I peeled over to Gard Hollinger’s new 20,000 square foot facility near the Los Angeles Airport recently. He has a motorcyclist partner, Keanu Reeves, who doesn’t own cars just rides. Together they collaborated on this bike for five years, and it just might become the prototype for the next, American motorcycle manufacturer. Over the next […]
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Don’t miss the last episode: http://www.bikernet.com/pages/BikernetCycle_Source_Sweeps_Build_Part_6_Sponsored_by_Xpress.aspx Hang on. We are two weeks away from running out to Vegas for Bikefest and pulling the winner of this most magnificent custom motorcycle, specifically built for Bikernet and Cycle Source fans, readers, and subscribers. You need to sign up, if you haven’t, or come to the Cashman
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This Story is reprinted from the J&P Cycles Blog Labor Day weekend in Eastern Iowa marks one of our favorite motorcycle events of the season, the AMCA Fall National hosted by the Chief Blackhawk Chapter of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America (AMCA). A couple of J&P Cycles’ staff members spent the day
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Friday, September 14, 2012 is the one and only “rest day” onthe 2012 Motorcycle Cannonball – and it’s happening in Sturgis, SouthDakota. What is called a rest dayis for most of these adventurers really a day to work on their bikes – someeven performing major overhauls. At a number of locations around town, old
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This year has been a blur, and it’s not over. The pitfalls started when my motor wasn’t going to arrive until after Sturgis. Then my painter, Jim Murillo passed away unexpectedly, and the pressure mounted. He was a good man and friend. I was attempting to build a vintage land speed racer under difficult conditions
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So ya wanna Chopper but 38K for an Orange County Chopper is way out of your economically reassessed budget. Well Step right up boys’n’ girls and be amazed because for around 13K this baby can be yours. Bang for the buck the 2012 Fury from Honda is awesome. Honda was smart not to badge up
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Harley-Davidson kicked off their Labor Day Custom Bike Weekend Show event as a tune up to their 2013 110th anniversary. The Harley-Davidson Museum, located on 20 acres in downtown Milwaukee, hosted 2 bike shows, the AMD Affiliate ProBuilder show on Friday and Saturday and the ride in show on Sunday during the Milwaukee Rally. The
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This is an odd one. The Sheriff from Sweden swept into the country and rode a factory bike to Sturgis and around the west, but it was a 2012 model, and not newsworthy for European publications. He needed the latest and the greatest. He returned the touring model just as a handful of 2013 models
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Editor’s Note: Gary Houk has a mission in life, to keep the Excelsior-Henderson brand alive by growing the EHRC (Excelsior-Henderson Riders Club). If you would like to be apart of this clan with a mission, or own an E-H, don’t hesitate to drop Gary a note. As in X Rallies in the past, I was
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Are we free? If you were to ask someone who lived through the Japanese Internment Camps or survived the hellish concentration camps of the Third Reich or any of the refugees displaced by their governments as wide spread genocide grips their country the answer would be a resounding yes – we are free.
After rolling up about 1000 miles, Cannonball Endurance Run coast-to-coast riders will stop and overnight near the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa. Cannonball Riders and Motorcycles at the Start of the 2010 Event – J. Geary Photo This makes for a fun, once in a lifetime chance to visit the National Motorcycle Museum on
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You can view images larger if you click on them. Press ‘esc’ to resume regular viewing Between making sure Bandit’s orders were carried out andkeeping Vicki away fromthe “CherryPie White Lightning,”I waspressed for time atthis year’sSmoke-Outbut I was determined tofind a bike worthy of a feature here on Bikernet so I escaped from both Bandit
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Hey, We are packing to roll to the Bonneville Salt Flats. It’s all nuts, but the bike is together and complete—we hope. What a photo finish. I received a call from Frank at Kendon Trailers, my trailer will be ready around noon, and I need to fly south to pick it up. This
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Hit any photo to view it full size and press ‘esc’ to resume regular viewing. After Part I and Part II of this crazy build, Bikernet takes a look at how Lupo, a French backyard wrench, managed to adapt a pair of reproduction ’57 Chevrolet steel fenders to his motorcycle project, without making it
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Well, it’s time once more to bring you a Bikernet/Tail Gunner product review. This month we take a look at LA Choppers “Big Air” kits from Baron Mfg. The kit is made of chrome plated billet . The machining is some of the best I have seen, and I had no problems what so ever
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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 COAST TO COAST BIKER
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After about 40,000 miles, the Pro-Pipe I was running on my 2005 FLHPI finally became un-repairable. The screw slots that held the end cap baffle had chipped away and were no longer able to hold these parts inside the pipe. After losing these pieces in freeway traffic last time, I discovered that I could no
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Check the last episode: http://www.bikernet.com/pages/BikernetCycle_Source_Sweeps_Build_Part_5_Sponsored_by_Xpress.aspx This process is amazing. Not only are Gary Maurer, Kustoms Inc., and Julie, the lead builders, but they dragged this roller in various stages to over eight shows and events. It’s actually set up at the Broken Spoke in Sturgis right this fuckin’ minute. When I interviewed Gary, while Jules
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1 of 4 Cees Fick’s Vincent After I took part in the 11th Annual Diomage Sidecar Rally, Toon van Houtert stopped by LBS Sidecars the following week for a coffee and a chat, I was interested in how the Diomage Sidecar Run got started with the MC de Kleppenjagers 11 years ago.
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Editors Note: This article appears in the August 2012 issue of the Goodguys Gazette A century ago, there was plenty of brilliant white, thick, hard salt as far as the eye could see at the Bonneville Salt Flats. That meant seeing in double digit miles. As the years unwound, a the damning game of
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The 2012 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show The 21st edition of the LA Calendar Motorcycle Showsponsored by Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys featuring top Celebrity Builders,the Calendar Bike Building Championship & Concours d’Elegance, selectedVendors and Exhibitors, Calendar Girl Music live performances, took place inCalabasas, California. The current 3-year decline in the economy and the resultingimpact on the
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Click here for Part I of this build. You can zoom on each image if you click on it. Hit ‘esc’ to resume normal reading For this second installment of the ’57 Bel Air bike build, we take a look at how French bike builder Lupo tackled adapting a car taillight to his
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This is maybe the third AFT bike Bikernet featured, mostly because of the quality craftsmanship, unique concepts, and ride-able styling. There’s also a religious counterpart to this strange equation. Jim Giuffra, the boss of AFT, and his wife, came up with a crazy notion to recruit young, hot-looking girls, who might want to learn a
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Mudflap Girl, chapter 10: http://www.bikernet.com/pages/Mudflap_Girl_FXRs_Part_10_Suspension_Tuning_and_Le_Pera_Seat.aspx I can’t make it to Sturgis this year. We are focused Bonneville builds, like mad starving dogs, and the two events are only separated by two weeks. Ray is tuning and I still don’t have an engine, but we’ll cover that later. The engine could be running today, in Richmond,
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