Hey, I don’t know what to say this morning. It’s been raining steady for a couple of days, and California needs it bad, but I live at a very scary sea-level. If it’s high tide when the rains come, the streets won’t drain and we are forced to wait for the tide to recede. I’m
BAD JOKES AND BITCHIN’ BABES SUNDAY POST FOR March 2, 2014 Read More »
Hey, For the first time in months I’m not pissed off at the government for some ridiculous restriction or blunder. It’s just a Sunday with tremendous potential resting before us in the coming week. This is our 18th year with Bikernet, and a big one in our efforts to set Bonneville records. Lee Clemens, from
BALANCED REPORTING AND BABES SUNDAY POST — for February 23, 2014 Read More »
Hey, Another perfect day in paradise. I rode with Kyle, the official Bikernet Electrician, to the Yacht club for dinner. What a beautiful night on the harbor. I made my way to the bar to order my meal tickets and another biker leaned against the bar. “What happened to the weather?” He said. This guy
PRESIDENT’S DAY SUNDAY POST FOR February 16, 2014 Read More »
What The Hell, Bandit peeled out of here Friday on his way to the V-Twin Expo in Cincinatti, OH. Leaving the rest of the lowly crew behind to fend for themselves. We gave him instructions to keep us updated on the happenings at the show but we have not heard a thing since he
V-Twin Expo Sunday Post for February 9, 2014 Read More »
Hey, It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and I would like to ride over to Sugar Bear’s shop on the Mudflap Girl FXR, but my tags expired. I need to fire Sin Wu. She’s constantly missing the beat. She promised to make sure all the bills were paid as she ran off with a sailor from the
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY POST for February 2, 2014 Read More »
Could Heather Be the One? Life is nuts. Look at this babe, shot by Jack in Daytona while hanging at the Hawaiian Tropic estate. She’s a guest, natch. She could be the guest of almost any guy at anytime. Hell, even the bike has a Miami Vice hue. Heather is a regular
HEATHER — Girl of Bikernet for January 2014 Read More »
Hey, I’ll make this quick. I woke up this morning and grabbed my first cup of coffee. I sat in bed reading the January 31 issue of The Week Magazine. Several reports jumped out at me. The editorial covered energy consumption and global warming. It basically said we were supposed to reduce energy consumption by
FREEDOM LOVING SUNDAY POST FOR Sunday January 26, 2014 Read More »
Hey, It’s going to be a wild one. I hate to be negative, but some shit scares me. And I know I’m not the brightest star in the sky, but I believe and support some basic elements, like the land of the free and the home of the brave. You’ll see some bad news items
THE FINAL PLAYOFFS SUNDAY POST For Sunday January 19, 2014 Read More »
Hey, We are faced with a multitude of challenges and opportunities this year, and once in a while it causes stress or anxiety. You could start drinking whiskey until all the concerns in the world are gone. Or you could take drugs and hope for the best. Or, you could talk to good brothers. I
LOCK AND LOAD SUNDAY POST FOR January 12, 2014 Read More »
Hey, There is so much banging around in this feeble brain right now, I’m sorta lost. I try to snatch up my note pad to make notes, but I can’t move fast enough. I almost don’t have the time to take notes, just need to get shit done. No time to write ‘em down. Okay,
PLAYOFFS SUNDAY POST FOR Sunday, January 5, 2014 Read More »
I was on the New Jersey side of the river in the Campbell Soup Headquarters Building parking lot doing this shoot. I planned the shoot for early in the morning so that no one would be around to bother us. Well, wouldn’t you know my best laid plans backfired as usual, and there was
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Even back in the early 1970s, it was easy to see Roger McGrath was going places…fast! There’s a well-earned Ph.D. listed after Roger McGrath’s name, something you’ll notice whenever reading his bio found often across the Internet. You could say he’s been there, done that. It includes military experience as a Marine that later evolved
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Happy New Years, I spilled my guts about some of our 2014 moves, and I realized some were not strictly within the carefully outlined and strict Bikernet Code of the West. How about that deal with the fastener company based in India? It’s not exactly within the motorcycle industry. I’ve often said over the years,
PRE NEW YEARS SUNDAY POST FOR 12-29-13 Read More »
This is a story of motorcycle sibling rivalry that went down a few years ago and now is worth retelling as 2013 winds down, the tale told by Glen Bator of Bator International. Case in point, two 1939 Crocker Big Tank V-twins, consecutively numbered 106 and 107. They even have names: The Black Bike and
Blast from the Past: A Tale of Two Crockers Read More »
Hey, Merry Merry, It’s that time of year, when we need to put our wrenches away and focus on the family. Is that possible? Give it a shot. It’s sorta the Code of the West. Let’s hit the news: NEW JACKETS for Men and Women from Firstgear AND BIKER’S CHOICE– Women’s Jacket
The ALMOST CHRISTMAS EVE SUNDAY POST for Sunday December 22, 2013 Read More »
Night before Christmas The night before Christmas Done with working and riding for the day Just pondering things a little risque The Springer is locked up tight in the shop Back from a romp down the sweet blacktop Three fingers of whiskey take the edge off the extremes Hoping for
Veronica–Girl of Bikernet–Cantina XMAS 2013 Read More »
I’m writing this in 2013 and life is scrambling. Bikernet has tripled in size, my girl left me, and we have two Bonneville projects rolling. We are more involved in the industry than ever before, and the projects in this old hotel never end. Plus, we are two weeks from Christmas 2013 and it’s Friday
Life and Times Montebello 1971 Read More »
Hey, It’s that time. We need to figure out the Bikernet e-mail Christmas card. We scramble so hard around here, shopping seems along way off. I ran across a book from Marilyn Stemp called The Last Lecture. It’s a cool motivational read, so I bought a batch of them for Xmas presents. We all need
THE CHRISTMAS CHEER SUNDAY POST for Sunday December 15, 2013 Read More »
1970 Yuma Prison Run Note: The following photos are actually from the Terminal Island Prison Run That Happened Years Later, But What The Hell, We Figured You Wouldn’t Mind….. By K. Randall Ball It was 1970 and the summer sizzled, so much so that the asphalt softened from the unrelenting heat as I prepared
Installment #03 – 1970 Yuma Prison Run Read More »
Indio ’70 Reds And Women By K. Randall Ball I got off track last issue. I had promised to describe my first Indio Run, back in 1970. Perhaps it was a hollow promise. I don’t remember much from that weekend. Indio was one of the first runs I went on, 118 miles from Long Beach.
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The Destruction of One Big Toe By K. Randall Ball In 1973, I had been working for Easyriders for a couple years. I was attending a community college and buying and selling auctioned Los Angeles Police bikes. I had left my first wife, who was extremely religious and couldn’t handle any aspect of my life,
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Kern River ’83 By K. Randall Ball I’m just telling this sordid story because we’re trying desperately to piece together the tale of how we got a wild hair to hit three runs in one weekend. They were the annual Kern River Run, the Bakersfield Motorcycle Jamboree Run and the Molachs MC party on the
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First Panhead A Motorcycle Deal Based on Trust and Honor By K. Randall Ball It was 1975 and I was on one of the few major So Cal runs a year – the MMA ride to the outskirts of Fresno. A year before I had lost my toe to a stretched 1968 Shovelhead, fixed the
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