Note: This feature is reprinted courtesy of the J&P Cycles Parts Blog. Also, we’re continuing our rewards system of giving all of our Readers’ Rides winners a year’s membership in the J&P Gold Club.And that’s quite an exclusive organization. Members get all kinds ofsavings and coupons, can win points good for J&P products, and get […]
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The Irbit Motorcycles Factory celebrates 70th birthday and offers an anniversary model M70 Editor’s Note: We publish here for our readers a copy of the Ural Monthly Newsletter. We thought it’s an interesting read and hope you will enjoy it. On 19th of November 1941 the first echelons with the manufacturing equipment pulled
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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
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It’s not the best looking bike in the Sturgis Museum, and it’s certainly far from the oldest, but it does have a wonderful story to tell. It’s the “Million Mile Motorcycle” – a 1991 FXRT Harley-Davidson, and it was ridden 1 million miles by former Wisconsin State Senator Dave Zien. This particular motorcycle has seen
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There are a handful of kickass builders who build bikes tighter and more rideable than stock. This little bastard is one of them. Tom Foster gets it. He understands style, simplicity, and function. I’ve known Tom Foster from when he had no tattoos and worked in a Hughes research lab. He built a bike every
The Crazy Fast Cracker Does it Again, the Kracken Read More »
Back in 2003, I bought a Kendon Single Stand-Up Trailer to transport my bike in a job-related move from Plano, Texas to Columbus, Ohio. I’ve used the trailer for five job-related cross-country moves and it has served me well. It’s solid, rugged, easy to maintain and easy to pull. It does have one major failing,
Kendon Single Ride-Up SRL Trailer Retrofit Kit Read More »
Hey, Another amazing day in paradise. I woke up this morning feeling like I was attacked by the hangover king, but I had one short Jack on the rocks last night and watched an amazing 1940 Rita Hayworth movie. The movie was written, produced, and directed by the same guy. Amazing, what folks can do,
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Editor’s Note: Prince Najar did an admirable job with this feature, but I want to bang the gong harder. This builder and his crew is a one-of-a-kind team, who build state-of-the-art customs, multiple show winners, and market their talents in the most magnificent manner. This feature demonstrates the sexy style, yet it empowers women to
ASUMATI BY AFT CUSTOMS TEAM Read More »
The steam-bike (wonder why it never caught on): Antique motorcycle expected to break world record price at auction It is a bike whose inventor was once arrested for riding it but later released when police couldn’t work out what crime he had committed. And with a record like that it’s not hard to see why
Roper Steam-Powered Motocycle On the Auction Block in January 2012 Read More »
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.
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1819 Pedal Power – Early Motorcycle Dreams The original “Wild Ones” tear up a dirt track in this 1819 painting of the “Hobby Horse” by French artist Maurice Rosseau. At least you got plenty of exercise. What Goes Around, Comes Around… A Little Motorcycle Pre-History The story of the “motor-cycle” begins back
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I’ve been fortunate enough to get to ride all over the United States and enjoy the roads, towns and people everywhere I’ve traveled. For many years, I would buy a tee shirt at every Harley dealer I visited. After 100-plus tee shirts, I stopped buying at every one and now only buy a tee shirt
The MOST AMAZING T-SHIRT RUN, FROM 2003-2011 Read More »
After riding a motorcycle 20 some years, I can honestly say I still LOVE to ride. I love to ride, I love to love, and I love to live. Love Ride 28 took place this past month, and I think I have only missed the event a couple of years. After this year’s event, I
LIVE, LOVE, RIDE–LOVE RIDE 2011 Read More »
Hey, Damn, we’re slamming directly into the holidays once more. The weather has gone to shit in big chunks of the country, and the bastards turned the clocks back, so it will get darker earlier. How does that make sense? We need more light in the winter. Ah, but we always have the Sunday Post
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Most 1%er Motorcycle Club books are written by law enforcement types who have infiltrated clubs in order to make arrests and take those criminals down, by God! Other 1%er books are written by club insiders by themselves with the help of a ghost writer. Terry The Tramp: The Life and Dangerous Times of a One
BIKERNET BOOK REVIEW: Terry The Tramp Read More »
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
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Where the hell is Dothan, Alabama? Well, to Berry Wardlaw, its home and has been since 1996 when he moved his business, Accurate Engineering, to L.A. (lower Alabama). It’s where he has produced incredible engines for just about every notable in the industry including the powerhouses for many Discovery Channel bikes, the motors for
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Hey, It’s Halloween and the cute girls are out, wearing the hottest outfits. It was outfit city around here all week, girls coming and going scouring through Sin Wu’s secret stash. Of course we were in the shop trying to figure out the Salt shaker. We have install a new Dyna S single fire ignition
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Baker Drivetrain masterminds are constantly looking for new products. Did you know Lisa Baker is a mental member of Mensa. She is a brilliant engineer, and Bert flunked out of the MMI sparkplug-changing class at the mechanics school, but he likes to think of himself as sorta cool. Actually, he is also an engineer, but
New from the Baker Drivetrain Masterminds the Plus 1.5 Read More »
It was dark the night I rode into Rockingchair, North Carolina and found a small dank bar in the back of a motel. I don’t remember a name on the dark front as I rolled in on my stretched Shovelhead. It wasn’t anything to look at, and neither was I. I had ridden a thousand
The Girls of Bikernet meet the SmokeOut Read More »
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
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This article was authored by Troy Porter, J&P Cycles’ Iowa showroom supervisor and a hunting enthusiast. What he writes here could save your life this fall. Autumn can come on strong with a change in temperature, darker skies for the commute both ways, and of course the unbelievable colors presented by fall leaves. If
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Click on the images to view them full size, press ‘esc’ to resume standard viewing I made my way back out I-10 east to Baytown for the annual gathering of fuel, fun and frolic. But I don’t think I frolicked for the Texas National Motorcycle Rally at the recently renamed Royal Purple
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Several years ago, Matt Hotch approached Ron Loynds to build the first 26-inch wheel. Matt also needed tires for his Discovery Channel Biker Build-Off Vincent Custom called the “Vinnie.” He came in contact with Vee Rubber, a Thailand-based tire manufacturer (with 10,000 employees). Vee Rubber is known for being able to develop new tires quickly.
Metalsports Now Imports VeeRubber Tires to the West Coast Read More »
