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Hey, Life is nuts, as you know, but here’s a grand example. For years Las Vegas was the wild growth entertainment center. It was a place where carpenters could get wealthy. Now the unemployment rate in Vegas is 25 percent, 67 percent of all home are upside down, and 20 percent are in foreclosure. The […]

Hey, Another crazy day in paradise, and we’re gearing up for the desert run to Las Vegas Bikefest. It will be a hot action weekend, and I’m assigned to judging the bike show and the Bikini Contest Saturday afternoon. I’ll be looking for her chromed parts and inspecting them thoroughly. It’s my job goddamnit. This

Okay, This has been another crazy week in Paradise. Just about time I’m scrambling to catch up with content, bike builds, building efforts, and freelance projects, someone breaks down and needs emergency assistance, or we have a problem with the site. Last week, we were about to wrap up an exciting 911 Sunday Post, and

Hey, Another amazing week in Paradise. You wouldn’t believe it, if I tried to explain, but if it unfolds you’ll be the first to know, after the Cantina Members get the first glimpse. Big News this week is the Advanstar run to build their Indy dealer show this year. In the likes of a poor

Hey, We had a quick adhoc meeting regarding Bikernet projects. There’s been some pressure to reduce the number of projects, but in a sense I feel it’s the nature of things flying at us constantly. The key is saying, “No.” That’s a tough one around the headquarters. In the event of any question regarding projects,

Hey, This is one of those days where I’m not sure which way to turn. I could build bikes and get my Mudflap girl purring. The Wire plus speedos landed, and fab Kevin helped me with a Mudflap girl shift linkage. It’s sort of a tribute to a talented builder who is no longer in

Hey, Nyla bugs me at least once a week, “Slow down. Cut the number of projects,” she says, turns her back and slams the door. Of course she wants to take on a part time job as a waitress at the Chowder Barge, take more martial art and yoga classes, make art from old shoes,

Hey, Ray C. Wheeler and I just rolled back into the headquarters from Sturgis last night. Damn, we still had connections on the list that were missed, but we cut a dusty trail into Las Vegas, met with Joe Zanelli, who owns Rocky’s on Maryland, just off Silverado and got a fantastic lunch and a

Hey, As you read this Ray Wheeler, the new V.P. at Bikernet, and I will be cutting a dusty trail toward the Badlands to catch the Hamsters, who ride every year to Sturgis from the West Coast. Here’s the big news of this week: Tonight Show host, Jay Leno, will lead thousands of bikers to

Hey, Less than a week and we’ll be on the road to the Badlands in the Bikernet Hearse, pulling a trailer with the Sturgis Chop and the Salt Shaker loaded. We are scrambling on many fronts. We are about to launch a new Cantina Membership program with Dairyland Insurance discounts and up to 15 percent

Hey, What the hell? If this day isn’t packed with nuts… Hang on for this news. I don’t even want to venture into the fray. Let’s just let it unfold. We’re headed to Bennett’s Performance on Sunday for their open house and a tour of Branch O’Keefe Flow Metrics, where they rebuild, port, and flow

Hey, This news will fry your fingertips. As the sun kicked into 6th gear over Southern California, action at the headquarters heated to the extreme. We are now actively working on Bandit’s Barista, a coffee shop in the front of the building, due to open about the time the city finishes widening Harry Bridges Blvd.

Hey, This might be the wildest news ever, although a voice from South Carolina told me the lovely Nyla kicked my news ass last week–WTF. Okay, so I’m challenged to best her pithy news effort with Trike event shots from Art, the magnificent moto-journalists from Quick Throttle Magazine. We have Smoke Out shots from the

Westarted the Long Road ride in New Orleans with Anson, the Prince Najar and Edge.We rode to Destin, FL.  I busted a shiftlinkage bolt and made it the last 80 miles on tiewraps. The next morning wefixed it with the help of bros in the parking lot. We rode out with the GangsterChopper crew, from

Hey, This is incredible. I picked up my Spitfire frames, front ends, forward controls, and a lot of Spyke and Compu-fire parts for our Mudflap FXR builds yesterday. And Saturday I’m outta here to New Orleans, jump a Victory Highball and haul ass to North Carolina for the Smoke Out. What a wild Adventure. I’m

Hey, This week has been nuts. The Amazing Shrunken FXR is back, sold and we are dicking with it. In fact it had straight pipes and we are adding some Mr. Lucky shorty muffler tomorrow. I attended a local ABATE meeting this week on the Chowder Barge. There was only a handful of concerned folks.

Holy Shit, This news is already kicking my ass, so hang on. At one time the news was the only item on the Thursday list. Now it includes switching out the home page book deal, adding to the blog, changing out the Bikernet Classified deal of the week, sending more info to Ben for the

Hey, This is going to be a wild Memorial Day Thursday News. All sorts of good info. A local kid, Buster Cates, bought the Amazing Shrunken FXR and it’s being delivered back home today by Keyboards shipping. If you need a bike shipped anywhere, give them a call. Next, we found the best possible home

Hey, We are making progress in the shop. I picked up my engine yesterday, after Eric Bennett, of Bennett’s Performance, in Long Beach, installed my Branch O’Keefe ported and polished heads, new Andrews cam, and put my stock Evo engine back together. I brought it home in the Hearse, and I’ll have another Mudflap Girl

Hey, We’ve run across a problem with our web site upgrade. The new guys didn’t transfer all over our material over, and that was a critical element in our decision to move the site. We couldn’t lose one misspelled word. They now have an intern on the case. They are going to run through each

Hey,This is going to be an earth shaking, do or die news. It’s also packed with “Chance of a Lifetime” items, and Laughlin images. So take it slow and give it some thought. At the end I’ll fill you in on upcoming Bikernet editorial. This was a pressurized week, but it’s beginning to come to

  We’ve had a week from hell with technical difficulties from AT&T.  Numerous calls to tech support, three Technician visits and two ‘solutions’ later, we still have a problem.  The internet blinks in and out, causing us to lose what we’ve been working on, and not to mention that it takes FOREVER to do the

        Hey,   Laughlin is flying at us, and we are planning a secret run into the desert to meet with a couple of industry agents, find all the hot redheads, and then slip outta town. I know, I’m too old for hot redheads, but it’s a warm comforting thought, when I