Scorpion Exowear has updated its Fall2010 Collection with a number of bitchin’ new products. They are so bitchin’ that we hadto put one of them through the Bikernet test, so hang on! We picked the new Tornadolightweight textile jacket for our test, because Scorpion says it’s anideal piece of all-weather apparel. Anyone who still […]
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Hey, Cannonball wraps up today. I had a suggestion for the future. My thoughts included a Cannonball every other year, and each rally we would move the bikes up a decade. So the next Cannonball would include bikes older than 1926, the next run would reach to 1936, and so on.
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Although the economy is on shaky legs, two-wheels are apparently much more stable, especially when you’re considering investing in precious metals or keeping up to date on that bike gathering dust in your garage. Gold has jumped to over $1200 an ounce and there’s plenty of that to be found in “golden classics,” case in
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Hey, We had an executive board meeting this morning. We discussed enhancing our classifieds area for more service to our readers, fixing the Bikernet Studio and running a daily or weekly video clip on the home page, running a girl teaser for the Cantina on the Home Page, kicking up the shop weekly offers, and
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Don’t Miss Out…Special Price Ends Soon! The Bikernet Service Engineers caught sight of the following special S&S engine offer and we were immediately intrigued, primarily because of the square motor, short stroke configuration. Check it out and get a behind the scenes view of the S&S team building a V111 engine: The special promotion
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What a year this turned into. Days before departure, a plane arrived from Australia with our Peashooter Pilot, Nicole Brosing. She immediately pitched in, since she’s not only an Australian landlord, a tattoo artist and Owner of Studio 64 Tattoo, and a single mom; she’s also brilliant. She immediately lets you know
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It can be said that humans spend half of their existence trying to see the world through others’ eyes. When we fail at this, pain and conflict can be found. But, when we succeed, it can be said, we find love. In the cramped chapel of Sunset Memorial funeral home in Dothan Al, I witnessed
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It was the summertime and the living wasn’t easy. Nothing seemed to work, the internet was down, the e-mail system quit, and we had Department of Water and Power journeymen crawling all over the poles adjacent to the vast Bikernet Interplanetary Headquarters. They explained that as the street widening moved forward, the various agencies argued
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COAST TO COAST BIKER NEWS Compiled & Edited by Bill Bish, National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS HOPE TO HUSH LOUD PIPES California is home to the largest population of motorcyclists in the country, and if legislators have their way, it could also soon be home to one of the most onerous anti-motorcycle laws
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Hey, Just back from the El Camino Antique Motorcycle Swapmeet, here in Los Angeles. It was the biggest ever with 100 bikes in the show and a full compliment of swapmeet vendors. We entered two bikes, the 5-Ball racing Peashooter and Nyla’s Bobber by Kent Weeks at Lucky Devil. We didn’t place, but Tom
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Hey, A San Diego AP writer wrote an article about noisy bikes recently and here’s a clip. This shit pisses me off to no end: CALABASAS, Calif. — The laid-back vibe of this affluent Los Angeles suburb gets a jarring wakeup on weekends when hundreds of motorcycles thunder through the Santa Monica Mountains, triggering car
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Bandit, Attached are a few shots of the 1946 Flanders Company catalog if you need some stuff to add to your Antique Bikes and Motorcycle History section. Flanders has not make the Dog Bone risers for years, but still is making handlebars. Just let riders know that there are lots of China Cheap imitation new
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Dear readers, Brussels rouses from slumber. While many of us were still enjoying trips on two wheels through our peaceful and exciting Europe, the laptops in the European Commission had been restarted already and the officials remembered immediately what they have been focusing on before the summer break: motorcycling! In concrete terms: Road Safety Programme,
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Hey, Life is strange and hectic. We constantly ask ourselves, “Can we do more?” I thinks it’s a question much of our society is asking. You have your family and a job, maybe a project (like a chopper), a religion, a charity you look after, a club, community activities, a pet or two, and maybe
Greenville, NC, September 10, 2010 – Forty-four Motorcycle Cannonball riders left Kitty Hawk, NC this morning on the initial leg of an endurance ride that they hope will have everyone celebrating 16 days from now on the Santa Monica pier where it juts into the Pacific Ocean 3,294 miles away. Before heading out of the
I left Panama during the rainy season. From Panama City I had 3,000 miles to go before reaching Mexico’s northern border. My twin cam engine was overheating every day now and if I ran into trouble I knew of only two Harley dealers in Central America. Mexico had several dealerships
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Click on the pictures to see them Xtra Large! It’s funny the kind of interesting things you sometimes find in people’s basements. Take the 45-inch flathead engine that powers this neat little bike; it came from the basement of Mike and Brian Yensch’s uncle. That was a nice starting point for their project.
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To me, and for thousands of other riders, Sturgis and the Black Hills represent just that, the land of the free, and the home of the brave. I have seen countless documentaries about Sturgis, and I have yet to see anyone capture the essence of what keeps this 50 year old woman coming
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Hey, It’s a holiday weekend and I’m scrambling to write a couple of book chapters. I returned from Bonneville to discover a missed HORSE deadline, and holiday offers on my computer, as if an evil haunting omen. Fuck, it’s the first of September, not November. Then there’s Las Vegas Bikefest at the end of the
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Hey, We’re back from having our asseshanded to us on the salt. What a strange and foreboding year this has been, andit’s not over. The Assalt Weapan didn’t make it to the salt, the parts neverarrived from Accurate Engineering. I have a thing about communication. The moreyou communicate, the more you learn and can respond.
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When I met Victor Boocock, Motorcycle Cannonball rider #29, in May of this year, he had decided to take his 1914 Harley-Davidson single for a jaunt across America. He was anxious about the trip, had a pocket full of rules he’d outlined for himself, and refused to allow me to take his photograph for fear
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It took all day to get registered and inspected, but they now know what to do. In fact here’s the to-do lists for both the Peashooter and the Munro Special: Ray C’s Munro Special: 1. Kill Switch & Cable 2.Fuel line fire-retardant cover 3. Safety wire on axles bolts 4. Place racing identification numbers
Holy shitaroo, what a year! Westarted out with the notion for a Streamlined 45 like Burt Monroe. Thestreamliner rules prohibited the dream, but we kept moving with Departure BikeWorks, until the economy sucked the life out of Lee’s business, and state taxesalmost shut him down. The Bonne Belle slowed like two flat tires in the
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Devil’s Take on the Café Racer Story by Johnny Humble, Pics from The Devil Sportsters have always held a special place in my heart because of the spirit they were designed to invoke with their short, choppy stroke and torquey power plant. The engine and transmission attached 50 years before the Twin Cam, and a
