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Here's the factory exhaust still in place. When my son Dale bought a 2008 Harley FLHTCU it didn't take him long to ask me what he could do to the exhaust system. My answer, “a lot.” He needed to be more specific, but he was drunk. There's so much a guy can accomplish with a […]

The new Boss D&D slip-ons for a better sound and more performance. The Flow-Max from Zippers with all the supplied gaskets and fasteners.Life is terrifying. I like simple shit, like working on bikes and riding free. Too much about life revolves around control and complicated regulations, and it's getting worse. But in this case everything

I bought a Sucker Punch bike almost four years ago and have loved riding that bike more then any other bike I have ever owned or straddled. It is mechanically simple and cool. I put over 10k miles on it and decided it was time for a change. I tried a H-D Heritage for a

Old Harley-Rider and professional artist, Chris Kallas, brings many of our 5-Ball creations to life.I'm in a daze this morning. Too much Quervo Gold last night and too many discussions about the sinking economy. It's a bastard when they lay off port crane operators. What does that tell you? I don't want to go there

This article was printed in the Spring 2007 issue of The Antique Motorcycle, if you enjoy the article and would like to learn more about old bikes and meet other people that like them check out www.antiquemotorcycle.org/ This articlewill focus on separate examples of how to either refurbish the existing patina of a bike, create

The Doctor of Belts, the Master of poly urethane, the god of Cottonwood, Phil Ross or Spacer, to the bros who know…This is wild. I've known Phil Ross (or Spacer), one of the original belt drive masters for almost 35 years. I think I ran one of his primary drives in the late '70s. I

You know what they say about tools, don't cha?Unbelievable, I just wrote the entire intro for this article and my Word program crashed, and I lost the bastard. Suppose I'm force to hit “save” every other sentence. Save. Okay, I'll try again. We've attempted to launch a series of JIMS special tool techs for a

JIMS test kit comes if terrific durable vinyl case.With the majority of Big Twin motorcycles being Fuel Injected it is necessary to have some special tools to keep them running right. One of those tools is a JIMS Fuel Pressure Tester. Granted there are numerous parts to the fuel system, but it all starts with

The Kuryakyn budget kit (we supplied the cylinders) is based on additional compression created by the pistons and their 2G gear drive cams. These cams produce substantial power without the need to port the heads. They also use a stock base circle, and thus we could have used the stock pushrods and saved even more

Click here to enter Bikernet free contest area and receive Bikernet Updates. Shims and instructions from the Spyke kit, plus our Mudflab Girl mascot.The Mudflap Girl project is coming together. I needed a set of shocks to work with the Redneck bags around and found some killer, new 11.5-inch Progressive Suspension masters. I had to