It all started when Bandit 86’d his long-bed Ford F-150 with the extended cab. It was getting long in the tooth with over 160,000 miles on the odometer. The lowered monster with rally wheels and stripped body never blinked, only requiring brake pads every 50,000 miles. The truck was a mechanical dream, but he sold […]
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Hey, It’s the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2010. Another year just slipped past in the blink of an eye. I’m starting on chapter 17 of my 1%er book, and hopefully today I will fix the 5-Ball factory racer once and for all time. I have a bleak confession to make on this week of
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The brisk autumn air whistled across the forest as I made my way towards the last set of curves in my weekly “forest run.” There’s a stretch of highway just west of the interstate that holds 25 miles of curves and dips directly through part of the Sam Houston National Forest. I love to carve
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Hey, This is an interesting day. The Retro Love Ride is happening as I type this. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it. We threw a Pre-Love Ride party Friday night just after I roamed through the halls of the massive SEMA automotive convention and I caught the airport mung, plus I needed to rebuild my
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Hey, This is one of those strange days. I thought the Sunday Post was doomed to be lack Luster, and I would take heat from our readers. But then I started digging and the news kept coming. I actually took a break from writing projects and hit the shop. Mr. Soto and I blasted
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HEY, How’s the weather? This has been the strangest October in the history of SoCal. Mother Nature threw the wrong switch and we jumped from summer to wet winter overnight. I wish she’d get her shit together. The Love Ride is just around the corner and we need dry streets. Folks usually fly out to
Never a Dull Moment Sunday Post Read More »
Hey, Wait until you see the flicks of old gas stations from the ’20s. Smacks of simpler times. Is there a way to turn the clock back, to simplify our lives? Remember when we had one motorcycle and two girlfriends, no mortgage, no car payments, no computers, no cell phones, no My Space,
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Hey, The girls keep coming from Vegas. Now I’m bummed I wasn’t there with Branscombe Richmond and his Renegade Posse Band. Yesterday I tried another 5-Ball Factory Racer ignition fix test, unsuccessfully. It blubbers at mid-range, and we can’t find out what’s happening with the Crazy Horse Engine. Must be something I’m doing… Then I
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“I picked this up yesterday,” Don Whalen, of Sierra Madre Motorcycles, said. “It’s a 1902 Mitchell. It was made in Milwaukee at the same time those other guys were starting up. I wonder if they knew each other? Can you imagine that conversation.” We ran to the Bikernet Library and flipped through the Encyclopedia of
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Wow, I’m screwed up. For some reason I thought the Love Ride was behind us, when it’s a month away in November. New deal this year. We’re rolling the clocks back to a time when the Love Ride weaved a pack of Harleys from Glendale to Calamigos Ranch, in Malibu, California. The deal this year
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Hey, Cannonball wraps up today. I had a suggestion for the future. My thoughts included a Cannonball every other year, and each rally we would move the bikes up a decade. So the next Cannonball would include bikes older than 1926, the next run would reach to 1936, and so on.
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Although the economy is on shaky legs, two-wheels are apparently much more stable, especially when you’re considering investing in precious metals or keeping up to date on that bike gathering dust in your garage. Gold has jumped to over $1200 an ounce and there’s plenty of that to be found in “golden classics,” case in
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It was the summertime and the living wasn’t easy. Nothing seemed to work, the internet was down, the e-mail system quit, and we had Department of Water and Power journeymen crawling all over the poles adjacent to the vast Bikernet Interplanetary Headquarters. They explained that as the street widening moved forward, the various agencies argued
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Hey, Just back from the El Camino Antique Motorcycle Swapmeet, here in Los Angeles. It was the biggest ever with 100 bikes in the show and a full compliment of swapmeet vendors. We entered two bikes, the 5-Ball racing Peashooter and Nyla’s Bobber by Kent Weeks at Lucky Devil. We didn’t place, but Tom
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Bandit, Attached are a few shots of the 1946 Flanders Company catalog if you need some stuff to add to your Antique Bikes and Motorcycle History section. Flanders has not make the Dog Bone risers for years, but still is making handlebars. Just let riders know that there are lots of China Cheap imitation new
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Hey, Life is strange and hectic. We constantly ask ourselves, “Can we do more?” I thinks it’s a question much of our society is asking. You have your family and a job, maybe a project (like a chopper), a religion, a charity you look after, a club, community activities, a pet or two, and maybe
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Hey, It’s a holiday weekend and I’m scrambling to write a couple of book chapters. I returned from Bonneville to discover a missed HORSE deadline, and holiday offers on my computer, as if an evil haunting omen. Fuck, it’s the first of September, not November. Then there’s Las Vegas Bikefest at the end of the
CRAZY FOR HAVING THE BLUES SUNDAY POST Read More »
Hey, Another crazed morning in paradise. We are now carving into the week we depart for the mighty Salt Flats. One bike is not complete and the other one is broken. We are waiting on engine gaskets from Accurate Engineering, which were sent snail mail. The new rings arrived on Friday, so
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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
Renegade Makes Dolly an Official Girl of Bikernet Read More »
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.
BIKERNET ROLLIN’ HOME FROM STURGIS SUNDAY POST FOR AUGUST 15TH Read More »
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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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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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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