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. […]
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And yes, it’s licensed for the road! At the recent 63rd annual National Roadster Show held near Los Angeles, the premiere custom car show in the U.S., two wheels nearly outshone all the four wheelers. It was a pair of motorcycles that went by the name “Nitemare,” a twist on the spelling of the word
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What is it about this motorcycle, or maybe it was 2010, a year from hell? No, it had to be the motorcycle. There was nothing wrong with the calendar year. We actually started building the Bonne Belle 45-inch flathead in 2006, after I made a snowbound run to Salt lake to buy this basket case.
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Hey, As you know attitude is everything. You can be poor with a damn good outlook on life, and you can be a rich SOB, and be as miserable as a death row inmate. So today, I’m poor with positive mind-set. This weekend I came to grips with my daunting shop project list. Tomorrow, I
Spring Is Sprung Sunday Post for April 1, 2012 Read More »
The air was crisp that early spring morning, but the sun was shining brightly and heralding a fine day for riding. The promise of clear skies made it easier to don the leathers and head out with no particular destination in mind. I chose the life of the nomad years ago, so an-other day in
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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
Mega Million Dollar Thursday News for March 29, 2012 Read More »
We were recently called into the vast Metalsport Wheels conference room in the complex of businesses owned by Ron Loynds. I reached out to shake his hand and he pulled back. “We’ve got a mission,” Ron said. “Besides I have a cold.” I immediately moved to the other end of the polished oak conference table.
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Ray and I are planning to attend the Bub Motorcycle Speed Trials in Bonneville this coming September with two motorcycles. Ray rode his touring 2004 Dyna Glide for 50,000 miles and rode from San Jose to Bonneville in 2009 and set two records with saddlebags on his bike. Then he got serious and added a
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Hey, It’s supposed to be raining cats and dogs on the coast today, but last night we worked on the good Doctor’s dresser. He faced starting issues, and Dr. Willie came to our rescue. I didn’t have the JIMS clutch puller he had. We ran smack dab into the center of Evo heaven. We tinkered
Wet Sunday Post for March 25, 2012 Read More »
The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame boasts a collection of nearly 100 motorcycles dating back to 1909. Some of the collection is extremely rare. Other bikes are really quite common. The vast majority of the bikes on display here fall somewhere in the middle. This little Triumph Tina is one of those. While
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It’s hard to say where the cotton actually came from, but suffice it to say that the quality was excellent. It was woven into a rich piece of material and dyed black. The material was selected by a very astute and discriminating buyer looking for only the best to represent their brand. The purchase included
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A half-million bikers were expected to roar into town for the 71st Daytona Bike Week. Uhh, probably not… Bike Week got pushed back because NASCAR bumped their opening race, the Daytona 500, back a week and the Daytona International Speedway requires a week to convert the track from cars to motorcycles. What does this have
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How many of you beer drinking, bar fighting, stripper chasing, Harley ridin’, grimy saddle tramps, from the late ’60s and early ’70s remember the old 12-spoke magnesium wheels we ran on bikes out of the south bay area? Who remembers who was the first person to convert that classic mag to a motorcycle? Does anybody
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Welcome Aboard Planet Earth, Enjoy The Ride! Shortly after joining society the 31st of May 1944 in El Dorado, Kansas. the adrenaline addiction might have kicked in when the good Dr. Dillenbeck pried me out of the dark into the bright lights of the hospital delivery room at 4:29 a.m. After the complimentary slap on
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NCOM Coast To Coast Legislative Update for March 2012 Read More »
There are numerous bike shows during Daytona Bike Week. But I never miss the parking lot Tropical Tattoo Old School Chopper Show , 825 Yonge Street (US 1) in Ormond Beach on Thursday from noon until 4:00 in the afternoon. The sun blazed. The girls were hot, and the old school bikes glistened. In its
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Hey, A major chunk of the industry is rolling home from Daytona right now. I hope it was a mighty successful week, and sets the stage for a brilliant metal flake and chromed-out year. I had sort of a slap-in-the-face epiphany this week. It started with trips to Saddlemen and watching the team build a
Storming Sunday Post for March 18, 2012 Read More »
Aptly Named after the 1969 Pontiac GTO, “Judge.” This American motorcycle delivers on its promise. I couldn’t pop a wheelie but at least burned some rubber. The Judge has lots of torque and power via the Freedom 106. The company claims 113 lb-ft of torque from the 106ci (1731cc) Twin. A 140mm rear tire and
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Side Kicks are designed to offer the rider the freedom ofwheels when riding and the stability of 4 wheels when you stop and start. Here’s a product that caught our attention. It addresses some of the questions that many riders have answered when they bought a trike, but it still lets you ride
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Don't forget Veteran's Day.The bike is '41, 741 Indian Army motorcycle, the uniform is WWII Warrant Officer, and the individual is myself, a Senior Warrant Officer (CW-4), U.S. Army, Transportation Corps, Senior Chief Engineer, of 37 years.They said the Shovelhead was dead. They said the Evo's and TC's would always beat Shovels. They said you
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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
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Check this out. We are building a similar engine with a K-model top end for our Bonne Belle 45, 2012 Bonneville effort. Duncan Keller is helping Lee Clemens through the engine build process. Duncan is the master of the Magnum engine. Enjoy the tech:
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2012 Harley-Davidson FLHTK Electra Glide Ultra Limited Riding motorcycles has been a regular part of my life as far back as I can remember, even farther back than I care to brag about. My dad used to look like all the guys in Easyriders circa 1979 and I thought he was the coolest man on
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Hey, Yesterday was nuts. We scored a Leonardo da Vinci bicycle that was built after a supposed fake da Vinci sketch. Then we stopped at Pacific Coast Cycles in Long Beach and asked to borrow a set of 45 cases to help with the Bonne Belle mock-up. Mike, who is destined for open-heart surgery in
Daytona Party Weekend Sunday Post, March 11, 2012 Read More »
