Click Here To Be A Sponsor Bonneville Bikernet Effort 13, Salt Shaker PipesCutting Bending, Welding and MakingFirst off I’ll announce that D&D is making my Bonneville Racing Exhaust System. This system, designed to take may ass to Sturgis, is the street version. My goal was to make a set of pipes that performed well and […]
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I’m running back and forth between bikes fabricating shit, waiting for parts, dodging bullets and counting the days. Yesterday I received a note from David Zelma at Performance Machine. “We found the front caliper bracket,” he said and I sighed. I was beginning to wonder whether I dove into an odyssey to find the un-findable
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Illustration by Chris Kallas.The judge banged the gavel and ordered the bailiff to shove in the next bunch of misfits. I faced 10 years for an accident deemed involuntary manslaughter along with perjury for claiming the girl wasn’t riding with me. She was riding with me.I had hoped to avoid trouble for her but Sheriff
There’s a wild air cleaner from Paul Cox. I’m going to say, and I might be off base, that most carbs are rebuilt for a couple of reasons: either they sat too long, sucked bad gas, or ran without an air cleaner too long. I would venture to guess that most carbs on custom bikes
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We’d like to say that it’s all work and no play for the IronWorkers crew at Sturgis, but truth be told, we managed to work in some biking fun. We also asked Dar Holdsworth of Brass Balls Bobbers if he’d display the IronWorks/Bikernet.com/Brass Balls Bobber, giveaway bike (or dare we say, your bike) at the
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If you’re using the Harley-Davidson Oil Cooler Kit part number 26082-05 you will also have to purchase a oil filter part number 63798-99. We covered installing another factory/touring oil cooler system in the King reports, but since then some people had problems with the original system and the factory developed this upgrade. That’s why we’re
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Click Here To Be A Sponsor I spoke to an official, Tom “Rodan” Evans, from the SCTA (Southern California Timing Association) about rules, classes and Bonneville racing. Delvene reminded me that it was time to pre-register. “Running open bikes is the most fun,” Rodan said. “But let’s look at what you have?” According to Rodan
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You can imagine how jazzed I was to receive the 120-inch Accurate Engineering Panhead engine from Yellow Freight. I’m a major fan of Panheads. Hell, I was born in ’48, but don’t tell anyone. Shortly thereafter the Baker Transmission, 6-speed, touring unit with the oil bag under it, arrived. I also discovered that all my
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Click Here To Be A Sponsor This is the original aluminum dash that we mounted the old Triumph handlebar fairing to for positioning, but I knew another dash panel needed to be in the works. Honestly I didn’t know how the hell I was going to build it. I grabbed a piece of stainless 1/6
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BIKERNET NEWS FLASH – BANDIT?S ON THE RUN, THE SS TRIKE RUNS THE 117″ X-WEDGE ENGINE, CALIFORNIA IN BIG TROUBLE NOW, OLD-SCHOOL STUFF FROM MR LUCKYS, K&G CYCLES KEEPS PEELING BACK PRICES, VIPER GETS 152-INCH PRODUCTION MOTORS AND MORE… Bandit has left the building? so to speak. The Bikernet headquarters?or as I often refer to
