MRF members surrounding Brett Smith (MIC) from S&S. The new EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) motorcycle emissions rules have taken effect for the large manufacturers, those that produce over 3,000 units per year, beginning with the 2006 models. You know your shop is ready for the new year. Your techs have done their homework so they […]
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Author’s Note: My editorial to the Fremont Paper aboutthis incident has been picked up nationally, and BOLT sent letters fromtheir lawyer to the Fremont mayor and city council. Hope it makes a difference:With terrorists blowing up cities, and illegal immigrants flooding over our borders, I wondered why some cops do what they do. My wife
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I am originally from Franklin County, Kansas. In Ottawa, we had one of the largest Toy Runs in the Nation. We started out the year with a Christmas in July, which would bring in the largest part. There would be cars being auctioned off, tons of events, raffles, and the whole community would gather for
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Land speed record holder Marty Dickerson riding his Vincent in the '50s.The rarest of rare vintage motorcycles, these decades-old machines are challenging to start and difficult to ride. Yet they are becoming more expensive to purchase despite — and some say because of — the down economy.For years, ultra-obscure bikes such as a 1936 Crocker
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The beer was hot since the cooler broke at the Lake Town Tavern. So Igor and Chick sat at the bar drinking gin and tonics. That’s a drink Chick first met at the British Club in Rabul, New Guinea when a navy destroyer he served on as a boiler tender made a port call to
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This is Shirley Zanelli’s latest leather seat creation. It was etched for an Indian restoration by “Lucky’s Speed Shop” out of Chandler, Arizona. It was designed by the owner, Don Yates, as a tribute to the Board Track Racers of the early 1900s. Mike Tomas, of Kiwi Indian, who’s responsible for building the engine, transmission,
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Another life-saving tech tip from Lucky Devil and Bikernet.Master weldors make welding look so easy and so essential that many of us are tempted to rush out to the nearest tool store and buy a full featured TIG machine – even if we don’t know what TIG stands for, what it does, how it works,
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With apologies to a credit card company whose television commercial was popular a few years ago, our theme this month for our Brass Balls Bobber Giveaway Bike is “ownership has its privileges.” So we’re privileged to share with you some first-time photos of products that have been only recently developed by Darwin Motorcycles (parent company
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By JonTowle Here's our testy test rider. If we had lowered the shop door we could have grabbed a clean shot without a bunch of crap in the background. I don't like Dynas, never did. I'm an FXR fan. They keep trying to dial this puppy in, but it's just a swingarm SuperGlide from the
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G'day , I checked at www.amazon.com and both of these books are available. I kinda cheated and grabbed the book covers off their site.I don’t have a digital camera at the moment, it broke while I was riding around the USA.I went to the Museum of British Road Transport in Coventry the day after I
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We live in a crazy world. Consumer confidence is shaky, unemployment has hit double-digit percentage figures and the world economy is still bogged down in a near-depression. In this down-in-the-dumps economic landscape, motorcycle manufacturers big and small hunker down in their shuttered factories to lick their wounds. They scale back production numbers to match a
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Donny Petersen’s name is probably familiar to a lot of bikers, especially readers of American Iron Magazine, in which he’s been writing the Techline column since 1992. This Canadian biker is also an entrepreneur in his own right, having founded and operated Heavy Duty Cycles in Toronto in 1974. Touted as “the world’s most read
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Shot of Val first meeting the Assalt Weapan for the first time in Idaho.THE MISSIONWith the Assault Weapon project in full swing following on last year’s world land speed record setting success with Salt Shaker, there was no way Bandit would be riding up to Sturgis this year. Instead, two experienced Bikernet operatives from down
Fifth place was taken by Krazy Horse Cycles from the UK, with their ‘Zeroesque’, an Ironhead Sportster homage to the styling that emerged from Shinya Kimura’s Zero Engineering in Japan. Other trends now clearly seen through the Official European Championship have been the growing popularity and quality of ‘retro’ styling, and, conversely, the continuing development
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A long time self-confessed bike nut, Glenn remembers riding back in the day when dodging dinosaurs rather than Volvos was the biggest on road challenge. Well maybe I am stretching things a bit, but he’s been riding a long time. Glenn told me, “I bought my first bike when I was thirteen and paid for
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This journey started at Space Coast Harley-Davidson, March 2024, one sunny Saturday morning, where I test rode and bought my 2023 FXST Softail Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Years ago, I owned a Sportster and recently have been riding one, but I felt it was time to go to a Bigger bike, so I did. While I had been
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
Ram Tough by JJ Spain with illustration by Wayfarer We parked our bikes on the north side of Deadwood Lodge. Omaha, off I29 to I90 was a long hot ride. I stepped on green grass to stretch. A loud snort turned me around. A Ram Big Horn Sheep with hazel eyes stared me down. He
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