This all began 38 years ago on the Big Island of Hawaii. Chris Calicdan's dad, a phone company lineman, rode a raked-out Panhead at the time. Chris, at 2-years-old, stumbled into the garage as his father's engineer boot kicked the starter lever and that rigid, with upsweeps, fired to life. It was the first time […]
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BIKERNET THURSDAY NEWS CONTINUES WITH DAR FROM BRASS BALLS BOBBERS IN THE STUDIO, CATCH THE LATEST FROM HARDTAILS, MOST UNFRIENDLY, ANTI-MOTORCYCLE LEGISLATION OF THE YEAR, FLAT RAT RACING UPDATE, PROFESSOR UNCLE MONKEY ON ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Continued From Page 1 ASSALT WEAPAN’S NEW SADDLEMAN SEAT–That is one lucky seat and tank pad. What a beautiful combo?that bike,
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BIKERNET THURSDAY NEWS – REPORT FROM HEATHER NEW, D&D DOES GOOD, HELMET LAWS SQUASHED, NEW SHOP IN FLORIDA AND MORE… Hey,It’s another crazy day in Paradise. The City of Los Angeles, coupled to a stimulus job generating project, are widening and enhancing the 4-lane boulevard outside our building. It’s a 1-mile long project to the
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As I was preparing for my trip to Sturgis, for the rally, I decided I needed a new helmet. Besides the normal reasons I wanted to upgrade to one that handled rain better. I had been using a full helmet with a snap-on, flip-up face shield, and it just was not doing what
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Editor’s Note: We are going to work with S&S, Baker, BDL, Compu-Fire and other Bikernet Sponsors, on their most asked tech questions. We’ll try to deliver the info you need access to. The following came from Howard Kelly, the former editor of HOT BIKE, and now an S&S tech editor. “We take tech calls all
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The Sturgis Shovel has seen its share of LA Harbor town back alleys in the eight years of pounding the streets around Wilmington, California. The exhaust is really starting to show the effects of the road and weather. Originally these hand fabricated pipes were painted with barbeque paint found lying around the Bikernet Intergalactic
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Lone Star Rally 2010 This years’ Lone Star Rally was much like Sturgis in the crowd seemed to have grown from the past few years. Whoever said we are in a recession forgot to tell the bikers, because they were out in force at this years’ rally. I would estimate at least
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This industry is quirky, full of scoundrels and outlaws. A couple of guys from Bassani Exhaust took me to lunch recently to discuss advertising on Bikernet. Did they advertise, no. But they talked me out of the Salt Shaker, tempting me with a tall tale about some buxom blonde who could be my girl for
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This is a wacky year. I’ve blown through half it, and now I need to scramble. At times, I feel like I’m wading through mud, and it brings me down, then something minute happened and I was reenergized. So here’s the deal for June: Valerie Thompson is flying out next weekend for a final
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They call it a “mid-life crisis”. I’m not a big fan of that term, but I guess it describes the situation as well as anything. It’s the conflict a man encounters when he reaches that point in his life where he arrives at a crossroads; continuing to provide for his family in a manner to
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