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BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–Excelsior May Be Back There I was in Tucson, Arizona, alone in a Mexican restaurant eating dry beef and beans, and she walked in. Suddenly I forgot that I had left L.A. without a jacket, the temps had dropped to 40 degrees and it had begun to hail. I looked at my margarita […]

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–Daytona News and Such Hey, We’re coming out with the news a day early this week, because tomorrow will be bananas. Yes, tomorrow we’ll be spending the entire day at Jesse James, shooting the shit out of everything: There’s that bike he just built; we need another segment of the Great Chop-Off between

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–EXTREME GAMES CHOP-OFF BIKERNET RIGID CONTEST Hey, Damn it’s nice outside. The sun makes allthe boats in theharbor appear cleaner that they are. Thenight’s mysteriesare reduced due to the recent abductionof Agent Zebra whois back in Miami raising havoc with Billyof Choppers Inc.This last week I pounded out the thirdin a series ofmadcapped

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–ALIEN BIKERS ATTACK SAN PEDRO There I was minding my own business. Agent Zebra was in Seoul, Korea, acting as a pimp for a male escort service. Renegade was tearing the touring chopper apart in the garage. Works Performance is building the shocks a half-inch longer and setting the bottom out dimension so

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–RIP TAKES HIS FINAL RIDE That’s right, Rip passed on to the great chromed-asphalt-strip in the sky February 18. He was the on-the-road reporter for Easyriders for 20 years. A member of the Diablos motorcycle club for some 30 years, they allowed him to retire to persue his journalistic career with the magazine

Bikernet New Flash–Sturgis Showdown Gauntlet Thrown!E-Mail Valerie What’s up? Hell, I wish I knew. The sun decided to break out of theclouds, the Street Stalker is repaired, I’ve got parts being dipped inchrome for the Excelsior-Henderson, and I’m trying to fix the rubbing reartire on the Touring chopper, before I smoke the entire paint job,

BIKERNET THURSDAY NEWS CONTINUES WITH DAR FROM BRASS BALLS BOBBERS IN THE STUDIO, CATCH THE LATEST FROM HARDTAILS, MOST UNFRIENDLY, ANTI-MOTORCYCLE LEGISLATION OF THE YEAR, FLAT RAT RACING UPDATE, PROFESSOR UNCLE MONKEY ON ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Continued From Page 1 ASSALT WEAPAN’S NEW SADDLEMAN SEAT–That is one lucky seat and tank pad. What a beautiful combo?that bike,

BIKERNET THURSDAY NEWS – REPORT FROM HEATHER NEW, D&D DOES GOOD, HELMET LAWS SQUASHED, NEW SHOP IN FLORIDA AND MORE… Hey,It’s another crazy day in Paradise. The City of Los Angeles, coupled to a stimulus job generating project, are widening and enhancing the 4-lane boulevard outside our building. It’s a 1-mile long project to the

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH: ECONOMIC BOOM FOR ENTIRE YEAR BUT ONLY FOR BIKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES Hey,Half the country is buried in snow and it’s as dry as a popcorn fart on the coast. Makes a man want to ride more than work. The new year started with a bang. I can’t tell you some of

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH-MOVE CLOCKS BACK ONE WEEK-WE DIDN’T FINISH ALL WE SET OUT TO DO!Hey,Another year disappears over the horizon like a space shuttle trying to get the hell out of Dodge. Each year becomes more and more like a time trial. I set out each year with a handful of goals and generally reach

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–WOMEN DRUG MEN FOR SEX BEFORE CHRISTMASAh, last weekend. A blur of warm fires, warm women and Christmas Parades. Friday night was something out of a Holiday porno movie, followed by Redondo Beach Boat parade Saturday, another party, and a midnight ride on the blacked-out Buell back to the Headquarters. The next morning

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–STAFF THREATENS WALKOUT ON THE 15THHey,I’m innocent, I tell ya. The Union of Pixels and Bytes, Local #352 has threatened to shut the doors on the vast Bikernet empire and walk out on the 15th. Management is due to meet with union representatives this afternoon, and after the news we hope to report

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–SANTA RIDES SHOVELHEAD DRUNK–GETS DUIHey,It was another memorable weekend, beginning with Friday and some garage time. I repositioned the Joker Machine pegs on the marvelous mystical Blue Flame for a more comfortable ride. If you ever build a bike and want top-of-the-line billet components, try them. These pegs were designed with a 3-inch

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–LIFE’S PLEASUREDOM DISCOVERED BY BIKERNET RESEARCH TEAMHey,You didn’t know that Bikernet had a university grant to research the essence of life’s pleasures, did you? It creates an interesting quandry. By revealing our findings, our stock will rocket through the tar paper roof of the headquarters. We’ll become filthy rich and loose our grasp

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–THANKSGIVING CANCELED, TURKEY DRUNKHey,As the sun created a fireworks display over the L.A. Harbor this morning, the Dark-Haired One slipped into the turkey chasin’ mode and hit the stores. I knew the news was slight, but the show must go on. It’s actually a perfect opportunity to thank the staff for the hard

BIKERNET NEW FLASH–MOTORCYCLES STOLEN IN HOLLYWOODThere’s never an ordinary weekend around the Bikernet headquarters, and the Love Ride Weekend would be no exception. First, rain threatened, and schedules floundered under the illusion that there might be a downpour. But the crew at Bikernet continued to prepare for the weekend by getting up late, drinking early,

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–LOVE RIDE MANIA ROCKS LOS ANGELESThe Blue Flame will be home tonight and we ride like hell bent for leather once again. I’ll break out the riding crop and whip her like she’s never been beaten before. It’s Love Ride Weekend, when Los Angeles becomes biker-world for a wild couple of days. Every

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–WILLIE G. KIDNAPPED BY FOREIGN TERRORISTSWe all seem to be burning the candle at both ends. Do you feel the same? I think I’m busy and call someone in the industry, and I can tell by the tone of their voice that they’re moving at light speed. Their words are clipped and their

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–CONSPIRACY CHARGES FILED AGAINST MEMBER OF BIKERNET STAFFThis is ridiculous. We’ve got so much shit flyin’ we don’t know which way to turn. Perhaps I should just go out to the Bikernet garage… and fire up the ’48 and let her warm up. Since we slipped new pistons in it, I’m trying to

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–HEADQUARTERS OVERRUN WITH WOMENBig week at the Bikernet sweat shop. You know the feeling of having a week that looks as calm as Monday Night Football and a cold one — no break-ins, fist fights, cops banging on the crumbling exterior of the Bikernet headquarters, nada. Sure, my plate was full with six

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–EVERYONE GOES CHAPTER 11Damn,I left the highrise, executive board room, life of Easyriders to slow down, and instead have become a speed freak and go faster every day. At least the commute is 20 feet instead of 45 miles, there’s no tele-conferencing and no memos. It’s all phone, fax and e-mail. Orwell goes

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–ULTIMATE TECH TIP REVEALED Hey,Last weekend Custom Chrome rolled out the diamond plate for all its major dealers across the country and Europe to allow them to view the inner workings of the largest aftermarket distributor on the planet devoted to getting custom parts to their customers fast. It’s a gathering of manufacturers

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–GUNFIRE ROCKS THE HEADQUARTERSHey,Life in the ghetto is never dull. I don’t know how to explain this, except to rattle on and hope you get the gist of the story. We had a box of chrome parts of good news this week. The Street Stalker is sold for enough to print Sam “Chopper”

BIKERNET NEWS FLASH–TITAN OFFERS TO BUY GENERAL MOTORS! The week started calmly enough. I hit the Ink Slingers Ball with the dark-haired one and enjoyed the vast array of tattoo art. I was most impressed with the Cori Miller crew’s work from Six Feet Under Tattoo in Upland, Calif. Samson exhaust system came on board