Corbin Pacific Inc. is seeking an experienced CNC programmer/ engineering technician to join their team. Challenge your skill set and experience and apply at the world renowned motorcycle seat and accessory manufacturer, Corbin in Hollister, CA. PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITY/DUTIES: -Program, setup and operate 3 and 5-axis CNC machinery and works with engineering to develop complete machining processes to produce complex parts. -Program, setup and operate CNC turning center with live tooling. -Develops tooling and fixturing needed to produce complex parts. -Ability to switch from prototype to production work throughout the shift. -Reverse engineer existing parts to be modified or new parts hand created in R&D for machining on the 3 and 5 axis machinery, or to make drawings in Auto CAD. ...

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Custom Cycle Engineering offers wheel conversion kits to adapt any 19” or 21” Narrow-Glide wheel from 1977 to 2002* and spaces it out to fit a 41mm Wide-Glide front fork. With custom rotor spacers, axle spacers and an axle, any dual or single disc wheel can be adapted to any 41mm Wide-Glide fork. check them out. Advertisement

Brian Klock and Makel Juarez explain how to measure the height for 6.5" and 8.5" Flare™ Windshield for use on your batwing fairings. They use the new 2014 Harley Davidson as an example, but these measurements apply to all FLH (Batwing) and FLTR (Road Glide) models. Advertisement

How cool is this cat, posing on his flathead bobber next to his folks' ’57 Lincoln? He's the original dude with a 'tude... Never miss another white-knuckle ride with Bikernet; click on the banner below and we'll keep you informed with a daily reminder of what's going down on the site. Advertisement

    This brings us to Joe Sparrow.   Although on the road for 5 consecutive years now, Joe’s story began long ago… In 1979 a motorcycle accident laid Joe up in the hospital for two months. While there the profound realization came that life is fragile and could end at any moment. This revelation brought the realization that he’d better squeeze as much riding as humanly possible into whatever time there was left. But it wasn’t until1998 that things really began to change. CLICK here to read!    

Courtesy of American Motorcyclists Association The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has publicly acknowledged that ethanol in gasoline can damage internal combustion engines by increasing exhaust temperatures and indirectly causing component failures, the American Motorcyclist Association reports. The EPA statements are found in a rule proposal issued by the Federal Trade Commission regarding a new label for pumps that supply fuel blends high in ethanol. According to the EPA, "[e]thanol impacts motor vehicles in two primary ways. First ... ethanol enleans the [air/fuel] ratio (increases the proportion of oxygen relative to hydrocarbons) which can lead to increased exhaust gas temperatures and potentially increase incremental deterioration of emission control hardware and performance over time, possibly causing catalyst failure. Second, ethanol can cause ...

April is National Donate Life Month, and today happens to be Donate Life Blue and Green Day, a day set aside specifically to spread awareness about organ, eye and tissue donation and transplantation. J&P Cycles has a special connection to this effort as founder John Parham received a life-saving lung transplant almost four years ago. As you may recall, we shared John’s story from waiting for a lung to his recovery just a week after his lung transplant and his last update, a year post-surgery on the J&P blog. In the nearly three years since that last post, John has been busy promoting his love of antique motorcycles and the beautiful National Motorcycle Museum, located just a mile down the road from J&P Cycles. Since John’s retirement ...

Join Performance Machine for this year's Laughlin River Run at Edgewater Hotel & Casino! This is one of the largest motorcycle events on the west coast. Come see the historic US Route 66 and ride the hills from Kingman to Oatman, AZ. You can also cool off in the Colorado, or test lady luck at any one of the casinos located on the strip. Performance Machine's Big Blue truck will on site for wheel package specials, new products, and PM goodies to take home! Advertisement

We're not sure that these are vintage oil cans... Could there be something cool brewing over at Indian? How cool would it be to use these as containers for Indian T-Shirts?   Advertisement