1921 Harley-Davidson Banjo Board Track Racer Wins H-D Design Award
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com At the beginning of last week, bike maker Harley-Davidson announced it is holding a special online event dedicated to all those bike builders who were robbed by the health crisis of the chance of showing their creations in live motorcycle shows. Called The No Show, the Harley event brought together on Youtube and Instagram around 60 bike builders across the U.S., each showing and advertising their bikes the best they could. Of the 60, Harley chose three to be named winners in various categories - Media Choice Award, H-D Styling & Design Award, and Harley-Davidson Museum Award. As far as Styling & Design, the bike was selected and the crown was handed by Brad Richards, ...
Read More Bigtoe and Smalltoe, the Tallest and Smallest Motorcycles in the World
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by Elena Gorgan from https://www.autoevolution.com Size doesnāt matter, if youāre to believe some people. For inventor Tom Wiberg, size is everything, because he is the man who created the worldās tallest motorcycle and its counterpart, the smallest motorcycle in the world. June is autoevolutionās Two-Wheeler Month and we couldnāt celebrate it properly without talking about some of the two-wheelers that have written history. Enter the worldās tallest and the worldās smallest motorcycle, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records: Bigtoe and Smalltoe. Both ātoesā are builds from Swedish inventor Tom Wiberg, a man whose skillfulness is only surpassed by his creativity. Like most Guinness winners, Tom set out to create a new world record and spared no expense ...
Read More Harley-Davidson Mugello Was Not Bred for Racing, Would Look Great on the Track
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com/ Being the point of origin for some of the most impressive cars and motorcycles in the world, Italy has its share of famous race tracks. The Mugello Circuit (officially called Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello) is one of them. It is there where races from the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) were once held, and it is there where each year the greats in motorbike racing gather for the usual MotoGP leg. Owned by Ferrari, the circuit is also the main testing facility for the Scuderiaās Formula 1 cars. As far as we know, what the Mugello circuit has not seen is a Harley-Davidson motorcycle doing a run there. And it probably never will, even if builds ...
Read More NCOM Biker Newsbytes June 2020
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Compiled & Edited by Bill Bish QUOTABLE QUOTE: āIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.ā ~ Sun Tzu (544-496 BC), Chinese Military Strategist, authored āThe Art of Warā ABOUT AIM / NCOM: The National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) is a nationwide motorcyclists rights organization serving over 2,000 NCOM Member Groups throughout the United States, with all services fully-funded through Aid to Injured Motorcyclist (AIM) Attorneys available in each state who donate a portion of their legal fees ...
Read More Life-Size LEGO Ducati Panigale V4 R Shows Up on Modena Track in Surprise Outing
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com On June 1, as the perfect way to celebrate Childrenās Day, LEGO launched the plastic brick Ducati Panigale V4 R. It is the first-ever Ducati to be used by the toymaker for one of its Technic products, and it currently sells for $69,99. But that small-sized Panigale is not the only LEGO tribute to one of the most potent motorcycles in the Ducati arsenal. Another one, this time a life-sized replica of the original motorcycle, was to be seen on Friday (June 19) on location in Modena. The build is the work of a LEGO addict by the name Riccardo Zangelmi. The guy has been manhandling LEGO for ages, and his most recent products include ...
Read More Harley-Davidson Night Train Turns into Black and Red Fun Ride 58
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Over the course of its history, Harley-Davidson had a bunch of noteworthy motorcycle families rolling out the assembly lines in Milwaukee. The Softail bunch is one of them, and it presently comprises about a dozen models. But the Night Train is no longer one of them. Also known as the FXSTB, the Softail with this name first saw daylight in 1998, and was officially considered to be one of the finest examples of Harleyās low and raked machines. Customers didnāt love it so much though, and the model was discontinued about a decade later, in 2009. Despite having all it takes to be a good candidate, this particular Softail model doesnāt appear to be a ...
Read More Long Fork Harley-Davidson Chopper Has Fully Exposed Shovelhead Engine
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Because of the global health crisis, the world is missing out on all those extraordinary events it came to take for granted over the past decades. Since there is no end in sight to the scourge, weāll probably not be back together at auto or moto shows until the end of 2020. As chance would have it, the crisis came at a time when luckily we have alternatives. The Internet proved to be humanityās best friend in these times, and has also become the place to go for concerts, movies, and more recently motorcycle shows. Harley-Davidson, the supplier of so many motorcycles for custom builds that theyāre impossible to count, is currently holding an online ...
Read More An Interview with the MB Master
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Mario from MB Leathers in San Pedro. By Buster and Bandit with photos from MB Leathers Buster is a social media master, who works full time for Saddlemen seats. Heās also helping around the Bikernet/5-Ball nerve center and heās a major motorcycle enthusiast. Heās going to bring some of his connections to the Bikernet family. The first is Mario from MB leathers in San Pedro. Buster interviewed the leather master about his history and leather learning experience. CLICK HERE TO READ THIS INTERVIEW ON BIKERNET Join the Cantina - Subscribe Today https://www.bikernet.com/pages/custom/subscription.aspx
Read More Harley-Davidson Silverstone Is a Motorcycle Bumblebee
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com After talking for quite some time about the builds coming out a German shop by the name of Thunderbike, one can confidently say that once youāve seen one their builds, youāve seen them all. Based largely on the same Milwaukee machines, they are generally moving displays of German custom parts, a sort of two-wheeled billboard if you like. Yet these guys somehow manage to make each of these billboards look unique, and from time to time stunning. Like itās the case with the heavily modified Breakout displayed here. The bike is called Silverstone, and is one in a longer series meant to celebrate various racetracks around the world. Thunderbike calls this series GP, and weāve ...
Read More 1964 FL Panhead Is Todayās Dose of Old School Custom Harley-Davidson
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Ever since Softails have come onto the motorcycle scene, garages across the world flocked to use them as a base for whatever project they had in mind. That means most of whatās out there now is based on newer motorcycles that, despite being generally cool, lack the old school appeal of older Harleys. Take the 1964 FL Panhead in the gallery above. The FL is one of Harleyās historic lines, having started out in the early 1940s, and is generally seen as one of the best representative of the classic Harley look. Whereas custom bikes based on more recent Harleys are favorites of the present-day online media, older ones such as this one here are ...
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