It all started when my mother ran over my metal- flaked Honda 55 Super Cub with a single shotgun pipe. She stormed into our tiny stucco house in Long Beach and announced, “Get that damn thing out from under my car.” Her car was a massive ’59 Ford station wagon. It was 1964 and I […]
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The annual Arizona HOG Rally recently returned to the historic mountain settlement of Williams. The event moved around the state from year to year, but Williams is a HOG favorite, having returned to this northern Arizona town for a record tenth time. Founded in 1881 as a trapping and logging camp, Williams is named after
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Today I’m going to becovering on your ride, how to see things better — and more importantly —how motorcycle light bulbs can help you see and be seen better. But in order todo that, I’m going to have to toss around a few electrical terms. You know,like watts and volts and amperage. Wait! Don’t hit the Back button,because I’m going
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Author’s note:This event took place sometime in the mid, or maybe late, ’90s I think. To date (2009) I still maintain no permanent address and have stayed nowhere longer than two months. * * * The motorcycle rally in Daytona, Florida had been a good time but it was over now. It was still early
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Samson Exhaust is proud to introduce their new Powerflow II series of exhausts which feature a performance enhancing 4-stepped header system with 4” mufflers. These 2 into 1 exhausts have a slight up-sweep so riders can be aggressive while canyon blasting without worrying about dragging your pipes and ruining the looks of your exhaust. With
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Yet another true solid professional is to be found in Jason Ferguson. He will do the actual building of the Bikernet/Cycle Source Giveaway Chopper, sponsored by Xpress, frame, designed by Jason and Gary Maurer of Kustoms Inc. As a second generation bike builder, Ferguson caught the bug at an early age. He grew up around
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OK, you’ve definitely got some choices ahead of you when it comes to hopping-up your engine. And since the most popular and cost-effective plan is to swap the stock cam, carb, ignition, and exhaust components with high-performance aftermarket items, the combinations seem endless. Well, aside from the business of choosing the right setup, there is
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Incredible. It’s been 15 years since we kicked off Bikernet.com. I had the audacity to believe someone might be interested in this history of an eternal search for freedom, the illustrious custom motorcycle holy grail, and the perfect woman. And since we had so many variations of our George Fleming-induced, 15th anniversary logo effort, I
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Continued from page 2…… With a couple weeks left, I called Joker Machine daily. I didn’t want to press, but I was going out of my mind. My contact, Geoff, had faced some health problems and decided that smoking was his cure. I didn’t want to add to the stress of building high-precision, very costly
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Back to : Mudflap Girl Part 1a Okay, you have the story behind this build, and Chris Kallas is refining the concept drawing. My engine arrived from the factory, and Eric Bennett immediately noticed the return address, in Viola, Wisconsin. As it turns out, the factory hired the S&S crew to assemble their Evo
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Ultimate Builder United States Championship in Daytona Beach, FL The Ultimate Builder United States Championship of Custom Bike Building is held at the Daytona Progressive International Motorcycle Show during Daytona Bike Week, March 9-12, 2011. This elite competition crowns the definitive national champions in Free Style, Modified Harley and Performance Custom. The
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Australia has started a love affair with Victory motorcycles and after only two years they are the second highest-selling cruising motorcycle in the State of Victoria, where the first company store was opened about two years ago. At present their Melbourne store is the number two dealer in the world, but it is expected that
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Click on the photos to make them BIGGER! Prolonged immersion in the vibrant andintensely creative universe of classic cars and custom motorcycle is bound toleave a pretty profound mark on anyone. Take for example Chris Richardson, theowner and builder of the magnificent Knucklehead showcased in today’s BikernetBike Feature. Chris was touched early on by
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One of the most commonly asked questions we hear at Delkron is: “If I use these parts what will my engine’s compression be?” This seems to be one of the most misunderstood areas of building a performance engine. In this short series of articles we will discuss both types of compression ratios—Mechanical and Corrected—and how
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Bikernet started to work with Terry and Dana Lee of Envy Cycle several years ago. We discovered a low-key, highly talented builder on the edge of the desert. We started to feature his highly detailed customs, always with a mechanical edge. We like that. Last year, Terry mentioned he was building 1979 750-cc, 10th
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The nerves started the moment Mark Singer rolled his Bonneville into a slot beside a rusted-out Chevrolet Impala and a ramshackle Ford truck, and shut off the engine. He could hear the band pounding away through the dirty, stucco walls of the Tijuana night club. The song sounded something like “Born To Be Wild,” but
The author, his motorcycle and his job for a week.Early may sunshine gently warmed formerly frozen pavement as the old Electra Glide made its faithful way along the small, secondary South Carolina hwy. Dressed in only boots, Levs and thermal shirt, I relaxed into the finely forested scenery that lined either roadside. It was a
A two-wheeled tribute, to the life and times, of the Black Hills Rally, is also a homage, to a man’s vast talents, with a camera. The hard-bound book is 10.25 by 10.25 inches and contains 168 pages, of heavy glossy stock, with a forward by Peter Fonda. Each image is handled, as if fine art,
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Choppers Inc is a no nonsense, no bullshit shop. No catalog parts, no walls full of chromy crap, no racks full of the latest leathers. It’s a shop chocked full of cool gadgets, their own line of shirts and apparel and their super cool and original six gun parts (all patented designs). It’s a shop
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I was wet, cold and tired as I rolled the shovel into the bowels ofHell mknown as the south side of Detroit to find the elusive metal smith thatpeople call FabKevin. I was thinking what kind of person could cause thiskind of stir in the ol’ skool chopper community; I mean he wasn’tproducingfancy chrome shiny
Our Caribbean reporter was recently blessed with the opportunity to ride to Sturgis from the east coast with Billy Lane, the creator behind Choppers Inc. Billy and Jose partnered with Roger Bourget for a Discovery Channel adventure to build a couple of bikes and tear up the streets between the east coast and the Badlands.
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Ya know, sometimes the term Otherside has a mysterious connotation, like when somebody’s draggin’ in their last breath, and they croak, “See you on the Otherside.” Sometimes the grass is greener on the Otherside of the fence. Sometimes, it refers to good versus evil. Sometimes it’s just the side ya can’t see.When my bro, “D”
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We’ve all been there, out for a ride when the skies open up and it begins to rain. Now imagine, you’re on a country road with the oil and grease from several days of great weather bubbling to the surface. You know you’re going faster than you should, but what the hell. It’s been a
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We need you to pay attention to this article.In the last segment Chris Maida, the editor of American Iron, told you what can happen to your motorcycle business and/or personal custom motorcycle due to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new and past emissions rules and laws. He talked about how one rule covers the restrictions
