Click Here To Be A Sponsor As it turned out the kit included the master cylinder and two rods to the brake pedal. I machined and threaded the longer one to make it even longer with a hiem joint for alignment flexibility. Life is bananas, and I add to the frustration by fuckin’ with everything. […]
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Click Here To Be A Sponsor Plasma cutters are amazing, but let me back up just a taste. I needed to take care of the Devil in Houston at Lucky Devil’s Metal Works and made the brother a belt buckle. He’s going to build the lovely Nyla a Frisco style chopper in the near future—tight
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We’ve made serious progress on both bikes, thanks to terrific help from friends around the industry. The buzz is hot for the Bonneville this year. Classic Custom Cycle Engineering dogbone risers.I may jump around a bit, but let’s haul ass into my first move. With the 45 frame aligned by U.S. Choppers, Rick Krost, the
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Click Here To Be A SponsorI don’t know where to start with this? It’s all come together so fast. Last year while blazing across Mexico, with Dr. Hamster, in the La Carrera Pan Americana, World’s Most Dangerous Road Race, he asked me if I would be his partner the following year? At first I was
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In the last segment the crew of U.S. Choppers straightened the Bonne Belle, 1940 45 frame, but I asked Rick Krost, da boss, if he felt any gusseting was necessary. He pointed out all the strong factory gusseting in the front and even on the single down tube, but suggested that we gusset the rear
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We’re rockin’ with this project. I’ve never built two bikes at once, Bonneville aside, but we’re having a blast. Both projects are hustling and this report will bring you up to date. The CCI V-Bike Panhead is still a roller and we’re waiting on the drive-line elements so we can mock-up the pipes before shipping
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This shows the proper JIMS guide on top of the swingarm bearing. The H-D manual shows two guides, one for the left and one for the right. Another mystery. Larry had one press guide. Next, we decide to balance the act by installing the swingarm. We dug out all the parts including: Harley-Davidson swingarm bushings/bearings,
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Scramble some eggs, make some coffee and sit back. This is the first segment in the 2006 Bikernet Bonneville effort and 10th Anniversary Bikernet Run to the Salt Flats, September 3-7, to the Bub’s International Motorcycle Speed Trials at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Currently we’re building two bikes (what a relief, at one point we
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Here’s our secret Bonneville 2006 file. It‘s going to rapidly fill up with Bonneville racing info, notes, suggestions from experts, performance tips and lies. Check it out from time to time. It’s already interesting.–Bandit TIPS FROM AL UNSER’S CREWBack in the late 70's and early 80's I had the occasion to do work on Al
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Unbelievable! We were forced to drive our motor home, loaded with the Assalt Weapan, dirt bikes, electric-powered scooter ice chests, 5-ball racing uniforms, stickers, tools, lifts, and granola bars, to downtown Long Beach to make a sponsor deposit before we could cut a dusty trail. We didn't want to eat casino toothpicks all week long.
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Jeremiah brought over a couple of de-burring tools and the damn things work wonders on recently drilled holes or Makita cut pipe segments. Once the engine was in place I needed to make my custom set of D&D pipes in a couple of days, or die trying. The buzz was high for the Bub’s Bonneville
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Grab the whole rewritten story in this fantastic book. Just click on the image. Rick, from U.S. Choppers handled the TIG welding on our pipes.I hope the next couple of chapters paint a picture of the variety of emotions we’ve encountered during this week of September (12-18). We’re getting close, but every element must fall
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I don’t know where to start, but that’s nothing new. We’re down to three weeks and still standing outside waiting for the UPS driver to roll up with our final components. Jim Murillo has the Gard Hollinger modified tank for paint. Yvonne Mecalis is posed to paint the Assalt Weapan girl on the front fender.
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The 2007 Bikernet Bonneville Assalt Weapon is in production. We are shooting for the World's Fastest Panhead record. And we need your help to make our dream come alive. Last year we took the record by storm. We learned a number of lessons and have developed an entirely new program to cheat the wind and
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The lovely Nyla posing in place of Valerie Thompson.Chain guards are still a mystery to me and there are some LSR (Land Speed Record) rules regarding their length and coverage. By the SCTA rules, the guard must be steel, not fiberglass or even carbon fiber. Plus it must extend beyond the rear of the sprocket.
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Here's our arch rivals, members of the Chop N Grind Racing team from 17 Palms, California, a distant desert community. They're bad mofos, sand snortin' bastards. That's Larry from Palm Springs H-D on the left and the notorious Bob T. on the right. Bob is the team enforcer. You can see a shot of him
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We’re building two bikes to take to Bonneville for the Bubs International Speed Trials, September 3-7th, 2006. So each segment we publish may contain elements of both, the 1940, 45-cubic inch flathead and the first ever Sportbike Panhead designed by John Reed of Custom Chrome. It’s his V-Bike and we’re dropping a 120-inch Accurate built
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We’re building two bikes to take to Bonneville for the Bubs International Speed Trials, September 3-7th, 2006. So each segment we publish may contain elements of both, the 1940, 45-cubic inch flathead and the first ever Sportbike Panhead designed by John Reed of Custom Chrome. It’s his V-Bike and we’re dropping a 120-inch Accurate built
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BIKERNET 5-Ball RACING WHEELER REPORT ****Mojave Mile****In The Books****April 12-13****12,000 foot runway, one mile shutdown…. ****N H R A**** Leaders, T/F, Doug Kalitta, F/C, Robert Hight, M/C, Andrew Hines**** ****E C T A Ohio Mile****5/3-4 (In The Books)****6/7-8 ****6/10 Valerie Thompson kicks ass, 208.71, BMW S 1000 RR) ****7/12-13****9/27-28**** ****El Mirage****6-22****John Noonan, ****250.7**** (NEW
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