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Hey, This is a wild day fulla project progress. Working on a stained-glass project for the front door, a house number plaque on the property with polished aluminum diamond plate and brass numbers. Will need to do some machining. The pipe pieces arrived to level-out the mantle. I received a bid on the shop for […]

Hey, This should be a good one. I’m working on my first stolen motorcycle story. I’m going to base the series in a saloon in Sundance, Wyoming, and I should drop a few shady episodes in Thermopolis and Worland where my Wyoming girl lived until she died of cancer. She worked in fields as a

Hey,   I’m reading a new book called Tale of Two Climates, One Real, One Imaginary, by Bill Pekney. It should be a text book for classrooms all over the world. It’s almost sad that Bill was forced to write it. It shows just how gullible much of the population is. I’ll run a couple

Hey, I received a report from the NMA last Sunday. I contained major concerns regarding Biden’s demand for 40-50 percent of manufactured autos to be electric by 2030. I questioned the report, because he never mentioned Climate Doom. Here’s what I said: Why not one line about the most important controlling topic, Climate Doom. There

Hey, The rally is over. I’ve heard incredible numbers. I’m monitoring illness all over the country searching for rally related outbreaks. Nothing much yet. Folks are fighting over Obama’s birthday party and a party the Texas Governor attended. My son finally broke down and got vaccinated, but Sin Wu is holding out. She’s afraid of

Hey, It’s wild and the truth is still pending. Some brothers are excited about the super-strong rally. Others think the numbers are down. My grandson rode out for the first time on his new Road Glide. His buddy rode his ’09 Dyna. He had it gold-leafed like old Perewitz paint jobs. The bike shows were

Hey, The Smoke Out commander rode in on Tuesday, from the south and so did Rogue, the Bikernet senior editor. My grandson is completing his first leg into Phoenix from LA for a pipe upgrade with Jeff Holt. Then the crew rode East and he reported in from Durango. Dr. Hamster flew in today. The bros

Hey, The rally is starting next week and at the last minute we are buying a Bikernet Billboard in Sturgis. It’s another project, but what the fuck. My son, Frank Ball, just flew out after a couple of days scrambling to get shit done around here. He helped a lot and then flew back at

Hey, Crazy times, but if you want to taste the best of times read this news and come to Sturgis for the rally. If you turn off your TV and scrap reading any newspapers, you’ll discover that life is an open road wonderland. Come to the Badlands and you won’t experience blame, hatred, Covid, Global

Hey, It’s another strange day in paradise. I’m watching the series Designated Survivor. It’s an incredibly well-done series about the Capitol being blown up and killing the entire federal government, and this guy (Kiefer Sutherland) must assume the role of President and pull it all back together, plus go after the bad guys. It’s a

Hey, Life is nuts as we see daily in the news. But bikers know we are living in the best of times. And a great number of us are preparing for the Sturgis Rally. Hell, I don’t even know what it’s called anymore and I’m living here. We moved in during the month of June

Hey, Interesting day today. We are still scrambling around the headquarters trying to dial stuff in, while Jerry finishes a sliced pony-wall in the great room and tears out the faux ceiling in the basement. We have designers working on shop plans, electricians lined up to replace fixtures and clean up 30 years of cable

Hey, Yesterday was a milestone day and a challenging day, but at the end of the day all our shit was finally located in the Badlands. Under mild duress I learned and stumbled at operating a Skid Steer to unload crates. We worked with three forklift operators at Dakota Equipment rentals who were able to

Hey, I’m catching on, catching up and catching the Rally vibe. If you live in these regions, it’s like living with a mercurial girlfriend. If she’s in a bad mood you can’t get shit done. That’s the weather around here, and I think it’s cool. During the summer, you plan and hope to get as

Hey, Times are crazy as you will see in the news. I’m reading another book about the errors of the Climate Doomsday bullshit. It’s called Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin. He’s a scientist who worked for the Obama administration. The more he studied the facts, the more the media and the control-freaks had it wrong.

  Hey, I wish I knew what to say today. My feeble mind is packed with thoughts and new experiences since landing lock-stock and barrel in the Badlands. On Memorial Day, I rode with Woody and about 20 riders to the scene of one of the last Indian battles. We found out where the name

Hey, Are things calming down or heating up. I had lots of dreams about Bonneville last night. Hopefully haul bikes will deliver the Salt Torpedo to the Badlands soon. I need to reach out to Delvene Manning about the Bonneville Speed Trials in August. I just did. Maybe Bikernet can become a media sponsor once

Hey, This is a momentous day in the Badlands. Yesterday our building of 17 years in Los Angeles next to the Port of LA closed. Because of Capitol Gains tax laws, we had to buy another property in near Deadwood. With the luck of the chrome gods it will close today, thus ending my relationship

Hey, I’m researching FXDR models and was trying to find out the difference between FXDR and FXDRS. I was told there were slight differences, and then Ron and Bartels’ H-D helped. The only two-year model 2019 and 2020 were all FXDR but when they sent the paperwork it said FXDRS, so the confusion. The folks

Hey, I started out in this industry working on bikes and then as the manager of ABATE National fighting for freedom. I was maybe 23. I’m still fighting for the freedom to ride fossil fuel machines. Fighting for Freedom has always felt like fighting for the truth. I haven’t run into a situation yet when

Hey, What’s the deal today? It’s motorcycle month.The sun is shining in Deadwood. And politicians are fighting all over the country, when we’re living in the best of times. The news is packed, and I’m waiting to close on our Sturgis property so I can unpack. Let’s hit the news: The Bikernet Weekly News is

Hey, The movers are here and we’re scrambling. Keep your fingers crossed they can make everything fit. They are already looking at me like, this shit weighs too much. Hang on. It’s great to see events popping up all over the country. If the media didn’t freak out about everything, we could deal with whatever

Hey, We are rapidly rolling into the final week in preparation for our move to the Badlands. Don’t mind me if I don’t respond for a couple of days. The news should be cool next week, but the following week it will come from Deadwood. This week I met with accountants, had a property walk-through.

Hey, It’s been a productive week. Dr. Hamster bought my ’46 Indian Chief from the war years. Mick hauled off some equipment. Bev, my cousin came and got family archives. She’s into studying the family tree. We delivered stuff to Sin Wu and Haul Bikes reached out to me. They will come and load the