November '00Who Wants to Own a Rubbertail?Tom Vasilaros at Performance Specialties made this Rubbertail for lottery winner Jim Hayes. The name says it all: a rubbermount Softail-style chassis made to ride all day. To prove it we did a ride test on it a couple of issues later. It's not exactly a common frame configuration, and we were proud to feature it. | 
January '01Bolt-OnsIn '01 we committed more time and resources to making better covers, starting with the January issue. Bobbi Billard's bodaciousness was incorporated into our bolt-on parts theme. | 
January '01:Inside Building 42Harley led us through Building 42 at their York, PA plant for a sneak peek behind the curtain where they make their CVO bikes, like the Screamin' Eagle Road Glide. We'd visited there the previous year to check out the Factory's FXR CVO operations, but the Glide was the first CVO machine featuring the new Twin Cam motor. |
March '01Todd's Drag BikeIf the mail was any indication, readers loved our drag racing team, and we thought it'd be good to show you everything we'd done with it in one package. | 
July '01Big Motor ShowcaseThis wasn't the first time we'd run a dyno shootout using big motors. However, this go round we had a wider range of mills, from Joe Keenan's 88-inch RevTech to Gene Thomason's 107-inch FXDX to the 150ci Feuling W-3. | 
August '01Hittin' the Road on a Draggin' DynaBilly and Todd were giddy for weeks after Harley let them test their Draggin' Dyna prototype. It consisted of all the parts in H-D's 95-inch kit, plus a long stroke crank and all kinds of Screamin' Eagle goodies. Somehow, though, the boys "forgot" they'd promised not to run it on the street, did it anyway, and wrote a story about it. |
October '01V-Rod PremiereWe knew about Harley's super-secret new bike months before they unveiled the V-Rod in 2001. Both it and Amber Marie beautified our cover in October of that year. Todd Canavan later rode it to Sturgis, where he caught some heat from the Factory after running it at the "outlaw" drags. | 
November '01WCC Camel Roadhouse ChopperTiming is everything, and ours couldn't have been better with this cover. Motorcycle Mania had just started launching Jesse James to stardom, and we'd followed his Camel Roadhouse charity bike build for months, culminating in this feature shot by Mark Langello when the bike debuted in Daytona. | 
September '05PM's V-RodThis bike was Performance Machine's take on what the V-Rod should've looked like: A badass streetfighter, all lean muscle with no fat save the back tire. Reinventing stock bikes embodies a lot of what HRB was about, and this bike is a great example of that. |