and fantastic achievements. But it is with great sadness, I am instead having to write that Arlen has passed away …

6 mins

Arlen And Us

What hasn’t already been said about Arlen Ness? A great guy, a genius of custom bike building, a legend in the industry and the patriarch of a wonderful family. But given his recent passing, I thought it worthwhile to share a few of our stories …

3 mins

High Speed Highball

Heavy Duty Motorsports strikes horsepower gold with this ‘no lag’ installation

5 mins

Fusion Drive

Custom Chrome asked Martin Becker to build a bike – and what a bike it is!

3 mins

Love Brightens Lives

The Northern Victorian festival that puts life into perspective...

4 mins

Sellicks Rocks The Beach

Beach racing on historic motorcycles is a magic carpet ride that transports you across space and time to a less technical and preelectronic era when men were men (it was a different era!) and motorcycles went fast and made lots of noise – glorious, ear-splitting noise untrammelled by silencing devices, noise that you didn’t just hear but that you felt pulsating through every fibre of your being, your heartbeat rising in unison and your adrenaline pumping through your body.

3 mins

Kabra Cadabra!

If there is one thing I have learned in my travels around our nation over the 30 years I’ve been with HEAVY DUTY, it is that country folk know how to have a good time. Country bikers in particular!

3 mins

All In The Tilley Family

Talk about Harley-Davidson running through your veins …

2 mins

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HEAVY DUTY Magazine Description:

HEAVY DUTY Magazine is Australia number one, biggest and best American V-Twin motorcycle magazine. Established in 1991, HEAVY DUTY features the latest releases from Harley-Davidson, Indian Motorcycles and Victory Motorcycles, as well as stunning custom bikes from world class custom builders. We also offer a wealth of Technical info, DIY tips, Project Bikes, readers riders and much more. All this in a beautifully presented high end publication.