Weekly News

Hey, Last night Ray and I rode over to BA Moto in Long Beach and met up with Gary, and the BA Moto gang, with Nate at the helm. It’s a classic shop, made of a group of young ex-dealer workers who put it all on the line to make their own thing fly. Yesterday, […]

Hey, This week startled even Dismal Dan. Did you read the Sunday Post in the Cantina. Here’s one quote from an Australian newspaper: BIG SHIPS TO USE BIOFUELS– To Cut Emissions, Spill Risks–Eventually By John Voelcker John VoelckerSenior Editor BIOJohn is Senior Editor for High Gear Media. Three years ago, we noted that one giant

Hey, Every week changes. It’s amazing. It’s also amazing how hard folks work, and how many activities fill every week. Hell, just in our chromed cottage industry, the calendar is packed weekly. Just off the top of my head, Roland Sands is hosting a public open house at his new facility on Saturday. Next week

Hey, We received a call this morning at the crack of dawn. “The mudflap girl is ready to ride,” Buster Cates, from Saddlemen, said and hung up. The Saddlemen crew go to work at 6:30 in the morning to 3:30. What terrific hours, except for folks who don’t crawl out of the sack until 8:00.

Hey, Could it be that all the elements are coming together? The absolutely stimulating aspect of any website is the transparency element. There’s nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. I dislike government catch words, like Transparency, especially when they’re abused, but we won’t go there. Transparency fits perfectly with the web. If you say

Hey, We have some good news, and some good news. We recently announced the purchase of Trike Riders Now, then established Bikernet Trikes, Bikernet Baggers, and created a family of sites including Women Riders Now, all to bring you a wider variety of motorcycle entertainment. One of my major driving forces came from the magazine

Hey, Why are Thursdays nuts? Everything is fine all week, then on the busiest day, the internet goes down, we face a devastating electrical grid surge, or a computer acts up. What the hell. So this morning, my e-mails won’t download, so I can’t finish collecting news items. Fuck it, I’ll work on a motorcycle,

Hey, Life is nuts, completely nuts. The human spirit is an amazing thing. Folks will keep smiling through the toughest of times. On the other hand some folks get locked into a negative path, and can’t get out of their own way. And there’s every scenario in between. If you thought I was going someplace

Hey, Every week the world changes according to our stellar Thursday News. One week it’s all about laws and legislation. The next, it’s all jokes and fun, and the following it’s all about creativity, products, and new bikes. It’s incredible, as if the stars are aligned for whatever topic is in store for us this

Wow, I don’t know what to make of life or our economy. The Cinci show was definitely up from last year. Reports are in about Harley-Davidson sales. They’ve also improved over last year, but they are 1/3 of what they were five years ago. Pepsi Cola plans to lay off 8,000 plus employees, American Airlines

Hey, Next week we fly to Cinci for the Easyriders V-Twin Dealer show. It should be a blast. We will have the opportunity to see the bros. Here’s the to-do list before heading to Ohio:Launch two new Bikernet Sites: Bikernet Trikes and Bikernet Baggers.Refine the header page, write the textRearrange the content from Trike Riders

Hey, This is going to be a helluva news column. We publish the news weekly, actually twice a week with the Sunday Post in the Cantina. It’s actually sort of amazing. Where the hell does all the news come from? but it keeps coming. We even started the Bikernet Blog to relieve some load off

Hey, If the first week of this year is any, even the slightest indication of the year as a whole, hang on. Good shit is flying at us, on a minute by minute basis. We now have enough metal in the back of the shop to build a hearty deck. You’ll get to see it

Okay, The clock is running out on the year, and 2012 will hit like Ray’s 124-inch Twin Cam on nitrous. I’m damn excited about 2012. There’s a new level of efficiency aimed at the Bikernet Headquarters, and a whole new batch of opportunities. I could write about them all day, but I’ll just highlight the

Merry Merry, Another wacky day in Paradise. Christmas is just around the corner, and we have much to be thankful for and look forward to in 2012. The more I speak to folks inside and outside the political spectrum the more the words Freedom and Balance surface. I’ve been reading Bill Clinton’s recent book, “Back

Hey, This is a strange day. It’s close to Christmas, but there seems to be a great deal of struggling going on in the country. Yet, on the other hand, aftermarket shops and some dealerships are doing well. One day Bikernet seems to be doing gangbusters and the next we stumble. As we close in

Hey, I’m catching a lot of heat for voting for Junior’s bike over Jesse’s in the American Chopper Build off. I was generally disappointed. This was supposed to be the Build-off of Build-offs. Senior built a snowmobile; Jesse couldn’t finish his build, after pounding his chest about doing the whole thing by himself. He had

Hey, Another crazy day in paradise. Rumor has it Big Bear Choppers is stumbling and looking for investors. But Norton motorcycles are coming on strong, and Victory plans to launch new models every six months. Where one company struggles another emerges. Bikernet may explode next year. Hell, we may have a major announcement next week.

Hey, This is one of those days. Greece and Italy may tank, and suddenly our Congress is saying, “Fuck the politics, save the country.” Ron Benfield, from Saddlemen, just returned from the Milan show. That show draws 500,000 attendees, including families and kids. So the country may go BK, but motorcycling won’t. I’m going to

    Hey, It’s the night before Thanksgiving, and I’m scrambling to finish the news before the holiday. The pressure is on. I want to thank everyone who supports Bikernet in anyway from being a paid sponsor, to our 10,000 Cantina members, to the rider who takes the time to send me a news item,

Hey, This is a helluva News column. We’re two weeks into the new year and the Playoff games are raging. Bike shows from IMS, and Easyriders, are rocking every weekend. The Grand National Roadster Show is coming right up. It’s amazing how many activities are flourishing across the country. If only we can keep the

Hey, Suddenly shop business has slowed. This is the best time of the year to have a shop service your bike, or performs upgrades. We are going to feature some tech upgrade notions over the next couple of weeks. We are also going to remind you about a couple of shops in the SoCal area.

Hey, Another wild day in paradise. The world is still upside down. The economy still sucks, but I swear the SEMA show was actively up from an attendence standpoint. The booths were down about 10 percent, but that just meant a tad less walking. The European attendance was strong as we rapidly roll toward a

Hey, I wish I knew which direction to head in, today. I’m lost with thoughts of the economy, bike projects, protests in the streets, runs, books, Sturgis for next year, you name it. So fuck it, we built a planter in the middle of the night, with a useless twin-cam lower end and a beach