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Click here for: Mudflap Girl Part 3, the Bandit Engine Completed  Suddenly we’re smoking on the Mudflap Girl FXRs, but the week after I received the frames, I had to jump a plane to New Orleans and ride a Victory to the Smoke Out. I was itching to work on these bikes. I survived the […]

 When Jeff Najar, President of Biker Pros, asked me to step in for him at the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show in Minneapolis I had no idea that I would find a set of pipes that would blow me away… Dana Hallberg of Deadline Customs was rocking a 2010 Road Glide with a set of

We have a code around the Bikernet headquarters, but it has a performance additive. We don’t build custom bikes with straight pipes anymore. We have never been big straight pipes fans. They were designed for wide open on the drag strip, and don’t idle for shit because of a lack of backpressure. Low end tuning

Baker kicked off a new program recently, and it’s a program that can be delivered to a shop near you. It’s their Whistle Stop Tour seminar series. They come to a shop near you and afford local riders and mechanics the opportunity to discuss anything from gearing and overdrive transmissions, to new Baker Products. In

It’s that time again, Tail Gunner here, it’s time to take a look at yourself, so to speak,This month I’ll be looking at the Fast Lane Mirrors from Wicked Image. These mirrors are designed to replace your OEM bat wing faring mirrors. The manufacturer says they are designed to fit ’96-’11 FLHT & FLHX. They

Well, I finally got a wild hair and decided my old Softail needed a little something extra for Sturgis this year. For the past couple of years I’ve attended about two dozen or so bike and hot rod shows. I’m always on the lookout for talent and possible paint schemes for the bikes. That’s when

Here we are again. Life is nuts. About the time a good plan takes place, an ugly obstacle rears it mercurial head. That’s people. Danny, the lucky individual who we are building this bike for, flaked on us twice. Okay, so he’s an educated youngster with an ol’ lady, pushing for wifedom, a single baby,

This is a totally oblique project for the Bikernet crew. For 10 years we worked with Ed Martin of Chrome Specialties. Ed owned the Jammer product line, and was the first guy to build today’s hot bobbers, tight and right. He hooked up with Custom Chrome and sold the Jammer name to the bros in

Hey, this is going to be an earth-shattering episode in this build series. I know, you just want to see progress. You want to watch the staff of Brass Balls Bobbers & Choppers build you a killer bike you’re going to win, snatch up at the Smoke Out 2011 in Rockingham, NC, and ride like

Tail Gunner here, This month I thought I would go to basics, Hand Grips. Probably one of the most changed and least talked about items on your bike. There are literally hundreds of grip manufactures. Most are purely aesthetic, some are functional, it’s all up to the rider and what they desire, looks or functionality.

There’s nothing so good it doesn’t bear improving. I aim that statement at owners of 2009 and upward Harley-Davidson touring motorcycles. Certainly, in 2009 when the Motor Company came out with their new frame, the first for the tourers since 1980. By today’s standards, the bikes back then were underpowered slugs and therefore not ridden

There’s an unwritten rule in the Code OfChrome that says, if you slip a set of highbarson any motorcycle you save it from mediocrity.There’s more, an evil punishment for this oftenillegal gesture towards the rebellious arts. Assoon as the unsuspecting rider throws his legover the saddle and reaches for the tall grips,his sideburns expand down

KENTUCKY Tobacco. Brown, rolling tobacco. Potholes, cops, tobacco. Thesplit in the fuel tank is significant now and my long-range bomber’s distance has been curbed from a solid 220 miles per tank to 190. I am leaking fuelnon-stop as I sweep down the highways, running 100, letting the semis fardown the road break the radar waves.

STURGIS 2000, THE LONG WAY HOME SOUTH DAKOTA As I rolled out of South Dakota, I day dreamed about what it wouldbe like to own a rubber mount with a windshield, a cushioned seat and a frontbrake. We all fantasize from time to time and this was my fantasy. Suddenly Icould see red and blue

I was hammering around town when the hail hit. Nobody can ridethrough hail. At least nobody who buys their own paint jobs. Stopping on the shoulder, I pulled out my rain gear and tried tolean over the tank, to keep the hail from ruining the $1,000 color thatEddie Meeks from Hardly Civilized in the Carolinas

TENNESSEE I rolled Tennessee on the second or third day. I’d lost track ofthe days, the weeks, even the year. Everything was a seamless flow connected by anetwork of glistening August asphalt and flashing dotted lines. The way itshould be. I swept through the Tennessee mountains, climbing, climbing. Theview was stupendous from the Great Northern

From left to right: Bandit, Mad Myron and Special Agent Zebra, Spearfish, South Dakota, Sturgis 2000 MIAMI, FLORIDA “What you’re trying to do is a felony,” the DMV cunt behind thecounter told me bluntly. A rule-crazy jackass, practiced at spouting outby-the-book bull crap, the sorry bitch was clearly taking delight in being able to turn

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Editors Note: The following was sent in via e-mail by Bikernet reader Mike Hahn. We’d liketo share his story with you. We particularly appreciate the fact that Mike cooked thisbeast up in his dining room…. The only question we have is, which wine is bestserved with a rigid? Dear Bandit, Thanks for the quick response

Some 90 percent of all breakdowns are attributed to electrical problems. So, if you’re a hardcore maniac, an electrically challenged individual, or a bastard who likes to keep his scoot as clean as possible, here’s the unit. The company that developed this invention builds a handful of quality parts, Custom Cycle Engineering. They show up

Brought To You By Ever wondered just how far you can go with a Harley basedcustom??? We have, and judging by the phone calls and show requests,a lot of others have, as well. Maybe the easiest route would be tobuild a ground up, with all aftermarket parts, but there arethousands of Wisconsin built bikes out

This has been a strange yet comfortable project. Severalmonths ago we installed a Screamin’ Eagle cam, the H-D race headersystem and a new ignition, and modified the carb. We added chrome rockerboxes to enhance the appearance. In the meantime, Paul Davis fromCharlotte H-D, Anson from the Deep South and a couple of othercontributors have been

Sugar Bear with Bikernet’s Layla at Easyriders Show.We’ve met all sorts of guys through the years whobuild bikes. Some found a niche and stuck to it–likeSugar Bear. He started building his own front ends’cause he couldn’t pry one from the fingers of thefamous Dick Allen. Sugar Bear grew up in Los Angeles,hanging out at shops