Final Details before Speed Run I’ve learned so much, it’s been crazy, but I still had a list a mile long. READ THE UPDATE TO BONNEVILLE – CLICK HERE
Salt Torpedo Build Chapter 23 – Prep for Runs Read More »
Hunter Sills Racing Earns Four World Records and One U.S. National Record at the AMA and FIM-Sanctioned Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials With Their BMW S 1000 RR Motorcycle Associated Press | WENDOVER, Utah – September 10, 2019 – ( Newswire.com ) Hunter Sills Racing captured five records with its BMW S 1000 RR at the
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It’s a Game Changing Wild News By Bandit, Bob T., Bill Bish, Rogue, Laura, Barry Green, Sam Burns, the Redhead, and the rest of the crew This is going to be a wild day. This would have been the day we rolled out for the 2019 Bonneville Speed Trials, but it’s not happening. We still
Bonneville Bikernet Weekly News for August 22, 2019 Read More »
READ THE FIRST RIDE REPORT We are so damn close, yet let’s see. I will rattle off my Salt Torpedo list. We are considering using one of the new Feuling oil tank vents to prevent blow-by. CLICK HERE to read it now in The Cantina – Subscribe today
Salt Torpedo Trike Bonneville Build: Chapter 22 Read More »
The Race is on for Truth, Justice, Fairness, Freedom and Fast Shit. All across America, more women are finding joy on two wheels, and spending money on motorcycling, and it’s generating media coverage. I want to jump right into the news. I need to scramble back into the shop and start work on the Salt
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As you know, there’s an excuse for everything. We are scrambling very close to the Bonneville dates and still haven’t fired this puppy up. We’re still messing with the canopy and the body. I needed to take a step back and reassess how we were doing. READ THE SALT TORPEDO UPDATE IN THE CANTINA –
Too Close to Bonneville – the Salt Torpedo Read More »
What an interesting week. We are scrambling with the Salt Torpedo. I trying to outfit the new Bikernet Salt Flats Van for the trip to Bonneville. I’ve been in touch with various Easyriders contributors and now ex-staff members regarding the future. A few of us have been super-lucky to make a living in the motorcycle
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From Welding to Epoxy Filler and Aerodynamics This whole process has been a test of desires, wills, and emotional stability. From the very beginning of this odyssey, I wanted this to be a team effort. More folks have been involved in this project than any other motorcycle build I’ve been involved with, except maybe the
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Salt Torpedo Chapter 17: Cable Mania Wild Action Every Day: Where’s Our Fiberglass Guy? By Bandit with photos by Wrench I always wanted to be able to adjust the height or ground clearance, but that’s becoming more of an issue. So initially I would like to know if I can buy larger diameter front wheels,
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Old School Chopper Built with Today’s Resources and Time-Honored Work Ethic By Bandit with photos by Peter Linney Micah owned Micah McCloskey’s Custom Motorcycles on Sherman Way in the San Fernando Valley for 34 years, from ’79-‘13. Before that he worked at the same shop for Joe Scarber and before that for Gary Bang, before
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Making Move on Everything! The last few weeks have been interesting and challenging. We are actually getting close to watching the Salt Torpedo sit on its own three wheels with the help of Yelvington Shocks. This week we could finish the steering system. We could link the steering with the wheels. We could have a
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Utah Appropriations Committee urgently needs push to support Bonneville Salt Flats restoration Your email support is critically important As part of its work with SEMA, the Save the Salt Coalition and the Utah Alliance, the AMA recently asked Utah residents to contact their state legislators to ask for their support for a program to
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Hey, I asked a question in the Bikernet weekly news about life and our outlook on life. Whether you are young or old, we are actually living in the best of times and should congratulate them (everyone involved) and celebrate every day. I told my grandson he can wake up beside his girlfriend, make love
SUNDAY POST LIGHT AND SEXY for September 16, 2018 Read More »
Wow, Life is nuts, but what the hell, it continues and changes daily. Bikers get it. We enjoy freedom whether they like it or not. We’re still racing, riding and building cool shit, no matter what. My Grandson’s Dyna is almost complete. We met with the Bennett’s Crew yesterday and they will perform a final
NUTS SUNDAY POST for August 27, 2017 Read More »
Hey, I’m scrambling on my Sturgis ’17 article to be posted next week. A bunch is flying through my mind now that Sturgis is behind me. We need to be in Bonneville with the Salt Torpedo next year. That’s a must. I’ll be 70 and brothers all around me are slipping away. When I say
SIZZLING SUNDAY POST for August 20, 2017 Read More »
Top 1 Ack Attack became the world’s fastest motorcycle when it set the Land Speed Record of 376.363 mph/605.697 km/h back in 2010. Although no one has beaten his twin-engined streamliner in the better part of a decade, builder Mike Akatiff is not the type to rest on his laurels. Rather than retiring, he
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The World´s Fastest is a documentary project – a tribute to the vanishing era of internal combustion and fossil fuel racing. It tells the story of a generation of Speedseekers who cherish the smell of gasoline and oil like the very air we breathe; people whose sense of purpose is tied to the creation of
The World’s Fastest – Land Speed Racing in Bonneville Read More »
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Munro’s iconic land speed record, Indian Motorcycle is teaming up with Kiwi road racer Lee Munro, Burt Munro’s great nephew, to recreate the historic run at Bonneville on August 13. Read more.
  Hey, I’m waiting to hear from Dr. Nuttboy on my stock picks and will start to share the info with you. The key is to start saving or die trying. You can’t build a retirement package or amass wealth, as the Doctor puts it, if you don’t do a goddamn thing. We are
SCARY SUNDAY POST for October 30, 2016 Read More »
Hey, One of the wildest years in my life and I’m riding to Sturgis next week, maybe with three other terrors on two-wheels. One guy lost his job a couple of days ago. He only had the job for three weeks. He’s pissed. I’ve packed and repacked for the Badlands run on my Indian three
WIND “EM UP SUNDAY POST for July 31, 2016 Read More »
Hey, I cut across town on my Indian to attend a memorial for Paul Percell, a longstanding Hamster, who at 54 died of a heart attack, way too young. I noticed a couple of things while weaving through traffic. First, we need to pass more lane splitting laws across the country. The traffic is ridiculous.
OPEN ROAD SUNDAY POST for July 24, 2016 Read More »
Hey, Here’s an editorial segment from The Week Magazine. It hits the nail on the head: You’re entitled to feel some despair over the state of our world. I sure do, even after a lifetime in the news business. In recent weeks, there’s been an avalanche of evidence of our species’ bottomless capacity for stupidity,
WILD WEST SUNDAY POST for July 17, 2016 Read More »
Hey, Life is ever changing and forces us to be prepared and flexible. The Bikernet family is constantly in a state of flux and transformation. We are about to switch up our advertising program, then make the whole Bikernet family mobile friendly. And the list goes on. Out mantra is to make the site easier
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Hey, I woke up lost this morning. I wanted to get up early and hit the post, but I slept funky. I woke up with questions and concerns blasting around my head like rats on acid. Yesterday we entered my 2014 Indian in the Long Beach Easyriders Show, then we scooted over around noon to
WHICH WAY TO TURN SUNDAY POST for January 17, 2016 Read More »
