As my eyes accustomed to the low light I thought for an instant I had died and gone to heaven. Or maybe been whisked by a modern day genie to an Aladdin’s Cave of motorcycles. But when I pinched myself it hurt, so I figured so semblance of realism inhabited this motorcycle nirvana. But let […]
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If you take a trip to a shop called Capone’s Street Rod Motorcycles, the name is a clue to the attitude/bike building philosophy, then emphasized when you check out its website taglines that include “Capone’s…Established Sometime in the 1920s” and “Sometimes We Rob Banks” and bikes with names like “Chicago Typewriter.” If you know your
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Hey, Well it’s never a dull moment around the Bikernet Headquarters. It was scheduled to be a mild weekend of bike wiring and tinkering around the shop, but as usual every weekend explodes with activity. The good Dr. Hamster called first with the notion to organize a Hamster Lunch ride for today. I agreed. Then
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Hey, We are nearing the end of our first week into the New Year, and we’re cooking. I sense this is a critical year in so many respects. Plus, it’s going to be damn exciting. I spent five hours yesterday morning on a conference call with the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) Board of
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For those of us drawn to the somewhat fringe zone of postcard collecting and research, a passion/addiction officially known as Deltiology, good things indeed come in small packages. Those outside the postcard world are probably unaware that it is the third largest collecting hobby in the world, next to coin and stamp collecting, usually 4
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Back when the Transcontinental Railroad’s golden spoke was still gleaming, the industrial East and the wild West linked by the locomotive, and a young United States still recovering from a bloody Civil War, two books brought relief, comfort and hope across the country. One would be the Bible, the other the Sears mail-order catalog. Founded
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Hey, I try to search for inside scoop material for the Sunday Post and Cantina Members. Sometimes that’s a daunting task, but today, we have a couple of exclusives, and inside notions. Ray Wheeler, Dr. Willie, and I are scrambling to complete the repairs to the Salt Shaker and pull it off the lift. Then
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Hey, I was going to piss and moan about the holidays getting in the way of building motorcycles and making progress. We need some more Progressive travel limiters for our new 430 13-inch shocks. We need some James Panhead tins gaskets to wrap up the Salt Shaker. We’re burnin’ daylight. Plus, I thought this news
‘Tis The Season Sunday Post Read More »
Hey, Damn, we’re slamming directly into the holidays once more. The weather has gone to shit in big chunks of the country, and the bastards turned the clocks back, so it will get darker earlier. How does that make sense? We need more light in the winter. Ah, but we always have the Sunday Post
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Hey, It’s Halloween and the cute girls are out, wearing the hottest outfits. It was outfit city around here all week, girls coming and going scouring through Sin Wu’s secret stash. Of course we were in the shop trying to figure out the Salt shaker. We have install a new Dyna S single fire ignition
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Hey, It’s a short one, this weekend, but packed with good info. We are just back from a Vegas Bikefest whirlwind weekend. We finished the Thursday News, then Ray C. Wheeler, Bikernet Performance Editor, and I, jumped in the Bikernet Hearse and cut a dusty trail into the Mojave desert toward the Nevada border. I
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Oh no, It’s a deja vu. Ray C. Wheeler, the Bikernet Performance editor peeled toward the Salt Flats for the Cook’s Shootout this morning at the crack of dawn. He straddled the Salt Shaker and cut a dusty trail with Bikernet stickers and our Bonneville books in tow. About an hour out
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Hey, Life is nuts and so is the news. Get this, the Post office is about cooked. They need to downsize or they will be out of business. They just don’t compete anymore with e-mail, UPS, or Fedex. They can’t pay the 5.5 billion dollar payment to fund future retirees’ healthcare benefits. Seems Congress has
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We were fortunate to stumble across two very rare Vintage Yale Motorcycles recently. One was a 1910 original paint single, one of three known to exist. The other is this sexy 1914 Yale twin. We decided after a heated debate to feature the ’14 because of its stylish art-deco appearance, detail and fit and finish.
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Hey, This is an incredible news. It’s got a bit of everything and some truly bad jokes. We rolled over to the reduced LA Calendar Show yesterday. Only a handful of bikes in the competition, but still a wild assortment of highclass customs and bobbers. In many respects it’s sad to see this show falter.
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Hey, With the help of a Bikernet reader, Anson Alexander, who has every issue of Easyriders, we discovered the first Renegade poem. He wrote a portion of this while he was in the hospital after a Southern Comfort bike accident. We typed it from the original page while drinking Jack Daniels, so don’t blame the
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Hey, Another crazy day on the wet coast during the CCI show. Ray Wheeler is on his way back from the Morgan Hill show while we wrap up the news. When I asked him what was hot, he immediately proclaimed, “The new salt flats Wink Eller bike.” Ray has a one track mind. But dig
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