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Each week has a personality into itself. Some weeks we receive bad news, grizzly accident scenes and companies crumbling under the economy. The next week it’s all good news, new products, grand openings and good lookin’ broads. The following week will be strewn with creative explorations, bitchin’ art and knockout motorcycles. This week it’s quirky as you will see. Some strange shit from jewel encrusted Mercedes Benz to a Cajun custom bike that will make your skin crawl.
Don’t blame it on Bikernet, we just post the news. Ah, but there’s a couple of hot looking babes. Lets hit it. I gotta tune my Sturgis Shovelhead for the ride to Half Moon Bay with Billy Lane and our sidekick Jeremiah. We’re all riding old rigids. Billy’s riding a Knuck or flathead. He brought backup. I’m riding a 1956, 93-inch Shovelhead and Jeremiah is riding another ’73 Shovel turned rigid. I don’t understand why anyone turned classic Pans into Shovels. I hate Shovels. Shoulda left ’em Pans. Here’s the news:
MONSTER HORSEPOWER FROM D&D & ZIPPER?S It?s spring time and we know that you want a little more lead in your pencil. Where do you go? Go no farther than D&D?s New Bandit Kit – It simply kicks asphalt on your Harley-Davidson fuel injected motorcycle. The Bandit Kit comes with a D&D performance exhaust pipe, high-flow air cleaner and Zipper?s Performance ThunderMax with AutoTune tuner. And we will provide a 15% discount just by mentioning the Bandit Kit!
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All the experts agree that the most cost effective upgrade to your motorbike is a performance pipe, a free-flowing air cleaner and a tune up. The Bandit Kit delivers it all in one easy to use and to install package from D&D Performance Enterprise.
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The Zipper?s Performance ThunderMax with AutoTune tuner calibrates itself so you don?t need to put your bike on a dyno. That saves time and money. Also, if you add more go-fast parts, it knows it and modifies itself. Fast, efficient and easy to use – that’s the D&D way.
So call the D&D team today at 817-834-8961 or get more information by clicking here and start making horsepower gains tomorrow.
BIKERNET WEEKLY TOOL RECOMMENDATIONS–CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 24-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A very large pry bar thatinexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the endopposite the handle.
TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic’s own tanning booth. Sometimes called adrop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin,”which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefitsaside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at aboutthe same rate that 105mm howitzer shells might be used during, say,the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often darkthan light, its name is somewhat misleading.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lidsand for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil onyour shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip outPhillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used toconvert common slotted screws into non-removable screws.
–from Buckshot
NEW TDC RSD 6-SPEED TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLIES FROM CUSTOM CHROME– MORGAN HILL, CA (April, 2008) ?? All-new, right side drive 6-speed transmission assemblies from ?The Driveline Company? (also known as TDC), available with your choice of three different finishes ? polished, black, and natural.
They feature a forged billet aluminum support plate with a hydraulic clutch cylinder and contemporary styling, a large-diameter outside pulley support bearing, and a gold zinc-coated 32-tooth lightened pulley. The RSD transmissions are designed for custom wide tire builds.Features include:
?Assembled in America
?Unique new RSD design
?Large 4.30″-diameter outside bearing support for pulley
?Forged outer support plate with hydraulic clutch
?Gold zinc pulley
?Stylish window cutouts
?Precision-machined, investment cast steel shift forks
?Fully CNC machined steel shift drum
?Cast 356-T6 aluminum cases
?Forged 6061 aluminum trap door
?2.93:1 first gear
?2.20:1 second gear
?1.60:1 third gear
?1.23:1 fourth gear
?1.00:1 fifth gear and a .88:1 overdrive sixth gear
?8620H high nickel content chromemoly steel gears
?Extra-quiet gear tooth profiles
?Endurance dyno tested by an independent U.S. test lab
These transmissions retail for $1,420.00 and are available through your Custom Chrome dealer. To locate a dealer nearest you, go to www.customchrome.com today.
BIKERNET PHONE REPAIR SERVICE–A Kansas farm wife called the local phone company to report her telephone failed to ring when her friends called – and that on the few occasions, when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.
The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber’s house.
The phone didn’t ring right away, but then the dog moaned and the telephone began to ring.
Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
1. The dog was tied to the telephone system’s ground wire with a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was called.
4. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit , thus causing the phone to ring.
Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning.
Thought you’d like to know.
–from Peter Gray
NEW STRETCHED 04-06 SPORTY TANKS FROM PAUGHCO– Paughco is now producing a pair of STRETCHED SINGLE CAP TANKS that are direct bolt-on replacements for new generation, rubber mount 2004-2006 Sportsters. The new tanks come in 3.4 and 4.5 gallon capacities, are designed for a single offset stock style filler cap, and have a 22mm external thread petcock fitting for use with stock and aftermarket petcocks.
The 4.5 tank is 14? wide and the 3.4 measures 12?. Tank depth on both is 9? with a 5? tunnel and 21? length. As noted they bolt directly to the stock mounting points on all 04-06 carbureted Sportsters. Retail is $389.95 for both models.
For complete details call 775-246-5738. On the Web at www.paughco.com.
GERMAN FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR YOUNG, INNOVATIVE COMPANIES PARTICIPATING IN TRADE FAIRS– For the first time, young, innovative companies from Germany can now receive financial support from the German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) for their trade fair presentations atINTERMOT Cologne 2008. The International Trade Fair forMotorcycles and Scooters, which is taking place in Cologne from 8th to 12th October 2008, is among the 44 internationally leading fairs in Germany at which participation in joint stands can besponsored. The aim of the support programme is topromote exports of new products and processes by helping companies to take part in trade fairs.
Objectives of the support programme
The programme aims to help young companies market their products by taking part in trade fairs. In Germany, the marketing of newly introduced innovations is frequently in need of improvement,especially in the case of people who are starting up newbusinesses. However, leading export-orientated trade fairs such as INTERMOT Cologne 2008 provide young innovative companies in Germany with a platform for expanding into foreign markets ? and therebyfor achieving further growth.
Trade fairparticipation enables such companies to exploit the growth potential offered by international markets. The financial assistance reduces the obstacles young companies face in taking part in theirfirst trade fair, allowing them to become exporters ona sustained basis.
Requirements for receiving financial assistanceTo be eligible for financial support, a young, innovative company must be headquartered in Germany, conform to the valid EU definition of a small enterprise (less than 50 employees or an annualturnover of not more than ?10 million) and be less thanten years old. In addition, the company must have developed new or substantially improved products, processes or services and launched them on the market. If such companies exhibit at INTERMOTCologne at a joint stand, they can receive financialsupport for this participation. To receive assistance, companies must register with Koelnmesse to exhibit at a joint stand by June 2008.
Amount of financial assistance
Financial assistance can be received to cover joint stand participants? costs of rental fee and construction as invoiced by Koelnmesse GmbH. Following the event, 80% of these costs will be refundedto the companies receiving support. The maximumamount of support that each company may receive is ?7,500.
Application forms for this programme can be downloaded in the ?Wirtschaftsf?rderung? section at www.bafa.de. Detailed information on the support programme can also be found at the AUMA website(www.auma-messen.de, Messeplanung Inland / F?rderungdurch Bund).
Further information and photo material is available at www.intermot-cologne.com
INTERMOT Cologne
8th to 12th October 2008
–Koelnmesse GmbH
Anja Scheidt
Press Assistant
Unternehmenskommunikation/PR
Phone + 49 221 821 2366
Fax + 49 221 821 3285
a.scheidt@koelnmesse.de
www.koelnmesse.de
STURGIS THUNDER ROAD MAIN EVENT FRIDAY–BIKERNET BROUHAHA–We’ve already sent a crew of drunks into all the local pool halls to steal 5-balls for our Sturgis trophies. Hang on for more reports, and don’t forget to order your spot at Glencoe for the rally. We’ll see you there.
Registrations are already being taken for the all day show, just drop us a line to Bandit@Bikernet.com.
Don’t miss the funfest in Sturgis. Join us from 10 am to 7 pm at Thunder Road (located 3 miles east of Sturgis on Highway 34) Friday August 8, 2008 for the Bikernet Brouhaha.
Report: Hells Angels founder sues HBO over biker series– LOS ANGELES (AP) – The founder of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has sued HBO, claiming the pay cable network cut him out of an upcoming pilot he helped develop, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Sonny Barger filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles last week against HBO, production company White Mountain Co. and the project’s writer/executive producer, Michael Tolkin.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series “1 percent” originally was set at an Arizona chapter of the fictional Death Rangers, one of the toughest motorcycle clubs in the country. The central character is a biker, Misfit, sent in from a Northern California chapter to bring it under control.
HBO is getting ready to start production on the show, which will feature Donal Logue as Misfit.
Barger claims in the lawsuit that he and Tolkin pitched HBO on a motorcycle club-centered series. The cable network turned to Tolkin to create it.
A call to HBO for comment wasn’t immediately returned Monday.
Among the objections Barger lists in the lawsuit are “that some characters introduced by Tolkin too close resembled or depicted living persons (in particular a character named `Chief,’ which for decades has been a well-known nickname or alias for Sonny Barger), that some actual place names used in the script were too identifiably associated with Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels (such as the primary location being Carefree, AZ, which is the town adjacent to where Sonny Barger presently resides, and that the principal character has moved from Northern California, which is exactly what Sonny Barger did).”
The name of the Chief character has been changed to Cap, the setting of the show has been moved to Apache Junction, Ariz., and Misfit now comes from Valhalla, Ore.
The lawsuit seeks to make the show’s script a joint work of Sonny Barger Productions and Tolkin, and seeks to keep the program from being sold or telecast. Barger also wants compensation for what he calls the exploitation of his publicity rights.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
SAXON MOTORCYCLES EUROPE SIGNS JAMES MOTOR AS EXCLUSIVE DEALER IN SOUTHERN FRANCE– Saxon Motorcycles Europe has recently signed a dealer contract with James Motor in the south of France. In so doing from April 2008 on the European Saxon models Warlord and Firestorm will be available at their shop.
?Because of the excellent quality of the Saxon bikes and the interesting pricing, Saxon fits in very well next to our other bikes? says James Renoult, owner of James Motor. ?Additionally the Saxon bikes drive very comfortably and easily, which one doesn?t expect of these kinds of bikes? he adds. Saxon Motorcycles Europe is also very exited, the owners give their comments: ?It is fantastic to have another professional dealer in France now? says Rinke Andringa. ?James Motor is very well known in the south of France and we look forward to working with them? clarifies Frank Vermeulen.
Saxon Motorcycles Europe has obtained the European Type approval for both models. The motorcycles now are approved in conformity with the strict European standards on safety, emission and sound. The bikes can be put on licence by James Motor without any problem.
The Warlord is a real rebellious US Highneck Chopper and the FireStorm is a long and low Pro-street in the low rider style. Both models come standard with a two-year unlimited mileage warranty, 96? (1566cc) S&S engine, 260 rear tire, softail?-style frame and right side drive transmission, so they are perfectly balanced. The bikes have been designed with a good sense of detail and ergonomics.
The French dealer will also sell line of clothing of Saxon. This exist of t-shirts for women and men, work shirts, eisenhower jackets and leather jackets for men and all-fit caps.
Recently a video is launched on the website of Saxon Motorcycles Europe (www.saxonmotorcycles.eu) and on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSyjryc5Ks) in which you can see some Saxon bikes driving through Paris and several owners of a Saxon bike tell you about their experience driving it. General information about Saxon Motorcycles Europe and the Warlord and FireStorm can be found on the internet on www.SaxonMotorcycles.eu and www.james-motor.com.
–JAMES MOTOR
Contact: James RENOULT
16 bis avenue du G?n?ral de Gaulle
F-32500 FLEURANCE
T?l?phone: 0562582816
Email: jamesmotor32@free.fr
Website : www.james-motor.com
3rd ANNUAL AMERICAN BIKER PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION– Are you tired of outrageous gas prices? Are you tired of the poor quality of care given to our Veterans? Are you tired of expensive health care & poor benefits?Are you fed up with the current state of Government?
If you answered ?yes? to any of these questions you need to attend!
Who: The American Biker Party
What: 3rd Annual National Convention
Where: Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel and Convention Center (414-481-8000) 4747 South Howell Avenue | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
When: Saturday July 12th, 2008
American Biker Party Open to All: The American Biker Party, founded three years ago, intends to provide a voice for the majority of Americans. The past 3 years was focused on sharing the platform and recruiting membership. Now is the time to expand membership to ALL Americans, who are tired of the same old politics. We live in the greatest country in the world. We cannot let politicians who are slaves to big business make decisions for the patriotic American.
If you have any of the concerns as we do it’s time to take action and become part of the change.
Guest Speakers for the Day Include:
Tony “Pan” Sanfelipo:Founder ABATE of Wisconsin & National Director BOLT
Dave ?Chubby? Charlebois Public Relations Director ABATE of Wisconsin
Dave Zien: R-Eau ClaireFormer WI. SenatorGlover: H.L.M.C.
It?s time for a change!
www.americanbikerparty.com
MOTORCYCLE MADNESS HEATS UP IN SANTA MARIA– The Santa Maria Fairpark will be on fire with tons of new stuff happening this May 16th, 17th, and 18th. Pipes will be hot as bikers put their scooters to the test on the Thunderdrags Dyno Shootout. Race for bragging rights and get a performance printout for free on the mobile dyno.
So. Cal?s hottest boxers will battle it out in the Bikernet Boxing Madness ring.
Rock to non-stop live music on the Budweiser main stage and wash down some Santa Maria style B-B-Q with a cold Bud.
The 36 acre Fairpark will be filled with more vendors and bikes than ever before.
Santa Maria Harley-Davidson is sponsoring MDA rides on Saturday and Sunday starting at the dealership. This will be a great way to checkout some of the best riding in the central coast.
THREE custom bike shows with 17 classes end up with the top 15 on Sunday all hoping to take home one of the 58 custom billet trophies by Ego Tripp wheels.
Speaking of HOT ! The first lady of motorcycling Michele Smith will be back for your viewing pleasure.
ONLY 65.00 weekend package is a bargain and a 130.00 value with tons of free stuff and the only way to win the Interstate enclosed bike trailer. If you are a day tripper Madness has a ride in special for 20.00 that includes a free t-shirt.
Don?t forget to sign up to win the US ARMY BMC Chopper at the show.
Check out www.horsepowerpromotions.com for the latest info :
SILENT RUNNING FROM BDL– Cruisers and touring buffs alike will appreciate the exceptionally smooth and ultra quiet operation of this all new, totally enclosed primary drive from Belt Drives Limited. Available as a conversion or retro fit for Softail, FXR and Shovelhead models, the system now features the company?s revolutionary ?Quiet Clutch?. Manufactured with Kevlar on round dog aluminum plates, the new clutch significantly reduces clutch rattling.
A unique basket carries 12 cylindrical, replaceable clutch dogs providing silk smooth transition, enhanced longevity and unimpeded performance. Each kit includes a polished billet aluminum pressure plate secured by 9 shoulder bolts and specially designed springs. Shipped with BDL?s bullet proof Kevlar belt, this easily installed kit provides butter smooth operation and flawless performance. Each enclosed kit is supplied with a sealed bearing for installation in the inner primary.
For complete application information call 714-685-3333 or go to www.beltdrives.com
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