5-Ball Bonneville Racing

It all started with a Denny’s breakfast conversation over bacon laced pancakes. I’ll never forget those tasty puppies. The first element we ordered was our belly tank fiberglass body from Class Glass back east. Very helpful staff. They manufacture fiberglass bodies for race vehicles, hot rods, Mustang hoods, you name it. Keep in mind that; […]

Was the first Streamlined Trike Discovered next to a buried ’59 Cadillac tail fin on the outskirts of Palm Springs? Life is an emotional blender on high here at the Bikernet Headquarters. I escaped one weekend and rode to 14 Palms, California with the good Dr. Hamster one chilly winter morning. We met members of

Several years ago, almost six, we finished a complete vintage 45 motorcycle roller. Powder coated and painted, it languished, but worked in our behalf, when Paughco developed the 4-speed 45 frame, which saved the world for H-D 45 flathead motorcycles. Dave Perewitz immediately built a classic chopper around this new configuration. It opened lots of

This year has been a blur, and it’s not over. The pitfalls started when my motor wasn’t going to arrive until after Sturgis. Then my painter, Jim Murillo passed away unexpectedly, and the pressure mounted. He was a good man and friend. I was attempting to build a vintage land speed racer under difficult conditions

I was told twice to pump up our K-Model side valve compression to 9:1. Didn’t seem like a problem to me, in my flathead ignorant bliss. I spoke to Lee Chapin, the master of Mikuni carburetors for several decades. “The 9:1 compression will work well with a 42mm Mikuni,” Lee said. I rode over to

Hang on for one helleva ride! Destination, BUB SPEED TRIALS, 2012. My 97-inch Dyna Glide is up and running and now we are totally focused on a world class, red hat, 5-Ball racing endeavor. This chance of a lifetime was dropped in my lap. I’m a lucky mofo, I have the chrome-out opportunity to build

READY TO LIGHT THE FIRE AND HAUL ASS!Waitin’ on the call from San Jose? We started getting serious in January of this year. A table full of top shelf parts we’re staged in Signal Hill, ready for a serious build. In my last episode we covered the bottom end build. We just needed the engine

In the last segment, we encountered the privilege of working with Branch O’Keefe, the former Branch Flowmetrics masterminds to make my 96-inch Twin Cam head flow as if they were built for the gods. While we rebuilt the heads at Branch O’Keefe, the crew at Hardtailz shipped the worn out twin cam cases to Randy

We faced another challenge in the shop: Too many projects. It’s almost as if I didn’t know which way to turn, so we kicked off a new work ethic. One project a day, to keep it sane. So far, it has worked well, and kept the pressure to a minimum. If I stroll into the

Hey, We couldn’t even attempt to return to Bonneville without Sponsors. We can’t thank our sponsors enough. Fortunately, we have Bikernet and the ability to write and publish weekly and monthly reports during the arduous process of building and preparing to set records on the Bonneville Salt Flats in August of 2012. We will cover