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NCOM Biker Newsbytes for June 2023 Read More »
At 6:00 AM on Sunday, May 28th I woke up to a crisp radiant morning in the eye of a swirling cold snap. Just 100 miles south of bustling Indianapolis, it took just a few moments to make a seismic shift to a mental, full-on party mode. Under dire deadline pressure, I prepped for the
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This month, we are having ‘Pride’ shoved down our throats and up our asses in a metaphorical sodomized fellatio the likes of which the world has never seen before. Generally, I don’t care who sticks what in where, and the rest of us don’t either. But there is SO MUCH of it everywhere that
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Hunter Thompson once wrote a novel called Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Journalists love it: it’s a litany of stupidity and ignorance and behavior asking for a fist in the face. Journalists can totally relate. Why Las Vegas is dragged into it at all is an insight into Hunter’s brain: Las Vegas bases its
BIKERNET BOOK REVIEW– Opinionated Book Review Dept._ Read More »
Dustin Hill, my tattooed Biker brother from the gym rides a sic-ass Dyna with all the upgrades. He invited me and 5-Ball Racing Leathers to be a part of his motorcycle event deep in the heart of the Texas hill country, about an hour and half outside of Austin, Texas. Deemed The Texas Hills
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It’s Memorial Day 2023. There’s a jammin’ bike show happening in Deadwood. Dan’s hands are full with Sturgis Museum projects. I’m trying like hell to understand Outlaw Justice, my second book and proof reading each page for reprinting. I’m also building a Knucklehead chop and searching for a 1913 twin engine. Spring hit the Black
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Each year, I produce the Daytona edition of the Flying Piston Benefit Builder Breakfast and online silent auction with industry maven, Marilyn Stemp. This year it was a tale of 2 rides, the cold one and the hot one. The cold ride is where all the trouble happened and, well, I’m still thawing out.
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There is a preposterous rumor going around that Caite Upton, the girl who became inadvertently famous in a beauty contest long ago when she attempted to explain, on national TV, why American school children, in a test, could not find the USA on a globe. She gave a convoluted, disconnected answer, no doubt due to
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This tale or tail started after the big poker game in Big Bear, California. I was flying down the backside of the mountain. The high desert, beautiful in the fall, laid out before me as the mountain twistiness turned to bleak open sand. I rode past a female hitch hiker, and she looked to have
In the early years of motorcycle manufacturing, many manufacturers used bought-in engines for their motorcycles as the cost of developing engines was beyond the means of many of them. Of all the manufacturers of proprietary engines, possibly the most famous was J.A. Prestwich, otherwise known as J.A.P. Without
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