The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame boasts a collection of nearly 100 motorcycles dating back to 1909. Some of the collection is extremely rare. Other bikes are really quite common. The vast majority of the bikes on display here fall somewhere in the middle. This little Triumph Tina is one of those. While […]
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It’s hard to say where the cotton actually came from, but suffice it to say that the quality was excellent. It was woven into a rich piece of material and dyed black. The material was selected by a very astute and discriminating buyer looking for only the best to represent their brand. The purchase included
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A half-million bikers were expected to roar into town for the 71st Daytona Bike Week. Uhh, probably not… Bike Week got pushed back because NASCAR bumped their opening race, the Daytona 500, back a week and the Daytona International Speedway requires a week to convert the track from cars to motorcycles. What does this have
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How many of you beer drinking, bar fighting, stripper chasing, Harley ridin’, grimy saddle tramps, from the late ’60s and early ’70s remember the old 12-spoke magnesium wheels we ran on bikes out of the south bay area? Who remembers who was the first person to convert that classic mag to a motorcycle? Does anybody
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Welcome Aboard Planet Earth, Enjoy The Ride! Shortly after joining society the 31st of May 1944 in El Dorado, Kansas. the adrenaline addiction might have kicked in when the good Dr. Dillenbeck pried me out of the dark into the bright lights of the hospital delivery room at 4:29 a.m. After the complimentary slap on
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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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There are numerous bike shows during Daytona Bike Week. But I never miss the parking lot Tropical Tattoo Old School Chopper Show , 825 Yonge Street (US 1) in Ormond Beach on Thursday from noon until 4:00 in the afternoon. The sun blazed. The girls were hot, and the old school bikes glistened. In its
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Aptly Named after the 1969 Pontiac GTO, “Judge.” This American motorcycle delivers on its promise. I couldn’t pop a wheelie but at least burned some rubber. The Judge has lots of torque and power via the Freedom 106. The company claims 113 lb-ft of torque from the 106ci (1731cc) Twin. A 140mm rear tire and
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Side Kicks are designed to offer the rider the freedom ofwheels when riding and the stability of 4 wheels when you stop and start. Here’s a product that caught our attention. It addresses some of the questions that many riders have answered when they bought a trike, but it still lets you ride
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Don't forget Veteran's Day.The bike is '41, 741 Indian Army motorcycle, the uniform is WWII Warrant Officer, and the individual is myself, a Senior Warrant Officer (CW-4), U.S. Army, Transportation Corps, Senior Chief Engineer, of 37 years.They said the Shovelhead was dead. They said the Evo's and TC's would always beat Shovels. They said you
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Check this out. We are building a similar engine with a K-model top end for our Bonne Belle 45, 2012 Bonneville effort. Duncan Keller is helping Lee Clemens through the engine build process. Duncan is the master of the Magnum engine. Enjoy the tech:
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2012 Harley-Davidson FLHTK Electra Glide Ultra Limited Riding motorcycles has been a regular part of my life as far back as I can remember, even farther back than I care to brag about. My dad used to look like all the guys in Easyriders circa 1979 and I thought he was the coolest man on
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Bryan Thompson took on this build like a mountain man with a mission. He had to build a pre-unit bobber and stay true to the Triumph code. Only Triumph components could be used. No custom frame, forks, or wheels; just a couple of traditional Bates components and the rest original. But let’s back up first.
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Click here to see: Mudflap Girl FXRs, Part 7 My Son’s almost Grip Ace Wired Since last time, my Mudflap Girl is still over at Saddlemens waiting on a custom seat, but good news filtered into the shop this week. Next week, we should move forward. Then my son made his dire announcement: “I wanted
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Throttle-by-wire replaces throttle cables with an electrically wired or electronic position sensor at the throttle handgrip. New BMW motorcycles have it, as do Harley-Davidson Touring bikes and modern Trikes, so do many models of cars and even jet aircraft. What is it? Throttle-, drive- or fly-by-wire—electronic throttle control (H-D’s official wording) and engine
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I love pouring over a map spread out over the dining room table, scrutinizing every back road and twist in the ink. There is a scale involved with maps that allow you to dream and plan differently then looking at a GPS or computer screen. I’ve been known to draw a radius and pick a
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Harley-Davidson is committed to documenting and preserving the rich history and heritage of African American riding culture for years to come. Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. The event
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Hang on for a chance to win this bike. The odds will be terrific, so step up and enter, or subscribe to Bandit’s Cantina on Bikernet.com, or Cycle Source Magazine, and we will take care of your entry into the drawing towards the end of the year. In the meantime, grab a beer and enjoy
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The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame has lots of great motorcycles and memorabilia on exhibit, but we’ve also got some great stuff tucked away in our archives. This month, we thought we’d share a little piece of what’s currently NOT on display in the museum. A couple of years ago, we were loaned
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Check out SuperTrapp’s Universal Slip-Ons for custom bikes or café racers (Hit any image to view it full size; hit ‘esc’ to resume regular viewing.) I’ve been a fan of SuperTrapp exhausts after riding a friend’s Harley-Davidson Softail Night Train in the 1990s. The blacked-out beast looked lean and mean, but with its
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Well, it looks like raisin pie for everybody! All you old timers will remember that phrase from the early days. It meant success and a job well done, and it still fits today. The 2012 Easyriders Show in Sac Town contained a great collection of the best custom bikes on the West Coast. There
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Check out SuperTrapp’s Universal Slip-Ons for custom bikes or café racers (Hit any image to view it full size; hit ‘esc’ to resume regular viewing.) I’ve been a fan of SuperTrapp exhausts after riding a friend’s Harley-Davidson Softail Night Train in the 1990s. The blacked-out beast looked lean and mean, but with its
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We recently had the pleasure to road test another 250 ATK model. This is the bare model GT250. It’s not a cruiser, nor the sport bike model. It’s sorta the low-buck Buell replacement. Since 2009 when Erik and his brand left Harley-Davidson, dealerships were stuck with nothing even close to an entry-level model, nothing to
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