Merry Christmas Almost Goddamnit,
It’s climbing on us fast. Hopefully the customized Bikernet cards with hit the streets this week. Christmas happens in the winter, but the celebration is the warmest one of the year. It brings out the pure goodness in most people, the brotherhood and the watchful over the less fortunate.
For the last three years Bikernet.com has supported and Sponsored the Kids and Chrome Sturgis Charity auction and banquet. Through the hard work of Bob Illingsworth it grew steadily, but success often breeds greed and troubles. The event was designed to assist the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and a Children’s hospital in Rapid City South Dakota. Politics reared its ugly head and after the third successful year and folks began to scramble for the door. The Hamsters bailed and so did the Children’s hospital after the effort afforded them the capitol to build a new wing. In the end who lost? The Kids and the Museum.
But all is not lost. Pepper Massey, the executive director of the Sturgis Museum, is working hard to recapture the spirit and the Museum wants to continue the effort and support a South Dakota Childrens’ charity.”We are speaking with two children’s charities and will determine which will be included in Kids & Chrome ’07,” Pepper said. “We all realize we’ll take a hit this year with sponsors due to the damage that has been done and we will only choose one of the available charities. We want to make certain that the donated funds really impact and serve kids, so we don’t want to spread ourselves too thin. As we progress and grow, it is the general consensus that with more funding we can work with more than one charity.”
They are currently working with a group who help neglected, abandoned and abused kids. It’s the big kids who can make it happened or tear it apart. We’re hoping they pull it together for the kids and the Museum. Let’s hit the news:
TWO WHEELERS XMAS PRODUCT OF THE WEEK–Sending along this shirt if the clown shirt is to small…I have to re photo that one for the site… Take care thanks. donnaA fun shirt to let them know what you really think. 2wheelers F”N to Close shirt. Short Sleeve $15.99
V-TWIN TV ?Rucker Performance on the SPEED Channel!–Rucker Performance will be featured on V-TWIN Television on January 2, 2007 on the SPEED Channel. V-TWIN goes behind the scenes of Rucker Performance, one of the top builders in the motorcycle industry. Check out this episode of V-TWIN TV featuring Rucker Performance on the SPEED Channel.
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 10pm and 2am.
Wed 10am. and Sat 8am.
(Eastern Times)
To find out more information about V-TWIN Television and upcoming episodes, check out the SPEED TV web site.
DURFEE’S MODEL-21 GIRDER FRONT END–Durfee’s newest offering for the custom motorcycle builder is the progeny of the original Durfee “Classic” Girder except that the Model 21 has a graduate degree in weight training. A “wide-glide” width with big 1.5″ TIG welded tubes and billet 6061 T-6 aluminum CNC-machined parts will make sure that this one is as strong and long-lived as the legendary original while arched legs give this 21st century Durfee Girder a mean look and stance.
Durfee and Works Performance partnered to fit a coil-over, adjustable shock absorber for a comfortable and controllable cross-town or cross-country ride. Rubber isolated handlebar mounts use the industry standard spacing to give the builder/rider an almost unlimited choice of bars while four different Brake-Kits bolt up Brembo’s awesome 4 piston caliper, the 1984-1999 or the 2000-Current H-D units and Performance Machine’s original 125x4R caliper to single or dual 11.5″ discs allow a wide choice is stopping options.
If you are looking for something for your custom that is radically different, radically strong and radically ride able, give Durfee’s a call at (503) 472-9670 or logon to www.durfees.com
ADVANCED PINSTRIPE ART–Since the days of Von Dutch, hot rod and motorcycle enthusiasts have used pinstripes both as stand-alone art, and as a compliment to a flame or graphic paint job.
Timothy Remus uses over 500 color images to present the work of 11 well-known pinstripe artists. Each chapter presents one start-to-finish project and an interview with the artist. The photo sequences take the viewer from the initial sketch to the finished design. Text explains each step of the artwork, the interviews explain the artist’s choice for paint and brushes. The artwork, often complimented with gold leaf or airbrush colors, is done on panels as well as various vehicles and components.
Advanced Pinstripe Art brings the reader into the shop of some of this country’s best pinstripe artists, for an intense and intimate how-to lesson. This is pinstripe school, taught by masters, brought to your own home or shop. U.S.
This book can be purchased from Wolfgang Publications, 217 2nd Street North, Stillwater, MN 55082. Order by phone at 651-275-9411 or on the web at www.wolfpub.com.
BIKERNET 5-BALL RACING SHIRTS–I just got my shirt that I ordered and was stoked to receive the patch andthe stickers as a freebee!! I have had the privilege to work thestart/finish line at the last 2 BUB events. My Dad and I ran the 8-mile lastyear, and I was at the 5 mile in 2005.
I have been keeping in touch withValerie via E-mail sense the last BUB event and I would love to see her getinto the 200 MPH Club.
The fact that she could do it with a Pan Head motor would make it that muchbetter! I have been reading about the (Assault Weapan) concept bike on yourweb site and I think you are on the right track to achieve your 200MPH goal.
Aero + HP + traction = SPEED.I have 2 ideas you might want to think about.
1) Traction:John Noonan on his record setting Hyabusa, (almost 260MPH) attachessomething like 175lb of lead weight on his swing arm to gain more tractionon the salt. Every bike will hit its “Aero wall” and no amount of HP willmake it go faster on the salt. The rear tire will just break loose. Valeriehas many talents but weight on the rear tire is not one of them.
2) The rules say you can only (Streamline the bike so much) The rules do notsay how much you can streamline the rider. It would seem to me that a ridersleathers and speed hump could be fashioned to create more down force on therear tire and still be slippery in the wind.
Wishing you the very best of luck at the 2007 Speed Trials by Bub, and Ilook forward to seeing you on the salt!
–Bob
ENVY CYCLES/STREET WALKER EXHAUST PROJECT BIKE–We’re a little behind as we’re trying to get a new bike we’re building,broke down and into paint.When 330 tires had first hit the market a couple of years ago and still anovelty I was looking at one in a vendor’s booth at a bike show.After about the fourth time my wife had to drag me away from the tire andback to our booth to answer questions. She went over to the vendor andbought the tire. She brought the tire back to our booth and said, “quitdroolin and start buildin’.”
Ireasoned that they looked so out of proportion because we’d takenmotorcycle dimensions that were originally scaled around a 130/140 16″ reartire and blew up the ass end of the bike until we could shoe horn in a tirefour times the width of the original tire that the motorcycle was designedaround. Rolling with that I figured if I started with the rear tire andbuilt forward trying to make the bike proportioned so that the 330 didn’tover power the rest of the bike.
Keeping in mind that I’ve always loved choppers and particularly long bikes,I sort of started with the tire and built forward. I didn’t pay anyattention to numbers, like stretch and rise, and instead went by feel andwhat looked right to get the long bike look I was chasing after. I wantedthe bike, long and low and wanted to sit down into the bike.
After ourSlingshot bike came out in the magazines we had hundreds of calls for achassis like that but most of the requests were for a Softail version of theSlingshot. Keeping that in mind, rather than make the 330 bike a rigid framewhich is a lot easier to build, I decided to really torture myself bybuilding a softtail chassis.
I’ve had to make virtually everything for the bike because it is truly a oneoff. Now we’re starting paint and hopefully it’ll be on the road in a fewweeks.
–Terry Envy
Envy Cycle Creations
DURFEE GIRDER SEARCH ANSWERED– Some one wrote in the Bikernet News, Article # 030200 the following: THE SEARCH FOR A DURFEE GIRDER–Yes, I’m looking for a Durfee Girder for the Sturgis West Coast Choppers project. I actually found one through Phil in Maine. Then I lost touch with Phil. Damn. If you know Phil or where I can find a Durfee Girder, let me know quick
I don’t know how old this question may be but once again I apologize for not seeing it and responding sooner. All the contact information for getting a hold of me is below. I do check emails 6 days a week and all web site responses also arrive as emails. The phone numbers below will usually catch me six days a week here at the shop.
Durfee Girders are alive and better than ever. You’ll see two featured in this news.
Paul Durfee
Durfee Enterprises, Inc.
3228 NE Rivergate St.
McMinnville, Oregon 97128
503-472-9670 (office)
503-472-9645 (fax)
info@durfeegirders.com
www.durfees.com
SEE THE H-D MUSEUM!–The Harley-Davidson Traveling Museum 18-wheel trailer will be atCalifornia Harley-Davidson/Buell for ONE DAY ONLY, Saturday, December16th from 10am-5pm.
Admission is FREE!
Tour this 80-foot timeline of motorcycle memorabilia from theHarley-Davidson archives.
Don’t miss out! Come see the Traveling Museum and then do someChristmas shopping for the Harley lover on your list!
California Harley-Davidson/Buell is “California’s FriendliestHarley-Davidson Dealership.”
— www.californiaharleydavidson.com
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS–See what happened to the WWII Movie Stars. With the advent of World War II many of our actors went to fight rather than stand and rant against this country we all love.
They gave up their wealth, position and fame to become service men & women, many as simple “enlisted men”.
This page lists but a few, but from this group of only 18 men came over 70 medals in honor of their valor, spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguish Service Cross’, Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honor.
Most of these brave men have since passed on.
Alec Guinness (Star Wars~Bridge over the River Kwai) operated a British Royal Navy landing craft on D-Day.
James Doohan (“Scotty” on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the U. S. Army on D-Day.
Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R. A. F. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans.
David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel of the British Commandos in Normandy.
James Stewart Entered the Army Air Force as a private and worked his way to the rank of Colonel. During World War II, Stewart served as a bomber pilot, his service record crediting him with leading more than 20 missions over Germany, and taking part in hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty.
Stewart earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, France’s Croix de Guerre,and 7 Battle Stars during World War II.
In peace time, Stewart continued to be an active member of the Air Force as a reservist, reaching the rank of Brigadier General before retiring in the late 1950’s.
Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. entered WW II Clark Gable enlisted as a private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles.
He attended the Officers’ Candidate School at Miami Beach, Fla. and graduated as a second lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1942. He then attended aerial gunnery school and in Feb. 1943 he was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook where flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s.
Capt. Gable returned to the U.S. in Oct. 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944 at his own request, since he was over-age for combat.
Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak.
Earnest Borgnine was a U. S. Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945.
Charles Durning was a U. S. Army Ranger at Normandy earning a Silver Star and awarded the Purple Heart.
Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps, more specifically on B-29s in the 20th Air Force out of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan.
George C. Scott was a decorated U. S. Marine.
Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroic action as a U. S. Naval officer aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of Tarawa in the Pacific Nov. 1943.
Brian Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in several actions against the Japanese on Rabaul in the Pacific.
Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the Marianas campaign when he was wounded earning the Purple Heart.
John Russell: In 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps where he received a battlefield commission and was wounded and highly decorated for valor at Guadalcanal.
Robert Ryan was a U.S. Marine who served with the OSS in Yugoslavia.
Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed) joined the U.S. Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Audie Murphy, little 5’5″ tall 110 pound guy from Bay City, Texas who played cowboy parts? Most decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals with “V”, 2 Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit Emblems, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead (representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern France) World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar, Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar, French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star,! French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Medal of Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm.
So how do you feel the real heroes of the silver screen acted when compared to the hollywonks today who spray out anti-American drivel as they bite the hand that feeds them? Can you imagine these stars of yesteryear saying they hate our flag, making anti-war speeches, marching in anti-American parades?
I thought not, neither did I!
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