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  The Good Dr. Hamster rode his FLH over 200,000 miles before pulling it down for a Pre- Sturgis prep rebuild. It was time to dial in this puppy in from stem to stern. We are planning a FXR ride next year to the Badland, or to Bonneville, or maybe to a Too-Broke for Sturgis […]

Gunner to pilot – copy. Tail Gunner here:This month let’s talk about lowering blocks. Man I’ve tried them all, Pingel, Burly, and L.A. Chopper. They all do what they are designed to do, lower your bike. Most of them lower your bike one inch or more. To achieve this, almost all the manufactures move the

It’s funny how some projects seem to come about. Sometimes, you might get a glimpse of someone else’s work that inspires you to do your own thing. Other times, creativity hits and you get a clear cut vision of what a project can look like from start to finish. In this particular project, though, I

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,