It’s Thursday and half the world is on the way to Sturgis. Jose is reporting from the Badlands already, from his Caribbean Custom Cycles Mansion. The Hawaiin Choppers only contingent flew into LA the day before yesterday, grabbed their bikes and jammed. They’re already in Wyoming.
Bikernet staff is in the doldrums watching all the hordes of riders hit the road, but we’re still cranking out the action. This week we’ll cover the Strokers Dallas building handmade pipes for the 1928 Shovelhead, road testing jeans and a new King Oil Cooler, Hollister will fly, The Ventura Antique swapmeet is being edited, there are two new techs up from Custom Cycle Engineering. And I need a cup of coffee–let’s get to the news:
NEW CLUB SEARCHING FOR BIKES–What’s up my name is terrell and I just started my own bike clubwith my brother anda couple of close friends, the only problem is we have 14 bikes and 22members and were having trouble findingbikes that are worth buying.If you can help me out, then I would be very thankful(on a side note were looking for 750, 900, 1000 and 1100 cc units).
— Terrell Beverly.
TerrellBeverly@yahoo.com
THE EDGE ALERT–It has been a while. The Smoke Out was a huge success this year. Everything planned happened ? and on time. It is way easier to plan being in the same place as the year before. We had over four thousand people on Friday and over six thousand through the gate on Saturday. More importantly the thing was just fun at every level. I got about three hundred e-mails from people saying they had a good time with only two complaints. I?ll take that any day.
I am still cleaning up some stuff from the last one and already planning the next one, which is a lot more pleasant with everyone is in a good mood. Next year you (and Layla) have to be there though. You were definitely missed.
The Run for Breath was this weekend and your trophy totally kicked ass. I saw your write up of the construction on Bikernet and it even kicks more ass in person. Anyway, I just wanted to drop and line and stay in touch since it has been a while.
–Edge
Randy Smith, the late founder of Custom Cycle Engineering. We miss him.
CHECK THE CUSTOM CYCLE ENGINEERING TECHS ON BIKERNET–In the last couple of days we posted the lengths of various stock fork tubes. The info was supplied by the builders of stock and extented tubes for all Harleys–Custom Cycle Engineering. This will help builders trying to figure out what length to buy.
Second, they feel strongly about raked triple trees and we posted their feeling in a second tech. It’s worth checking out. It also shows you how to check your rake and trail.
ERATIONAL CRIME NEWS–Employees of the Durham, North Carolina, Federal Savings Bank became alarmed when they saw a man in sweatshirt with the hood pulled tightly around his face pounding loudly on the front door. Was the door locked? Nope. The man was trying to push the door open, not seeing the PULL sign on the front door. The unidentified man was linked to another attempted robbery in Durham, with the same MO. The robber had failed at that attempt also when he attempted to push open a pull door.
A woman walked into a Durham, North Carolina bank and tried to cash a check. The problem was that the check was not made out to her or any other person. It was made out to the Tension Envelope Company, and the woman claimed to be Mrs. Tension Envelope. The teller quickly called the police and the woman was arrested.
A similar check-cashing attempt occurred years earlier when a man handed a clerk a company check and claimed to be Mr. Roadway V. Express.
BIKE TOURS IN AFRICA–Hi There , I thought you may be interested in the various tours that we operate in the Western Cape region of South AfricaThey are very different from the norm and most riders from novices to the well experienced enjoy the rides immensely as trails are quite unique and tailor made for exploration ,skills improvement ,team building and priced as excellent value for money. In addition, we can organise trips to areas less travelled in the name of Adventure Tourism.
Please therefore look at the web site and contact us for more info ; maybe you could post a link for us
Regards
Brian Pickering
Brian Pickering BIKERNET EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT–A college professor was doing a study testing the senses of first graders, using a bowl of lifesavers. He gave all the children the same kind of lifesavers, one at a time, and asked them to identify them by colorand flavor. The children began to say: Red…………cherry,” Finally the professor gave them all honey lifesavers. After eating them for a few moments none of the children could identify the taste. Well,” he said “I’ll give you all a clue. It’s what your mother may sometimes call your father.” One little girl looked up in horror, spit her lifesaver out and yelled: “Oh My God!!!! They’re assholes!” –from Chris T. BIKERNET DISCOVERS CURE TO RECLUSE SPIDER BITES–Check out this site. May come in handy one day. It was a similar Native American Formula that removed the Brown Recluse spider stinger from me. I had something on my finger that at first appeared as a blister then it turned into a seed type of thing. I started using Miracle 2 on it and finally got rid of it. I didn’t use it long enough the first time and it came back. It appears to be totally gone now. The M2 daily applications, three times a day finally brought it all out. It was like a tumor. –Kit –old shot from Bob T. A BIKERNET RELIGIOUS MOMENT–On the first day God created the cow. God said, “You must go to fields with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a life span of sixty years.” The cow said, “That’s a kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty years and I’ll give back the other forty.” And God agreed. On the second day, God created the dog. God said, “Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years.” The dog said, “That’s too long to be barking. Give me ten years and I’ll give back the other ten.” So God agreed (sigh). On the third day God created the monkey. God said, “Entertain people, do monkey tricks, make them laugh. I’ll give you a twenty year life span.” Monkey said, “How boring, monkey tricks for twenty years? I don’t think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that’s what I’ll do too, okay?” And God agreed again. On the fourth day God created man. God said, “Eat, sleep, play, have sex, enjoy. Do nothing, just enjoy, enjoy. I’ll give you twenty years.” Man said, “What? Only twenty years? No way, man. Tell you what, I’ll take my twenty, and the forty the cow gave back, and the ten the dog gave back and the ten the monkey gave back. That makes eighty, okay?” “Okay,” said God. “You’ve got a deal.” So that is why for the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, have sex, enjoy, and do nothing; for the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family; for the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain our grandchildren; and for the last ten years we sit in front of the house and bark at everybody. Life has now been explained. –Redhorse Continued On Page 2
Nature Discovery Tours
P O Box 611 Stellenbosch 7599
Tel Fax 27 21 8591989
South Africa
mobile 27 21 83 461 4567
Yellow………lemon,”
Green……….lime,”
Orange……….orange.” 
