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This is the story of the build-up of my cheap Suzuki GN 400.Before you get all upset that it is a jap bike, let me say one thing.I have a 1974 sportster that I finished up a couple of years ago that I ride regularly, I was looking for something cheap that my wife could […]

Here is engine swap tip “Old Bob” and I came up with. This is the second time I’ve done this on a Road King wreck that involved a frame change. I saw something somewhere where the factory was putting a Twin Cam engine in a Road King frame on the assembly line. We got to

Bikernet East, Zebra Report 8/17/2000:ZEBRA CRUSHES BANDIT! ARRIVES FIRST IN STURGIS! Despite overwhelming odds, such as a rev limiter installed secretly byBandit (later ripped out and thrown in the ditch), heavy rain on the eastcoast, phony tags (fuck the Florida DMV), a bleeding gas tank (Bandit issuspected here as well), hail in Atlanta, deer in

It seems to me that I’ve been hearing the word ‘Billet’ used, misused and even abused over and over, which leads me to the conclusion that there’s a lot of confusion about that ‘Billet’ word that people are using. O.K., what the heck is billet? Let’s go to the source, Mr. Webster says: “billet (bil’it)

 When the dust and metal filings settled, the smoke cleared, and the greasy gang of wrenches at the famous Bikernet Garage sobered up, before us stood a gleaming new chopper, complete and ready to break in, save for a few minor tweaks and a seat. The Zebra entry for the Bikernet ChopOff 2000 was complete.

Thunder Cycle Designs629 E. Sunrise BlvdFt. Lauderdale, Fl 33304  “I’m thinking of having a painter do up the bottom of the bike with some radical paint design because the fucker is so damned fast with this S&S 113 that it brings the front end off the ground in second gear. I’m not kidding. I had

ROAD KING REPORT–Initially I had some questions regarding Road Kings. I wanted to know some about the frame geometry. I perfer a little trail over low speed, parking lot handling. I like to run fast and stable. Next I’m old school. I perfer a bike with minimun extras so I lean toward a carb model

The Harley-Davidson Custom Vehicle Operations (CVO) team pumps upits wild Screamin’ Eagle Road King for 2003 with the biggestdisplacement engine ever offered in a production Harley-Davidsonmotorcycle a 103 cubic-inch (1690cc) Twin Cam V-Twin tuned to producemore than 100 lb-ft of torque. Based on the popular FLHRI Road King model, the 2003 CVO Screamin’Eagle Road King

A bike in a box, I like the concept. The first thing that pops into my mind is that I’m gonna drop some pretty good coin into a cardboard box the size of a fuckin refrigerator and this is supposed to be my transportation. What kind of parts are lurking in Styrofoam peanuts and bubblewrap?

Six burly fuckers lifted the awkward, bulky, cardboard box into the back of the pickup. We stopped at Wal-mart and bought a $100 motorcycle lift. It has a hydraulic jack with a foot pedal pump, locking safety bars and is good to 1,500 pounds. It’s a necessity for the project since it will lift the

Your stock Harley has something exposed that you may want to coverup. There’s some ugly issue on your new bike that is screaming foryour attention, and if you are a little crafty, you can work throughthis problem. What’s this nasty problem? Your handle bar controlswiring problem, that’s what. You know those heinous wires that comeclipped

Illustration by Jon Towle “Aw’ right. How many of you pencil necked geeks think you know how toride a motorcycle safely?” Our instructor, Wayne Jackson, grinned at ussardonically, as he tried to instill in us some degree of learned caution.We were all planted in the drewery classroom for a variety of reasons, some to qualify

Gates Poly Chain(r) Belts are extremely durable and give long life in aproperly designed drive. However, improper handling of the belt before orduring installation can result in dramatically shortened service life. Thebelt’s tensile cords are designed to carry large loads in tension but notcompression. Compression causes damage to the tensile cords of the belt andcan

 The competition has changed, expanded. Can home-built choppers fly to Sturgis? Can Jesse James build a chop and actually ride it, with all his tools, mechanics, equipment, lathes, milling machines, and money? Can Billy Lane from Choppers Inc. build a bike by hand while wanton women dance seductively around him daily in him Maimi based

Custom Chrome introduces the world’s first rocket-powered Zebra. The power plant of the Great Zebra Northern Steamer for Bikernet Chop-Off 2000 by Special Agent Zebra 05.22.00. The Great Zebra Northern Steamer is to be a biker’s bike. No fantasyland Hollywood bullshit in the way of $80,000 paint jobs or diamond encrusted spokes, no chop-shop hoopla,

This month we’ll take a look at the Jack Knife folding floor board pegs from FBI. At first glance, I thought what a great idea, low and hidden right where need them, mounted under the floor board. The pegs swing out when needed, and back in when not in use. So I ordered them. Delivery

    When I first got the V-Rod, I swore that I would never change a thing on her. As most promises go, things change the more educated you get with the experiences life gives you. Last year I rode to Sturgis and tied a sleeping bag to my handlebars…almost making a rudimentary wind-block. While

    Master builder and mechanic, Deacon, from Pro-Street in Oahu. Bob Kay. from American Iron Horse. was a bro and shipped the retro Shovelhead. from Strokers in Dallas. to LifeStyle Cycles in Orange County, California along with a new batch of Dallas Choppers. It arrived the day before a handful of weary travelers stumbled

In a dank dark corner of a dusty debris strewn shop behind the Strokers Saloon on Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas was a small stack of bike parts guarded by a massive starving pitbull with one eye and most of one ear chewed away. The beast was so vicious that it once chewed through a

When I last left off with this build up, I was building a long bike, and was knee deep in engine work.Since that article, a lot of things have changed, and many miles have been traveled in getting this project rolling.I would love to be able to say that I built this bike all alone

    Here’s the deal. The 1928 project was recently completed except for a stylish exhaust system. The antique notion was based on racers from the ’20s, something way off the pavement, open and short. JR, the service director of Strokers, explained the steps, “They were cut and pasted together. Bits and pieces from the