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Andrew Hines Wins NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Crown At Pomona

Harley-Davidson Screaminā€™ Eagle/Vance & Hines riders Ed Krawiec and Andrew Hines closed out the 2015 NHRA Mello Yello Countdown the Championship as winners and world champions. Krawiec rode a screaming-fast Harley-Davidson V-Rod motorcycle to victory in the Pro Stock Motorcycle Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif., and Hines successfully defended his NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle title and secured his fifth career world championship in the class. With Hines and Krawiec at the controls of the teamā€™s Harley V-Rod bikes, the Harley-Davidson Screaminā€™ Eagle/Vance & Hines riders finished 1-2 in the standings for the second consecutive year, and have collected eight of the past 12 NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle world championships. Hines clinched his championship with a win in the ...
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Bike Feature ā€” Andrew, The New Gun on the Block

Let's start the week off with a look back at one of our favorite bike features, in case you missed it. I have a high school partner who sweeps in and out of my life, like every couple of years. I get a phone call; we hook up for 15 minutes, share a few stories, and then he disappears. This time he showed up at the Bikernet.com Headquarters with some shots of a chopped Sportster and a story about a kid he met on the docks. ā€œWould you take a look at his bike?ā€ Larry St. Marie said. ā€œI think maybe heā€™s talented.ā€ Read more.
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Bikernet Book Reveiw — WAILING WALL: A Motherā€™s Memoir

Approaching middle age, Deedra Climer experienced an unimaginable tragedyā€”the death of her only son, Joshua, in a motorcycle accident. The spiral of grief that followed reopened ugly wounds that had never fully healed: being raised by a mentally ill and drug-Ā­ā€addicted mother, the struggles she faced as a young single mother, and the guilt from exposing her children to one toxic boyfriend after another. Stripped bare emotionally, Deedra is forced to face who she is and where she came from. In sifting through the stark pain of the past, she is finally able to piece together her own sense of self and begin to imagine an unburdened future. Read more.
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Bikernet Tech: LA CHOPPERS ā€œINFUSIONā€

Time for a Bagger ā€œInfusionā€ Custom make-over with LA Choppers new Fusion products.Ā So you want to make your bagger stand out from the crowd. There are hundreds of bolt on products on the market. Each one will transform your bike into a semi-custom with a small amount of work. Trouble is everyone else has already bolted on those products--now everyone is the same. But wait! A new challenger entered the ring. Read more.
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V-Rod Racers Andrew Hines and Ed Krawiec Both In Contention at NHRA Finals

The Pro Stock Motorcycle championship will be on the line when Harley-Davidson Screaminā€™ Eagle/Vance & Hines riders Andrew Hines and Ed Krawiec hit the drag strip this weekend at the 51st Annual Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif. The event is the sixth and final round of the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship playoffs. Hines arrives in Pomona in first place with a 46-point lead. Krawiec stands in third place, 83 points behind Hines. Krawiec is a three-time champ on Pro Stock Motorcycles. Hines, the defending Pro Stock Motorcycle champion, will be gunning for his fifth championship and would be the first rider to win five Pro Stock Motorcycle titles since the late Dave Schultz in 1994. ...
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VETERANS TRIBUTE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for November 12, 2015

Hey, Iā€™m a disabled Vietnam vet and so is our Performance Editor, Ray C. Wheeler. We have a lot of close brothers who are also disable veterans. My brother, David is also Cambodia veteran. I was honored to sit at a dinner table recently with my 93-year-old mom and Archie, a veteran from WWII. He was in Okinawa, when the Japanese surrendered. I was moved to know a man who was on the spot. I also recently read a book by the mother of the Redhead of Redheads, Alison. Her mom, Betty Bettencourt Dodds wrote a book, The McClelland Civil War Letters, after she discovered a passel of letters written by two young brothers to their folks after they left ...
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Bad Dad Long Strokes Exhaust

Bad Dadā€™s Long Strokes Exhaust Pipes are the right stretched pipes for your stretched bags. These chrome slip-on mufflers are angle cut and elongated to show the perfect amount of chrome from the back of your stretched bags. Bad Dadā€™s Long Strokes fit 1995 to current year Touring models and have a deep idle with moderate exhaust note that wonā€™t upset the neighbors but will sound as good as your custom bagger looks. Find all of Bad Dadā€™s exhaust options at http://www.baddad.com/products/Exhaust_Pipes or by calling 260.407.2000. All Bad Dad parts are proudly made in the USA.
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American Bad Ass Kid Rock To Take Main Stage At The Chip In 2016

In a message addressed to Sturgis Rally goes, Sturgis Buffalo Chip President, Woody Woodruff, announced that for the Chip's 35th anniversary in 2016, American bad ass Kid Rock, is going to perform on the Wolfman Jack Stage on Sunday, Aug. 7. ā€œKid Rock is one of my personal favorites and obviously most of yours as well,ā€ says Woody. ā€œIā€™ve already received hundreds of requests this year alone pleading with us to book him for 2016. Not only is he an incredible performer whoā€™s been nominated for five Grammys and sold more than 25 million albums worldwide, the guyā€™s got brass balls. As tens of thousands of you remember well, the last time Kid performed at the Chip he literally rocked ...
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KĆ¼ryakyn Alley Cat L.E.D. Fuel & Battery Gauge, Gas Cap

Styled to match their popular line of air cleaner kits and covers, the new Alley Cat Gas Cap and Alley Cat L.E.D. Fuel & Battery Gauge from KĆ¼ryakyn revamp fuel tanks with their aggressive radial design. Crafted from quality cast aluminum, both are available in chrome or gloss black finishes as direct replacements for a wide variety of Harley-Davidson applications. Easily monitor fuel and voltage levels with the sharp illumination of the Alley Cat L.E.D. Fuel & Battery Gauge. Light up your tank with the extremely bright multi-colored L.E.D.ā€™s that produce a highly visible battery voltage reading on the gaugeā€™s left side, with fuel levels radiantly displayed on the right. The gauge housing measures 3ā€ in diameter and is a ...
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Indian Motorcycle Sponsors Second Annual ā€œVETERANS Charity Ride To Sturgisā€

In celebration of Veterans Day today, Indian Motorcycle announced its sponsorship and support of the second annual Veterans Charity Ride to Sturgis. This marks the second straight year Indian Motorcycle will sponsor this very special event, which is focused on raising awareness and support for Americaā€™s severely wounded and injured veterans. The epic ride will depart Los Angeles on July 30, 2016 en route to Sturgis, SD and will culminate at the 76th annual Black Hills Rally. Over the course of the ride, the 15 selected veterans will experience some of Americaā€™s most scenic and iconic landscapes from the seat of an Indian motorcycle as an important part of their personal healing process. Several of the Indian models will be ...
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