Bullet for Da Blues
A Spitfire Custom Sporty for a Down Brother
By Bandit with photos by Markus Cuff
When brother Jim stumbled into the Spitfire Motorcycles machine shop and asked to talk to a longtime friend, Paul Cavallo, the master immediately recognized the anguish in his friend’s eyes. Jim faced the muzzle of a double-barreled divorce. Paul immediately knew a cure. In fact, Dave Rash, the boss of D&D Exhaust, calls motorcycles “Two-wheeled valiums.”
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Mudflap Girl FXR Part 12—She meets S&S
Quick Cam, Pushrod, Breather Install at Bennett’s Performance
By Bandit with photos by Wrench
Okay, so it’s time to turn the Pro Street version of the Mudflap over to my son, Frank, but first we couldn’t leave the bone stock remanufactured 80-inch Evo alone. I reached out to S&S for a cam recommendation as they recently built a relationship with Crane Cams.
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5-Ball Racing 2012: Chapter 11 the Finale
The Final Test on the Salt
By Bandit with photos by Bandit, Lee Clemens, Scooter Grubb, and the Sheriff
This year has been a blur, and it’s not over. The pitfalls started when my motor wasn’t going to arrive until after Sturgis. Then my painter, Jim Murillo passed away unexpectedly, and the pressure mounted.
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Bikernet/Cycle Source Sweeps Build Part 7 Sponsored by Xpress
Final Manufacturing as It Hauls Ass to Paint
By Bandit with photos by Jules and Ron Harris secret associate
Hang on. We are two weeks away from running out to Vegas for Bikefest and pulling the winner of this most magnificent custom motorcycle, specifically built for Bikernet and Cycle Source fans, readers, and subscribers.
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D&D Fat Cat Install Review
A Brother Steps from one Bagger System to Another
Photos and text by Mark Shubin
After about 40,000 miles, the Pro-Pipe I was running on my 2005 FLHPI finally became un-repairable. The screw slots that held the end cap baffle had chipped away and were no longer able to hold these parts inside the pipe. So I looked into a performance system from D&D
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Bikernet/Cycle Source Sweeps Build Part 6 Sponsored by Xpress
Gary Finishes a Handful of Welds and Heads to Sturgis
By Bandit with photos by the Kustoms Inc. team
This process is amazing. Not only is Gary Maurer, Kustoms Inc. and Julie, the lead builders, but they dragged this roller in various stages to over eight shows and events. It’s actually set up at the Broken Spoke in Sturgis right this fuckin’ minute. When I interviewed Gary, while Jules whispered in his ear, they were just 100 miles outside of Sturgis and rolling in.
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