Incredible,
The news is exploding. We’re rocking with material heading into Daytona. Projects are whipping along and more content is flying at Bikernet. I’m going to dive into the news. We started off this year with one project, Assalt Weapan for Bonneville. Now we’re in the middle of three bike builds, maybe four, noise issues, EPA, Hollister, a book project or two and Bonneville. Hang on. This year is going to be damn exciting and productive. Good shit is happening, just don’t fuck up-as my pappy would say.
Let’s hit the news. I promise to be more specific later:
360-BRAKE WILL DISPLAY IN DAYTONA–Sorry I haven’t been in contact my exalted leader. I have been sick as hell, and am just now starting to feel human again. It was great seeing you again and hope to see you in Daytona. We will be set up at Destination Daytona and I have been invited to the casting call for the Metric Revolution. That should be interesting, considering I’m taking my Shovelhead chopper….LOL
Your humblest of servants,
–Chet Burozski
Sales and Marketing Director
Baldwin Wilson Development Corp.
1531 E. Northfield Dr.
Brownsburg, IN 46112
W. (317)852-7867
C. (317)370-0920
F. (317)858-9287
www.360Brake.com
LABRIOLA SPORTSTER SUICIDE SHIFTER INSTALL ON BIKERNET–Yo bandit, I saw it today and am fucking thrilled! It’s all go-go dancers, beer and tequila from here on. Ah, the life of a world famous electrician, motorcycle enthusiast, world-renowned article writing bird-dogging’ split tail chasin’ motherfucker like me. I’ll let you know when I get the 5-ball on the bike. I also have a tach install in the works and am thinking about doing a springer front-end on it. I’ll have some fiction for you too. I’ll have some time on my hands as I have kidney surgery on marched 22nd.
I’ll let Dennise know that you want to talk about the photos when she sobers up. I’m doing the smoke out in NC. Let me know if you want an article on that. I’m also planning to go to Hollister in July, never been to California, I could do an east coast view on it and meet up and I’ll buy you a beer.
I also got an e- mail asking about the shift kit, I’ll refer him to Labriola’s web site. Networking is a beautiful thing.
–Chris
REPORTERS IN DAYTONA-“Charlie Young here from Atlanta. Also a part-time Bikernet.com vintage roadrace correspondent.” Charlie’s covering the race scene and interviewing Bikernet’s 5-Ball Racing legend Valerie Thompson. Rogue is covering the night life, Katmandu just had a birthday and will cover walks on the beach at night. Ken Conte is covering the best bikes and babes.
“I’ve attached a pic of the bike I’ll be riding for reference. Racing in class “Battle of Twins, Formula3″ (BOT F3)Green Kaw #798. It aint my FXR, but at least it’s a twin!…” Charlie said. “I’ll be runnin against the BIG Ducatis and Buell’s, wish me luck, I’m gonna need it!…but then again, I like being the underdog!”
NEW BUCKSHOT PROJECT–Just picked up a new project. I built it for a guy last summer. STD cases and STD outside oiler heads, S&S guts, polished 4 speed with Andrews close ratio gears, Primo belt drive with Rivera Pro Clutch. All the good stuff.
The first picture is the day I finished it last August, the second is last Saturday morning when I brought it home. (Yeah, he’s okay, but he’ll never be able to kick start a Panhead again.)
Ride safe,
–Buckshot
buckshotbs@comcast.net
NEW ART EXHIBIT FROM LARRY GROSSMAN–“Hot Pussuit on Route 66” what can I say. I just finished this picture last week and just printed it yesterday, so it’s hot off the press and now available on my website! This one started out with a photo I’d shot of my friend Natalie, who I ran into at a car show last year (she’s already in several of my pictures and I don’t think I need to explain why!).
I got her to sit on a bike for me while I snapped away. I wasn’t that crazy about the bike though, so I digitally built a new one beneath her from 4-5 bikes I’d previously shot. I also made some changes to her outfit like shortening her skirt! I shot the dump behind her near Antioch, CA and added a bunch of details, like a neon sign in the window that says “Heated Cess Pool”, and the Route 66 sign.
The rooftop sign I shot in Williams, AZ. All of the choppers are a combo of parts from pics I’d shot, as is the Mopar cop car, cop and the three men. The old town in the background is a portion of the Bodie (CA) ghost town I’d shot a few years ago, and the background scenery I snapped somewhere en route to Santa Fe.
–Larry Grossman
www.retrovisions.com
THE MOTORCYCLE MAGAZINE REPORT CARD– Thought you might be interested in seeing how the various Harley-oriented magazines compare in newsstand sale.
On a separate note, the last I heard is that KKR, the New York financiers who control Primedia, is asking for a billion dollars for the 70 magazines and 90 web sites they have for sale. I have heard a few publishing companies looked but have not made bid on any of the magazines.
The latest ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation) sales figures are in for the second half of 2006.
We were recently given a report which measures and ranks all 503 audited magazines (most of the best selling titles are audited) on newsstand sales as measured by dollars generated.
Here is how the motorcycle titles did:
Magazine–Cover price– Number Sold– Bucks
Easyriders– $6.99– 62,079– $433,932
American Iron Mag — $4.99– 69,048– $344,550
Cycle World — $3.99– 65,583– $261,676
Motorcyclist — $3.99– 51,211– $204,332
Sport Rider — $4.99– 39,524– $197,225
Hot Bike — $5.13– 31,389– $161,026
Transworld MX — $4.99– 30,616– $152,774
Racer X Ill — $4.99– 30,429– $151,841
Dirt Rider — $4.99 — 25,293– $126,212
Rider — $3.99– 11,004– $43,906
BikeWorks — $4.99– 4,842– $24,162
The following Harley-related magazines are not included on this list as they are not audited as part of the ABC program:
American Bagger
American Rider
Barnetts
IronWorks
The Horse
Street Chopper
V-Twin
— Buzz Kanter
We investigated further and asked Joe Teresi the boss of Easyriders: V-TWIN is audited and the combined Newsstand sales of ER and VT is 98,154.
–Joe Teresi
The smallest number Bikernet has to offer is the number of readers who come to Bikernet each month. In the short month of February 283,000 readers enjoyed Bikernet, for 565,000 visits, 1 million impressions and 10 million hits.–Bandit
BIKERNET PHOTO ART EXHIBIT–It’s bikeweek again…see ya’ll at the Ironhorse… I’ll be the one with the camera and the bottle of Jack.
Ride Hard,
–Whiplash Biker Photog
soffordphotos@comcast.net
NASHVILLE MOTORCYCLE SHOW COMING–Yo Bandit, I appreciate the rapid responses back from you, and am sure things get pretty crazy over at the cantina from time to time. I’ve been workin’ on a new show with a new station here in good ole nashville. The show’s my own brain child.
I was wonderin’ if you could find the time in your exhaust fueled coma, that all of us respectable hard core bikers walk around in, if you could take a look’c n’ let me hear what u think.
keepin’ the dirty side down,
–Gangster
On the Road with Broadway Choppers
(Shops, Bikes, and Featured Segments for first season)
1) Filmed at Mikes Bikes, Columbia, TN. featured bike, 2001 twin cam H-D dresser (salvage title), additional featured segment is an up close look at a Dyno Jet dynometer by two technicians from Dyno Jet.
2) Filmed at Music City Motorcycles, Nashville, TN. featured bike, 1950 H-D pan head (complete restoration), additional featured segment is a tour of Cyclemo’s Motorcycle Museum, Nashville, TN.
3) Filmed at Sucker Punch Sally’s, Cincinnati, OH. featured bike, special construction USMC tribute bike, additional featured segment is a tour of USMC base, and an interview with several active Marines in dress uniform.
4) Filmed at Fog Cycle, Kansas City, KS. featured bike, motor rebuild of director Bill Cosman’s H-D shovel head dresser, additional featured segment is a tour of J&P Cycle’s facility, Anamosa, IA.
5) Filmed at Bare Knuckle Choppers, Wright City, MO. featured bike, 1990 H-D dyna glide (salvage title), additional featured segment is a tour of Weld Wheels facility, Kansas City, KS.
6) Filmed at Sully’s Old School Customs, Centerville, IN. featured bike, special construction old school chopper, additional featured segment is an up close look at DuPont’s new custom paint Hot Hues by DuPont reps. Columbia, TN.
Season Grand finally show filmed at The Horse Back Street Choppers SMOKE OUT in Salsbury, NC. Where four of the six season’s project bikes will be presented to their proud new owners / raffle winners. Special guest celebrities from through out the season will also be on hand for the festivities
–Gangster.
fastbikesinc@aol.com
RAISIN BREAD COMES TO BIKERNET–A bakery owner hires a young female clerk wholikes to wear very short skirts and thong panties.One day a young man enters the store, glancesat the clerk and glances at the loaves of breadbehind the counter. Noticing the length of herskirt (or lack thereof) and the location of theraisin bread, he has a brilliant idea.
“I’d like some raisin bread please,”the man says politely.
The female clerk nods and climbs up a ladder toreach the raisin bread, which is located on thevery top shelf. The young man standing almostdirectly beneath her is provided with an excellentview, just as he surmised he would.
Once she descends the ladder he muses that hereally should get two loaves, as he is havingcompany for dinner.
As the clerk retrieves the second loaf of bread,one of the other male customers notices whatwas going on. Thinking quickly, he requests hisown loaf of raisin bread so he can continue toenjoy the view.
With each trip up the ladder, the young lady seemsto catch the eye of another male customer. Prettysoon, each male customer is asking for raisinbread, just to see the clerk climb up and down.After many trips she is tired, irritated and thinkingthat she is really going to have totry the bread herself.
Finally, once again atop the ladder, she stopsand fumes, glaring at the men standing below.She notices an elderly man standing amongstthe crowd, staring up at her.
Thinking to save herself a trip,she yells at the elderly man,Is it raisin for you too?
“No,” stammers the old man, “but it’s a quiverin’!!!
–from Rik Savenko
CAMPAIGN AIMS TO SPARE LIVES–21 bikers died in 2006 event; this year’s goal is to make motorists extra-cautious.Ludmilla Lelis | Sentinel Staff Writer Posted February 25, 2007Bike Week 2006 – Biker deaths Feb 25, 2007DAYTONA BEACH — With more than half a million motorcycles roaring into town later this week, it will be hard to miss Bike Week. But individual motorcycles and their riders may be another story.A Volusia task force, formed after last year’s event saw a record number of biker deaths, says too many drivers don’t see the motorcycles coming until it’s too late. Of the 21 motorcycle riders who died during last year’s Bike Week, nine were in accidents caused by a car or truck driver.Five motorcyclists were killed when vehicles turned left in front of them; three bikers were rear-ended; and one died when a van crossed the center line and struck him head-on, the records show.
That’s why the Bike Week Safety Task Force is trying to send a message to everyone who will be on the roads during this year’s Bike Week: “Look twice. Save a life.””One thing we always hear in these crashes is the motorist telling us, ‘I never saw the motorcycle,’ ” said Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Kim Miller. “They all assume it was the motorcyclist’s fault, but that’s not always true.”Bike Week, the annual motorcycle rally that started in Daytona in 1937, officially opens Friday and runs through March 11. Assuming the weather is good, more than 500,000 bikers will be cruising local roads and Interstate 4 to venues throughout Central Florida.
The Bike Week Safety Task Force — which includes bikers as well as local police, firefighters and tourism officials — says that sets up the potential to repeat last year’s death toll.Its campaign — already seen on six billboards, bus advertisements, temporary signs and fliers sent to local churches and homeowners associations — is aimed at local car and truck drivers, telling them what they can do to avoid collisions with bikers.
Their suggestions include double-checking blind spots, avoiding driving distractions such as cell phones or food, and leaving a four-second distance between your car and a motorcycle in front of you. And, of course, paying special attention to oncoming traffic before you turn.
Miller remembered one case in which a driver was preparing to make a left turn and saw a garbage truck coming. Yet, he said, he never saw the motorcycle in front of the garbage truck. He turned left — and the biker smashed into the side of the car. “Your eyes tend to scan for the largest object on the road, so a motorist may miss the motorcycle,” Miller said.
“All motorcycle riders are not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. You’ve got some fools on two wheels,” Colosimo said. “But we all need to be more aware and ride with common sense.”
–from Rogue
CHOPPER CHICK CREW BUILDING A BIKE IN DAYTONA FOR BREAST CANCER–The Chopper Chick Crew would like to invite you to the presentation ceremony in which we will donate the Pink Ribbon Chopper to The National Breast Cancer Foundation. The ceremony will take place on March 8th at approximately 7:00 P.M. at Daytona International Speedway in the Nextel Fan Zone, and will be followed immediately by a press conference.
If you need directions or additional information when in Daytona, please call Ken Conte of Rise Above Consulting on his cell phone at 970-227-3588.
EASYRIDERS COLUMBUS BIKE SHOW WINNERS 2007–SPECTATOR CLASSBEST OF SHOW.
1. RON CUPP DEFIANCE, OH 2007 CUPPS CUSTOM EVO
2 TIM FRANKS CHARLOTTE, NC 2004 HERITAGE
3. ROBERT MCKINNEY COLUMBIANA, OH 2000 HERITAGE SPRINGER
Antique/Old School
1. GREGORY HALL MIDDLETOWN, OH 1973 SPORTSTER
2. KEN CARR SHELBY, TWP 1963 DYNO
3. RON CUPP DEFIANCE, OH 1974 SPORTSTER
Specialty
1. DD CUSTOMS LAKEVILLA, IL 2006 CUSTOM
2. JOHN RYLE COLUMBUS, OH 2004 BAGGER
3. ARRGO CONLEY SANDY HOOK, KY 1947 RIGID KNUCKLE
Modified Stock
1. GREG BECKER DORSET, OH 2006 PAN
2. SCOTT DODGE DELAWARE, OH 1997 CUSTOM HARLEY
3. RICK GORE OREGON, OH 1999 NIGHTRAIN
Street Custom
1. CHRIS PRYOR WEIRTON, WV 2003 CUSTOM H.D. HARDTAIL
2. RICK WHITLEY TAMPA, FL 2007 EWD PRO STREET
3. GARY PAYNE WAVERLY, OH 2006 CUSTOM SOFTAIL
Radical
1. RON CUPP DEFIANCE, OH 1971 SHOVEL
2. ERIC WARREN TAMPA, FL 2003 EWD CHOPPER
3. JEFF GARVEY PARKERSBURG, WV 1997 H.D. SPRINGER
JUDGED CLASS
BEST OF SHOW
1. INDEPENDENT CYCLES EAST HANOVER, PA 2006 LO LIFE
2. TERRY KOHLER CINCINNATI, OH 2007 PRO STREET 300 SOFTAIL
3. STEVE BREWDUDE GARN WEST JEFFERSON, NC 1945 FLATHEAD
Editor’s Choice
DONNY LOOS MIAMITOWN, OH 1980 FLT
Best Display
DANIEL KEMP MASSILLON, OH 2003 SOFTAIL
Radical
1. INDEPENDENT CYCLE EAST HANOVER, PA 2006 LO LIFE
2. PHIL PASSILLA MEADVILLE, PA 2006 CUSTOM HARD TAIL
3. DARYL MC CABE YPSILANTI, MI 2005 SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION
Street Custom
1. JEFF COCHRAN MIAMITOWN, OH 1979 FLH
2. BILLY CARD WEST MILTON, OH 1989 CUSTOM SOFTAIL
3. STAN FLEMING COLUMBUS, OH 2004 V- STAR
Specialty
1. DEVILUTION CYCLES NEWPORT, MI 1951 PANHEAD BOBBER
2. BILL ARTH AUSTINBURG, OH 1957 SPORTSTER-CHOPPER
3. RICK MONTANI GREENFIELD, IN 1974 BOBBER
Antique/Old School
1. INDIAN LARRY LEGACY NEW JERSEY 1946 NICKELED KNUCKLE
2. DEVILUTION CYCLES NEWPORT, MI 1961 FLAT TRACK BOBBER
3. SUGAR CREEK MOTORCYCLES SPRING VALLEY, OH 1977 SPORTSTER
Modified Stock
1. RICH SCHWEITZER DOVER, OH 1960 PAN HEAD
2. ROBERT SMITH OXFORD, MI 2005 ROAD KING CLASSIC
3. JON KANE HILLIARD, OH 2002 SPORTSTER
PRO CLASS FINALISTS:
(All Pro Class Winners take a home trophy, and are invited to compete with their winning bike in Kansas City, MO at the Invitational Bike Show on May 5, 2007. Top 6 bikes from the Kansas City Pro Class Finals, will be invited to be a 2008 Easyriders Centerfold Tour Master Builder.)
COUNTY LINE CHOPPERS PHOENIX, NY 2006 RIGID SHOVEL
DETROIT BROS FERNDALE, MI 2006 SPECIAL CONST.
JAMIE’S CUSTOMS WATERFORD, WI 2007 LOW LIFE RAD.
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