Hey,
Life is Bananas. We kicked off the blog this week, and we’re adjusting, as you will witness with this news. The blog allows me to post news items daily. So, for now the Thursday News will become the Special Reports column. I will run items with multiple images or more lengthy features, jokes and reports on Bikernet projects.
Hell, I don’t know, but let’s step off the curb and find out what’s in the street.
ERIC HERRMANN PAINTING ARRIVES AT BIKERNET HEADQUARTERS–The 5-Ball racer has been immortalized by the master Eric Herrmann, who is painting motorcycle portraits on tin for a lasting medium.
We are planning a photo shoot for the Cycle Source Magazine with lovely Lupe and some Torian Leather products. That will take place in the next couple of weeks. You’ll see the teaser shots here.
CARBON ATTACK…Lightweight: Custom Carbon parts by Fat Attack/Switzerland–
“The weight you don?t carry you don?t need to accelerate ? adding to your performance?, states Urs Erbacher, Top Fuel Dragcar pilot and head of both Erbacher Racing and Fat Attack one of the most high-profile custombike-shop in Switzerland. Based at Arlesheim near Basel and the stalelines of Germany and France he serves customers who want that special something, both in terms of custom bikes and performance.
Official dealer for Saxon, Walz Hardcore Cyles, Redneck Cycles, Rick?s Wheels, G&R Tuning and Penz frames, the shop has build numerous one-off customs at their fully equipped workshop where Top Fuel Dragcar and Top Fuel Super Twin are serviced. Now, Fat Attack is giving away their race experience in a series of new high-performance lightweight carbon parts. The bike to promote the parts is styled after the spectacular Erbacher One, but the main bodyparts ? including the tank ? which will only be build to order ? are completely baked in carbon!! The spin-off of this project can already be ordered and does include some incredibly lightweight items.
Fat Attack Carbon Injection Cover
This lightweight cover adds just a few gramms to your motorcycle and covers the area around the injection body of stock Harley-Davidson fuel injections. The cover bolts on between airfilter and injection flange, adding a distinctive high-tech look to each custombike, as well as to stock bikes. A great addition to the current Dark Custom line of Harley-Davidson. Now available at www.Fatattack.ch.
Fat Attack Carbon Airfilter Cover for Forcewinder Airfilter / K&N
Dragracing Performamce at its finest by Fat Attack. This ultra-lightweight air filter cover allows a maximum of airflow with a minimum of weight ? a factor which is often neglected by customizers as weight on the manifold and injection is always applying pressure and stress to the parts they are attached to. Less weight, less stress. The Fat Attack filter also features a build-in function that collects surplus fuel drops that may otherwise be sprayed over the engine. The Airfilter-Cover is designed to work with all Forcewinder-Airfilters, equipped with K&N Filters. Now available at www.Fatattack.ch.
Fat Attack Carbon Headlight
The most radical headlight on the market! Fat Attack?s Carbon headlight is avalable with conventional H4 light equipment or the bright Xenon-lights. Two parking lights left and right of the center beam add to the safety of this very compact design. A high-tech thriller, burning a bright beam into the night, not just for Custombikes, but a real ?eyecatcher? for Streetfighters too! Now available at www.Fatattack.ch.
Fat Attack Carbon Fender
Ths lightweight front fender fits all Upside-down forks like Marzocchi, Ceriani, ?hlins and White Power. Wheelsizes available are 18 and 16 Inch up rim widths of 4??. Consequently, these fenders can also be adapted for all similar equipped motorcycles. Ultra lightweight and very strong these fenders are pure high-tech. Since they will be adapted to the need of the particular projects, the mounting holes have to be drilled for the particular fork. Cut-outs can be custom-made as requested. Now available at www.Fatattack.ch.
Adresse:
Fat Attack Custom Bikes AG
Talstrasse 82
CH-4144 Arlesheim
Schweiz
Phone ++41 61 743 04 00
FAX ++41 61 743 04 01
E-Mail: bikes@fatattack.ch
www.Fatattack.ch
CHICAGO WEATHER REPORT–Hope all is well at the compound.These are some shots of my buddy Brendan in Chicago riding this week! YIKES!
— John Covington
THE UNCLE MONKEY DOCTRINE–Naming a child is one of the most important things new parents do. Months are spent pouring over baby name books and agonizing over the decision. As a society we place a lot of importance on names and attach certain stigmatisms to a name. Matilda can’t possible be better looking then Brittany. Going into battle you would rather follow Alexander the Great then Leonard the Leader. For some the choice is simple as Junior tacked on to the end, or naming after a favourite relative or parent. Sadly in the end there is no right choices. Little did my parents know that SNL would one day torment me, yes “Party on Garth, party on.” In the motorcycle world it would seem that none of us are very happy with our names. It is a rare occurrence when we meet someone who is still known by his or her given name. No, the biker world is full of Bubbas, Mamas, Bandits, Indian Larrys and Uncle Monkeys. As the miles tick off our names disappear and we are given a new name, a proper name that is suited just to us and us alone. We are renamed into a family that is different then that of the “normal” world. It is a world full of Snakes, Pappys, Captain Rons, and Belt Drive Bettys. It creates a brotherhood, a comradery. We often go years before we discover someone Christian name. Perhaps the reasoning lies in the motorcycles, the freedom that they give us. An opportunity to reinvent ourselves, to leave the world behind. We are no longer that guy sitting at a desk 9-5, no longer a nurse saving someone?s life. We are fun loving, we are freedom in a suppressed society. We are there to extend a helping hand to the downtrodden, barbarians conquering an over tamed world. A society of friends, family and comrades, bonded together with the road, our machines from across the world, from all lands, all motorcycles.So whether you are Poet, Loser or Buddha, embrace the name that you have been anointed with. After all a Rose by any other name is still the Rose working down at the coffee shop.-bad Uncle Monkey
QUICK BIKERNET READER BLOG REVIEW–Just read the new blog… looks good, easy layout to follow, I liked it.Keep it coming…like the girl in the Sunday post with the red and silver Evo…nice!
Ride Hard
–Mike
Brass Balls Brawler Makes Debut in Cincinnati– The Brass Balls FXR-styled Brawler will make its debut at the V-Twin show this weekend. Dar Holdsworth has been working for months to get this new motorcycle completed in time for the show.
In keeping with the Brass Balls methodology, the Brawler will have many component options for our customers to choose from as they individualize their bike to their personal style.
In next week?s Bikernet Thursday News we will show pictures of the bike from the V-Twin Expo.
OFFICIAL BIKERNET METRIC BLOG UPDATE FROM THE EDITOR– I’ve got to give steve from kwc a buzz today or tomorrow and see where they stand with id/website/patches/stickers etc. I also have to get with joe and start hammering away on the new blog design. right now i am in the middle of a killer article, similar to what i did with justin kell, with jeff from saint motorbikes (the bobbers i sent you yesterday). look for it tonight. as for the traffic the blog is getting, it’s growing at a steady pace. that graphic of the yamaha xs650 chopper that said “the underground metric revolution” that you posted in the thursday news brought in at least one hundred clicks on friday. thanks. thursday though sunday brought almost 800 viewers and over 2,000 page views. most ever in a 4-day span. in the next 30 days i expect at least 5,000 visits and over 13,000 page views. last month was 4,000 and 11,000. month before was 3,000 and 8,000. before that, zero and less than zero. in the last month, returning visitors more than doubled from november, so i guess i’m doing something that dudes dig, because they’re coming back.
Just finished a poll. ran it for 9 days and got the best response ever, considering i run most polls for two weeks
i was surprised that 40% dug my crazy friday posts, so i’ll stick with that every week. it’s fun to get blasted and post! not surprisingly, they want babes, so i’ll find nice babes that are still pg13 and get ’em up. also, i got one response for “other” but the guy never wrote or commented on what he wanted so screw him.
lastly, racing got a low 19% (bombs got 2% more?), but classic/vintage bikes got a huge 63%. considering the bikes our teams are racing on, i think i can cover a lot of the classic/vintage readers while satisfying the race fans. suddenly it’s a topic that 82% of bikernetmetric readers dig and i’m really looking forward to that back-and-forth with you at bikernet. i think you’ll find it’s going to be pretty popular on your end, too. what i’ll try to do is use the percentages as rough guides to which topics to cover and how often. thought you’d find the info interesting.
lastly, 43% of respondents wanted rides and events. so here we go. first, i’m going to sell my vtx and build a killer xs bobber. i need something that i can wrench myself when the end of the world comes and a souped-up fuel-injected monster isn’t it. i’m making a lot of contacts, locally and nationally, and i think i can do it, but probably not before the R.O.T. rally here in austin starting june 10. if i can go crazy and make it happen, i will, but i need help. THE BIKERNET “FREEDOM OR DEATH” METRIC BOBBER PROJECT? i’m a bit stressed about the timing because the ROT is a huge event and i want to document it in a big way; like filming rides, photographing the rally events and vendors, sixth street bars and whatever else comes up. i’m building a nice little crew of metric riders here and i think it will be a blast. my bar (casino el camino) isn’t geared to the biker crowd, but three doors down is the dirty dog, and my associate cracker is interested in a bikernet/bikernetmetric event at his bar. anyway, it’s february now and plans for something like this need to be mulled over so i know how to approach cracker, in addition to how i can build a bike for no more than 5k out of pocket. i know that can be done but this has to be special to carry the bikernet brand.
of course, i’ll do any graphic work that needs to be done like posters. it would be cool to have t-shirts and stickers made. regardless, if i can do it right, it’s going to appeal to 100% of bikernetmetric readers because it will cover so many of their wants (beer, babes, bobbers, cafe racers, custom parts, rides, events, and builder profiles). if i can get on a clean little 650 bobber, bikernetmetric’s credibility goes through the roof.
i believe that in june, bikernetmetric will be attracting 11,000 viewers and 30,000 pageviews. this leads me to my desire to discuss with you further the advertising capabilities of bikernetmetric (phone convo). you guys already have some sponsors who sell products that custom metric bobber builders can use. in march, can we try to get a few to advertise on bikernetmetric for a hundred a month or a grand a year? how i’m planning on setting it up is there is only one ad per page. the average view clicks three pages. in may, they will be able to make a four thousand impressions for less than three cents each time.
–Trent Reker
BikernetMetric Editor
Damn, our perfectionist BikernetMetric Editor can’t capitalize. He’s not paying me enough to straighten it out for him.–Bandit
FIRST CHANCE BOOK DUE TO ARRIVE AT THE HEADQUARTERS TODAY– I have been a fan of yours since your Easyriders days. I still read er but also go on Bikernet at least weekly, if not more. I’ve also read your books Prize Possession, Outlaw Justice and Chopper Orwell, which by the way is one of the best books I’ve read in along time, and also it’s kinda scary how real close to reality the book hits with the dems. and Obama and the direction this government is taking.
That being said first I can’t wait till your Chance Hogan book is ready, because I’ll be one of the first to order it.
The other reason I’m writing you is so if your so inclined to do. Let you readers in Ohio, Cuyahoga county know a follow life long biker is running for the new Cuyahoga county council district 8. All politics are local as they say, and I have to start some where but the things that matter most to me are riding, riders freedom of the road and conservative values, the bill of rights, particularly the first and SECOND amendments.
Ride forever FREE
— Andy Plavny
(peechsteel@aol.com) (216 214 0331)
SMART ARSE ANSWERS– The last one is a worthy winner.
6th Place
It was mealtime during a flight on a British Airways plane: ‘Would you like dinner?’ the flight attendant asked the man seated in the front row.
‘What are my choices?’ the man asked.
‘Yes or no,’ she replied.
5th Place
A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her.
Without blinking an eyelid she said, ‘Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub.’
4th Place
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at a branch of Sainsbury’s but she couldn’t find one big enough for her family.
She asked a passing assistant, ‘Do these turkeys get any bigger?’
The assistant replied, ‘ I’m afraid not, they’re dead.’
3rd Place
The policeman got out of his car and approached the boy racer he stopped for speeding.
‘I’ve been waiting for you all day,’ the bobby said.
The kid replied, ‘Yes, well I got here as fast as I could.’
When the policeman finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.
2nd Place
A lorry driver was driving along on a country road. A sign came up that read ‘ Low Bridge Ahead.’ Before he realised it, the bridge was directly ahead and he got stuck under it.
Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up.
The policeman got out of his car and walked to the lorry’s cab And said to the driver, ‘Got stuck, eh?’
The lorry driver said, ‘No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of petrol!’
SMART ARSED ANSWER OF THE YEAR 2009
A teacher at a polytechnic college reminded her pupils of tomorrow’s final exam.
‘Now listen to me, I won’t tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that’s it, no other excuses whatsoever!’
A smart-arsed guy at the back of the room raised his hand and asked, ‘What would happen if I came in tomorrow suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?’
The entire class was reduced to laughter and sniggering. When silence was restored, the teachersmiled knowingly at the student, shook her head and sweetly said, ‘Well, I suppose you’d have to write with your other hand’
–from Nicole B.
SAXON MOTORCYCLES Europe starts dealership in Austria American Iron Vienna official Saxon dealer in Vienna– Saxon Motorcycles Europe announces that they have expanded their dealer network with a new official dealer. The contract is signed with American Iron in Vienna, Austria.
The owners of American Iron Vienna are enthusiastic. ?We are very pleased to work with Saxon, the expression and experience of driving the motorcycles are terrific. Besides that, the motorcycles are very comfortable and easy to ride? says Klaus Meier, owner and co-founder. ?Because of the good quality and the favourable pricing the Saxon motorcycles are excellent in addition to our current assortment, especially because they are true American motorcycles? explains partner Thomas Hoke. In January 2010 the shop had been opened, nearby the city centre of Vienna. The official opening party will be in May.
At the moment Saxon Motorcycles Europe has four models: the Warlord, Firestorm, Henchman and the Whip. At American Iron Vienna are foremost hardtail models. General information about Saxon Motorcycles Europe and their models can be found on the internet www.SaxonMotorcycles.eu or www.american-iron-vienna.at.
Saxon Motorcycles, a Rebel in your own style True American Motorcycles
American Iron Vienna
Klaus Meier / Thomas Hoke
Ortstrasse 18
A-2331 Voesendorf
T 0043-16992240
LIFESTYLE BIG DOG DEAL OF THE WEEK, AMAZING PRICE! ONLY $6,995.00–Check out this super clean, low mileage 1998 Big Dog Pro Sport! This bike features a powerful S&S 107 cubic inch motor and 5-speed transmission, Softail suspension, apehangers, extended forward controls, tons of chrome accesories, billet wheels and much, much more!
You must see this one in person before it’s gone! Like all of LifeStyle Cycles pre-owned Harleys, this bike has been inspected, tested and approved by a certified LifeStyle Cycles technician.
SS Trike adds excitement to the 3-Wheel Experience–For Immediate Release – February 4, 2010 – SS Trike has eliminated the lack of excitement that most 2 wheel riders experience when switching from a 2 wheeled vehicle to a 3 wheeler.
At first glance you can?t help but notice the bold ?Big Wheel? styling, and that is just where the difference begins. Due to its innovative low-slung chassis design, the SS Trike is more than capable of handling the power of its Ultima 113 cubic inch V-Twin engine.
?Our trike looks like a Hot Rod and handles like a dream,? said Jason Nieman, Owner of Olmax Fabrication. ?The low center of gravity offers a stable platform and exceptional maneuverability.?
The excitement of this ride is further enhanced by a smooth, race-inspired 2 speed automatic transmission. This standard package is enhanced further by a large diameter 24? front wheel wrapped in Metzler rubber, 14? American Racing rear wheels, and digital instrumentation.
Current options include air suspension, a higher and more forward positioned seat, a passenger backrest, windshield, enclosed trunk and trailer hitch. More details at SS Trikes
69th DAYTONA BEACH BIKE WEEK – ATTENTION EXHIBITORS, Apply online and get proof of coverage in minutes– The Bikernet Insurance Center LLC has set up a “Special Group Policy” For Event Exhibitors attending Daytona Beach Bike Week. Exhibitors can purchase Event Insurance liability for their booth, exhibit or special event for only $75 for a $1,000,000 limit.
This is the best insurance deal in the country and has been put together especially to help our brethren during this weak economy.
So, if you will be exhibiting at the 69th Daytona Beach Bike Week held from February 26, 2010 to March 7, 2010 and you need quality coverage at an excellent price, simply click on the link above and get your insurance quick.
Note the fine print Bros.
1. This is a Group Liability Insurance Policy For Exhibitors. This means all of the exhibitors who purchase this low-cost event liability coverage will be named on this one group policy, so share limits of $1,000,000 per occurrence and a $5,000,000 aggregate.
If a customer wants to purchase their very own individual policy with individual limits for them specifically, they need to go to our website link www.bikernet.com/insurance and click on #1-Event Liability Insurance to get their own policy online. Cost is similarly low at around $100. You choose, we provide cheap.
2. This Group Liability Policy For Exhibitors excludes certain high-risk events involving motorsports, racing and burn-outs. Always read the provisions, exclusions, conditions and limitations of any insurance policy to make sure it is right for your business. If you have any questions or need advice, please contact
clientservice@bikernet-insurance.com to connect with one of our licensed agents.
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