New Zealand has a reputation as an interesting place of unparalleled beauty. Well, it is and I think most people know that. What I personally found just as interesting is that it is a land of motor heads. I have never seen a population so fascinated by anything with an engine and they will race […]
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Click here to read the chapter 6: http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=10268 This is a blast. The year is just starting and shit is flying at us everyday. Gary and the gang from next door delivered enough steel I-beams and C-beams to build a deck, and in two days a gang from Long Beach will deliver a pool table
Mudflap Girl FXRs, Part 7 My Son’s almost Grip Ace Wired Read More »
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
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Happy New year from Tail Gunner This month we’ll talk a little about EFI piggy back units, cheap HP for the engine mods you have made. There are literally dozens of companies that make these products. Some have PC programs you can use to alter the air fuel ratios, and some have manual adjusting
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Hey, We are nearing the end of our first week into the New Year, and we’re cooking. I sense this is a critical year in so many respects. Plus, it’s going to be damn exciting. I spent five hours yesterday morning on a conference call with the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) Board of
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Part 1: By Krylon John The spirit of David Mann, and his many contributions to the biker lifestyle lives on at Chopperfest held every December in Ventura, California, since 2004. Now heading towards its 9th annual celebration the event will once again return to the Ventura County Fairgrounds adjacent to the glistening shores the Pacific
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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
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I’m looking down the barrel of 2012. The New Year is less than a week away, and we are scrambling to get my son’s Mudflap Girl FXR running and off the lift. It’s been an interesting time for me. Nyla keeps harping on slowing down, but the projects keep coming. I thought maybe I was
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For those of us drawn to the somewhat fringe zone of postcard collecting and research, a passion/addiction officially known as Deltiology, good things indeed come in small packages. Those outside the postcard world are probably unaware that it is the third largest collecting hobby in the world, next to coin and stamp collecting, usually 4
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Happy New Year, We will hit the bricks running. Even today, I’ll be making final adjustments to my son’s Mudflap girl FXR. It’s so close. It’s time to make brake lines, bleed the brakes, add the hoses, fluids and wiring. Then I need to dig a ditch out back and prepare to move the iron
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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
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Paul Cavallo and the gang at Spitfire Motorcycles have been hiding in the wings of Hellbound Steel Motorcycles and West Coast Choppers for a couple of decades. Like a bunch of sequestered pirates, they finally escaped the confines of the big money sorts to fly their own Jolly Roger flag. Ya see, Paul designed, and
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Check the last chapter: Click here They sat on the dirt in silence in the dark of the shed with just the road noise of the cars and tractor-trailers in their ears. Occasionally, a tired trucker rubbing the edges of the road with his trailer wheels would punctuate the silence with a brief snapping sound
So I sat through the finale of the Discovery Channel’s latest bike build-off last night and then started bumping around the Internet to read comments fueled by the show. Believe me when I say I’m glad this well-promoted televised event prompted a lot of buzz, because our industry needs a shot in the arm like
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SADDLEMEN MODS TO THE SHRUNKEN FXR–In a world where over promising and under delivering has become all too common here is a gem I must share. The Bikernet built Shrunken FXR has become my daily rider and needed a couple small adjustments to be just perfect for me. One detail was the too small seat
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Editor’s Note: Michael Kamalian is the CEO of Revolution Manufacturing, Bikernet’s newest sponsor to date. Unlike what many CEOs are perceived to be like, Michael is the kind of cat who’s not afraid to get his hands dirty. The following short bike feature is in Michael’s words and showcases some of his company’s products. But
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Editor’s Note: This is an interesting diversion. MaryLou Brewton flashed this for sale feature into the Bikernet Headquarters just before Christmas 2011. According to Hugo Wilson, Motorcycle Encyclopedia, Nortons were built prior to 1908 with Clement, Peugeot, and JAP motors. In 1908 they introduced their first production engine, a side-valve engine available in 490 cc
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Hey, In this down economy opportunities surface. Take for instance this little company 5-Ball Inc. and all the projects we have in store for 2012 with Sturgis, Bonneville, bike building, site building, more books, you name it. Take a look at our tiny niche industry. Lots of companies are gone, but I still believe motorcycles
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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
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A Note from the Photographer: I came across this bike when I was shooting cars for a Norwegian magazine this summer. I was driving all over the west coast of Norway with my two daughters. We ran out of bread one night, and I meet Kristina by the bread shelves, in a store at 9
Wrenching on Harley-Davidsons over the years has been more of a journey for me than anything else. It has been my good fortune to meet all kinds of people over the years while riding and working on bikes. I want to pass on a conversation that I had with one of my Bros. I once
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THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. If you’ve been involved in any kind of accident, call us at 1-(800) ON-A-BIKE or visit www.ON-A-BIKE.com. COAST TO COAST BIKER NEWS
NCOM Coast To Coast Legislative Update for December 2011 Read More »
Hey, Merry, Merry, goddammit. What an incredible year 2012 is turning into. Last night I attended a Xmas Party, and we may have kicked off an amazing ride from the top of Alaska to the bottom of South America. Since we are launching Bikernettrikes.com, we may make this a Trike adventure. Plus we already have
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Back when the Transcontinental Railroad’s golden spoke was still gleaming, the industrial East and the wild West linked by the locomotive, and a young United States still recovering from a bloody Civil War, two books brought relief, comfort and hope across the country. One would be the Bible, the other the Sears mail-order catalog. Founded
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