Greenville, NC, September 10, 2010 – Forty-four Motorcycle Cannonball riders left Kitty Hawk, NC this morning on the initial leg of an endurance ride that they hope will have everyone celebrating 16 days from now on the Santa Monica pier where it juts into the Pacific Ocean 3,294 miles away. Before heading out of the […]
I left Panama during the rainy season. From Panama City I had 3,000 miles to go before reaching Mexico’s northern border. My twin cam engine was overheating every day now and if I ran into trouble I knew of only two Harley dealers in Central America. Mexico had several dealerships
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Click on the pictures to see them Xtra Large! It’s funny the kind of interesting things you sometimes find in people’s basements. Take the 45-inch flathead engine that powers this neat little bike; it came from the basement of Mike and Brian Yensch’s uncle. That was a nice starting point for their project.
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To me, and for thousands of other riders, Sturgis and the Black Hills represent just that, the land of the free, and the home of the brave. I have seen countless documentaries about Sturgis, and I have yet to see anyone capture the essence of what keeps this 50 year old woman coming
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When I met Victor Boocock, Motorcycle Cannonball rider #29, in May of this year, he had decided to take his 1914 Harley-Davidson single for a jaunt across America. He was anxious about the trip, had a pocket full of rules he’d outlined for himself, and refused to allow me to take his photograph for fear
Pre-Cannonball Cross Country–Just three days Left! Read More »
It took all day to get registered and inspected, but they now know what to do. In fact here’s the to-do lists for both the Peashooter and the Munro Special: Ray C’s Munro Special: 1. Kill Switch & Cable 2.Fuel line fire-retardant cover 3. Safety wire on axles bolts 4. Place racing identification numbers
Holy shitaroo, what a year! Westarted out with the notion for a Streamlined 45 like Burt Monroe. Thestreamliner rules prohibited the dream, but we kept moving with Departure BikeWorks, until the economy sucked the life out of Lee’s business, and state taxesalmost shut him down. The Bonne Belle slowed like two flat tires in the
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Devil’s Take on the Café Racer Story by Johnny Humble, Pics from The Devil Sportsters have always held a special place in my heart because of the spirit they were designed to invoke with their short, choppy stroke and torquey power plant. The engine and transmission attached 50 years before the Twin Cam, and a
Sturgis 2010 As the spring months turn into summer, my road trip itch begins to burn like a bad case of chiggers. For 10 months, I am ok riding back and forth to work, taking the occasional blast through the National Forest with my son, or screaming around the city with
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The statistics of the Sturgis Rally are always impressive, however, this year’s 70th anniversary marks a return to the boom days of the middle of last decade before the onset of the recession, with numbers considerably up on the past few years and with a daily record for the number
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(Photos by Brian Nelson, Robert Pandya and Victory Motorcycles) You can click on any of the following photos to view them full size and as a slide show. For 2011, Victory’s slogan “The New American Motorcycle,” has been dropped in favor of a more dynamic and evocative: “Fuel It,” clearly demonstrating that Victory
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.”
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
