Invited Builders of Born-Free 16 (2025) Part 1

For sixteen years, Mike and Grant have invited the world's best motorcycle builders to Orange County, CA for the Born-Free Show. This year the awesome collection of hand-crafted machines was as good as ever. The weather even cooperated and instead of being sweltering hot, it was pleasant the whole weekend. Our resident photo master @geoffkowalchuk got there early Saturday morning and snapped some photos of each of the Invited Builder bikes before the crowd showed up. There were so many killer machines, we had to break this up into a three part series. Please enjoy the inspiration...

AJ Anderson

1968 H-D Shovel
@_dreamcompany_
Polk City, IA

Alan Kitzmiller

Generator Shovel
@swedish_chainsaw
Baltimore, MD

Bobby GT

1961 H-D Panhead
@bobbygt
Chicago, IL

Brandon McGraw

Triumph 650
@mcgraw_metalcraft
Fort Gibson, OK

Chris Graves

1966 H-D Shovel
@tooth_and_nail
Milwaukee, WI

Eric Marshall

1948 H-D PanShovel
@northernspringers
Winnipeg, Canada

Frankie Klepadlo

1948 H-D Panhead
@panammotorcycles
Thousand Oaks, CA

Jacob Conard

2025 Gnarln Mess
@jacob_conard
Austin, TX

James "Fish" Alcorn

1951 H-D Panhead
@alleywaycustoms
Jacksonville, FL

Jared Smith

H-D Shovelhead
@smithprocess
Vallejo, CA