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Hey, Damn, we’re slamming directly into the holidays once more. The weather has gone to shit in big chunks of the country, and the bastards turned the clocks back, so it will get darker earlier. How does that make sense? We need more light in the winter. Ah, but we always have the Sunday Post […]

Hey, It’s Halloween and the cute girls are out, wearing the hottest outfits. It was outfit city around here all week, girls coming and going scouring through Sin Wu’s secret stash. Of course we were in the shop trying to figure out the Salt shaker. We have install a new Dyna S single fire ignition

Hey, Another crazy day in paradise. The first Mudflap FXR will be running tomorrow. I tuned the Compu-fire ignition last night, while waiting for Sin Wu to deliver my dinner at midnight. Setting up and tuning a Compu-Fire ignition is the easiest on the planet. You can’t go wrong, and once it’s tuned you never

Hey, This is going to be a wild one, and I’m trying to shorten it, so I can finish wiring my Mudflap Girl FXR. It dawned on me that I have no hydraulic brake lines for this puppy. Well, actually John Reed sent me some, but I just haven’t headed down that road yet. If

Hey, Strange times we’re living through. It’s interesting, and I hope the government can get past all the hindering regulations and remember what this country was based on– freedoms not restrictions.   But we grapple with our own existence and wonder if we need to head in another direction. Folks ask me why I don’t

Hey, It’s a short one, this weekend, but packed with good info. We are just back from a Vegas Bikefest whirlwind weekend. We finished the Thursday News, then Ray C. Wheeler, Bikernet Performance Editor, and I, jumped in the Bikernet Hearse and cut a dusty trail into the Mojave desert toward the Nevada border. I

Hey, We are running late with the post. We hit the Long Beach swap meet to collect parts for the Mudflap Girl bikes, Bonneville projects for next year, you name it. That damn, every two week event was jammed, and it was just followed by the El Camino Vintage Swapmeet, yesterday 10 miles away. Since

    Oh no,    It’s a deja vu. Ray C. Wheeler, the Bikernet Performance editor peeled toward the Salt Flats for the Cook’s Shootout this morning at the crack of dawn. He straddled the Salt Shaker and cut a dusty trail with Bikernet stickers and our Bonneville books in tow. About an hour out

Hey, Life is nuts and so is the news. Get this, the Post office is about cooked. They need to downsize or they will be out of business. They just don’t compete anymore with e-mail, UPS, or Fedex. They can’t pay the 5.5 billion dollar payment to fund future retirees’ healthcare benefits. Seems Congress has

Hey, Ray C. Wheeler and Cigar Marc are on the road to Bonneville Salt Flats for the Bub’s International Speed trials, and the speed buzz is in the air. We will bring you reports all week long. We decided to rip into my Mudflap girl FXR. I feel the pressure to finish these bikes and

Hey, It’s another perfect day in Paradise. We worked on my Mudflap girl FXR most of yesterday modifying and mounting the Custom Chrome rear fender. We installed the new Progressive shocks and continue to monkey with the wheel and chain alignment. I need to think about a chain guard and some mounting issues with the

Hey, The news is still pouring in from the Badlands. We will bring you a tech on two new Baker products in the near future. Baker is about to launch a new oil bag with 1.5 extra cooling quarts of oil. They also have a clutch throw-out bearing fix, and we will bring you more

    Just a quickie Sunday Post since most of the industry is in Sturgis. Not many emails coming in, so enjoy this short and sweet post. ~Nyla     Deer season is around the corner, so I thought I’??d better send out a reminder about what a Whitetail looks like!         A

Hey, Sturgis is just around the corner. In fact yesterday the Hamsters left California on their week long trek to the Badlands. We are going to attempt to catch them in Aspen, Colorado, but I need to wrap up some content for you, including most of the Thursday News, on Wednesday, before we peel out.

Hey, The world is moving fast and the Badlands are calling. I don’t know where to start, so I won’t. We need to wrap up the Post so we can ride to Bennett’s for their open house with the Branch O’keefe headwork guys next door, and the Signal Hillbillies playing out front. Should be a

Hey, This is an incredible news. It’s got a bit of everything and some truly bad jokes. We rolled over to the reduced LA Calendar Show yesterday. Only a handful of bikes in the competition, but still a wild assortment of highclass customs and bobbers. In many respects it’s sad to see this show falter.

Hey, I’m spacing today. We are going to whip out the Sunday Post and dive back into the shop for more bike building mania. Ray C. Wheeler, the Bikernet V.P. of Cantina Membership Services, and I attended a 70th Birthday of an old friend, Urban Hirsch in Beverly Hills last night. I swear, I didn’t