With bike builders seemingly dropping from the trees these days, it gets harder and harder to stand out. Chica of Chica Custom Cycles in Huntington Beach, Calif., doesn't have that problem. His wide array of unique creations is distinctive enough to get noticed, even among the endless displays at the Indy Dealer Expo and Pomona Easyriders Show, where he took a third place for best of show against other West Coast heavyweights.

Boss Hoss currently offers motorcycles and trikes equipped with either a small or big block V8 engine with a semi-automatic transmission with reverse. They also offer a number of accessories for their bikes and trikes.

Despite a car-sized 8.5 U.S. gallon (32 liter) gas tank, the bikes only get motorcycle-like distance on a single tank, due to 25 mile per gallon (9.4 L/100 km) maximum gas mileage for the small block and 18 mile per gallon (13.1 L/100 km) maximum gas mileage for the big block. The trikes have an additional 3.5 U.S. gallons (13 liters) of reserve.

Overall, Boss Hoss motorcycles are rated somewhat below average for reliability, but obviously very highly for engine performance. Astonishingly, and in spite of the intended vulgar looks, current models are also rated very highly for their