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Sprocket Spacing Made Easy

Here’s one for you guys who have a little lathe at home and would like to expand your home bike building capabilities. Sprocket spacing can allow for quick and easy chain alignment if you are running wide tire sizes or mismatched tranny configurations. Because the sprocket receives an enormous amount of torque, it is important

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J-Bird Studio Of Art Project

This tale will hit home for builders all over the globe. It’s basically an artist’s efforts to delicately touch the waters of an industry he’s dabbled in for years. Japanese Jay, as I call him, has been around Bikernet for over six years representing various Japanese custom motorcycle magazines from Easyriders of Japan to the

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How to: Build An Old Skool BobberOld Skool is kool. A fact celebrated by Wolfgang Publications in their new book. No theme bikes here, learn how to build a real American motorcycle based on a Panhead, Shovelhead or Evo engine. Don’t buy expensive new parts, build your own bobber or chopper from mix-and-match swap-meet parts.Written

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New CCE Pans For STD Panheads

We are happy to announce a new sponsor to our boardtrack cross over bike. Not only do we have Bikernet.com as a main sponsor, but we have added Custom Cycle Engineering as a sponsor. http://www.customcycleengineering.com/In this tech tip, we will show an install of CCE's finned Panhead rocker covers. We dig these covers. Designed by

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The E-Man Breakdown Saga

Just a quick note to anybody who might find themselves in this spot. This is a problem I have never heard of before, and everybody who wrenches on EFI models, just goes, “Hmmm, haven’t heard that one before.” So, here is the fix, if it happens to you. I have a 2002 FLHT Fuel injected

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How To Set Ring Gaps

Check Them Out. Question of the week with Ross Racing Pistons One of the most frequently asked question we get, is. How do you install ring properly.So here goes. Top Rings :Molybdenum faced, barrel lapped, ductile spheroidal graphite iron. Phosphate coated, or gas nitrite steel barrel faced. Second Rings :Grey cast iron, reverse torsional twist,

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Bizarre Bikernet Tech

This article doesn’t have a damn thing to do with the machine shop, but this illo sure helps. Just about the two top things on my “to-do” list are ride motorcycles and listen to music that rocks. Beth Orliss’s company, Hearing Dynamics, had me in mind when they developed custom radio headphones exclusively for motorcycle

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