Tech

Hold the presses, our super popular 1″ Shorty Risers are now available in a bad ass black finish!!! These bare bone beauties are nothin but raw, hardcore puuuurrfection! The shorty risers feature a slammed 1″ rise with 1/2″x13 threads. If you have been searching for a unique bare bone finish for your front end, the […]

Afterour previous blog posts about extending your motorcycle cables and brake lines,and another about measuring for comfortable bars, we thoughtit’s about time to take on the topic of cables all by themselves.  Harley Throttle Let’sstart with HD throttle cables. Inthis modern era we use a two-cable system, something that was mandated by thegovernment to preclude sticking

There’s a wild air cleaner from Paul Cox. I’m going to say, and I might be off base, that most carbs are rebuilt for a couple of reasons: either they sat too long, sucked bad gas, or ran without an air cleaner too long. I would venture to guess that most carbs on custom bikes

NEW REV TECH 4 BY 4 ENGINE–The engineers and technicians at RevTechÆ went back to the drawing board to create our next generation 100-inch engine. We studied the latest technology, combined that with expertise gained on the first RevTech, 100 project, and got down to the task at hand. The goal was simple; create the

Imagine this: You are out on the road, in the “middle of nowhere” and suddenly you find yourself in a tire crisis. Now picture yourself on this road, in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but nothingness surrounding you. In fact, this stretch of road is approximately 50 miles away from the next service station,

Editor’s Note: the Editor of Cycle Source Magazine, Chris Callen, graciously contributed The following tech tip. Published in his magazine, back issues might be available through his staff. Click on the banner below for more info on Cycle Source Magazine. We appreciate this classic tech.–Bandit There are so many mass production custom parts available in

Editor’s Note: the Editor of Cycle Source Magazine, Chris Callen, graciously contributed The following tech tip. Published in his magazine, back issues might be available through his staff. Click on the banner below for more info on Cycle Source Magazine. We appreciate this classic tech.–Bandit There are so many mass production custom parts available in

This tech was stolen from this book by Tim Remus. We couldn't steal the whole novel, so you can buy the whole sizzling enchilida at the end. Ready to cook up something for your next Chopper project? Let’s hit it.The wheels and tires you put on your bike have as much to do with the

When ya need to get away quick, and ya can't rely on your kicker, here's a solution. We all look for advice and experience where we can get it, right? Here is another tech by one of our faithful readers who took it upon himself to improve on an earlier design without breaking the bank.

This chapter covers the final elements of installing the cam case gears, the top end, the pushrods, rocker boxes then hot testing the engine and packaging it for shipment back to your dealer. Let's get rolling.Here's a Link to Part I, for reference: Part I, H-D Reman ProcessHere's a Link to Part II, for reference:

We head into Kerry's Head Works Shops for this next segment. Here's a link to the first Chapter, in case you missed something: The Reman First Chapter This weapon gauges the bore in the head after the valve guide is removed, to determine the guide size needed during the Reman process. Us old builders avoided

Hey,This is a quicky life-saving tech. One company makes wheel spacer kits. If you don’t have a lathe or one next door, you’re fucked when setting up new wheels or a new bike project. Doherty is a sponsor of 5-Ball racing, and here's a Doherty Wheel Spacer on our 1940 Bonne Belle Flathead. You will

There’s a rumor that over one million Swingarm Shovelheads still roam the highways. I say, “Bullshit.” Let’s count ‘em. That’s beside the point here. Ben Kudon, the marketing directors of Rivera/Primo came up with this hair-brained scheme. “Let’s fix all Shovelheads,” Ben said. “We can do it for a decent price and give Shovelhead riders

Bikernet was faced with an interesting challenge recently. We try to help anyone and everyone in the industry, so when a starving bike builder came to us, because he couldn’t pay the rent, we reached out. He had a 1998 Dyna Glide basket case and needed to sell it quick. We made it available to

“Heel Hammer” Shift Levers (patent pending)There’s this monster of a madman in New Mexico who came up with this heel/toe shifter for custom applications. At first I thought, “I’m an outlaw, building a rigid. What the fuck can I do with this?” So it hung around a year, just shinning on one bench or another.

We caught up with Nick just after Daytona Bike Week 2007. “It was way down,” Nick said of the attendees, “But our new products got a lot of attention.” Since it was a blast of new stuff we decided to give them their own feature and Nick promised to send us more as they come

I fucked up, but that’s not out of the ordinary. I’ll cover a couple of oblique building philosophies in this simple tech. Choppers are rolling art in a constant transitional stage. As soon as I ride a rumored completed bike, I discover shit I want to improve on. In this case the seat, to name

Editor’s Note: We mentioned in the Thursday News that we are about to launch a seat pan tech performed at the Bikernet Headquarters with MC Advantages molding kit. As it turned out a brother Joe Zanelli, our connection at State Line in Nevada read the article and mentioned it to his wife Shirley, who makes

Jesse Jurrens calls the Lowlife Chassis Kit the “next generation of custom motorcycles, a ground-breaking package for anyone seeking something slightly to the left of insanity.” He could be right. Take a look at what Tank Ewsichek did with this package. It’s the base for one of the bikes on this issue’s cover and on

These girls voted in favor of detailed wheels and sex with each other. I pulled up in my automobile to a stop sign recently and looked at the motorcycle next to me. The chrome was polished; the paint just waxed, every thing looked great except for the wheels. They were cast aluminum and had black

There I was on the shores of Australia riding on the left side of the road, with Glenn Priddle, and wondering how to turn. The highbar Evo Road King rumbled along the curvy roads like butter. We cruised along the same cliffs Captain Cook gawked at as he pulled up to Noosa, on the Australian

Roger, with his bike, on the salt in 2006.We’ve been scrambling on our own 2007 Bonneville project, but a note burnt brightly on my Panhead desk, “Call Roger Goldammer.” I’ve known Roger and respected his craftsmanship for years, but we experienced the salt together last year and again I was impressed with the level of

“Back to Basics Bagger” After over two decades in the motorcycle industry I decided it was time to go back to the roots of customizing. Over the years I have gone from bolting on items to stock motorcycles to taking the stock bike and cutting up the frame stretching and raking pulling motors apart rebuilding