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Harley-Davidson Museum Exhibits To Showcase The Need For Speed ā€” Starting Friday!

The Harley-Davidson Museum is kicking 2016 into high gear this Friday with two special galleries. The Bridge Gallery will be host to flat track photos famed racing photographer, Dave Hoenig. The public will also feast their eyes on the revamped Design Lab with race bikes from the KR to the XR that showcase how Harley-Davidson engineers created the worldā€™s foremost racing team. The Museum will open late on Jan. 22 (10 a.m. ā€“ 9 p.m.) as a part of Gallery Night. Later this year, the Museumā€™s special summer exhibit will open June 17, with a special media preview day on June 16. Drag Racing: Americaā€™s Fast Time will give museum-goers the opportunity to trace drag racingā€™s humble back-road ā€“ and ...
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JayBrake Forward Controls for Baggers

JayBrake J-FL Forward Controls are machined from steel and billet aluminum. They mount directly onto the bike using stock mounts, pivot points and the master cylinder and fit ā€™09-up Baggers. Available in chrome or black, they mount to bikes with or without a highway bar and matching grips and pegs are available.
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Bikernet Event Coverage: 17th annual Fresno Toy Run

Ā    Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā Iā€™ll bet a lot of ya remember last year around this time when the picture of the big Hells Angel paying for toys at Walmart went viral, with millions of views world wide. That Hells Angel is Merl Hefferman, and the 17th annual Fresno County Hells Angels toy run was bigger than ever, thanks to Merlā€™s big heart and the hard work of his brother Angels, and other California clubs.   They collected donations all year, then stood in line at Walmart for several days to make hundreds of homeless and disadvantaged kids happy at Christmas. After buying the bikes, they also had to be assembled, and that chore was taken care of by ...
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Original Jackass Stunt

Stunts on a motorcycle are not a new thing. This one takes us all the way back to 1926. On this PathƩ News reel, we can see Fred Osborne, a strapping young lad jumping off a 200-foot cliff in Los Angeles. The plan was to jump off the bike at the crucial moment and open a parachute to land safely on Pacific Coast Highway. See what happens next.
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Mustang Seats At Motor Bike Expo In Verona

Mustang Seats along with a strong American contingent led by Mustang, KĆ¼ryakyn, Crusher, Bahn, Performance Machine and Vance & Hines will be attending the 2016 Verona Motor Bike Expo (MBE). Set for January 22-24 at the Verona ere facility, this international trade fair encompasses 880,000 sq./ft. with more than 600 exhibitors. ā€œVerona is one of the must-attend European shows for Mustang,ā€ says Director of Global Business Development Marilyn Simmons. ā€œIt gives us an opportunity to meet our riders as well as to personally educate, support and build even better relationships with Mustangā€™s dealers and international distributors.ā€Recognizing the importance of the Motor Bike Expo, Simmons is showing several new seats for the European market, including a pair of Signature Series saddles ...
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Bikernet Fiction: The Party to End All Parties

Invited were friends and members of Detroit Federation of MC Clubs. Inner city Detroit was beyond rough in the late ā€˜60s. A war zone of concrete and corrugated steel empty warehouses with interspersed with functioning businesses. The dirty pothole strewn streets, cluttered with debris, were dotted with greasy spoon restaurants and dive bars. Every building was wrapped with chain link fence and razor wire. It wasnā€™t rare to see burning abandoned cars or dumped refrigerators in the middle of cracked, tar-patched streets. The name Pothole City fit. This particular club house operated for years on the east side. The original rental agreement turned out to be bogus and the buildingā€™s ownership uncertain. No rent was paid for years, and no ...
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The Easyriders Bike Show Comes To Long Beach Tomorrow!

Kids' it' right around the corner now!Ā TheĀ Easyriders Bike ShowĀ is coming to Long Beach for one day only this Saturday. There's no better place to beat the winter blues, hang with a bunch of great builders and catch up with your riding friends. The weather is going to be great, so it's a great destination for a day rideĀ toĀ theĀ Long Beach Easyriders Bike ShowĀ on Jan 16 at the Long Beach Convention Center.  
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Rivera Primo Releases The Gear Ratio Game Changer

There are solid sprockets out there that eliminate your engine's compensator completely. Rivera Primo says don't do it! The compensator is there for a very good reason; eliminating it will ultimately bring you more engine problems. Rivera Primo has devised a sprocket that works with the OE compensator assembly and fixes the gear ratio, all at the same time! The stock sprocket has 34 teeth with a 46-tooth clutch basket sprocket. This gear combination doesn't give you optimal torque. Rivera Primo explains that its Game Changer sprocket has 32 teeth. Coupled with the stock basket, it gives you all the torque your bike will need to get out into traffic or do smokey burnouts. The kit includes an innovative "clip-on" ...
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Will Three Times Be The Charm For Buell?

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Thursday, Walworth County Circuit Judge Phillip Koss approved the sale of Erik Buell Racing to Liquid Asset Partners for $2 million.Ā The Grand Rapids, Mich., firm won the bidding for the motorcycle company that employed 130 people in East Troy until it ceased operations in April. It was the third auction for the Buell manufacturing assets after two previous auctions failed. Now, Liquid Asset Partners says it wants to develop a plan that could put Erik Buell Racing back in the business of making high-performance motorcycles.Ā "We will not be manufacturing motorcycles, as Liquid Asset, but we will be working to put together a plan with a team that can be successful in doing that," said Liquid ...
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HANG ON FOR THE NEVER-ENDING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for January 14, 2016

Hey, I have a major bitch, actually a couple, but I will attempt to stay focused on Freedom. I just donā€™t get it. What happened to freedom in this country. We all know how important freedom is for the soul, but safety, and regulation took over. How many times has this backfired, take the War on Drugs. Is it all about making money? Now the global warming/climate change craze is building agencies to control everything around climate fear. I just recently watched a climate report and the PHD said that perhaps 50 percent of climate change is caused by human behavior or fossil fuels, and the other 50 percent is caused by climate shifts. This is a shot of our ...
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