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July 22, 2020

Just south of Chillicothe, Ohio sits a beautiful landscape of rolling hills and forests that are host to a few incredible hideaways that are like something out of a dirtbike lovers dreams. Imagine an old camp hideaway spot that has a full hare scrambles course laid out along with dirtbike jumps and multiple swimming spots to cool off in after ripping through the woods. This place does exist and it is called Camp Waterlow.

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We Have A Winner!

July 14, 2020

Earlier this year we set out to giveaway not 1, but 2 70s Honda GL1000 survivor motorcycles. We planned to draw the winner live at AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days Saturday July 11th at the Old Bike Barn Crossroads. With the current pandemic and AMA VMD being postponed, we felt we still needed to honor the giveaway and draw the winner live at the original date selected. Over the weekend we setup up at the Old Bike Barn headquarters and live streamed the drawing on both Facebook and Instagram and a winner was drawn!

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1961 HD Survivor Panhead Chopper

June 09, 2020

So imagine if you will, you put everything into building your own Panhead chopper and after riding it in events all over the country you discover that an iconic piece of your home town chopper history, an original 70s era bike built right down the street from you has surfaced after decades of being pushed into the corner of a garage. A true survivor that has been lost since the early 80's and instead of watching it get passed off to another several decades of unappreciative owners you search it out and bring it back to the town where it was originally built. Just imagine though in order to do so you have to sacrifice trading your own custom built Panhead.

Electric Soul Cycles: XS650

May 26, 2020

The XS model has been a pretty iconic vintage bike to build a custom with. We saw a boom in the mid 2000's with XS650 bobbers and choppers. Now it seem's like the XS is making a comeback with trackers, scramblers and cafe racers. Columbus native Derek Horton of Electric Soul Cycles recently finished up this awesome build for a customer and we had to hear more about it!

Old Bike Barn's Kawasaki KZ400 Born Free Bike

May 19, 2020

What did you think when you were selected as a born free builder?

I'll never forget the day I got the email from Mike & Grant. I woke up Tuesday October 1st, grabbed my phone to check emails, the subject line on one email read "Welcome Born-Free 11 Invited Builders". Confused by this I clicked into it and there was a graphic with my name on it along with 29 other builders... I audibly yelled out "What the fuck". My girlfriend looked at me and asked what was wrong and I proceeded to tell her I was selected as a builder for the 2019 Born Free Motorcycle Show. I was completely shocked by it, never in a million years would I have thought that I would be building a motorcycle for Born Free.