Hey, This is crazy. I once said we were going to take August off each year, roll to Sturgis and relax, but you know it ain’t possible. The internet eats you alive. Content and action flies at us everyday. If we don’t keep up, it piles up like local grown vegetables in […]
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THE LONG ROAD 2010:The Long Road, in my mind, can be described in one word: Euphoric! What elsecan you say when: A) The staff of a cool bike magazine that promotes RIDING, B)The House Band (Three Spoke Wheel), C) 60 or so chopper jockeys that are”The Real Deal”, and D) the Chop Off contestants, all
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Editor’s Note: We’ve made several bike builders rich and famous,because they were featured in magazines and on television, but here’s anarticle about a true motorcycle hero. Sputnik, a man who devoted his life tomotorcycle freedom. Memorial services for Bill “Sputnik” Strain were held July 10,2010 on the steps of the Texas State
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increase cost by $10.00
CW (coil-wound)
$46
LW (longitudinally-wound)
$67
AC™ (Armor Coat™)
$73
LW – AC™
$80
Argent™
$67
LW – Argent™
$73
Black-Out™
$67
Motion Pro Metric Application Custom Cable Program
The pricing listed below is standard pricing for one-of-a-kind cables that are 80 inches or less (overall housing length). If you are referencing a Motion Pro part number and the part number being referenced is more expensive than the standard custom cable cost
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Hey, Life is strange. I tell kids that if they catch a break, pass the final, win the marathon, that’s cools, but watch your ass. So many times I’ve seen folks score high, then fall completely on their asses, get a DUI, break up with their girlfriend, you name it. It’s as if they don’t
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I know summertime is the time to ride not read, but try to make an exception for Maximum Control: Mastering Your Heavyweight Bike. At 159 pages Maximum Control is full of advice and drills for riding your big bike. There are also beautiful full color photographs of motorcycles in action doing said drills and
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 The 19th annual Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show & Calendar Music Festival presented by Motorcycle Attorneys Brown & Koro, America’s premier streetbike event marked its return to the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach on Sunday July 18th 2010. The Show’s return to it’s original 1-day format was a big success, both in reducing
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Acually, as the vision in my eyes starts to fail me, the more my life is starting to come into focus. Years and years of misspent youth…wow…if I had only known then… Is everyone getting less intelligent or is it just me starting to make sense of things that never made sense before?
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Another whacked-out weekend. I don’t know where to start. We need to load the Peashooter and head out to Classic Cycles, about the last major element. I missed my last appointment with Andy Dunn. We worked on the throttle cable carb connection yesterday, plus we finished, sorta, the retard and advance cable system. We just
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The Alloy Art Rear Suspension Stabilizer for 2009-and-later H-D Touring Models Even though Harley redesigned their frame for 2009 to provide a more stable ride, many feel that the addition of a third stabilizer is still needed to prevent frame flex and rubber mounted motor oscillation. This new unit from Alloy Art comes in
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It’s another day in motorcycle paradise. The Peashooter saga continues, but we’re beginning to nail the final aspects and go to paint and powder. Terry Lee, from Envy Cycles, a sheet metal and fabrication master, might help us with a small fairing. The oil tank was shipped from Stealth Enterprises in North Carolina.
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News Headlines 1948 A Bikernet Reader sent Bandit a pdf recently containing the entire Harley-Davidson accessory catalog from 1948, the year ol’ Bandit was born. There’s nothing better than the real deal, to bring the ’40s back to life. I believe our reader was Eric, and we are grateful for his efforts. We kicked it
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In the motorcycle world, there is a common bond among us. We need to stick together. It’s dangerous out there. The two-wheeled passion runs deep and is thick as 60-weight. When a brother needs help with a project, we step up. Here’s a perfect example of two-wheeled zeal. Motorcycle rights effort in the
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Having been summoned by Tinseltown’s latest red-hot director, I grabbed the last of my original script and trudged across the lot to his office. As usual, Lance was behind his desk, eyes glued to the editing machine. He shut it off and looked up. “You do the changes to the ‘See No Evil’ script?” “No.”
  This is going to be a nuts Sunday on Monday Post. Sunday morning we were up at the crack of dawn loading the Bikernet Hearse for the LA Calendar show.    Saturday night we worked until midnight trying to tune the 5-Ball Factory racer for the run to the Queen Mary Show.
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In loving memory of Woofer: 11/22/50 – 3/13/03I don’t know what time it is, and I carefully avoid letting my eyes wander to the glowing numerals on the bedside clock. I should be asleep. I have to be at work in a couple of hours. Whatever woke me is silent now, and I hear your
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Dawn was upon us, stars were winking out and the moon had given up trying to outshine the morning sun. Charon moved to the side, letting Larry and I pass; as we rode by he gave us a small salute, “Remember to stay on the Ridge Route, no alternate routes, Ma’s orders.” Beyond the
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The lamp rested on a glass shelf amid delicate porcelain figurines, Capodimonte roses, and glimmering gold sorcerers and dragons. Although the other, flashier items were arranged in the forefront to attract the most attention, it was the little golden lamp that drew his eyes like iron filings to a magnet. Surrounded by more glamorous and
We may be getting the hang of this new Bikernet web system by Robintek, in Columbus, Ohio.– Somehow they are also grappling with the enormity of Bikernet and its ever-changing content. Half an hour ago I rumbled with a vast litnany of notions, announcement, and article announcements. I’m lost now. This week scrambled past,
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We’re riding on a narrow, twisting mountain road. Themorning sun is warm on our faces, and your body ispressed tightly against my back. I can feel your fullbreasts against me, your nipples hard from the coolmorning air. Your hair flows out from under yourhelmet in our slipstream like molten honey. The road narrows, forcing me
The ponds are shrouded in inky blackness as I make myway slowly down the levies between them. I know youhear me coming, the staccato rumble of the Harley’sengine echoes out across the calm surface of thewater, and my headlight carves an erratic path throughthe darkness as I search for you. I know you workedlate; your
The story of this bike begins at the AMD European Championship 2007 in Mainz. It was here that I met Peder Johansson of Hogtech once again. Peder is one of the top Swedish Chopper/frame builders with 25 years of experience in the business. I respect him especially for his versatility and craftsmanship, as next to
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“Dago” Red sat on the bottom bunk and watched a roachscurry across the toes of his county issued slippers.He had sat, elbows on knees, his chin resting in hispalms for the last two hours waiting for his attorneyto show up. The arrogant bastard. Red reached outsuddenly, squashing the roach with the sole of hisright foot,
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Kingman, AZ – In order to make an extended stop inKingman, AZ you don’t have to attend, as I did a couple of months ago, theLaughlin River Run on the Nevada side of the Colorado river. But it helps.Firstly, one is normally traveling through Kingman and not to Kingman. Beyond “King” – a town thatloudly
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