Here we go. We have a mission this weekend at Bikernet. We’re building a gargoyle manned solid Fung Shui, H-D engine powered fountain. It has the entire staff in an uproar. Sparks are flying, dogs are barking, and Home Depot is complaining.
Why is it so tough to find a weekend without a run or holiday? Saturday is Flag Day, Sunday is Father’s Day. Damn, we gotta tear through the news, the welder is warming up:
WINNERS AT BIKERNET.COM–Free Contest, Contest Free. You have to enter to win and you have to make an impression on the ladies. These guys had some pretty good things to say and showed a sense of humor. We need that in the world today.
Heath Upchurch
Mesa, AZ
Suggestion: ITS A COOL SITE. I DONT REALLY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS
Wanted: A FINE ASS BIKER CHIC. ONE THAT WEARS THONGS AND LIKES TO PARTY LIKE A PORN STAR. THAT IS MY ONLY WISH… OK, ID LIKE A COOL SHIRT.
Heath gets a gift certificate from Straight Pipez. That way, he can pick his own t-shirt.
BILLY AZLIN
ATOKA, TN.
Suggestion: HOW ABOUT A SCULPTURE CONTEST? A LOT OF US HAVE OLD USED AND ABUSED PARTS LAYING AROUND, SO WHY NOT GET SOME USE OUT OF THEM. GREAT SITE, YOU’VE GOTTEN ME THROUGH SOME ROUGH TIMES RECENTLY!!!!!!
Wanted: I’D LIKE TO HAVE A COOL LOW PROFILE SEAT, I DUNNO, MAYBE A BOOK, OR TWO, OR THREE, A BIKERNET SHIRT???!!!……
Billy gets a set of K. Randall Ball?s books. We do need a contest on homemade sculptures. If you caught the piece on the trophy for Run For Breath, Bandit had a blast making that. Submit your sculptures and we?ll come up with a great trophy if we get a good enough response, and you?re the winner. Anyone interested, submit to
CANTINA WINNERS SCORE!– Bruce Bamforth
Oswego, IL
Wanted: A signed T-shirt from Pete Hill. Four time #1 plate holder with AMRA. He ran a 47 blown knuckle in Top Fuel. He is also in the hall of fame in Sturgis. Want to be like him when (if ) I grow up.
I?m gonna work on this, Bruce. Please email me to confirm your address. Roy Horton Roy also gets a set of books from K. Randall Ball. FREE RIDERS PRESS– I hope you like the paper so far. It’s taking time but I think it is starting to come around. Did you ever get hold of Deasel Scot, or is there any way you have or any of the other writers have more fiction. The locked down bros among others love fiction(me included). If you can give some assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thx Preacher The Free Riders Press is a Thunder Press like biker newspaper. They’re working hard. Support them, if you can. HAWAII CHOPPERS UPDATE– Too busy shaping surfboards to surf the net much, but took advantage of your “garage” section to get some notes on pulling the main bearing race on my Baker 6- speed. Made things a bit easier since the H-D manuals can suck.Thanks. Now to get the front wheel spacers taken care of so I can send this thing back to Bill and Jesse for some welding.Chris T. says you’ll be coming out in July for the show. Hope to see you there. Jay hodge
Overland, MO 63114 – U.S.A. baby
Wanted: signed book by bandit, his choice ( one of his of course) thanks ride on 
FREE RIDERS PRESS
1900A Madison St.
Stevens Point, WI 54481
715-344-6164
THE WATCH–A rather confident man, walks into a bar and takes a seatnext to a very attractive woman. He gives her a quickglance, then casually looks at his watch for a moment.
The woman notices this and asks, “Is your date runninglate?”
“No”, he replies, “I just bought this state-of-the-artwatch and I was just testing it.”
The intrigued woman says, “A state-of-the-art watch?What’s so special about it?”
“It uses alpha waves to telepathically talk to me,” heexplains.
“What’s it telling you now?”
“Well, it says you’re not wearing any panties.”
The woman giggles and replies, “Well it must be brokenthen, because I am wearing panties!”
And the man starts tapping on the watch face and says,”Damn thing must be an hour fast!”
–Rogue
Exclusive, under the table, shot from the first issue of Old School mag by the authors of HORSE.
BIKERNET CARIBBEAN REPORT–As always we are trying to find new stuff to do, putting bikes together is fun, but in order to keep it fun you must do other things. Like almost everybody else that owns bikes, I have a couple of cars. No, I don’t mean daily transportation. I mean cool, let’s go cruise down Sunset cars, rods, low riders, cars with soul.
I don’t know what it is but there’s always some kind of car in progress next to a chopper project. I guess gear heads are gear heads, as simple as that, may it be dirt bikes, choppers, jet ski’s, rods or whatever. As well as a Car builders crossing over into choppers, I guess it’s the natural thing. Cool is cool.
Like I was saying, I have this ’53 chevy that we have been working on very little, but now I decided to give it an honest try and build an Ol’ Skool rod out of it, Why? Two answers, to change the canvas, and two, the whole build will be featured in the new sister publication of The Horse , Ol’ Skool Rodz.
My dad has always been a car collector and enthusiast. He has restored quite a few Muscle Cars in the past years, but I wasn’t interested, maybe since I’m pretty busy with the bikes and the other trillion things I gotta do. But mostly ’cause to me cars are a mode of transportation, from point a to b. Sure I can go cruise the Boulevard and fuck around a bit, but cars don’t have the status that choppers do on my book.
So now that Father’s day is getting near, and I’m almost over this goddamn flu. We are going to tackle this project together, just for fun. I guess that with my building skills and his car knowledge it will be a pretty good team. Sure we will have all our friends around giving us a hand, and I’m sure there will be times when the whole thing will be a total ball, and total hell. But mostly it will be a goal gained thru work and friendship. And a lot of new things leaned from it, that is for sure.
I’ guessing that 99% of the bike builders, pro or at home, dig putting cars together as well. It’s really cool, and even a blessing that I am able to share things that I like with my family and friends. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to put a chop or a Rod together with his dad, without all the drama on TV (if you know what I mean) or ride all over the Black Hills.
I guess no man is an island jack….. Give thanks for that.
Happy Father’s Day to everyone !
And now to the news:
To keep with the theme above , Bikernet’s readers favorite magazine The Horse is coming out with a Car publication this Summer, it’s called Ol’ Skool Rodz and will be available pretty soon. It’s going to be full of cool old school cars, not the glitzy ritzy mega money stuff. Again like I said above, if you are putting together a cool car contact Geno Di Pol and send the feature. You can also check the progress at www.olskoolrodz.com
We’ve heard that Indian Larry’s Pan chop won over Paul Yaffe’s bike at the Biker Build Off 3 in Laconia. Congrats to Indian Larry and the crew of Gasoline Alley. I guess T-Bear will have a lot more info in what went on since he was there. Look for the next one which will match none other than Billy Lane and Indian Larry. Hell Yeah ! it’s going to be a cool Old School chopperfest….
The Horse Smoke Out is taking place in a couple of weeks in Salisbury (aka Hell) North Carolina. All our plans of riding up went down the drain, but I will be showing up as promised with the Run for Breath trophies….See you there the week end of the 19th.
We are receiving a lot of photos and history of H-D bikes in Puerto Rico. If you read this and would have something to add please send us an e-mail. I know there’s a lot of you that have left the island, still if there’s any photos of stories , please let me know.
There’s been sightings of a West Coast Chopper t-shirt in the new movie 2 fast 2 furious as well as Horse shirts in a Metallica? video…. Cool for everyone…. cross over maximum…
Anyway I’m outta here, the flu medicine is kicking in. Before I become totally incoherent (and I mean totally), I hope by next week I will be in a better mood for some quality rant.
Jose, Caribbean Bikernet Report
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