Hey,
This is going to be damn short. I’m packing to fly to Vegas for the OCC/Jesse build off. Pilgrim Studios asked me to be a judge. In the fine print they call me a critic. Should be interesting. Can I ride each bike around chilly Vegas. Don’t you think a road test should be part of the judging criteria?
Hang on. You’ll see the whole tamale come together Monday and Tuesday. In the meantime, let’s hit, do I can feed the dogs and make it to the airport on time.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS FROM THE BIKERNET HISTORIAN–“Everything that can be invented has been invented,”– Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
“The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required.” — Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
“I don’t know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn’t be a feasible business by itself.” — the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.”– Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872
“The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,”– Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
And last but not least…
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
–from Buckshot
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BIKERNET INTERNATIONAL EDITOR DISCOVERS COLLECTION–This is a private collection of bikes in a three-story building approaching museum status, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Playrooms upstairs and some display bikes.
five pool tables – full set up bandstand – recording studio.
The owner is the largest distributer of cigars in S.E.Asia.
Not many people get to see this.
Many thanks to Dato S.
–Art
Quick Throttle Magnificent Photographer
Bikernet International Editor
NEW AUSTRALIAN BIKE MAG–Relocating to Melbourne would have to be the best thing I could have done to fuel my passion for the custom scene. With so many custom motorcycles out on the streets and a constant schedule of motorcycle events to attend I couldn’t be happier.
One such event that is happening this Saturday is the launch of a brand new motorcycle magazine title “Head Full of Snakes”. The magazine will be printed using a 4 colour print process which will result in a look similar to that of the comic books we read as kids. Content will include custom motorcycle builds and culture and the first issue will even come with a flexidisc record of some cool tunes to play while you’re wrenching.
If you live in Melbourne or happen to be visiting this weekend here are the details:
HEAD FULL OF SNAKES
Magazine issue 1 launch
Saturday 3rd December 2012
3:00 till 5:00pm
Compound Interest
15-25 Keele St, Collingwood.
You can pick up a copy on the day and enjoy the bikes, beer and BBQ. Sadly I won’t be able to come as a friend decided to get married on the same day so if you go be sure to tell me all about it!
–from Return of the Café Racers
Back in 2005 you ran my Garage built Buell on Bikernet–it was great here a few years later I am down on my luck. I have put the bike in the Bikernet classifieds.
If you could do it as the deal of the week –would sure help I think–it is a great Old School bike.
The black and white is 1975–I was reading your stuff then and you were a big influence on my first and last build.
–Tom Richmond
HERE IS THE OTHER SUNDAY DEAL FROM THE BIKERNET CLASSIFIEDS! A 1999 SOFTAIL! Basically stock with Sreamin’ Eagle slip on mufflers, sissy bar and pad, fork brace and custom brake rotors. It is yours for $7500! A GREAT all around bike! CHECK IT OUT AT THE BIKERNET CLASSIFIEDS, WHERE THE ADVENTURE IS JUST WAITING TO BEGIN!
MIKE the STEALTH
http://bikernet.sprocketlist.com/FLST/2393007/1999-HARLEY-FXST-SOFTAIL.html
REPORT FROM THE ESTEEMED BIKERNET PERFORMANCE EDITOR–Holy Shit Batman!
Slowing this ever spinning merry-go-round down a notch seems impossible these days. Might have something to do with the infamous code of the west. The older you get, the faster time marches on. Get out on the edge and enjoy your life while you’re still breathin’. It may not be to late if your reading this.
Here at the Bikernet headquarters we’re so busy we have volumes of projects penciled in for the next lifetime, hang on 2012! One day at a time my ass!
Cantina Members Savings/Sturgis updates
You paid for it, feel free to use it. Spot a Bikernet sponsor that’s not on the list and want a holiday discount? We’ll reach out and give it a shot.
Sturgis 72nd, 2012!
We have secured a lot in Sturgis for a Bikernet/Cycle Source Lot that’s filling with top-notch motorcycle industry no-bull-shit-vendors. Located on Lazelle Street next to Roscoe’s across the street from Jay Allen’s world’s famous Broken Spoke and the new Easyriders/Hooter Saloon.
96-inch Twin Cam Dyna
The 2004, 96 inch Twin Cam project is in limbo awaiting parts that may have shipped late last week from Fueling. Once all parts are in hand Eric Bennett at Bennett’s Performance located in Signal Hill, CA. will set a build date. The Bikernet crew will then, hand deliver a brief case full of steaming hot fish tacos for the engine build, photo shoot and tech tip session.
Hardtailz, San Jose, CA. next stop.
Then it’s off to San Jose to hand deliver the better than new 96 inch Twin Cam motor to Ron William’s, Jeff, Kevin and Mike at Hardtailz so they can perform their magic.
124-inch Twin Cam/Turbo Partial Streamliner
For those members that missed the Thursday news. Bandit donated a full Air Tech fairing for our 2012 Bonneville turbo effort. The fairing is en-route from Virginia’s Lee Clemen’s, Departure Bike Works, destination is one of the the best kept hot rod shops in Salem, Oregon for the build that Rick Tedder is handling.
Randy Torgeson at Hyperformance is assembling the brand new 124-inch Twin Cam, R&R Cycle, Turbo Charged fire breather that’s destined for a hot date on the salt in 2012. Images and a report are expected any day. Stay tuned!
Don’t forget to watch Bandit referee the build off Monday and Tuesday at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas on live? television.
The Long Beach IMS show, and the David Mann Chopper show is next weekend. The shop is filling up with fans of both shows.
Haul Ass!
Ride for your Life!
-Ray c wheeler
Performance Editor/
wheeler@bikernet.com
HISTORIC TATTOO ARTICLE HEADING TO BIKERNET–
This is a teaser I’m putting together. I use to work with this guy at the Harley Dealership in NC. He was one the service writer’s there.
He is from Manhattan, NY also.
So in one of our conversations it lead to Tattooing. I tell about who did mine (Old Doc Webb) in Dago back in my Seabee days. Then
he starts talking about his great grandfather and his brother. Man this is cool. Your son the Tattoo guy will like this.
My buddy has some great stories I want to include,
What do you think??
–Pablo
P.S.
Stephan Wagner was my buddys
great grandfather. Prof. Charlie was his
grandfathers brother.
The dual coil Tattoo gun was they say invented
by Edison but Prof. Charlie patented it
USE OUR CLASSIFIEDS AND GET A GAS CARD–
During the month of December, we’re giving away $500 Gas Cards. Every time someone posts a classified ad, they are entered
Example: racerx.sprocketlist.com/post_ad, cyclenews.sprocketlist.com/post_ad, etc.
Joe Tripp
President, Sprocketlist.com
(866) 326-9227 | main office
(406) 278-6017 | direct
(406) 564-6190 | cell
jtripp@sprocketlist.com
ART HITS ANOTHER CAR SHOW–This is a car show called Hot Import Nights
Japanese tuner cars and lots of Asian models.
I took over 1000 pictures so it may take several days of mailing.
Tomorrow is John Force open house. (Famous Funny Car driver)
–Art
Quick Throttle Womanizer
Bikernet Womanizer
BIKERNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELING SESSION–
Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, “Fried chicken.”
She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right, because everyone else laughed.
My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.
I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much.
I do too! Especially chicken, pork and beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office. I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.
The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was. I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken..
She sent me back to the principal’s office. He laughed, and told me not to do it again.
I don’t understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am.
Today, my teacher asked us to tell her what famous person we admire most.
I told her, “Colonel Sanders.”
Guess where I am now!….
–Willie
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY QUOTE OF THE DAY–
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interupt.” – Henry J. Kaiser
ANOTHER QUICKIE BOOK REVIEW–
Thank you for forwarding my request to John Stein. The book is fantastic as was the Terry the Tramp book. They took me back to a place where a young kid would ride his XLCH down to the “stationary store” to pick up the latest issues of Easyriders or Big Twin.
Again thanks so much and keep them coming.
–Larry
BUB BARE 2-INTO-1 EXHAUST SYSTEM–Bub exhaust is hurting in this economy, but they recently worked with some club brothers on an inexpensive, high-performance exhaust system for Evos or Twin Cams.
It’s right around $350 and comes bare, so you can coat it anyway you want, with heat paints, ceramic coatings, heat wraps, powder, or chrome. Reach out to Bub for more info.
ALGIE HERE, KILLING MACHINE CHOPPERS–Have some wonderful Holidays
–KILLINGMACHINE4U@aol.com
LETTER TO THE BOSS–
I have enjoyed working here these past several years. You have paid me very well, given me benefits beyond belief. I have 3-4 months off per year and a pension plan that will pay my salary till the day I die and a health plan that most people can only dream about.
I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position.
During this time I will show up for work when it is convenient. In addition I fully expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
Oh yeah, if my search for this new job proves fruitless, I will be back with no loss in pay or status. Before you say anything, remember that you have no choice in the matter. I can and will do this.
Sincerely,
Every Senator or Congressman running for re-election.
–from Rogue
BIKERNET MEDICAL CENTER HOLIDAY STRESS RELIEF– Consider this remedy this holiday season.
Looking for a simple, healthy way to help you get through the day? Try breathing exercises – a natural and effective way to reduce stress, maintain focus and feel energized. Exhaling completely is a useful practice that is especially easy to learn – it can promote deeper breathing and better health. Give it a try: Simply take a deep breath, let it out effortlessly and then squeeze out a little more.
Doing this regularly will help build up the muscles between your ribs, and your exhalations will soon become deeper and longer. Start by performing this exhalation exercise consciously, and before long it will become a healthy, unconscious habit.
–Dr. Weil
www.drweil.com
WARNING: Prescription Drugs That Can Cause Birth Defects and Cancer–
learn more about the dangers of taking drugs widely prescribed for the treatment of depression, anxiety, panic and post-traumatic stress disorder as well as the diabetes drug Actos.
If you or anyone you know have taken Actos, Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac, Celexa or Lexapro and developed bladder cancer or borne a child with a birth defect, please contact Hupy and Abraham, S.C. Attorney Chad A. Kreblin at 1.800.800.5678 for more information.
DON NOWELL TAKES A DIFFERENT PATH–It’s been a few years now since I was in your office that day showing you my Knuckle- Chopper. Big change in my life with getting into the art world and trying a new deal in my winding down years, as I have been a gearhead for 50 years, and it’s time to try a new gig with my gold art sculptures.
–Don out here in beautiful downtown Granada Hills.
dn@donnowelldesign.com
AMERICAN CHOPPER THIS WEEK–Fasten your seatbelts. Paul Teutul Sr. and Paul Teutul Jr. are about to go head to head, as they put their personal issues aside and get down to business this Dec. 5 and 6 at 9:00pm ET/PT.
But it’s not just the Teutuls who will be putting their skills and their ego on the line. Jesse James, who made his television debut on the Discovery Channel, will return to the network for the first time since 2006 to take on the Teutuls.
Coming on the heels of American Chopper’s return to Discovery Channel last year, the veteran show will take its success to new levels with its first LIVE event, and Bandit is the Judge. In this two-night special, Chopper fans will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite bike after seeing the three finished products during our regularly scheduled American Chopper on Monday, Dec. 5, at 9pm ET/PT. The following evening, Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 9:00pm ET/PT, American Chopper Live will air straight from the strip in downtown Las Vegas, NV. What better place than Sin City to crown the winner of this unique bike building competition?
–By Kristen Lomasney
STOP TREATING MOTORCYCLISTS LIKE CRIMINALS OF THE ROAD– European legislation is being proposed that will actively discriminate against and criminalise motorcyclists because of the inadequacies and failures of others. In essence, the EU wants to enact into law various measures, under the guise of road safety, that will seriously curtail motorcyclists’ freedoms by comparison to other road users.
The most idiotic of these is to force motorcyclists to wear full high-visibility clothing and make it a criminal offence not to.
The Irish Republic says it will enact this legislation unilaterally by 2014. Its road safety authority calls it a positive safety measure and – along with those who would make it a Europe-wide law – cites research allegedly showing motorcyclists are hard to see.
What this research underlines is that other road users aren’t looking properly. If this notion is to be believed, we are being told that drivers will pull into the path of an oncoming motorcycle more often than they won’t – even when that motorcyclist is dressed to the highest level of visibility.
The single most common causative factor in road collisions involving motorcyclists and other vehicles is that the other driver, usually of a car, didn’t see the motorcyclist.
Making criminals out of motorcyclists only treats a symptom, not the cause, alienates a vulnerable class of road user that is already under pressure and is a lazy-minded and insidious approach to the problem.
MARTYN BOYD
Bangor, Co Down
–from Rogue
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, TARDY STUDENTS WEEKEND VOCABULARY HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT–
foofaraw FOO-fuh-raw, noun:
1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.
A somber, muted descending motif opens and closes the work, which is brief but effective. It provided much needed relief from the fanfares and foofaraw in which brass-going composers so often indulge.
— Philip Kennicott, “Brass Spectacular is a Spectacle of Special Sound”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 17, 1997
As usual, with all cooperation with Tom Lea, Art becomes a “taking away” process rather than the adding of ornaments, rules, and other foofaraw.
— David R. Farmer, Stanley Marcus: A Life With Books
Making the Times best-seller list, or a movie, or all that other foofaraw is not necessarily proof of [a novel’s] lasting significance.
— Roger K. Miller, “Peyton Place’ was remarkably good bad novel”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 29, 1996
Foofaraw is perhaps from Spanish fanfarrón, “a braggart.”
SAMSON INTRODUCES THE LEGEND SERIES “SHORTIES”–
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• Available with massive 2 1/2″ one-piece full coverage removable heat shields
• Mounting hardware included
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• Available in luxurious chrome or “sinister” black ceramic (special request)
• Limited 1 year warranty
• MSRP: $499.95
*$449.95 (*If ordering directly off of the internet)
• Don’t forget about Bikernet.com viewers special 15% DISCOUNT…order direct from Samson and mention Bikernet.com to qualify
• Listen to the sound of Samson’s exhausts right on their website
Check out Samson Exhaust’s entire product line at www.samsonusa.com or contact them directly at (888) 572-6766; Samson Exhaust, 655 Tamarack Ave., Brea, CA 92821…email them at info@samsonusa.com.
THAT’S A WRAP–A minute ago Christine called. She’s the cutest little veteran I’ve ever seen. She’s also one of those wound up journalists who you can’t stop for a second. She’s going to cover a Marine Holiday charity event, to give Marine families free Christmas trees.
She’s on her way to grab one of the new ATK motorcycles we have on hand. I need to his the showers, pack and launch the Sunday Post. What a fuckin’ scramble.
I hope your holidays are half as scrambled as ours, you can kick back by a fire with her knockout self and touch her ever so gently. Holy shit. I better go.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
