Well it’s that time again, this month we attempt to stop my poor old Softail from dragging her Tail. The old girl just isn’t up to the challenge any more, with two up riding she sags and sways all over the place, got to do something, quick! So I started looking […]
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When I was a kid I bought a Schwinn Fastback Stingray bicycle. It had 5-speed gear shifting on the frame, banana seat and ape hangers. I rode it thru junior high and into high school until I snagged my driver’s license and my first motorcycle a 1969 Harley Rapido 125cc.
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The Top 1 Ack Attack took a huge tumble late in the first day of competition at Mike Cook’s Landspeed Shootout. The team took to the salt shortly after the meet was called to a close ending the first day of competition. The goal was to do a couple of low
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Six Speed Conversion Kit Bikernet.com calls it new “New Blood for Swingarm Shovels”. We call it amazing! This kit will transform your clunky, old, worn-out 4 speed swingarm Shovelhead into a sleek, wild, driving machine. The kit replaces your taper shaft 4 speed with a brand new polished PowerDrive™ six speed close ratio splined shaft
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My Dad loved motorcycles. From Honda trail bikes to gold wings to CB750’s, I remember motorcycles were always a part of our family. A 1978 Honda Trail 70 was my first two-wheeled entry into the rough and tough biker world. It was an all black model with a chrome package and the folding ape
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The Good Dr. Hamster rode his FLH over 200,000 miles before pulling it down for a Pre- Sturgis prep rebuild. It was time to dial in this puppy in from stem to stern. We are planning a FXR ride next year to the Badland, or to Bonneville, or maybe to a Too-Broke for Sturgis
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Bikers love to eat. Whether it’s a convenient excuse to pull over, take a break and eat a burger, or a matter of much needed fuel to keep our senses sharp, motorcyclists often find themselves bellying up to the dinner table. And for motorcycling’s hungriest segment, Baby Boomers, dining has become a destination. It’s puzzling,
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Joe Cool is a bike with a tragic story behind it, but as with disasters some good comes along. Joe Cool’s name comes from a charter boat. Two fugitives who hijacked the crew and ended up murdering the four-crew members contracted the boat. Joe Cool ran out of fuel and was found floating twelve miles
COAST TO COAST BIKER NEWS Compiled & Edited by Bill Bish, National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) PENNSYLVANIA MEASURE WOULD LIMIT LEARNER PERMITS ABATE of Pennsylvania is supporting legislation to limit the number of motorcycle learner’s permits allowed before a rider must get a license. “All too often those involved in serious accidents have no motorcycle
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A REVIEW OF THE CALIBRATION OF EDWARD WINTERHALDER AND MARC TEATUM’S: “ONE LIGHT COMING, A Biker’s Story”–As an avid reader, I delved into this book about the biker lifestyle with gusto. The first two chapters were a bit problematic for me, but certainly nothing that couldn’t be overcome. The writing felt forced in those chapters.
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The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame is excited about the newest addition to its collection of motorcycles – the BIC(r) Flex 4(r) Chopper designed and built by Orange County Choppers. The bike, built in 2010, sports an S&S 100-inch motor, Baker 6-speed transmission, and OCC custom wheels. The motorcycle was built to help
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When my little cousin planned her wedding for August 5th, and asked me to be her wedding photographer, of course my answer wasm, “yes!” And when my mother and brother and his family decided to come out for the wedding and stay with me, of course the answer was, “yes!” What is more important than
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2011 Book Review: Triumph Bonneville Portrait Of A Legend James Mann and Mick Duckworth have put together a masterpiece in Triumph Bonneville Portrait of a Legend. Portrait covers the legendary Triumph Bonneville from its 1959 T120 US model to the 2010 Bonneville Sixty with a look at it’s origins in the 1954 Tiger 110.
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As we ride the Earth looking for the next great, undiscovered biking destination, it somehow occurred to us to think outside the yellow lines, way out. Comic Con International, a gargantuan gathering of the TV, film and print sci-fi industry and its following herds of super hero and horror fanatics, was rumored to be a
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THE SMOKE-OUT rocked Rockingham NC again this year. The temps were hot again but the bikes and ladies were hotter! There were Flatheads, Knuckleheads, Panheads, Shovelheads, Evos and even a few Twin Cams. Some of the coolest Triumphs on the planet were also roaming the fields. The metric bobber crowd was also well represented at
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When I was just a pup, one of my earliest memories was riding on the tanks on my dad’s old 80-inch flathead. It was stripped down for speed, and dad used to race the old clay track at Cotati with it. I guess it would be called a “bobber,” but back in the early ‘50s,
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I have had the great fortune of riding Harley- Davidsons since the ’70s but have never made it to Mecca or Sturgis, as it is called by many. You know that old tired story, when I had the time I never had the cash and vice versa. Finally, this year the traveling elements fell into
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The firestorm of social change that was burning across America in the 1960s was flaming its hottest in 1967. “The Summer of Love,” the Vietnam War, daily new waves of sex-drugs-and-rock’n’roll and so many other cultural U-turns were pounding this country and its traditions. One of those U-turns, however, wasn’t so new. It was a
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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
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Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, amid the throng of hurrying desires that trample on the dead to seize their spoil, lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible, as exhalations laden with slow death and o’er the fairest troop of captured joys breathes pallid pestilence. –George Eliot 1889 “How much further?” His daughter asked
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Gunner to pilot – copy. Tail Gunner here:This month let’s talk about lowering blocks. Man I’ve tried them all, Pingel, Burly, and L.A. Chopper. They all do what they are designed to do, lower your bike. Most of them lower your bike one inch or more. To achieve this, almost all the manufactures move the
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It’s funny how some projects seem to come about. Sometimes, you might get a glimpse of someone else’s work that inspires you to do your own thing. Other times, creativity hits and you get a clear cut vision of what a project can look like from start to finish. In this particular project, though, I
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Click here for: Mudflap Girl Part 3, the Bandit Engine Completed Suddenly we’re smoking on the Mudflap Girl FXRs, but the week after I received the frames, I had to jump a plane to New Orleans and ride a Victory to the Smoke Out. I was itching to work on these bikes. I survived the
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Video by Gearhead, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/user/machone351cFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/GearheadInc There are many talented builders in the American custom V-twin scene, but there are few that can tune a motor perfectly, and then competitively ride the bike themselves. Todd Silicato, owner of Todd¹s Cycle in Huntington Beach, California is one of them. Just before he opened his own
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