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THE DARKSIDE IS GROWING–Just updated my web.site still adding more pics and bullshit down the line – hope ya dig it
–Richiepan
S&S? ANNOUNCES BRISK SALES OF SERVICE MANUALS–LA CROSSE, WI (August 15, 2006) S&S Cycle announces a very successful first year of sales for its Super Sidewinder? Plus and Super Stock?/Super Sidewinder service manuals.
S&S is known as the leader in the high-performance aftermarket, producing engines of the highest quality, reliability, and performance to be used in a variety of custom motorcycles and as replacements for American v-twin models. S&S was the first aftermarket performance company to release an engine service manual. The first manual, for the S&S Super Sidewinder Plus engine family, was released in July of 2005 and S&S has sold more than 1387 to date.
“We recently sold our 1000th SSW+ service manual,” said S&S president Brett Smith. “We consider this a milestone in our history as the first performance after-market company to offer a comprehensive manual like this. We also released our Super Stock/Super Sidewinder (3-5/8″ and 4″ bore) manual earlier this year and this is closing in on 1000 copies sold very soon.”
The release of S&S service manuals coincides with the opening of the new Customer Support Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This facility houses the S&S Dealer Training & Certification Facility which provides training for technicians who wish to be certified at various levels on a variety of Proven Performance? S&S engines and components. On August 9, 2006, S&S also announced plans to provide training classes for consumers. In addition to training technicians and v-twin enthusiasts from around the world, S&S is also actively involved with many regulatory issues affecting the performance aftermarket. Providing service manuals is simply another step in the process of providing the best service possible to dealers, distributors, builders, and consumers of S&S products.
The Super Sidewinder Plus service manual, part #61-1000, is for the S&S 111, 117, and 124 cubic inch engines. The Super Stock/Sidewinder service manual, part #61-1001, is for the S&S 88, 96, 100, 107, and 113 cubic inch engines. The next service manuals to be released will include the popular SH-Series (shovelhead) and the T-Series (dual cam) engines. Consumers can visit www.sscycle.com to find an authorized S&S dealer or purchase these manuals online. The current suggested retail price starts at $20.95.
AVON TYRE QUESTION OF THE WEEK–Why do tires have a directional arrow on the sidewall?
The arrow indicates the direction in which the tire should be mounted on the wheel. When the tire is built the tread is joined with the tread overlapping in so that when the tire is mounted on the front wheel the braking forces acting on the tire keep the tread splice together and when it is on the rear wheel is it overlapped to work with the acceleration forces acting on the rear tire. See photo.
If a tire is mounted incorrectly a tread splice can result.
Sukoshi Fahey (Ms.)
Sales Manager, North America
www.avonmotorcycle.com
BIKERNET INVITED TO INTERVIEW STAR OF TALLEDEGA NIGHTS–We invite you to interview composer Alex Wurman, whose score to “Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” helped the film rev to #1 this weekend.
“Talledega Nights” reteams Wurman with director Adam McKay, with whom he collaborated on on another Will Ferrell box-office hit, “Anchorman – The Legend of Ron Burgundy.”
Betwen the ballad and the legend, Wurman provided the score to Warner Independent’s National Geographic Film “March of the Penguins,” helping this film without dialog take the Oscar last year for Best Documentary Feature. That film has been certified as the second-highest grossing non-large format documentary in history.
Please let us know if we may schedule an interview with composer Alex Wurman and send you an advance of his score.
–Tom Kidd
Costa Communications
HELMET-HOGS TESTED ON RUN TO STURGIS– Thanks for coming by the booth and testing the Helmet-Hog’s out on your ride to Sturgis- I hope they worked out well for you guys- I just wanted to touch base and see if I can get any feedback from you regarding the product. Also to let you know that we can silk screen logos on them as well, they might look pretty good with a bikernet logo, selling in the Black Market..
Scott Heames
Helmet-Gear, Inc
714-612-3320 cell
562-366-4348 office
They worked like a champ and will be featured in our Sturgis ride coverage. –Bandit
KIDDIMOTO JOINS RIDER FOR HEALTH–Kiddimoto has joined forces with Rider for Health and we’re about to launch a fund raising campaign. It will include a huge amount of PR and we’re getting many of the BSB, WSB, MotoGP and MotoX teams involved, along with motorcycle dealers, owners/riders clubs, biker meet pubs/cafes, bike shows (BMF, ManxGP etc), training schools, race circuits, trackdays, race club meets, tour operators, motorcycle magazine offices and any others you can imagine.
In essence, the campaign is to raise ?10,000 will be launched on 16th August, we’re using a fund raising chart and offering exclusive Riders Kiddimoto bikes as prizes. This is how the chart works? There are 100 squares on each chart. There is a simple question with multiple choice answers. Entrants pay ?1 per square and write their name, contact details and answer in a square. When all 100 squares are full, one correct answer is drawn as the winner. The winner receives an exclusive Riders Kiddimoto bike as their prize. As a thank you to the race team, dealer or whoever for managing and completing the charts, they’re entered into another draw and 10 winners are randomly picked. The winner receives a very collectable and rare signed Riders Kiddimoto – signed by MotoGP, WSB and BSB riders.
Send the reply form to: 30 High Street, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2AF or fax it to 01934 733654
–Steve
Cain & Abel Consultancy
Mobile: 00 44 (0) 791 637 1113
Office: 00 44 (0) 117 955 8197
E-mail: steve@cainabelconsultancy.com
Web: www.cainabelconsultancy.com
CYCLE VISIONS NEW HOME PAGE–Per our discussion, here is the revised homepage. Changes include an interior store shot, the addition there of a link to directions (will link to Yahoomaps), moved devil head up to next to logo, changed search for products for section to match what Harley has.
–Randy
http://cyclevisions.com
Cycle Visions….designs in motion.
Our mission is to earn your business!
Cycle Visions
4263 Taylor Street
San Diego, CA 92110
mailto:randy@cyclevisions.com
619-295-7800
619-295-7909
BIKERNET PRODUCT OF THE WEEK–I’ve bought a nice boat that’ll sleep six. If you’d like to go on a nice Gulf cruise, let me know. Attached is a photo of the boat. Took most of my savings, but, hey, you can’t take it with you.
–from Bob Clark
HELP A KID–Our fund raiser to help my nephew get a computerized leg is set for Aug 27th and I will be working the event along with lots of volunteers. I have been passing out the flyers to stores to hang in windows and attending bike nite events passing out flyers. Most people are willing to let me give them my speech about my nephews tragic accident and our efforts to help raise funds for him…others are just plain D_ck Heads and could care less…but I keep on plugging away.
But you know that running into a D_ck Head once in awhile makes you appreciate the good people you meet for sure! I think the event should be a good one. But don’t forget us here in Western Pa, as we want to organize more events and hopefully a large poker run. So any contacts that you can hook me up with would be great and much appreciated…:)
–Darlee (your bud in Pa..:))
“Darlee Eppinger” sheena1457@hotmail.com
TOMORROW’S CAR AUCTION–Bonhams & Butterfields welcomes you to our ninth annual auction at Quail Lodge in Carmel, California. This year we are honored to offer a stellar selection of the world?s most outstanding motorcars. The selection ranges from such sports and competition cars as the fantastically muscular big-banger CanAm McLarens, Porsches, Lolas and ?ever so slightly sinister? Shadows, to the golden sports-racing car beauties of the 1950s when the Italian-versus-British duel of Ferrari against Jaguar raged so fiercely. Road cars are represented by the exquisitely stylish French exotica from such elegant marques as Delahaye and Talbot-Lago, with the haute couture of stylist and coachbuilder Figoni & Falaschi blending a heady high-octane cocktail of pure aesthetics, style and beauty.
Bonhams & Butterfields hope to see you at our tent on the spectacular fairways of the Quail Lodge Resort & Golf Club.
Catalogs may be viewed online Location: MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT ATTORNEY COMES TO BIKERNET–I was wondering if I could submit a relevant motorcycle accident attorney toyou for inclusion in your directory. He would be more then willing toreciprocate if necessary and if there is a fee please let me know and I canrun it by him. The link information is as follows: Michael Padway – San Francisco motorcycle accident attorney –Todd Meredith BIKE DEAL OF THE WEEK– FOR SALE, ROLE MODEL CHOPPER, 96-INCH S&S MOTOR, 6-SPEED BAKER TRANS, H-D PRIMARY, H-D ELECTRICAL, CRANE HI4 IGNITION, BUILT BY ADAM CHANDLER ORIGANALS, FEATURED IN HORSE MAG. S&S POWER CONTINUES TO PERFORM IN NHRA RACING– LA CROSSE, WI (August 14, 2006) S&S? powered bikes once again showed their Proven Performance? this weekend at the NHRA Lucas Oil Nationals in Brainerd, Minnesota. Seven S&S-powered bikes qualified; Chip Ellis had the lowest ET and qualified #1 with a 7.082 @ 187.76 mph. This was Ellis’ fifth #1 qualifying effort this season and his seventh overall during his NHRA career. Of the seven S&S-powered bikes that qualified, four of them were in the top half of the field. Tom Bradford qualified in the #4 position with a 7.119 ET, Matt Smith was in the #5 spot with a 7.131 ET, Chris Rivas qualified #7 with a 7.141 ET, Ryan Schnitz was #11 with a 7.168 ET, Matt Guidera was #13 with a 7.176 ET, and Marco Andreano qualified #15 with a 7.194 ET. Ellis advanced to round two on his Drag Specialties/S&S Buell? but lost to Antron Brown despite a remarkable perfect reaction time of 0.000. Andreano, Schnitz, Bradford, and Smith joined Ellis in advancing to round two of eliminations on Sunday. Ellis is now #3 in the POWERade points, just 30 points behind Andrew Hines (#2) and 45 points behind the POWERade point leader, Antron Brown. Ellis is also leading the pack in the Ringers Gloves Pro Bike Battle. Schnitz and Bradford went on to the semi-finals and lost to Antron Brown and Steve Johnson. Brown won the race against Johnson with a 7.108 ET @ 186.85 mph. “Unfortunately we didn’t see one of the S&S-powered bikes win this weekend, but we competed favorably with the number of qualifiers and fast times against the Suzuki? and Harley-Davidson? motorcycles,” said Charlie Hadayia, Senior Manager of Racing & Customer Services for S&S Cycle. “We had seven teams qualify this week, compared to six teams at the last race, and once again Chip was in the #1 spot using the Proven Performance S&S engine. Tom Bradford also had the quickest pass this weekend in round two against Matt Smith. I’d like to congratulate all of the teams on their efforts this weekend, especially Ryan and Tom for advancing to the semis. It was also great to see Andreano advance to round two,” concluded Hadayia. Five of the top ten POWERade point holders this season are using the Proven Performance S&S 160″ Prostock motorcycle engine. There are five NHRA events remaining this season for Prostock Motorcycle. The next event is the O’Reilly Mid-South Nationals at Memphis, Tennessee on August 18-20, 2006. AUSTRALIAN DRAG REPORT–Here’s Gavin Cass’s twin cam during qualifying early in the morning. It has a stock swingarm, 8″ centerline wheel, as a 95″ made 135 hp on the dyno and ran 11.3’s on race fuel. Now out to 107″, lowered the compression so it runs on normal pump fuel. Makes around 120 hp now ran 11.77, 11.78, 11.78 on 11.75 dial in in Chicago shootout. Redlight on first pass ended his chance of taking home the marbles. — Bob Kotmel TEACHER TERRORIST ARRESTED–At New York’s Kennedy airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. “Al-Gebra is a fearsome cult, “Gonzales said. “They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like ‘x’ and ‘y’ and refer to themselves as unknowns, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, “There are 3 sides to every triangle.” When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.” –from Art Friedman
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