Custom Bike Builds

This 24k gold bike was something special for us here at Taverner Motorsports. We really wanted to push the trends and go all out with the black and 24k gold theme and build something next level, which considering our previous custom motorbikes, is a big statement.

This bike was our first new build when we reopened in our Bowen Hills premises and therefore holds a special place in our hearts. It was a slightly earlier (08’) model that is generally a little more unpopular so we knew we would have to do something a little more drastic to give this bike a new image.

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What started as a stock 2013 Vrod muscle we turned into an absolute weapon. We completely tore this bike apart and rebuilt it using top quality products and our own custom turbo kit setup that we have been refining over the past few years.

Starting life as a 2014 Night Rod the first thing we did was get this into the workshop, up on a stand and strip it down to the engine and bare frame.

This bike was a stock 2014 Nightrod when it came to us. We began the build by sourcing a DGD 300 swingarm and wheel combo, a clean tail tidy and indicator combo which drastically changed the look of the rear end.

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This build started as a Low Life chassis from the US. As this came without any tins and the chassis wont accept any standard fitment we had to fabricate all of tins and bodywork ourselves.

This bike came to us as a neglected chopper from the early 2000’s chopper craze, a time when money was no problem and a 100k plus chopper build were the norm. Sadly this bike needed to be rebuilt from top to bottom and inside out.

This beauty is one of Joe’s personal builds – which is a little unusual as we’re usually too busy building other people’s bikes to have the time to take on our own – so this one is a little special to him, even if he hasn’t owned it in over 4 years now.

This story begins all the way back in 2001 when a young Matt approached us for some advice about his dream to build a chopper. He then set off piecing together a rolling chassis and approached us again in 2015 when he was ready to make his dream a reality.

The Golden Child! A fitting name for the flash 200hp weapon that went straight to the cover of “Heavy Duty” magazine in their last issue for 2022.

This Candy Apple Fatty first came to Joe over ten years ago when it was owned by a friend of his. They were simply chasing a handlebar swap (which is all it was in the beginning, as is often how these radical builds start), but since then, this Candy Apple Fatty has been back and forth in the shop as they added to the build slowly.

Starting life as a boring old softail standard is where this beast began. It’s transformation was a slow one and it all began with a 23”front wheel, raked triple trees from HHI and 16” Burleigh highballs.

We purchased a brand new 2017 Street 500 to use as a doner bike for this build. The first thing we did was clean up the back end with an NLC tail tidy which has integrated turn signals and Slammer shocks.

We continually strive to be leaders in the industry we love which prompted us to take on the latest model Harley, the M8 platform, to see what we could kind of power we could squeeze out of it.

This bike began as a stock 2016 Street Glide and we wasted no time getting it into our frame jig and cutting the neck off to fit a HHI neck rake kit.

Our customer approached us with an unfinished project that he had originally stripped back in 2013 and now consisted of about 10 boxes of parts and a frame but he had a clear vision of what he wanted.