Friday January 25th, my friend Allen and I loaded the bikes and headed to the Briar Creek Expo here in Charlotte. We loaded Allen’s 1952 K-model in the back of my truck, his 1984 XR-1000 in his van and my 82 Shovelhead in Cox’s Harley-Davidson trailer. We were on our way! This year’s show was […]
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I do not write much about climate change here, mainly because it is such an easy target to bash. Every decade has its fears; people get rich allaying those fears, including by discussing them to death. In the 1980s, it was the Satanic Panic. Now it is climate change. In my view, climate change
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The magnificent Stealth wrote this one week before the wild Easyriders Bike Show in Charlotte, NC. This show was always one of the best in the Easyriders annual series of shows. It consistently brought out the best in customs from the Easter seaboard. Mike faced stiff competition and a dire deadline to finish
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Incredible Custom Trike gets a War Veteran back on the road Jim Schombs a Navy Seal had a stroke in 2001. The war veteran believed his motorcycle riding days were over. Then he talked to some older veterans he met who had disabilities. The elder veterans told him about Trikes – a
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Compare motorcycle shipping companies Using an auto transporter to move your bike will help ensure it arrives safely and quickly to its destination. While there are many similarities between shipping a car and shipping a motorcycle, it’s best to work with companies that have specific experience shipping motorcycles. Our picks for best motorcycle shippers
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So after installing Woods 777 cams in my 2014 Street Glide my compensator was making a knocking noise due to the lope at idle from the cams. I ditched the compensator and went with the Twin Power 32t Compensator Eliminator. What a difference, bike is much smoother, less noise, shifts better… all around improvement. They
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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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Editor’s Note: The Long Road Bedroll was conceived and designed by the Commander of the annual SmokeOut, the most rowdy event on the planet. I have ridden the Long Road to the SmokeOut several times with Edge, the mastermind. I know about the grassy knolls, the rained on fields and the shared motel rooms. Edge
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I had a 2004 dyna lowrider all clubbed out with a Harley fairing, about 10 years before Sons of Anarchy came out, making the club style main stream. I was always building that thing up almost like a “mini bagger,” and then I thought I would graduate to a FXRT. Then I saw a Road
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Wham, we are cooking. In this chapter we will discuss frame progress, front suspension progress, seat progress, harness progress, rear brake progress and more. We are now working with the team three days a week, in the afternoons, Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday. I’m the janitor and responsible for cleaning the shop between sessions. I’m also
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It has been awhile since I gave an update on my Shovelhead project. Things happened, that we had no control over, including hurricanes and flooding, but we survived. The past couple of weeks we have made BIG progress! The frame is off to powder coating and the frame will get a chrome swingarm. Interesting about
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Frankie Jr., the Venice Tattoo artists flew through the night on the stretched FXR I built for his dad, Frank Ball, the Newport, CA tattoo artist, who is also working out of Jack Rudy’s historic shop, Tattooland. I built the bike sleek and slim, with a Spitfire Motorcycle stretched FXR pro-street frame and a super
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BIKERNET BOOK CLUB BOOK REVIEW–Storm Rider: The emergence of Gunnar by Chris Dutcher A dichotomy of viewpoints, the law, the gangster, the MC, a biker, but a story told from the view of a lone wolf biker. The lone wolf parts becomes even more evident as the story progresses. This
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A brother, Paul Davis, from back east started to send me shots of his hand engraving tool project. I thought it was his custom approach, but it was actually designed by Rick Alexander. Paul is interested in engraving, and since he’s retiring this year, from a 40-year stint in Harley dealerships as a mechanic, he
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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 NEWSBYTESCompiled & Edited
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NEW BIKERNET AND Bikernet Blog Programs To keep Bikernet moving forward in the New Decade, our Roaring ’20s, we’ve shuffled things around a bit. Once again we made all Bikernet Content available for free and all archived material for 28 years is available, no charge. Unlike almost any other journalistic web site, when you
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I can’t resist the temptation to brag to you about my new cobbler which I found after reading a zillion Yelps and asking around and researching the shit out of everything boots and boot repair …. I know, too much time sunk into that endeavor when there’s wrenchin’ to be done and parts to be
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Nominee No. 1 (San Jose Mercury News): An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend’s windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut. Nominee No. 2 (Kalamazoo Gazette): James Burns, 34, a mechanic from Alamo MI, was killed in March as
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It’s been a wild couple of weeks. The goal this year was to slow down, but that isn’t happening. We are scrambling to reconfigure all of the Bikernet web sites, trying to get someone to make a movie around one of my crappy books, not go broke and build the first streamlined trike in the
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As a serial biker dater who’s secretly proud of her hard-earned status, I’d like to share my wisdom with the world and all those girls out there whose hearts skip a beat at the thought of being in the same room with single bikers. Keeping in mind that women have incredible power over men
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Me and Cecily hopped in the car were on our way to Las Vegas once and westopped at a desert town that is a popular way-station for the Las Vegas hordes thatcome and go to LV from SoCal. It’s a hot gasping oven of a town and used to have just two eateries but time
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Remember the installation we performed on Jeremiah Soto’s Dyna. We actually used D&D components on three Bonneville bikes and set two records. We installed lots of D&D exhaust systems on Bikernet shop projects over the years. Jeremiah’s Dyna was one of them about four years ago and he’s been riding the streets of Los Angeles
Removing bolts with rounded heads, stripped threads, frozen, or even broken flush with the material like the one shown here, can be a real challenge. Here are ten ways to help remove problem fasteners. One of the biggest frustrations when disassembling a vehicle for restoration, or even repair, is the dreaded seized or stripped
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Editor’s Note with the help of Wikipedia: The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging. These episodes have happened numerous times
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