The Custom Strider Program is an initiative of The Flying Piston Benefit produced by Marilyn Stemp of Iron Trader News and Jeff Najar of Biker Pros to raise awareness and funds for non-profits and individuals in the biker community. Each year a new class is unveiled at the Flying Piston Benefit Builders Breakfast at […]
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Editor’s Note: Bikernet got ahold of an historic home in Deadwood in the Presidential area. We decided on a Chinese whorehouse theme. We discovered this 110 year-old home was built over the original cemetery where Wild Bill was buried. Someone got the bright idea to dig up the bodies and move them up above Lincoln
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Your average biker that has a Harley usually adds some customization to the bike not leaving it stock very long. And if they are a gear head, usually the first thing they do is take off the stock exhaust and upgrade to something that is louder and throatier. With fuel injection you can make
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On Tuesday, January 22, we nervously took the Salt Torpedo into the desert for some passes on a desolate paved road. I can’t tell you where we went. It’s top-speed secret, that only coyotes and bleak desert bikers know about. What a trip. Zack and my Grandson, Frankie helped us load it
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NCOM BIKER NEWSBYTESCompiled & Edited by Bill Bish, National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) ALL MOTORCYCLE RIDERS URGED TO SUPPORT FEDERAL ANTI-PROFILING MEASUREThe National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) and the Confederations of Clubs is calling on all motorcyclists nationwide, from patch holders to independents, to contact their Congressional Representatives to ask for their support
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Gearhead feature Where to start? I named the bike Gypsy Belle. She was my gypsy and the adventures we had are too numerous to mention. I’ve had her for 40 plus years now and she’s been solid to me. Back in the day, custom parts and performance components were difficult to find or afford. The
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Book: Mimi and Moto Ride the Alphabet written by Nancy Gerloff and Mark Augustyn Publisher: Little Rider Enterprises ISBN: 978-0-578-46748-1 www.mimiandmoto.com We all have one or two, or maybe a handful; whether it be your kids, grand-kids, or the ones your friends bring over. It is great and important that we share our
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We’ve all heard the stories of how Harley-Davidson began life in 1903 in a Milwaukee woodshed on the site of what is now the headquarters of Miller Brewing Company. But with motorcycle production set to jump from around 1000 units in 1909 to nearly 30,000 by 1920, the Motor Company’s industrial digs had to change,
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Here’s some of the bikes I’ve had since the late ‘70s. There were several more, but they were just something to roll over and make a few bucks. I am currently buying a ‘98 1200 Sportster slightly wrecked for $1000. I’ll send pictures of what I am doing to it to make money to build
LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES Consumer Protection and Fuel Transparency Act – H.R. 1024In February, Congressman Scott Austin of Georgia introduced H.R. 1024. This legislation seeks an educational campaign about E-15 and new labeling at fuel pumpswarning consumers to check their owner’s manual when using E-15 fuel.This simple educational campaign and warning label will alert consumers that
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The Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 was announced for launch in 2021 and the company’s Instagram suggests we might be able to see this breakthrough bike in dealerships in 2020. First offered for inspection at EICMA show 2019, the excitement is visible and strong. Harley-Davidson is taking big changes in its stride; first with its all
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I guess I kind of get the Harley thing now. No name in American motorcycling looms as large as Harley-Davidson, the longest continually operating motorcycle brand in the States. While it’s experienced its share of problems over the last decade or so, it’s continually working on updating and innovating. This last bit is especially
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I had the wants for another custom bike but have turned into a cheap old fucker since getting SS at 62. I’m still a chopper guy and decided a Big Dog or Texas Chopper was it. Limited funds had me loosing auctions on EBay. Up pops a ‘98 Titan with no reserve only 300 miles
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THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. If you’ve been involved in any kind of accident, call us at 1-(800) ON-A-BIKE or visit www.ON-A-BIKE.com. NCOM BIKER NEWSBYTES Compiled &
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I spent a lot of money and time rebuilding an old 41mm wide glide for my 1969 Panhead build. It was one of those crazy builds, fulla twists and turns, but the glide haunted me. It wasn’t long enough. I would have liked it to be 2-over for a better stance for a rider 6’5”
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Bay Pines National Cemetery – St Petersburg, Florida Or at a National Cemetery near you…. What really bothers me is that it’s December 11, 2019 – and Saturday, December 14th we convene at Bay Pines National Cemetery to participate in Wreaths Across America to “remember the Fallen…Honor those who Serve…Teach our children
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“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion” — Jack Kerouac, On the Road What do you do when you drop 30 K on an incredible looking trike but it handles like an over caffeinated college student maxed out on Adderall? That is the question that was posed to me by my good
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Bikernet has supported and sponsored Las Vegas Bikefest for about a decade. Each year the boss or someone from the staff flew out to the desert to check it out and write about the action. Once we sent two thugs on Dynas and they scored a young prostitute the first night on the strip.
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Jeremiah is a nut about products on his motorcycle. He’s very analytical. He decided he needed front turn signals, so he checked the Dyna page for model year 2009, 49mm front end products and discovered a set of black-anodized Joker Machine, LED, billet machined, one-piece turn signals. He was impressed with the angle
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A week before the Bonneville International Speed Trials in warm Wendover, Utah, the wind was mild and the salt wet. It wasn’t a stellar year on the salt. Speed Week was shut down for 4 days due to rain. The only pass we made was around the block and I was knocked out, but we
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“I’m still hungry, but I’m tired of chewing,” Denis Manning said with a laugh. The 73-year-old always seems to have the perfect one-liner to illustrate a point—in this case, his undying passion for building the world’s fastest motorcycle streamliner. “I knew when I was 15 years old that this was what I wanted to do,”
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MOTORCYCLE FATALITIES DECLINE, DESPITE INCREASED OWNERSHIP For the second straight year, nationwide motorcycle fatalities declined, in spite of a record number of motorcycles in usage across the United States. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released their 2018 motor vehicle fatality report, reflecting a 4.7% reduction in motorcyclist deaths from
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It’s the tenth anniversary next week of the 2009 Climategate email dump that exposed top climate scientists’ chicanery and subversion of science – and did so in their own words and out of their own mouths, or keyboards. I’ll list a few emails-of-infamy shortly, but first some background. For the three years before Climategate, the
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A group of women dubbed the ‘Motor Maids of America’ sit astride their motorcycles. Photo by Douglas Grundy/Three Lions/Getty Images Because of media portrayals in movies like The Wild One (1953) or TV shows like Sons of Anarchy, motorcycle clubs are tarred in the public psyche with a bad reputation. But the Motor Maids of
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