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
Hey, Another crazed morning in paradise. We are now carving into the week we depart for the mighty Salt Flats. One bike is not complete and the other one is broken. We are waiting on engine gaskets from Accurate Engineering, which were sent snail mail. The new rings arrived on Friday, so
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Sturgis 2010 As the spring months turn into summer, my road trip itch begins to burn like a bad case of chiggers. For 10 months, I am ok riding back and forth to work, taking the occasional blast through the National Forest with my son, or screaming around the city with
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The statistics of the Sturgis Rally are always impressive, however, this year’s 70th anniversary marks a return to the boom days of the middle of last decade before the onset of the recession, with numbers considerably up on the past few years and with a daily record for the number
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(Photos by Brian Nelson, Robert Pandya and Victory Motorcycles) You can click on any of the following photos to view them full size and as a slide show. For 2011, Victory’s slogan “The New American Motorcycle,” has been dropped in favor of a more dynamic and evocative: “Fuel It,” clearly demonstrating that Victory
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I had the blues not long ago, and I hauled them on my back to the bar. The Softail ran fine, but I was laid off six months ago, and immediately my abode relationship went to shit. She packed her upscale shit and departed because I wouldn’t sell my ride, although her two kids
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Hey, This year is bananas, but first a helpful tech: If you have ¾ or 1-inch axles with sealed bearing wheels, you need a JIMS Wheel Bearing Puller tool, available from one of our Sponsors, J&P Cycles. I tried to take the bearings out of our little old spool front wheel hub for the peashooter.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: We discovered a special service in the Saddlemen line-up: custom seats. They not only build seats around your design or your seat pan, but they will modify an existing Saddlemen seat to fit any rider. Below is a mass of info from Saddleman, then a report from a 5’6″ tall Bikernet Correspondent,
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Meet, if you will, Cleveland’s“Jesse The Kid”. I was firstintroduced to him during his day of revolting from his Ma. This was a big mistake, as Ma was good friends withHuey. She brought Jesse to Hueyand proclaimed, “straighten his ass out Huey.” I suppose this was in the early ’90s as Jesse was
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Editor’s Note: For decades motorcycle rightsgroups were on the defensive, fighting helmet laws, handlebar laws, and noiseregulations. The one caveat to that assumption was motorcycle training efforts,then motorcycle awareness. More and more groups, including FEMA – The EuropeanMotorcyclists’ Federation, have gone offensive todevelop successful safety systems. The outcome is fascinating and should be alesson for
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