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CUSTOM BELT DRIVES AND UPGRADES FROM HITECH– THE NEW belt drive system from Hitech LED Products uses a massive six-inch wide belt. Outer bearings at the clutch assembly and engine pulley provide additional support.
Hitech belt drives are supplied with a Barnett Scorpion clutch and ready for immediate bolt-on installation.For big-inch motors, optional clutches of lock-up or double stack type are also offered.The system is also available with 4in or 5in belts and Hitech says there are 15 different specifications, creating a wide choice.
Hitech also offers belt drive cover upgrade options to fit BDL, Karata and Billet 4-U primaries, which are styled to create a new look for the motorcycle.
HITECH LED PRODUCTS
Canoga Park, California, USA
Tel: 818 887 0136
Fax: 818 887 0137
E-mail:mailto:info@hitechledproducts.com
http://www.hitechledproducts.com
COORS LIGHT!–One hot Saturday afternoon, I was sitting in my lawn chair in the shade,drinking beer and watching my wife mow the lawn.
The neighbor lady from across the street was so outragedat this that she came over and shouted at me,”You should be hung.”
I took a drink from my glass of Coors Light,wiped the cold foam from my lips,lifted my darkened Ray Bansand stared directly at this nosey bitch and then calmly replied…”I am, and that’s why she cuts the grass.”
–from Skooter
BILLET ALUMINUMCENTER GUARD–Keep your belt drive safe with Primo’s ALL NEW SHOW CHROMED billet aluminum center guard keeps foriegn objects out of your Brute IV or Brute V belt drive. Fits all Softail style Brute IV or V applications as well as all Brute IV & Brute V rigid frame applications. This stylish, easy to install center guard comes with all required mounting hardware. See your local PRIMO BELT DRIVES DEALER, or contact Primo direct:
Primo Belt Drives
12450 Whittier Blvd
Whittier, CA, 90602
(562) 907-2600 fax (562) 907-2606
email buck@riveraengineering.com
http://www.riveraengineering.com
RUCKER PERFORMANCE BURNS RUBBER WITH NEWLY REDISIGNED WEBSITE– Custom Motorcycle Enthusiasts Can Easily Find Rucker Performance Motorcycles, Accessories and Apparel Online.
Fort Worth, Texas (July 14, 2005) – Rucker Performance, a leading custom manufacturer of high performance, highly styled, custom American Muscle Bikes along with high-performance choppers has revved up their website to include comprehensive details on each production motorcycle, custom bike, accessories and apparel line. Rucker Performance has also added additional security, an ecommerce shopping cart, dealer support area, blogging and an easy to use interface.
“We have received an exceptional response from the www.ruckerperformance.com site,” said Bill Rucker, President of Rucker Performance. “Customers can review all of the options to customize their motorcycle. These options include over 20 color and graphic combinations, 16 custom wheels and 8 exotic saddle combinations.”
Additionally, links to clubs, search engines, auctions, and magazines makes Rucker Performance’s website a resource as well as the company information center.
Rucker Performance authorized dealers include American Classic Cycles in Pelham, AL, Rodney’s Cycle House in Little Rock, AK, Apache Chopper in Weatherford, TX, Big Dog Motorcycles of Houston TX, Bikers Dream of Atlanta, GA, Arlen Ness Motorcycles in Daytona, FL, Arlen Ness Motorcycles in Dublin, CA, Rio Grande Big Dog Motorcycles in Albuquerque, NM, Bikers Dream in Colorado Springs and Denver, CO, Hollywood Choppers, FL and Executive Motorcycle Designs, Lawrence MA.
POLICE MOTORCYCLE SEARCH FOR MOVIE–My name is Travis Holt and I work for Shadowlight Pictures in Atlanta, GA. We are currently looking for individuals who have access to a police motorcycle circa late ’70s to be in a film. Are their any organizations in the Atlanta area that we should contact?
–TRAVIS
“tmholt.1@juno.com”
WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ PETROLEUM BASED FUELS–As far as we know hydrogen is the simplest element in the Universe. It’s everywhere. A lot of it in water, in the air, in space. Inexhaustible and basically free. You don’t need to mine it, process it, charge $3 bucks a gallon for it. It used to be SciFi material but now you can ride a hydrogen fuelcell powered motorcycle and for only $6K. We can thank the Brits for finally making it a practical reality. Furthermore, the company, Intelligent Energy, is making a very small move to Los Angeles, where else to get their eco-friendly ENV Fuel Cell bike off the ground. ENV stands for Emissions Neutral Vehicle. Sounds like a cousin of R2D2.
Now don’t start making the jokes but the company’s CEO is named Bradbury, not Ray but Harry who says, “In the none-too-distant future, people will be able to use a bike like ENV to leave work in an urban environment, drive to the countryside, detach the CORE and attach it to another vehicle, such as a motorboat, before going on to power a log cabin with the very same fuel cell, which could then be recharged from a mini hydrogen creator the size of a shoebox.”
Latest word is that the zero-emission (only a bit of heat and some water vapor) bikes will for sale by 2006 at a very user friendly price of $6,000, and even that will be reduced as production increases. If ENV does indeed come to pass, it will earn Intelligent Energy the bragging rights to being the first company to have a production-line fuel cell vehicle of any kind, much less a motorcycle, on the market.
Backing up the plan, CA Gov. Arnold says he wants to create a “hydrogen highway” of filling stations for fuel cell vehicles. The ENV carries two portable hydrogen fuel containers or cells called Cores that fit under the bike’s seat. The plan is to use them the cells to power all kinds of things and reduce admissions around the world. The ENV may indeed pave the way for a brave new, cleaner world.
The bike runs in silent mode, can hit a top speed of 50 and, surpassing most electric vehicles, can keep on going for four hours before needing to fill up at the hydrogen station. No word yet if OCC will be building an ENVironmater for Schwarzenegger.
BIKERNET AUSTRALIAN CORRESPONDENT RAY RUSSELL ATTENDS WBF HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT–Last Friday night I was a guest at the vacant WBF World Heavyweight TitleFight, between Rob Calloway – USA and Bob Mirovic – Aust.Pic’s show pre fight with Title Belt and can you believe with the Winner RobCalloway – USA (yes he looks bad! You should have seen him at breakfast!).
Without a doubt one of the best Heavyweight Title Fights in many yearswherein the fight went the distance (12 rounds) with both boxers neverholding/grapling but just slugging it out!!!
Rob Calloway won on a 2 points margin decision!
Bob Mirovic was taken to hospital with a broken jaw!
JUST TRUE GUTS ON BOTH THEIR PARTICIPATION!!!
Cheers,
–Ray R.
Valerie and Charlie. Valerie races her own Vrod; all I can say is the lady has balls. Check out her website by clicking on the banner below. Layla
THAT’S A FUCKIN’ WRAP– This news is going to kick my ass. It’s gets bigger every week. I’m trying to ride the Shovelhead daily. Next week, I may add a couple of Pro One running lights, change the oil, consider pulling the petcock, trying to judge how much gas it will carry. I’ll buzz the GPS speedo guy for not getting back to me, tighten all the fasteners, adjust the valves and ride the shit out of it. I’m following the Eddie Trotta break-in formula. I ride it, then tweak, then ride, then tweak, until no further tweaking is necessary.
I’ll polish that belt buckle and wear it all the way to the Badlands for the CrazyHorse ride to the monument. Then I’ll turn it over to the raffle prize winner.
This is an interesting time. A brother in Alpine, California, Bobby Baldwin who worked exclusively for years on Excelsior-Henderson sent me the first five copies of In The Wind magazine. He’s built one of the only two in-line 4 motorcycles in this country today. If you’re near San Diego and want to check out a serious class motorcycle in an Excelsior-Henderson frame drop by The Biker Shack, 2226 Alpine Blvd., Alpine, CA (619) 445-9993.
Watch in the near future as we feature more bikes and begin a wild road test series with a feature on the Hellbound Wicked, then a Thunder Mountain Chopper and we hope to follow those two with a Big Dog, American Iron Horse and a Bourget 330. It was five riders/writers/photographers on production choppers tearing through a weekend run.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
