Digitals Discovery

  Eugene Walker, loving known as Gene is one of the South’s most beloved motorcycle racing pioneers. Born in the small town of Plevna, AL, just south of the Tennessee line, Gene grew up in Birmingham after his mother moved the family following the tragic murder of his father just months before his birth. Like […]

In the early years of motoring, the Burma-Vita Company found a novel way to advertise its brushless shaving cream. Burma-Shave advertising signs, with their humorous, serial jingles, were spaced far apart on the roadside and made sense only to someone traveling at 35 miles per hour. From the 1920s to the 1960s, motorists had fun

    Postcards were utilized as means of advertising more than a hundred years ago as seen in this one printed by a California shop offering both bicycles and motorcycles. Before there was Twitter and text messaging there were postcards. Tons of them. Billions have been posted from every country in the world, the appearance

Which way to the launch pad?         Do We Need a Longer Ramp? And a Longer Truck?Unloading and loading the Big B takes at least three.       The Whatzist? Question of Day And yes, the “can’t miss me” red and yellow color scheme was original design very likely linked to

  Here are some strange pieces of history you may want to share–Rogue During WWII, Norway was occupied by the Nazis. Resistance fighters gave the Nazis diarrhea via sardine cans. The resistance fighters snuck into sardine-canning plants and instead of just sardines, filled the cans with croton oil – which happens to be a powerful

  A Brief History The Maltese, or Iron Cross, is widely popular among bikers and has been so going back a number of decades. The original idea behind the use of it in those circles was to symbolize truth and brotherhood–something found less and less in society as a whole. Just a small group of

I received one of those nuts emails today packed with images of crazy creative shit, like a tractor turned into a mail box or a barbecue made to look like a locomotive. Some of these creativity efforts probably took years. Some of it was absolutely magnificent; I’m talking world class. I’ve made a few goofy

  I knew wearing only my birthday suit on my 50th birthday and riding on the back of a Harley Davidson motorcycle would cause a stir, but I didn’t expect the comments to be quite so divisive. Take a look at the original article “The Survivor Chronicles” I respond to Fear Mongers, Conspiracy Theorists, and

These are pretty clever. Don’t rush. Study each picture (there are 10 of them). Stop at each picture and try to determine what it represents. The answer is just below the photo BUT don’t look until you’ve guessed. What is it? Come on – think outside the box eggplant   ====================== Who is it? Doctor

This is wild. A friend in Texas bought a WR and decided to rebuild it, so the hunt for info and parts began. “I am taking a perfectly fresh, strong and viable race ready WR and tearing it down to put it back the way I want it… “ said Steve Klein, the boss of

Found on http://www.walneckswap.com/      

  Amazing, we received a call on Monday morning. Deano, from back east told of his history with choppers from the ’60s and how he held onto a set of Ed Roth’s Chopper Magazines all these years.     He wanted to share them with our readers and of course the staff agreed.    

The history of war toys extends back to the beginnings of civilization with their appearance in the tombs of ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. Ancient Greek children were playing with small wooden replicas of the Trojan Horse. In effect, toy soldiers have been with us since there were full-sized soldiers. The privileged children of medieval Europe were

      The 111-yard passage nicknamed ‘Harry’ by Allied prisoners was sealed by the Germans after the audacious break-out from the POW camp Stalag Luft III in western Poland.   Despite huge interest in the subject, encouraged by the film starring Steve McQueen, the tunnel remained undisturbed over the decades because it was behind

    He meant so much to the millions of Americans who fought in World War II, and to those who had waited for them to come home. He was a kid cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper; Mauldin’s drawings of his muddy, exhausted, whisker-stubble infantrymen Willie and Joe were the voice of

                                http://www.forgottenweapons.com/guns-and-motorcycles-a-photo-essay/       

    The Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, California, specifically its Art Deco style terminal building, has been used in a number of movies over the decades. Among the films with scenes shot here are “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” (1947), “Executive Suite” (1954), which we’ll discuss in more depth down the road, and

SPEAKING OF DISCOVERIES—Bikernet Australian Correspondent recently toured northern California in search of rare motorcycles and exotic tattoo talents. Here’s her report: Whilst travelling north toward san fran, stopped at a rest stop, I saw these two bikes parked. I could not resist the call of the chrome or the tinkling song of the cooling engines, so

MILITARY DIGITAL DISCOVERY– I thought you might be interested in some scans I took from a copy of Department of the Army Technical Manual TM9-8000 ‘Principles Of Automotive Vehicles‘ from January 1956. –‘Snakebit’ Sam Kanish

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a good one. I was interviewing 23-year-old Jesse Srpan for an American Iron/Bikernet biker feature article and I mentioned the SU carb on his dad’s Panhead. “Do you know what SU stands for? Jesse said. I didn’t. “It stands for Skinners Union, meat packers made these carbs.” That’s a good story,

It was a chance meeting, I’d had enough of how things were going in OC, and decided to hop on my ’68 FL, for an escape to visit brother “Moon” Horton up in Big Pine. The trip to see “Moon” was not to be, a few miles north after I merged from Highway 14 onto

This discovery is thanks to Charles Plueddeman, who works for Harley-Davidson as a freelance public relations specialist. He also loves to collect old publications, and he turned Bikernet onto a batch of old do-it-yourself mags from the ’50s and ’60s. This particular issue contained a couple exciting stories for the Bikernet staff. The mystery continues

There’s a bit of the robot in Baron Margo, a bit of the puppet master, a bit of the Alchemist, a bit of the Welder, a bit of the DaVinci…. You could list dozens of different talents and all would be pieces of the Baron Margo puzzle. Stand-by for Launch! Now for the answers, or