Welcome to the inside of the Bikernet Northwest Garage. This is where the next project begins. The goal - To complete one bad ass, mail haulin, knuckle draggin', speed bump scrapin', rip the skin off your face, back breakin' rigid scoot.

This bike is going to be ALL about mailorder. Since many of you don't have shops in your area that are versed in how to build a custom scoot, we thought you might like to know how we did one without the help of a local professional shop. Buying parts is easy. Painting, powder coating, and certain sheet metal fabrication and modification however, can pose particular problems when you, the builder, do not have the ability paint or weld. Watch over the next couple of months while we put this beauty together (without the help of a local shop) and tackle some of the hurdles of a ground up - mail order custom.

The following is a glimpse of some of the stuff we have so far. It should be noted that the most important piece of equipment here IS the cooler pictured in the first photo (above). You gotta have beer to properly build and test a rigid.....

This is the single piece Softail tank with welded shrouds on the front and in the seat pocket. This particular tank is available from Custom Chrome. Since this is going on a custom frame with a 2" backbone stretch, we made some minor mods that required some welding and finishing. More on that later.

The Baker Six Transmission. This is the Softail version. These amazing pieces of engineering come with full width Andrews Gears. They're tough. Damned tough. One of these took Zebra from Florida to Sturgis at a non-stop 110 MPH last year.