Hey, It’s another crazy day at the Cantina. We’re moving rooms, making shit, tearing out old wires, waiting for help from friends and hopin’ for a cold beer. It’s actually threatening to rain. I made a belt buckle yesterday and polished my XR tanks for the powder people. Hell, I thought this would be a […]
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SUNDAY POST DELAYED DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES Hey, It’s another crazy day at the Cantina. We’re moving rooms, making shit, tearing out old wires, waiting for help from friends and hopin’ for a cold beer. It’s actually threatening to rain. I made a belt buckle yesterday and polished my XR tanks for the powder people.
SUNDAY RETURN TO BIKERNET, HELMET LAWS DON’T WORK, SOME WOMEN DO, LUCKY DEVIL ROAD KING Hey, Well I’m out of the Coporate world, sorta, and back to the Bikernet frey. You would think that suddenly my life would be calm. To be honest it feels damn good to have it back and to be back
BIKERNET SUNDAY POST – NO NEWS, A BIKE AND SOME JOKES… One of the good things about the Post– is that Bandit usually does it, so you get his insight on the articles and an update of what?s been going on with him. Well, he?s due home any moment now so I?ve been holding off
MOM’S SUNDAY POST–IT’S A MIX OF THIS AND THAT FOR MOM Shot from Don Rogers. We’re looking for custom Pans, Knucks and Shovels for Street Chopper mag. Hey, it’s mom’s day so take care of business, even if it’s a long distance phone call. I’m in a daze. All the gang from Primedia came over
SIZZLING SUNDAY POST–GIRLS, PARTS, RUMORS, THREATS AND BITCHIN’ BIKES I’m pumped. Almost have all my stuff ready for the Powder Coater. I’m trying to find a local joint I can trust. I have this thing about taking hand worked parts to a chromer or painter. I would hate to lose anything I’ve spent hours working
BIKERNET SUNDAY POST – VIOLENCE, LAUGHLIN AND GOOD FRIENDS Laughlin Sunday Escape Here’s the news from the desert. Laughlin was happening and we sent the notorious Agent Zebra to check out the Las Vegas/Kounts Customs Anti-Laughlin, $250,000 poker run. It’s just one of the many Anti-Laughlin gouge runs popping up. On the other grip Laughlin
BIKERNET SUNDAY POST – PRE-LAUGHLIN RUSH Hey, It’s Sunday Madness. I’m not as far as long on the Sturgis Chop as I need to be. I scrambled yesterday, and made serious headway. I finish welding the fender rails, drilled holes for wires, finished the front fender and polished it, sanded and polished the tank and
BIKERNET SUNDAY POST – WHEELS FROM RUCKER, S&S MUFFLERS, BOY’S BIKE AND MORE… I’m in a tequila cloud this morning. Some of the news items don’t make a lick of sense. On the otherhand the sex last night awakened something in me–yeah right. Chris Kallas, biker artist came by yesterday and we mounted the Lucky
DISCOVERY SUNDAY POST–WILD FINDS, RUMOR CONTROL, FIGHTS, NEW BIKES AND UNBELIEVABLE GIRLS Wild weekend. It started on Friday as I boarded a quick flight to Vegas to attend the Discovery Channel Biker Build-Off finale. Someone called it the academy awards of Bike Building. I wouldn’t go that far unless they took in every custom bike
EASTER SUNDAY HAM AND EGGS NEWS I love it around here. I’ve scrambled on the Shovel until all the local restaurants were closed last night, then hit the road on the Road King for Fajitas and a giant Margarita by the harbor. There’s something about being alone in the shop, then hitting the road in
SUNDAY MEMORIAL NEWS–BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS, SHOVELHEAD REPORTS, 120-INCH PANHEADS AND GIRLS, OF COURSE Hey, It’s another wild Sunday. We’re having young Matt’s memorial party here at the headquarters after the services. You can Imagine, the ladies have run crazy for two days, cleaning and making room for 50 chairs, tables and grub for the
BIKERNET SUNDAY POST – WHAT POST? The saying goes, “No news is good news”, and it’s suppose to be a good thing. In today’s case, it means no Sunday Post. We have no news, for once in six or more years. I’m stumpt, I feel bad and I’m not sure what to do. Bandit, who
SUNDAY SHOVELHEAD POST–DAYTONA CONNECTIONS, NEW SHOPS, NEWS OLD BIKES, NEW PRODUCT, NEW GIRLS Hey, let’s get this Post on the Road. I worked on the Shovelhead all day yesterday–until midnight. I’ve shifted gears, again, but I like it. This next Shovelhead reports deals with installing the rear fender and the ROHM Performance oil cooler filter.
SICK BED SUNDAY POST–DAYTONA BIKES, NEWS AND GIRLS, BIG ENGINES, DRAG RACING AND MORE Hey, I know I’m running late, and I could bury you with excuses, but fuck it, let’s roll. I would have kicked this off with another weekend’s work on the Sturgis Shovelhead, but Thursday, after returning from the dealer show in
BIKERNET SUNDAY POST – STURGIS CHOP LEARNING TO BLOW Helluva weekend. Anytime there’s lots of motorcycle carnage, sex, whiskey and writing, I’m all for it. Maybe it’s Valentines day creeping up. Make a note. Here’s the deal on the Shovelhead. Since the engine was in and mounted I went to work on the exhaust system,
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY POST–GIRLS, SHOVELHEAD UPDATE AND FREEDOM REPORTS Helluva day. Here’s the schedule. Sunday Post first, install a banister in one of our many stairwells, a brass porthole in a door, work on the Shovel and watch the Superbowl. Think I’ll make it. Something tells me I doubt it unless the game goes all to
SUNDAY POST FLASH – RIDERS TRAINING IN TROUBLE, BLOND JOKES, LOST HAMSTERS AND THE 80’S ARE DEAD. From Skooter HAPPY SUNDAY–I hope your weekends been free from dressing 80?s style and lost Hamsters. Here?s a quick Sunday Post for you. Tribal Iron Custom’s New Dualie Swing Arm You say you need a fatter rear wheel
SUNDAY POST–BIRTHDAY BASH–PLAY0FF GAMES AND PANHEADS Playoff Sunday. Last night was Layla’s Birthday and I received the surprise of my life, but first an update. The Primedia gurus are fighting me over the people on the covers. Hopefully we can set up a department on Bikernet and run covers past you, for your response. Just
SUNDAY POST MADNESS – EPA REGS, NEW SELF-DEFENSE LAW AND HOT BIKE COVERS Good morning I think? I’m hungover after a broken workout and a day cruising the coast with Agent Zebra and Diesel, a builder from Miami. I was still reeling from last week at Primedia. They tested my new cover design and determined
Post On A Rainy Sunday Look for the May issue of Hot Bike to see more of this cutie and the Triumph. Built By Lucky Devil Metalworks and shot by the infamous, Rigid Frame Richard. It’s Wild Card Sunday, Yesterday I carved out my editorial for the May issue of Hot Bike on Tools. It’s
Sunday Post – Paughco Exhaust, Bree, One Fine Chicana and More… It’s the first Sunday Post of 2005 and I’m scrambling. I told myself when I peeled out of the Primedia High Rise on Thursday that I wasn’t going to write a goddamn thing this weekend. Last weekend I wrote my first Badlands chapter in
POST CHRISTMAS SUNDAY POST–IT’S WARM, THOUGHTFUL AND PACK FULLA VIOLENCE Bob Clark found this joint in Camarillo, California. Not bad. Hey, It’s the day after Christmas and already we’re at full steam. I’m working on a Sturgis Chop engine article with S&S, we’re about to publish a Lucky Devil Texas Chop-off Bike and I’m working
SUNDAY POST MADNESS – WHAT TO DO ABOUT US Photo by Rigid Frame Richard Life is nuts and moving too fast. But there’s good shit on the horizon. Of course a taste of the winter pressure are these bullshit holidays. Christmas is next weekend, the kids are packing the Bikernet Christmas cards to 200 of
