In 1965, Time Magazine sent photographer Bill Ray and writer Joe Bride to live and ride with the Hell?s Angels. It was a roller coaster of a month with the most fearsome outlaws that the American blacktop had ever seen, and the photos they produced are a fantastic documentation of these mid-century gunslingers. Though Ray and Bride risked life and limb embedding themselves with the lawless outcasts, the story was never published. However, the photos have been floating in and out of the motorcycling community?s collective consciousness since surfacing and have cast their spell on Greg Hebard of Regatta Garage in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Inspired by Bill Ray?s photos, Greg wanted to create a modern version of an early club-style motorcycle. Many of the bikes from that era depicted in movies like Easy Rider tend to be high-quality show bikes, and they don?t represent what people were actually riding. Which is not to say that Hell?s Angels bikes of the time weren?t nice; Greg wanted a bike that could handle the day-in and day-out punishment of life on the road ? the kind of bike fit for the transient outlaw life of the ?60s.
After picking up a stock 1992 Harley-Davidson Sportster XL1200 in 2009, Greg began to tinker, customizing parts here and there, never lending it too much attention. It was meant to be a daily

runner, and there were other projects in the queue. With that lack of focus came a lack of satisfaction, and eventually the Sportster found its way onto the operat...