Before you read to the end, does anybody know what the main ingredient of WD-40? Don’t lie and don’t cheat. WD-40 – Who knew! I had a neighbor who bought a new pickup. I got up very early one Sunday morning and saw that someone had spray painted red all around the sides of this […]
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Hey, I wrote about the economy, then the Week magazine hit our mail box. The subtitle read, “A surge in hiring finally sparks economic optimism.” Amazing. The Labor Department job report indicated that employers added a net of 243,000 jobs last month. Unemployment dropped to 8.3 percent. That’s good goddamn news. So, I’ll keep my
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Just a quick Sunday Post with a few funnies and women. Word from Bandit, who attended the V-Twin Dealer show in Cincinnati this weekend, is that it was well attended, everyone had a positive outlook for 2012 and that you should watch for some great new products from Performance Machine. All was
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The motorcycling world loves a ‘barn find,’ an old, obscure machine wheeled out of the woodwork for the first time. And this is one of the biggest revelations of recent years. It’s a 1930 Henderson that was customized before WW2 by a fellow called O. Ray Courtney and fitted with ‘streamliner’ bodywork. One night in
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Hey, This is going to be very quick. I promise myself not to plan anything on Sundays, but you know exactly how that goes, with guests, events, women, and whiskey. There’s always something. This weekend we are loading the Assalt Weapan and taking it to the Chowder Barge in the early afternoon. I’ll haul a
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Hey, I realize the two most important games of the season are being played today, so I need to make this quick. Get this: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will test employees at over 100 airports for radiation. No, they won’t test subject passengers or the machines. “We still have no idea how much radiation
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Hey, I’m scrambling after our goals for 2012. I want to have both Mudflap Girl bikes running this month and off the lifts. Plus, we are scrambling to kick our Bonneville effort off the ground. I can’t tell you how much this small group of race nuts appreciate every sponsor. Hopefully, next week you will
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New Zealand has a reputation as an interesting place of unparalleled beauty. Well, it is and I think most people know that. What I personally found just as interesting is that it is a land of motor heads. I have never seen a population so fascinated by anything with an engine and they will race
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Hey, We are nearing the end of our first week into the New Year, and we’re cooking. I sense this is a critical year in so many respects. Plus, it’s going to be damn exciting. I spent five hours yesterday morning on a conference call with the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) Board of
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I’m looking down the barrel of 2012. The New Year is less than a week away, and we are scrambling to get my son’s Mudflap Girl FXR running and off the lift. It’s been an interesting time for me. Nyla keeps harping on slowing down, but the projects keep coming. I thought maybe I was
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For those of us drawn to the somewhat fringe zone of postcard collecting and research, a passion/addiction officially known as Deltiology, good things indeed come in small packages. Those outside the postcard world are probably unaware that it is the third largest collecting hobby in the world, next to coin and stamp collecting, usually 4
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Happy New Year, We will hit the bricks running. Even today, I’ll be making final adjustments to my son’s Mudflap girl FXR. It’s so close. It’s time to make brake lines, bleed the brakes, add the hoses, fluids and wiring. Then I need to dig a ditch out back and prepare to move the iron
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Hey, In this down economy opportunities surface. Take for instance this little company 5-Ball Inc. and all the projects we have in store for 2012 with Sturgis, Bonneville, bike building, site building, more books, you name it. Take a look at our tiny niche industry. Lots of companies are gone, but I still believe motorcycles
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Hey, Merry, Merry, goddammit. What an incredible year 2012 is turning into. Last night I attended a Xmas Party, and we may have kicked off an amazing ride from the top of Alaska to the bottom of South America. Since we are launching Bikernettrikes.com, we may make this a Trike adventure. Plus we already have
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Back when the Transcontinental Railroad’s golden spoke was still gleaming, the industrial East and the wild West linked by the locomotive, and a young United States still recovering from a bloody Civil War, two books brought relief, comfort and hope across the country. One would be the Bible, the other the Sears mail-order catalog. Founded
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Hey, I try to search for inside scoop material for the Sunday Post and Cantina Members. Sometimes that’s a daunting task, but today, we have a couple of exclusives, and inside notions. Ray Wheeler, Dr. Willie, and I are scrambling to complete the repairs to the Salt Shaker and pull it off the lift. Then
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Hey, This is going to be damn short. I’m packing to fly to Vegas for the OCC/Jesse build off. Pilgrim Studios asked me to be a judge. In the fine print they call me a critic. Should be interesting. Can I ride each bike around chilly Vegas. Don’t you think a road test should be
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Hey, I was going to piss and moan about the holidays getting in the way of building motorcycles and making progress. We need some more Progressive travel limiters for our new 430 13-inch shocks. We need some James Panhead tins gaskets to wrap up the Salt Shaker. We’re burnin’ daylight. Plus, I thought this news
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I was going crazy. I was horny as hell and had the blues as I wandered into the new Easyriders Saloon and Steakhouse in Sturgis, on Lazelle. The wind whistled across the nearly abandoned street on Thanksgiving Day. The thermometer on the outside of the new western-styled clapboard, three-story building read 39 degrees. I needed
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The arguably rare, at least to Western eyes, Hungarian Pannonia 250 had been perfectly matched to Duna “bullet nose” sidecar when found by its owner, an admitted “professional computer geek whilst at the 2009 Daytona Bike Week where she ambled into the motorcycle auction to find a bike suitable for AHRMA bike racing. “Unfortunately that
Hungary’s Best and Last Motorcycle: 1969 Pannonia Read More »
Hey, Look out, it’s almost Thanksgiving. We are headed rapidly into the holidays. My god, run for your lives. Santa Clause stumbled into the Chowder Barge last night and told dirty jokes. I worked on the Bikernet Headquarters, posted Bill’s Legislative news, worked out, and grappled with a slight gas leak on my mudflap girl
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Hey, Another amazing day in paradise. I woke up this morning feeling like I was attacked by the hangover king, but I had one short Jack on the rocks last night and watched an amazing 1940 Rita Hayworth movie. The movie was written, produced, and directed by the same guy. Amazing, what folks can do,
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The steam-bike (wonder why it never caught on): Antique motorcycle expected to break world record price at auction It is a bike whose inventor was once arrested for riding it but later released when police couldn’t work out what crime he had committed. And with a record like that it’s not hard to see why
Roper Steam-Powered Motocycle On the Auction Block in January 2012 Read More »
1819 Pedal Power – Early Motorcycle Dreams The original “Wild Ones” tear up a dirt track in this 1819 painting of the “Hobby Horse” by French artist Maurice Rosseau. At least you got plenty of exercise. What Goes Around, Comes Around… A Little Motorcycle Pre-History The story of the “motor-cycle” begins back
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