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I couldn't bore you to death with only John's technical jargon. Here's a couple of his bikes and, of course, girls. We wouldn't have it any other way.Last week at a local watering hole, I overheard two Bikers debating whether to install a Single-Fire ignition on a new machine, that one of them was building […]

The stock tranny linkage cut to work as our brake linkage. A week ago I worked on the brake controls with some success. After fabricating a mastercylinder bracket and actually drilling the holes in the proper location, it wouldn’t work. I needed to turn the master cylinder upside down. I called Frank Kaisler to confirm

We're going to take you through this New BDL installation from start to finish. Generally belt drive installations are straight forward. There's a couple of key issues: The inner primary is your guide to a proper running, aligned belt drive. If it's square to the engine and tranny, all else is golden. This new drive

Laser Alignment-How it Came To BeThe following was written by Mil Blair, the co-founder of Easyriders, custom bike product designer since the '60s, Bonneville racer and now the designer of this alignment tool.Since '58, when I got my first real motorcycle, A '47 Knuckle I was amazed at how a bike worked. I lined up

David Covington's 103-inch Pan engine built by Berry Wardlow. The motorcycle show circuit has always been very competitive and it continues to be hot to the touch. The top builders in the country continue to show their new creations and young builders are building names for themselves. But we're not rowing that boat currently. We're

Illustration by Tim Conder. I'm attempting to build the ultimate handling chopper. It's not designed to be a show winning, bitchin looking, artistic masterpiece. I'm going another direction, attempting to build a righteous, old school, performance, handling, and reliable machine. No, it's not a Martin Bros job, and from an artistic standpoint I believe they

I've been riding and wrenching on Panheads since 1972 when I got my first 1950 EL. In 2000, I picked up a brand new Harley EFI Road King. I still have my old trusty ‘50 Pan but felt I needed a trusty cruiser to get me where I had to go reliably. I swore I

After the success of the Hot Bike/S&S Cycle 124-inch VFI Challenge project, S&S President, Brett Smith, felt it was time to form an S&S specific sportsman class in the AHDRA. The Sunday after the shootout in Earlville, IA, on July 10th, Brett called Craig Tharpe and Colbert Seagraves of the AHDRA with a proposal. They

DO THE DOO I'll admit it, I've been writing tech tips for three years and I'm running thin on new interesting topics that aren't too esoteric. In the attempt to elaborate tech topics, I've even stretched my vocabulary to include the mind numbing word “circumlocution,” Which, by the way, created quite a debate among the

This is Big Boar's custom battery of choice. It's capable of providing 350 Cold Cranking Amps in a relatively small package. The coolest bikes have always been the stripped down. Whether stock or custom, the less crap the better. So long as the engines weren't too big, or you were running a kick-starter, you could