The Weekend Roundup

    Oh no,    It’s a deja vu. Ray C. Wheeler, the Bikernet Performance editor peeled toward the Salt Flats for the Cook’s Shootout this morning at the crack of dawn. He straddled the Salt Shaker and cut a dusty trail with Bikernet stickers and our Bonneville books in tow. About an hour out […]

Hey, Life is nuts and so is the news. Get this, the Post office is about cooked. They need to downsize or they will be out of business. They just don’t compete anymore with e-mail, UPS, or Fedex. They can’t pay the 5.5 billion dollar payment to fund future retirees’ healthcare benefits. Seems Congress has

Hey, Ray C. Wheeler and Cigar Marc are on the road to Bonneville Salt Flats for the Bub’s International Speed trials, and the speed buzz is in the air. We will bring you reports all week long. We decided to rip into my Mudflap girl FXR. I feel the pressure to finish these bikes and

Hey, It’s another perfect day in Paradise. We worked on my Mudflap girl FXR most of yesterday modifying and mounting the Custom Chrome rear fender. We installed the new Progressive shocks and continue to monkey with the wheel and chain alignment. I need to think about a chain guard and some mounting issues with the

Hey, The news is still pouring in from the Badlands. We will bring you a tech on two new Baker products in the near future. Baker is about to launch a new oil bag with 1.5 extra cooling quarts of oil. They also have a clutch throw-out bearing fix, and we will bring you more

    Just a quickie Sunday Post since most of the industry is in Sturgis. Not many emails coming in, so enjoy this short and sweet post. ~Nyla     Deer season is around the corner, so I thought I’??d better send out a reminder about what a Whitetail looks like!         A

Hey, Sturgis is just around the corner. In fact yesterday the Hamsters left California on their week long trek to the Badlands. We are going to attempt to catch them in Aspen, Colorado, but I need to wrap up some content for you, including most of the Thursday News, on Wednesday, before we peel out.

Hey, The world is moving fast and the Badlands are calling. I don’t know where to start, so I won’t. We need to wrap up the Post so we can ride to Bennett’s for their open house with the Branch O’keefe headwork guys next door, and the Signal Hillbillies playing out front. Should be a

Hey, This is an incredible news. It’s got a bit of everything and some truly bad jokes. We rolled over to the reduced LA Calendar Show yesterday. Only a handful of bikes in the competition, but still a wild assortment of highclass customs and bobbers. In many respects it’s sad to see this show falter.

Hey, I’m spacing today. We are going to whip out the Sunday Post and dive back into the shop for more bike building mania. Ray C. Wheeler, the Bikernet V.P. of Cantina Membership Services, and I attended a 70th Birthday of an old friend, Urban Hirsch in Beverly Hills last night. I swear, I didn’t

Hey, We’re in the middle of a holiday weekend, and I’ve got three bikes in the shop being build. They tug me away from this goddamn screen like a naked redhead blowing in my ear. I can’t stand it. You’ll run across a report about V-Twin and Ted’s Cycle below. This site had the balls

  Bandit is in New Orleans taking some much-needed time off the enjoy the sights, the sounds, and the tastes of The Big Easy,  before heading out on The Long Ride tomorrow with a group of guys. Allis well and quiet at the Headquarters; looking forward to a week of springcleaning while the big guy

Hey, Incredible, I wish I knew what I was doing, but I don’t. At least our Bikernet Classifieds are growing and now they have a partnership with a company to add a jobs service, so we can find jobs, or advertise for jobs.     We added Mr. Lucky’s bitchin’ shorty mufflers to the Amazing

Hey, Never a dull moment. Today is Rip’s Bad Ride Day, and the San Fernando Hells Angels show. Yesterday we scrambled over to the Affliction Headquarters in Seal Beach for a car and bike show. This afternoon I’m headed for the harbor and a belt maker and the Ports of Call party. Always something. I

Hey, Last week we made a mad dash from the Bay area to Los Angeles with Quail lodge images and antique motorcycles. This week we stumbled into more historic discoveries, and attended the Roland Sands Design headquarters grand opening. Plus, just after I finish the news I will roll to Jim Murillo’s Triumph motorcycle storage

Sunday Post 51511 Hey, This is going to be a wild one, and sorta exclusive in several respects. I jumped into the Bikernet Hearse just before 5:00 in the morning yesterday and peeled out to Pasadena to hook up with Don Whalen and his cousin, Rod. We jumped in his SUV and peeled north just under

Hey, It’s mother’s day, what the fuck are we doing trying to post a news column? A mom came up with the notion of the Sunday Post. We’re always looking for hot moms to grace the Sunday Post. What the hell? We received the XS650 frame from Mr. Lucky, and next week we will start

Hey, Just back from windy Laughlin on the Colorado River and the whiskey is wearing off. I took a laptop and it said the e-mails were sent, but they died somewhere in the transfer. I’m going to buy a Mac laptop and use it for everything. I wandered the isles of vendors looking for new

Hey, What could be better? I could be decorating eggs and hanging out with brightly colored adorned kids, or producing the Sunday Post, then scrambling to have enough time to put the shop back together.I’m trying to prep the Bikernet shop for three builds. We need to clear off two more lifts and tighten up

Sunday post 41711 Hey, I don’t know about you, but I’m the project King. I run at projects like a rabid dog. When a project slows, it makes me nervous. I guess it’s like not hearing from your girl and thinking the worst. I didn’t hear from Spitfire for a week, and was beginning to

Hey, I went to the Trailblazers annual banquet at the Carson Convention center for the show, and because Jerry Branch was being inducted into their hall of fame. As the proceeding started instead of the pledge of alligiance or the Star Spangled Banner, we all stood and faced the flag as they play a country

Hey, Another odd day on the coast. One day it’s almost summer and 87 degrees. The next it’s overcast and cool like Connecticut in the spring on the other side of the country. I have two more chapters to write for the 1%er book for Motorbooks. I hope to wrap it up by the end

Hey, It’s another gloomy fuckin’ Sunday in Southern California. Even the Bikernet dogs had enough of this shit. Last week somebody announced the annual rainfall. We are five inches over the standard. It’s bullshit I tell ya. I’ve had it with this fuckin’ gloom all the time. I can now relate to our brothers back

Hey, Another crazy day on the wet coast during the CCI show. Ray Wheeler is on his way back from the Morgan Hill show while we wrap up the news. When I asked him what was hot, he immediately proclaimed, “The new salt flats Wink Eller bike.” Ray has a one track mind. But dig