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BIKERNET ROLLIN’ HOME FROM STURGIS SUNDAY POST FOR AUGUST 15TH
Hey, This year is bananas, but first a helpful tech: If you have ¾ or 1-inch axles with sealed bearing wheels, you need a JIMS Wheel Bearing Puller tool, available from one of our Sponsors, J&P Cycles. I tried to take the bearings out of our little old spool front wheel hub for the peashooter.
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Renegade Makes Dolly an Official Girl of Bikernet
I had the blues not long ago, and I hauled them on my back to the bar. The Softail ran fine, but I was laid off six months ago, and immediately my abode relationship went to shit. She packed her upscale shit and departed because I wouldn’t sell my ride, although her two kids
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Saddleman Custom Service and King Installation
EDITOR’S NOTE: We discovered a special service in the Saddlemen line-up: custom seats. They not only build seats around your design or your seat pan, but they will modify an existing Saddlemen seat to fit any rider. Below is a mass of info from Saddleman, then a report from a 5’6″ tall Bikernet Correspondent,
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Jesse Meets Huey and Cleveland Motorcycle
Meet, if you will, Cleveland’s“Jesse The Kid”. I was firstintroduced to him during his day of revolting from his Ma. This was a big mistake, as Ma was good friends withHuey. She brought Jesse to Hueyand proclaimed, “straighten his ass out Huey.” I suppose this was in the early ’90s as Jesse was
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Motorcycle Safety Programs that Work
Editor’s Note: For decades motorcycle rightsgroups were on the defensive, fighting helmet laws, handlebar laws, and noiseregulations. The one caveat to that assumption was motorcycle training efforts,then motorcycle awareness. More and more groups, including FEMA – The EuropeanMotorcyclists’ Federation, have gone offensive todevelop successful safety systems. The outcome is fascinating and should be alesson for
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SUNDAY POST FOR AUGUST 8TH STURGIS WEEK BEGINS
Hey, This is crazy. I once said we were going to take August off each year, roll to Sturgis and relax, but you know it ain’t possible. The internet eats you alive. Content and action flies at us everyday. If we don’t keep up, it piles up like local grown vegetables in
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The Long Road 2010 from Smoke Out West to Smoke Out East
THE LONG ROAD 2010:The Long Road, in my mind, can be described in one word: Euphoric! What elsecan you say when: A) The staff of a cool bike magazine that promotes RIDING, B)The House Band (Three Spoke Wheel), C) 60 or so chopper jockeys that are”The Real Deal”, and D) the Chop Off contestants, all
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A True Motorcycle Hero Rides with the Chrome Gods
Editor’s Note: We’ve made several bike builders rich and famous,because they were featured in magazines and on television, but here’s anarticle about a true motorcycle hero. Sputnik, a man who devoted his life tomotorcycle freedom. Memorial services for Bill “Sputnik” Strain were held July 10,2010 on the steps of the Texas State
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CABLE FIGURING FROM MOTION PRO AND BIKER’S CHOICE
increase cost by $10.00
CW (coil-wound)
$46
LW (longitudinally-wound)
$67
AC™ (Armor Coat™)
$73
LW – AC™
$80
Argent™
$67
LW – Argent™
$73
Black-Out™
$67
Motion Pro Metric Application Custom Cable Program
The pricing listed below is standard pricing for one-of-a-kind cables that are 80 inches or less (overall housing length). If you are referencing a Motion Pro part number and the part number being referenced is more expensive than the standard custom cable cost
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BIKERNET SUNDAY POST FOR AUGUST 1ST
Hey, Life is strange. I tell kids that if they catch a break, pass the final, win the marathon, that’s cools, but watch your ass. So many times I’ve seen folks score high, then fall completely on their asses, get a DUI, break up with their girlfriend, you name it. It’s as if they don’t
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Maximum Control: Mastering Your Heavyweight Bike
I know summertime is the time to ride not read, but try to make an exception for Maximum Control: Mastering Your Heavyweight Bike. At 159 pages Maximum Control is full of advice and drills for riding your big bike. There are also beautiful full color photographs of motorcycles in action doing said drills and
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2010 LA Calendar Show
The 19th annual Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show & Calendar Music Festival presented by Motorcycle Attorneys Brown & Koro, America’s premier streetbike event marked its return to the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach on Sunday July 18th 2010. The Show’s return to it’s original 1-day format was a big success, both in reducing
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Middle Aged Madness
Acually, as the vision in my eyes starts to fail me, the more my life is starting to come into focus. Years and years of misspent youth…wow…if I had only known then… Is everyone getting less intelligent or is it just me starting to make sense of things that never made sense before?
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BIKERNET SPORTSTER AND TUNING SUNDAY POST
Another whacked-out weekend. I don’t know where to start. We need to load the Peashooter and head out to Classic Cycles, about the last major element. I missed my last appointment with Andy Dunn. We worked on the throttle cable carb connection yesterday, plus we finished, sorta, the retard and advance cable system. We just
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Quick Tech: Stabilize Your Touring Bike
The Alloy Art Rear Suspension Stabilizer for 2009-and-later H-D Touring Models Even though Harley redesigned their frame for 2009 to provide a more stable ride, many feel that the addition of a third stabilizer is still needed to prevent frame flex and rubber mounted motor oscillation. This new unit from Alloy Art comes in
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BIKERNET THURSDAY NEWS FOR JULY 22ND
It’s another day in motorcycle paradise. The Peashooter saga continues, but we’re beginning to nail the final aspects and go to paint and powder. Terry Lee, from Envy Cycles, a sheet metal and fabrication master, might help us with a small fairing. The oil tank was shipped from Stealth Enterprises in North Carolina.
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Complete Harley-Davidson Accessory Catalog from 1948
News Headlines 1948 A Bikernet Reader sent Bandit a pdf recently containing the entire Harley-Davidson accessory catalog from 1948, the year ol’ Bandit was born. There’s nothing better than the real deal, to bring the ’40s back to life. I believe our reader was Eric, and we are grateful for his efforts. We kicked it
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Darwin Motorcycle New Brawler Road Test
In the motorcycle world, there is a common bond among us. We need to stick together. It’s dangerous out there. The two-wheeled passion runs deep and is thick as 60-weight. When a brother needs help with a project, we step up. Here’s a perfect example of two-wheeled zeal. Motorcycle rights effort in the
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Pardon Me
Having been summoned by Tinseltown’s latest red-hot director, I grabbed the last of my original script and trudged across the lot to his office. As usual, Lance was behind his desk, eyes glued to the editing machine. He shut it off and looked up. “You do the changes to the ‘See No Evil’ script?” “No.”
MONDAY – SUNDAY LA CALENDAR SHOW POST
This is going to be a nuts Sunday on Monday Post. Sunday morning we were up at the crack of dawn loading the Bikernet Hearse for the LA Calendar show. Saturday night we worked until midnight trying to tune the 5-Ball Factory racer for the run to the Queen Mary Show.
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Too Good To Share
In loving memory of Woofer: 11/22/50 – 3/13/03I don’t know what time it is, and I carefully avoid letting my eyes wander to the glowing numerals on the bedside clock. I should be asleep. I have to be at work in a couple of hours. Whatever woke me is silent now, and I hear your
Welcome to the Borderlands – Chapter 5
Dawn was upon us, stars were winking out and the moon had given up trying to outshine the morning sun. Charon moved to the side, letting Larry and I pass; as we rode by he gave us a small salute, “Remember to stay on the Ridge Route, no alternate routes, Ma’s orders.” Beyond the
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The Lamp
The lamp rested on a glass shelf amid delicate porcelain figurines, Capodimonte roses, and glimmering gold sorcerers and dragons. Although the other, flashier items were arranged in the forefront to attract the most attention, it was the little golden lamp that drew his eyes like iron filings to a magnet. Surrounded by more glamorous and