Crank and Stroker is Back This brand went dark for a while — not by design, but because I refused to cut corners when everything around me was falling apart. When supply chains broke… when my personal life hit the wall… I shut it down. Because Crank & Stroker was never about hype. It was […]
STILL BUILT TOUGH and STILL BUILT TO LAST Read More »
This is a story from my heart, mind, and sole for my deceased husband, Harold R. Robinson Jr. Hal passed away 41 years ago. I like to think he went to a beautiful paradise and can read the following letter. He was a near saint and very deserving of all good. Hal was a very
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Check this video: https://youtu.be/nsv0y9lXnmQ?si=R9kIIJ1aDPLQHx2G Recently the proudly Woke CEO Zeitz claimed he would retire. Shortly afterwards a board member resigned and wrote a letter to the board, see below. Sales are down almost 25 percent and the company is in serious trouble. But we can’t let Harley die—that’s impossible! See the mission statement I wrote
SAVE HARLEY-DAVIDSON—We Can Help! Read More »
THE HISTORY OF DANIAL JAMES– Danial James is no stranger to the Motorcycle world or the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. When you see someone wearing a Vintage Harley- Davidson T-Shirt, odds are Danial James created and air-brushed the art. He designed t-shirt art for the Harley-Davidson factory for 17 years. “It’s cool to walk the streets
DANIAL JAMES ART–A lifetime of creative endeavors Read More »
The Twists and Turns throughout one of the Most Wild Years in our History A Transformative Year for Me, Bikernet, Sturgis, the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum, the Country and the World. An Amazing year with challenges and awards constantly. It’s been one of the strangest years of my life; worldly, wicked, perplexing, testing, stressful and transcending.
LIFE AND TIMES OF BANDIT 2024 Read More »
Most museums don’t make money. But they do make friends, educate folks, impart history, invite onlookers to learn about the area, share artifacts, educate and entertain. The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum could be and should be the most significant collection of motorcycle memorabilia and Sturgis rally history on the planet. It’s at the epicenter of freedom,
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A new blog by Demetris Koutsoyiannis Greek hydrologist Demetris Koutsoyiannis, who has been very active lately in publishing scientific articles about climate change and the greenhouse effect, has now also started his own blog. Here an excerpt from his introductory article: Our politicians, followed by mainstream media and a very wide audience, speak about “climate
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The Latest Make-Believe Solution To A Make-Believe Problem I know what you’re saying: “Well, you don’t know anything, you’re a ninth-rate hack writing for a website pandering to tenth-rate-humans: bikers. You don’t know anything and they know even less.” Hey, nobody knows less than me, pal. I think right there we can find common ground.
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It was 1982. I had just gone through my second divorce. I landed a new job at United Home Foods. They were a company that delivered a month’s supply of food to people who lived in the country. They had a sales staff who phoned people all over the state and sold them these monthly
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The bikernet.com staffers and their work-release crew of not-yet-paroled freelancers have been around the block, done some things, seen what can’t be unseen, but never in anyone’s memory have they tasted Harley-Davidson flavored liquor. Was this another attempt by the Motor Company to trademark the un-markable? Rather than a distinctive syncopated sound, was the
German Bike Builder Bottles Harley-Infused Gin Read More »
Today is Earth Day, a day on which we are taught to feel guilty about our allegedly destructive impact on Earth—above all from our mass-use of fossil fuels. But note that Earth, before we started impacting it on a large scale through the use of fossil fuels, was long a terrible place for the
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Author’s Confession: Originally assigned to write a road test review about the latest localized venture of Harley-Davidson– the reluctant rider and long-time collaborator did not seem to know where to begin or how to present it to a predisposed, unhappy American audience. Well, the product is good and the sales are well… Harley-Davidson
You had to ask: Harley-Davidson X440 Read More »
For as long as I can remember – which is getting to be a LONG time! – those of us who love riding motorcycles and have devoted a large part of our lives to preserving and protecting our way of life have been telling anyone who would listen that the enemies of motorcycling don’t just
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Editor’s Note: We’ve stared at wonderful boobs with longing and allure all our lives. We’ve become aroused by the sight of tender nipples showing through a shear blouse. We could be in the worst imaginable conditions, on a sinking ship, in a blizzard or a war zone, and the sight and notion of touching the
Science, Technology and the American Advertising Industry Saving the Earth, the Forest and your Butthole, one Sheet of Shit-Paper at a time. Charmin toilet paper has boldly altered the perforations that separate one “sheet” from the next, changing them from straight-line perforations, an example of which would graphically look like this, into CURVED perforations, resulting
THE CHARMIN REVOLUTION OF HUMAN RECTAL HYGIENIC DE-FECALATIAL BUTTOCKSICAL PROTOCOLS Read More »
As the world seeks cleaner sources of electricity, renewable energy is heralded for not burning fossil fuels to produce energy. However, wind turbines contain moving parts and they require lubricants to operate at peak performance due to environmental and mechanical pressures. The amount of oil used by a wind turbine varies greatly depending on the
How Much Oil Do Wind Turbines Use? Read More »
Before you ride ’em, you gotta buy ’em. Every time a new motorcycle model is launched there is another article with detailed “breakdown” and “comparison” between the new contender and the bestselling motorcycle in that market segment. They seem to believe that customers buy a motorcycle after reading these numbers and ticking the boxes
Fortunately for civilization there is a go-to way to stop a charismatic crowd-pleaser who says things the press doesn’t like: and that’s….. rape charges!!! If the World Health Organization and the Center For Disease Control had come up with an overnight vaccine for Russel Brand like they did for the most dangerous virus in human
RUSSEL BRAND GOES TO #1 AS THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR SACRED DEMOCRACY! Read More »
In 2020, scholars published more than 50,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change in almost 6,000 journals. A new study by Marie-Elodie Perga and colleagues looks at how these papers were covered by news media and reveals some profound biases in coverage of climate. There are still some excellent journalists providing good coverage of climate,
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Glorious pic curator Sam Burns sent these inspired from the Lunar Bunny Limited Edition Vespa Article. Have a blast imagining the possibilities on smaller wheels & bigger hearts. Race to the picnic or ‘bust’. LOL. Ridiculous Captions courtesy of your Blog Editor, Wayfarer@Bikernet.com Let us know if anyone you know rides
Scoot Over: A Pictorial Journey on & of Vespa Read More »
Well, just like a garage find project or entering a custom build project at the very last date, this article came into being. I wanted to round up and highlight one special thing from every month of year 2022. The Bikernet Blog is in a unique position to summarize Bikernet.com and 5-Ball Racing because
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BIKER LIVES MATTER held their first Accident Scene Management Course: The Bystander Assistant Program, “A Crash Course For The Motorcyclist,” at the American Legion Post 81 in Melbourne, Florida. Diane “DMAC” McLennan Accident Scene Managements Florida Lead Instructor taught the class. She is available to organize a class anywhere in Florida. If you
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HUMAN-CAUSED Global Warming Violates The “Established Religion” Prohibitions Of The First Amendment Do you know what I can do? I can “present the case” that the American-Government decrees regarding “human-caused global warming” is “the establishment of religion” by the government and is thus in violation of the Constitution. I know what you’re saying, “Aren’t you
Editor’s Note: I discovered this story on Common Thread the ZevZilla web site. I hope they don’t mind Bikernet sharing this with our readers. You should go to their site to see Ridley’s moving photos.–Bandit When the phone rang a couple of weeks ago, the voice on the end of the line sounded
Fear Rides with Motorcycling Photojournalist in Ukraine Read More »
