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Click to see morefrom Lucky Devil The Lucky Devil Metal Works shop pool. Never mind the babe.Inspiration can come in many ways, in this situation it came while installing the clutch cable during a small dress up job. One of our customers brought in a truckload full of parts to get powder coated to completely […]

We have two connections to have an Auto Clutch installed. Either Kirk Taylor, who helped with this tech or Lee Clemens. Lee and Brenda are celebrating 35 years in the biz, with Departure Bike Works in Richmond, Virginia. I'll make sure Brenda watches what Lee's doing.Mr. Phillips of Grandeur Cycles contacted me when I mentioned,

I can’t figure out how old Berry is. He’s been racing and testing engines for a long time.I walked right into Panhead heaven, Accurate Engineering, and talked to Eric at the front desk. I introduced myself, and said I was there to seek an answer to a question from Bandit…..I could tell right away I

I have been using gas caps and kickstands from Mat Hotch Designs for quite some time, even before Lucky Devil was up and running so when the news came around about their new flush crossovers I was already interested to see them and give them a try. I always jump at the chance to chop

Way up in the frozen Great White North of the wilds of Alberta is one of Canada's many hidden treasures. Heather New of New-Line Engraving is no stranger to living and working under extreme conditions and deadlines. Starting off her career as a hand engraver in the early 1980s, Heather first worked in Edmonton, Alberta

The Before shot.Making a Bobber out of a late model Softail seemed the ideal project for the Softail book. After all, Bobbers are popular right now and all we had to do was install a new short rear fender, throw away the front fender, install a solo seat and get rid of the factory dash

Editor’s Note: Plates, plates and more plates…Always needed but most of the time overlooked. We are on the hunt to document all the various transmission plates in the Bikernet.com Galaxy. It’s a strange search with many variables. We started with Paughco, a classic chopper company. They’ve been stamping out plates since 1969 and have a

Our Panel of Celebrity Judges.Okay, this is completely nuts. We've covered various seat installs, creations, leather etching techs, and now we have two seats built on Bikernet, so why not pick your favorite. I'll do my damnest, like these bullshit reality shows on television, to point out the various attributes of each seat and esteemed

Veteran Pinstriper and Kustom Paint Master, Alan Johnson, opened the 2008 spring bike season at his New Jersey studio by coloring outside the conservative lines with silver leaf on custom orange chopper tins, which belong to a dream build of Dave Stiteler. The term “old school” is casually thrown out in the kustom bike world

There's always a couple of ways to deal with bike thieves. Photo by Jerry Southworth.Thieves are brazen these days; the Son’s Of Bitch’s will take what’s yours without batting an eyelash, getting a huge rush as they ride off with your motorcycle in broad daylight. Short of guarding your bike with a loaded gun, baseball