A couple of years ago the growing membership of the Cherokee Chapter of the AMCA (Antique Motorcycle Club of America) in central Texas made a monumental decision. The antique motorcycle group wanted to establish a major antique motorcycle event closer to the center of the country. Davenport, Iowa, Daytona, Florida and Wauseon, Ohio were like […]
All over the English-speaking-world journalist hacks are asking each other “Why is it that Bikernet journalists are so much better than us? While we, on the other hand, are just useless meaningless carbuncles on the ship of literary history? And parchment fragments in the Museum of Bad Writing Skills??” This is what they’re asking themselves.
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The AHDRA All-American motorcycle drag racing series gaveAtlanta Dragway a flaming, thundering, nitro Harley send-off, asthe AHDRA opened its 2021 campaign at the soon-to-be-razed Commerce, Georgia speed facility on April 17-18. TKR & Associates Top Fuel The biggest thunder inGeorgia was brewed up by the big nitro V-Twins of TKR & Associates Top Fuel.
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NCOM CONVENTION IN DES MOINES WELCOMES RIDERS NATIONWIDE The 36th annual NCOM Convention is right around the corner, so plan now to be a part of one of the largest gatherings of motorcycle rights activists in the world. This year’s NCOM Convention, to be held JULY 23-25, 2021 at the Holiday Inn Des
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Right in the middle of our move operation to South Dakota Jeremiah strips his rear belt of all its teeth. This is not the first time. I just checked all the forums and didn’t find anything conclusive. Is he too hard on his belt with hole-shots and excessive acceleration? Did he adjust the belt too
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“I would like to thank the Academy or whatever the fuck this roomful of people is who wish they were me at this moment……for giving me this award for poetry. You know, when I started my writing career writing comedy porn stories for magazines like Nugget, Rascal, Topper and Vue and the street vending machine
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Recently in Hagerty News, Davin (that’s pronounced Dave-in) walked through the basics of cutting new threads in stock materials. That is all but necessary for fabricating new parts and pieces for a project, but what about threaded holes that already exist in parts you need to salvage? Then it’s time to talk about chasing threads.
Editors Note: I can’t explain it. Generally, we publish Sam’s Picks of the Week with a report about my evil past, or with notions of biker romance and the metalflake experience. But J.J.’s recent findings far outweigh the last time I met a redhead in a bar. However, as you go through your day hanging
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If you’ve ever looked forward to leaving your car in thegarage and bicycling to your local Amtrak yard to board atrain filled with deranged wandering resurrected-dead from the planet Zarkon….you are in luck, moe-foe Lose-a-Relative Joe is gonna make all your dreams oftuberculosis and probably ebola come true. You can give C-19 a big hug
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Editor’s Note: All information in this article has come from trusted sources who wish to remain anonymous who have spoken to people who have read reports regardingspeculations deemed to be actual and factual speculations regarding reported likelihoods that are considered well within the parameters of probability as determined by science with a plus or minus
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Earlier this year we heard that Harley was going to cancel the Sportster line. We also started a suggestion box for the factory’s success. Of course, one of our first and most supported recommendations included retaining the Sportster line. I went so far as to recommend the Sportster line become the builder’s line and make
A couple of brothers recently asked about the Buell Motorcycle Company and Erik’s new venture with electric bikes. They were concerned about the two directions and splitting the name. We dug into these efforts to find out what the hell was happening. Buell History In 1983, Buell Motorcycles was founded In 1984, the first Buell
The latest additive is ethanol, which — without getting into the political and environmental debates about its efficacy — is fine for use in fuel-injected vehicles that are run regularly and designed to use up to 10% ethanol (85% in flex-fuel vehicles). On the other hand, ethanol-oxygenated fuel is not so great for any vehicles
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Author’s Note: Late Spring and then early Fall I sent Gavin Newsom, thegovernor of California, letters, the second one much much more caustic than the first, regarding his incompetence. I know talent and I know competence. Newsom has none of either. Both letters are about his “dealing” with the “pandemic.”Both contained my full name, my
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A classic Chopper show I try not to miss when in Daytona for Bike Week. Willie puts it together at his Tropical Tattoo, and it looks like lots of other people felt the same way about the Bike Week show. The place was packed with motorcycles and people. There are 20
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What do Choppers mean to you? I should know. I’ve worked with the greatest builders on the planet. I’ve built a few myself and I started in the industry because of Choppers. Hell, I worked with the god father of the Chopper, Arlen Ness on several projects. So, what did they mean to me, when
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It gets hot there in the South West this time of year and a cooling vest can be a godsend in triple digit heat. There are a lot of options for us motorcyclists, and evaporative cooling vests are common. You pull them out when needed, soak them in water and become a human swamp cooler.
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I’m in the process of moving to Sturgis, South Dakota from a 9,000 square foot building including a shop, 17 motorcycles and 17 years of history. It’s crazy, but brothers and sisters all over the country are moving to the Badlands. Jason Mook from Deadwood Custom Cycles made 13 trips pulling a trailer from North
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THE FUTURE OF HARLEY-DAVIDSON—The Freedom Machine must live on into the Future. We are reaching out to readers for their suggestions for the future success ofHarley-Davidson. We will collect notes and suggestions from brothers and sisters until we build a solid list of suggestions. Then we can share them with the factory. Let’s try to
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, fresh from the WhiteHouse and into the Bandit’s Cantina and ShopwornShowgirls’ Fandango here in the Trump Tower in Las Vegas…….DonaldTrump!! Let’s hear it for ‘im!! “Thank you. Thank you. You’re all terrific. Biden? Not somuch. But he’s not here. He’s in the 300 year oldextremely smelly White House… and I’m
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And no, they are not destined to take over the world. A brother in the Widows Sons riding association contacted Bikernet recently. David Dolph told me, “We are a Masonic Riders Association and a group of Master Masons who have come together to promote Freemasonry within the motorcycling community and help introduce motorcycling to our
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In 2007, BRP put its three-wheeled Can-Am Spyder on the market and sold 2500 units in the U.S. By 2015, it had sold 1 million units globally. In 2017, it estimated the U.S. three-wheel industry to be good for approximately 40,000 sales a year, and that industry includes competition from historic names like Harley-Davidson and
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Riding a powerful and dangerous machine is, let’s face it, in many ways a young person’s game. That, along with the fact that bikes are generally more attainable than cars and are relatively easy to store, makes them very popular among millennials. Yet misconceptions about young motorcycle collectors persist. As a millennial collector myself, I’ve
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