Originally Featured In Issue 318 Of Cycle Source Magazine

We bust our asses all year to bring you the best iron we can find, and this list exists for one simple reason—you. Your votes, your feedback, and the miles you rack up out there on the road helped shape every page of this issue. If this is your first time cracking open Cycle Source, welcome to the family. Once a year we pull it all together and look back at the bikes, the builders, and the stories that defined the past twelve months. We’ve logged the miles, crossed state lines, and dug deep in garages nationwide—but this magazine has always been a two-way street. Tell us what hits, what misses, and what you want more of. We’re garage builders at heart, and getting featured still means something. Sharing that moment is what drives us. As for the Top Ten, there’s no wrong answer—every bike here earned its spot. Thanks for another hard-riding year with Cycle Source.

Number 10 – Slow Poke Rodriguez – Brian Dillender

Brian Dillender’s 1981 FX Shovelhead, “Slow Poke,” featured in our Apr/May issue, earned Number Ten in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025. Built from a donor FX with a 74-inch mixed-year Shovelhead, S&S Super E carb, and Andrews cam, it blends performance and classic chopper style, finished in Voodoo Purple and silver flake with psycho spin flames.

Number 9 – Promise Kept – Brad Barrettriguez

Brad Barrett’s 1963 Panhead, featured in our Dec/Jan issue, earned Number Nine in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025 as a tribute to a lost friend. Built from a dusty shop find, it became a 74-inch S&S-powered Panhead with a Paughco rigid frame, springer front end, and Invader wheels. Finished with hand-bent bars and Terry Faulkner’s long-tail flame paint, this build is about memory, respect, and miles ridden in quiet remembrance.

Number 8 – Whirled Class – Ali Al-Massehz

Ali Al-Masseh’s Whirled, featured in our Aug/Sept issue, earned Number Eight in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025, proving world-class choppers can come from anywhere—even Doha, Qatar. Built from a 2004 Sportster, it features a polished 1200cc motor, 30-degree Paughco frame, Brin Stanley springer, engraved whirlwind details, and suicide shift. Raw and rider-focused, Whirled has earned international show wins and respect worldwide.

Number 7 – The New King – Ryan Gore

Ryan Gore’s Yakuza-inspired build from Paper Street Customs, featured in our Oct/Nov issue, earned Number Seven in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025. Built for Pete Racely, nearly every piece was hand-shaped in-house, including the polished stainless oil tank. What started as custom foot controls became an 18-month full build, winning Custom King at the Buffalo Chip in Sturgis. Sleek, aggressive, and detail-driven, the bike proves PSC’s no-compromise approach still stands apart.

Number 6 – RK’s 61 – Brian Klock

Brian Klock’s tribute Panhead, featured in our Dec/Jan issue, earned Number Six in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025. Built for the 2025 S&S Vintage Tour, it honors his father’s 1961 Panhead through Klock’s clean, minimalist style. Highlights include a polished 93-inch S&S engine, hand-stitched seat, narrow LedSled wheels, and tucked stainless exhaust. Finished with vintage-inspired paint by Shannon Pranschke and Jeff Gjerde, this Panhead blends heritage, emotion, and precision into a deeply personal machine.

Number 5 – Roach Knuck – Franklin Church Choppers

Brad Barrett’s 1963 Panhead, featured in our Dec/Jan issue, earned Number NineTom Keefer’s radical 1944 Knucklehead, built at Franklin Church Choppers in Pennsylvania, earned its spotlight in our April/May issue before being voted Number Five in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025. Starting with little more than a set of vintage Knuckle cases and a carbon fiber front wheel, Tom created a lightweight, hard-riding bobber that blends old Harley soul with modern performance. A GSX-R inverted front end, carbon fiber wheels, custom mid-controls, and a six-speed transmission make it as capable at 70 mph as it is striking in the garage. Every detail, from the modified WR tank to the wing-nut axles, was built to be ridden, not just shown.

Number 4 – Limitless – Abdullah Al Naseeb

Built in a small Kuwaiti garage with big patience and bigger heart, Abdullah Al Naseeb’s “Limitless” chopper earned its place in our Aug/Sept issue and was voted Number Four in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025. Using a stretched and raked 1968-era foundation, Abdullah chased the look of an old black-and-white biker magazine, hunting down original parts from the U.S. and England and refusing to cut corners no matter how long it took. Every weld, wire, and wrench turn was done by his own hands, giving the bike a raw, honest soul that matched its long, lean stance and timeless style.

Number 3 – Sarayu – Providence Cycle Worx

Built for S&S Cycle’s performance tour and featured in our Dec/Jan issue, Xavier Muriel’s Shovelhead took Number Three in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025 by refusing to play it safe. Powered by a mirror-polished 93-inch S&S Shovel and wrapped in a vintage Kenny Boyce Pro Street frame, the bike blends old-school muscle with modern precision. A Baker six-speed, Providence billet swingarm, and hand-built exhaust back up its brutal stance, while Jace Hudson’s paint and Curt Green’s leather bring the art. From tour concept to Daytona debut, Muriel proved he could trade drumsticks for welding gloves and still hit every note.

Number 2 – Wild Pan – Targino Customs

Born in a Los Angeles backyard and finished against the backdrop of a global shutdown, Geraldo Targino’s hand-built Panhead earned its place in our Aug/Sept ’25 issue before being voted Number Two in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025. What began as a half-forgotten father-and-son project became a fully scratch-built chopper, with every piece shaped, welded, painted, and upholstered by Targino himself. From the notched pipes and foot-clutch setup to the flowing frame lines and deep custom finish, nothing about this bike is off the shelf. It went on to win Qatar’s Best of the Best, proving a backyard build can conquer the world.

Number 1 – Pink Lady – Tommy Joslin

Tommy Joslin’s 1971 Shovelhead was one of those Daytona Bike Week builds that stopped people in their tracks, and that’s exactly why it was featured in our Feb/Mar ’25 issue before being voted Number One in our Top Ten Feature Bikes of 2025. Built from a simple running donor into a clean, dialed-in swingarm chopper, the bike blends old New Haven chopper heritage with modern execution. A polished 74-inch Shovel with a Super E, BDL belt drive, Hardbody springer, custom fab work, and Tony Massaro’s wild Kandy Magenta paint came together into a machine that looked right, ran right, and dominated every show it entered.

To All The Builders

From everyone here at Cycle Source, thank you for trusting us with your machines in 2025. Whether your bike landed in the Top Ten or simply graced our pages this year, every build mattered. Each one helped shape the voice, vision, and direction of this magazine. We don’t take that lightly. You build them, ride them, and live them—and we’re proud to help tell those stories. This magazine has always been about more than polished metal and perfect photos. It’s about late nights in the garage, busted knuckles, favors called in, and miles stacked up long after the show lights shut off. We know what it means to put your heart into a bike and then hand it over to be judged by the world. That trust fuels us. As long as builders keep pushing, riding, and creating, we’ll keep showing up to document it. —Chris