A lull hung over the Cantina starting in March. Maybe it was the calm before the summer storm. Folks came and departed like clockwork, as if on tranquil drugs. They drank their booze, ate nachos and shrimp enchiladas, and paid their tabs. No drama. No kidnapped women or unusual sex on the docks or in […]
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Hey, We’re up and on the road at 4:00 a.m. heading to the Mojave Mile with a 1000 cc race Kawasaki, which is putting out over 170 horses, and was strapped to a tuning dyno all day Saturday. It’s Tobey’s daily rider. Okay, so it’s not a Harley, but we are giving him a hand,
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Hey, Happy Memorial Day. Here’s the official definition from Wikipedia: Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it
MEMORIAL DAY SUNDAY POST FOR MAY 27, 2012 Read More »
Hey gang, Bandit has flown the coop for a while, leaving the rest of us overworked, underpaid and underappreciated minions completely in charge. Big mistake there, stretch! While the King of the Biker Nation is living it up in the Caribbean, sailing the emerald waters of Martinique, getting hammered on rum and sampling other fine
BANDIT OF THE CARIBBEAN SUNDAY POST FOR MAY 6, 2012 Read More »
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
Motorcycle Nirvana Discovered–Bill’s Bike Barn Read More »
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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New Zealand has a reputation as an interesting place of unparalleled beauty. Well, it is and I think most people know that. What I personally found just as interesting is that it is a land of motor heads. I have never seen a population so fascinated by anything with an engine and they will race
DISCOVERED IN NEW ZEALAND, HOME OF WORLD’s FASTEST INDIAN Read More »
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
Mailable Motorcycle Art: An Introduction to Deltiology Read More »
Hey, In this down economy opportunities surface. Take for instance this little company 5-Ball Inc. and all the projects we have in store for 2012 with Sturgis, Bonneville, bike building, site building, more books, you name it. Take a look at our tiny niche industry. Lots of companies are gone, but I still believe motorcycles
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Hey, Merry, Merry, goddammit. What an incredible year 2012 is turning into. Last night I attended a Xmas Party, and we may have kicked off an amazing ride from the top of Alaska to the bottom of South America. Since we are launching Bikernettrikes.com, we may make this a Trike adventure. Plus we already have
Sunday Before Christmas Sunday Post Read More »
Hey, This is going to be damn short. I’m packing to fly to Vegas for the OCC/Jesse build off. Pilgrim Studios asked me to be a judge. In the fine print they call me a critic. Should be interesting. Can I ride each bike around chilly Vegas. Don’t you think a road test should be
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The arguably rare, at least to Western eyes, Hungarian Pannonia 250 had been perfectly matched to Duna “bullet nose” sidecar when found by its owner, an admitted “professional computer geek whilst at the 2009 Daytona Bike Week where she ambled into the motorcycle auction to find a bike suitable for AHRMA bike racing. “Unfortunately that
Hungary’s Best and Last Motorcycle: 1969 Pannonia 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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It was dark the night I rode into Rockingchair, North Carolina and found a small dank bar in the back of a motel. I don’t remember a name on the dark front as I rolled in on my stretched Shovelhead. It wasn’t anything to look at, and neither was I. I had ridden a thousand
The Girls of Bikernet meet the SmokeOut Read More »
Hey, Another crazy day in paradise. The first Mudflap FXR will be running tomorrow. I tuned the Compu-fire ignition last night, while waiting for Sin Wu to deliver my dinner at midnight. Setting up and tuning a Compu-Fire ignition is the easiest on the planet. You can’t go wrong, and once it’s tuned you never
LOVE RIDE SUNDAY POST Read More »
Hey, This is going to be a wild one, and I’m trying to shorten it, so I can finish wiring my Mudflap Girl FXR. It dawned on me that I have no hydraulic brake lines for this puppy. Well, actually John Reed sent me some, but I just haven’t headed down that road yet. If
DAYTONA PRE-LOVE RIDE WEEKEND SUNDAY POST Read More »
Hey, Strange times we’re living through. It’s interesting, and I hope the government can get past all the hindering regulations and remember what this country was based on– freedoms not restrictions. But we grapple with our own existence and wonder if we need to head in another direction. Folks ask me why I don’t
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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
LAS VEGAS SUNDAY POST Read More »
Hey, We are running late with the post. We hit the Long Beach swap meet to collect parts for the Mudflap Girl bikes, Bonneville projects for next year, you name it. That damn, every two week event was jammed, and it was just followed by the El Camino Vintage Swapmeet, yesterday 10 miles away. Since
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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
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
Too Late Sunday Post Read More »
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, It’s another perfect day in Paradise. We worked on my Mudflap girl FXR most of yesterday modifying and mounting the Custom Chrome rear fender. We installed the new Progressive shocks and continue to monkey with the wheel and chain alignment. I need to think about a chain guard and some mounting issues with the
Just a quickie Sunday Post since most of the industry is in Sturgis. Not many emails coming in, so enjoy this short and sweet post. ~Nyla Deer season is around the corner, so I thought I’??d better send out a reminder about what a Whitetail looks like! A guy who lives at Lake Conroe– (50 miles north of
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