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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If businesspeople can learn to understand the basic drivers of human behavior, leverage them and use them to their advantage, it will give them more weapons in an increasingly competitive market. This according to Ken Schmidt, Harley-Davidson's former director of communication, who hosted the “Make Some Noise” webinar at the 2009 SEMA Show.Schmidt noted that
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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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Before painting, a color study of the art was handled in Photoshop to work out the color palette. Bandit used it to advertise the Thursday's News.Editor's Note: We've been extremely proud to work with Chris Kallas over the last ten years. He's created concept drawings, fiction illustrations, logos, and most of the glistening 5-Ball Racing
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Two years ago I gave my Iraqi Veteran brother a bobber with the help of many of our sponsors. Sucker Punch Sally’s, Custom Chrome, and Lucky Devil stepped in for the biggest contributions, while Bikernet.com organized the whole thing and also came through with more products, help, guidance than I would have ever hoped. It
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COAST TO COAST LEGISLATIVE UPDATE FROM BILL BISH–WYOMING, BIKE THEFTS DOWN, MAINE REQUIREMENTS, OKLAHOMA GUNNERS BILL PASSES, MICHIGAN HELMET REPEAL, AND FED ROAD CONDITIONS COAST TO COAST BIKER NEWSCompiled & Edited by Bill Bish,National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) MOTORCYCLE THEFTS FALLMotorcycle thefts in the US fell by 13% to 56,093 last year from 64,492 in
Lathrop, CA~August 28, 2009 – In case there is anyone left out there in TV land who hasn’t heard of the Sons of Anarchy, the wildly popular night-time biker soap that airs on the FX channel, let me bring you up to speed. This series has caused quite a stir in the riding community. Supposedly
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I’m wondering if you can “balance” this with the letter attached. See, last month when this ran, I got some blowback from Charisse at Johnny’s. So I felt is was fair to give her a forum too, and publish the attached letter in my CA and SW July editions. ALSO, PLEASE find a way to
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Southern Metal Choppers opened their doors December 1, 2003 and while this may not seem out of the ordinary these days, cousins Bronson and Jason Willard did it àla Field of Dreams – If you open it they will come. You see, when the key hit the lock that first day they did not have
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COAST TO COAST FOR MARCH: REFLECTIVE VESTS, NOISE LAWS, ANTI-CLUB MOVES AND SOME POSITIVE SHIT THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. For more information, call us at 1-(800)
In loving memory of: Samantha Morgan a/k/a Marsh Green Born June 2, 1953Entered into Rest April 28, 2008Thomas James Cavanaugh “Criminal”Born December 13, 1943Entered into rest May 12, 2008Memorial services were held this past Saturday at VFW Hall 2007 for Masha Green, much better know as Samantha Morgan Storm and Thomas Cavanaugh, known to so
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Fig. 1: Early commercial Colt AR-15 Carbine with 1:12 twist 16” lightweight “pencil” barrel. Note early-style sights mounted on fixed carry handle.Lightweight, nimble, low recoil, big firepower in a small package… The AR-15 was designed in the mid 1950s by Eugene Stoner at the ArmaLite Division of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation, located then
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COAST TO COAST LEGISLATIVE REPORT FROM BILL BISH FOR FEBRUARY 2010COAST TO COAST BIKER NEWSCompiled and edited by Bill Bish, Ride On MagazineNational Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM)BIKERS SUPPORT BROWN IN HISTORIC SENATE VICTORYScott Brown captured the national spotlight in his bid to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, and he is a modern
Moral of the work In War: Resolution In Defeat: Defiance In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will –Windston Churchill Pierre sat in a pastry shop as the rain pounded the cobblestone street outside the leaded windows. He was a stout, 5’10” young man in his mid 20s who was politically lost. It was 1939 and
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I know that the reason you may have picked this magazine up is for fun motorcycle information, and that you may or may not want a dose of political rhetoric. However, there is an issue going down around the motorcycle world that should not only offend us as bikers, and Americans. Stick with me for
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The mission of the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) is to serve the interests of motorcyclists by pursuing, promoting and protecting the future of motorcycling. This is the primary reason I went to work for the association in 1994 as its Washington lobbyist. Although I chose to leave the staff of the AMA in 1998, I
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