Interview With Luke Heafner About His Most Recent Bike Build and other motor culture topics

Luke Heafner of Iron Horse Motorcycles in Monroe, NC has been riding his whole life. He recalls “riding to work as early as 3 years old on his [father’s] ’68 Shovel head” and being “just tall enough to reach up and hold on to the gas caps”. Iron Horse Motorcycles is a family business that he started at sweeping the floors and worked his way up through the service department.

I’ve known Luke for a few years and would run into him at the CBA Swap Meet, AMCA Southern National or the Smoke out and have a quick chat with him. His first full build, a beautiful pan head chopper was featured in Easyriders magazine and The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine. I had been following him on IG ( @luke_the-drifter ) and when he announced his most recent build made the top 25 in the voting for the Biltwell People’s Champ Bike Show I was super stoked for him and wanted to know a little more about what he had going on. This is a big deal, The Biltwell People’s Champ Bike Show started off this past November with a field of 125 bikes and online voting. The top 6 bikes out of the field would be invited to compete for the 2020 Biltwell People’s Champ the Friday night before Born Free 12 Motorcycle Show in Silverado CA this coming June. This is a chance for some local/unknown bike builders to get some international spotlight. Luke’s shovelhead chopper passed muster each round and by the time I got a chance to get a chat with him the final results were only a few hours from being announced.

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