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Most folks kick back on New Years Eve and make plans to hit some lavish party downtown, or stand in the street in Times Square with 100,000 other freezing fools and scream at one old Dick Clark. That ain't the case at Bikernet.com. We huddled like so many football fans and developed an earth-shattering plan […]

Our Panel of Celebrity Judges.Okay, this is completely nuts. We've covered various seat installs, creations, leather etching techs, and now we have two seats built on Bikernet, so why not pick your favorite. I'll do my damnest, like these bullshit reality shows on television, to point out the various attributes of each seat and esteemed

Veteran Pinstriper and Kustom Paint Master, Alan Johnson, opened the 2008 spring bike season at his New Jersey studio by coloring outside the conservative lines with silver leaf on custom orange chopper tins, which belong to a dream build of Dave Stiteler. The term “old school” is casually thrown out in the kustom bike world

Like most people who ride, I never gave a lick of thought ta dealin’ with a handicap while still keepin’ yer knees in the breeze. That is, until last August, when my wife, Reggie, had a spinal cord surgery go bad, resultin’ in the loss of all feeling in her left side from mid-rib cage

Mike DuFresne was tired of eating rocks. They tended to clog up the breathing apparatus. And he didn’t want to sprint for the expensive transplant so he decided to throw something on the grille, something tasty but also functional. We’re not talking his lungs but the very expensive radiator cooling off his Harley V-Rod. The

When I first got the idea about this article for Cycle Source and now Bikernet, I thought I couldeasily do 10 tips in so manywords. After writing the article, I thought it would be better to go intomore detail and show more pictures. Sothe 10 tips will now come in Part A &B. I know

When I found out that Baker Drivetrain manufactured a new oil pan for 1993 to 2008 FLH Harley-Davidson models, I was interested. Hell, it held an extra quart of oil, so I installed one on my 2004 FLHTI. An extra quart of oil in the system is a sure way to lower engine oil temperature

In this poor economy people are VERY concerned about gas mileage. I recently laughed when a local kid with a truck asked me if I knew where to get a four cylinder import car. When 21-year-old kids are looking for a non-ego economy car, you know that gas is WAY too much. (I think I

The days of the 19th century kicker are over. Tired of using those old kick arms that flop back to the kick position every time you ride? Nash Motorcycle Company solved the problem. Developed and Patented by John Grant, these one of a kind kicker arms are like nothing seen before. Cast from a 174

I’m damn fortunate to have a hobby that I not only enjoy doing, but that people enjoy buying. I get to build bikes and sooner or later, someone comes around to purchase it, making it possible to finance yet another project. And so the vicious circle continues. Darren, the author, and the Kustom Fab shop