What is it that drive men to pour everything they have into designing and building Harley motorcycles? it is the fame, fortune, or a bevy of hot chicks?? I don’t know about other custom Harley builders, but i can tell you that as far as Mike Toupin is concerned it is the pure love of motorcycles that drive this master craftsman in churning out his award winning one of a kind Harley designs and custom paint.

For as long as i have known Mike Toupin, his shop has been jam packed with bikers seeking the artistic touch of Chopper Design Group for full custom chopper designs to mind blowing custom paint to adorn their already bad ass custom bikes. Ask any of these biker why they would wait up to 2 months to meet with Mike to consign a motorcycle build design or custom paint job, and the answer will be the same; they want nothing but the best and are willing to wait as long as it takes.

Ok so yeah, i am sure if you have been around the custom motorcycle industry for any length of time you have probably met one or two custom designers that have a solid reputation for turning out high quality work, but what you probably didn’t know is that Mike Toupin built his reputation by painting most of those designers choppers. Making him the “go to guy” if you want award winning paint!

Mike is not one of those designers who jots ideas and sketches on paper until he comes up with a design. each new design is all about flow from one spark, a rough idea which how “Bobb-It” was born.

I was in the shop one afternoon when pinstriper Dennis Jones dropped by with the kraftech frame that is the heart of “Bobb-It”. Within 2 hours Mike had pulled the king sporty tank down from a shelf, grabbed a few other parts and had them piled around the frame. The next day a rough mock was under way and the front and rear fenders were being shaped. towards the end of what would be a 2 month build, the fenders, gas/oil tanks, and frame would go back to Dennis Jones shop for hand pin striping, lettering and custom straight razor design.

I watched Bobb-it grow from a dingy pile of parts into the custom bobber that won first place at the 2011 Easy Riders bike show in Los Angeles. It is truly the tiny details of the design that make an award winning custom motorcycle, and it is no small feat building a crafty custom because you have to do it for under $10,000.00 in parts, and many of the parts on Bobb-It were custom made. It wasn’t until the bike was fully painted and reassembled for the last time that the full beauty of this design was evident.

Not the kind of man to rest on his laurels, Mike is hard at work on 2 more truly unique custom Harley designs, and you can rest assured that these new creations will be just as mind blowing and one of a kind sexy as Bobb-It, Nervous Wreck, and Diamond back are! Stay tuned for more!

Oh yeah Bobb-It is for sale too! Serious Inquiries can be send to our contact form

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