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The History of BSA Motorcycles

“The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire” was a popular truism of the 18th-mid 20th centuries. The vast island nation’s colonial “properties” around the world, extended from the “Raj” of the teeming Indian subcontinent to the rubber and oil riches of Southeast Asia. There was another saying, “Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out

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Did You See Me?

This Dave Mann painting was comissioned by Easyriders in the late '70s. I saw you, hug your purse closer in the grocery store line. But you didn't see me make a donation to the Salvation Army. I saw you pull your child closer, when we passed each other on the sidewalk. But you didn't see

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Non-Rights–A New Code

The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Aye from GA.–Rebel “We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren,

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The Western Code

Illustration by David Mann. Bikernet is constantly on the prowl for the illusive Code Of The West. Sorta like the whole Christian world looking for Moses’s tablets. Sure we’re looking for the real thing, but even more-so we search for the ultimate Code of The West meaning, the core of the Code. Just recently a

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Speedway Racer Mystery

Here’s a strange one. First it starts out with a strange connection, Jim Murillo, of Jim’s Cycle Painting, in Gardenia, California. He’s a recovering something or other, who roams the streets of Los Angeles doing, I don’t know what? If you call his shop the answering machine always picks up. “This is Jim’s Custom, err,

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A Tribute To Snuffy

Got an award from W. S. Harley for something designed for early Sportsters. Good Friend past back in November, 2005, Don 'Snuffy' Smith. One on the best Harley mechanic's around. He was a flat tracker back in the '40s and '50s. Everyone up in the Hi Desert went to him for lower end work. But

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H-D History Files

Last night at 2:00 a.m. in the morning the Bikernet Corporate bell clanged at the entrance to the Los Angeles Harbor ghetto Bikernet International Headquarters. We scrambled for our sawed-off shotguns recently loaded with massive 12-guage slugs. Clammoring down the steel ship's stairs we set up an armed perimeter around the gate and on the

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Notorious Slugs

This was a 5 by 7-inch mag on how to extend a Springer and fork tubes with slugs (I thought those were slimy little creatures). This is what they came out with before they started making one piece tubes. This “how to” booklet was about 20 pages. It didn't have a date, but had to

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Unsinkable Sidecar

Not only had Green Valley, CA master metal fabricator Bob Foster aka The Alloy Cowboy never built a boat before, believe it or not, this was Bob’s first project involving woodworking, and he has no woodworking tools. He does have some metal working equipment…a bowling ball, a shotbag and a mallet he made about ten

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Ed Roth Discovery

We try to bring you the wildest finds in the world when it comes to Choppers. Deano contacted me recently and offered to scan his collection of Ed Roth’s, TV guide sized chopper mags, from 1968. Check these out and we’ll bring you more in the near future, thanks to Deano. Imagine that these mags

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BIRTH OF THE FACTORY CUSTOM

Here’s an original boat tail, 1971 Super Glide. MILWAUKEE (July 23, 2005) – Even 35 years after its introduction, the 1971 Harley-Davidson FX Super Glide remains one of the definitive motorcycles in Motor Company history. Distinguished by its long “boat tail” fiberglass rear fender section, the FX Super Glide combined the Big Twin FL chassis

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Two Maybe Good

“Rare ’14 Pierce Arrow, first American inline four-cylinder motorcycle mnufacturer.” Brinnnnnng! Like a nattering nabob dropping wolf bait, the phone clanged its irritating morning staccato. Brinnnnnng! Now coming on like a moon calf, but more insistently, the possessed device demanded attention. Brinnnnnnnng! Like Pavlov’s dog, I grabbed the phone instinctively, drooling. “Yeah, who the hell

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