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CHOPPERS ONLY HAWAII CALENDAR–Here’s two shots from the new, hot Choppers Only Calender that will be availablle June1st at www.choppersonlyhawaii.com.
The island Calenders will be 15 x15 in size. The cost will be $14.99 for the high gloss knockout shots featuring choppers from around the island of Oahu withgorgeous local island girls and beautiful island scenery. You will be ableto purchase them on the Choppers Only Hawaii website atwww.choppersonlyhawaii.com
There’s nothing like a choppers in paradise with beautiful island maidens.
RON HILL JOINS BIG DOG–Hill brings nearly twenty years of manufacturing quality control experience to the $100 million dollar company.
WICHITA, Kansas (May 18, 2004): Big Dog Motorcycles(, the leading designer and manufacturer of high performance, highly-styled heavyweight cruisers, has named Ron Hill its Quality Assurance Manager, expanding the OEM?s quality control team to eleven. Hill is charged with managing the team as it focuses on improving the company’s inspection procedures, techniques, and effectiveness.Hill, a member of the American Society for Quality, brings twenty years of quality control and assurance experience. Prior to joining Big Dog Motorcycles, Hill most recently worked as an analyst and quality control engineer for Cessna Aircraft, a leading manufacturer of business jets.
BIKERNET FIREARMS REFREASHER COURSE–
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Glock: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free Men Do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don’t know your rights you don’t have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights reserved.
11. What part of “shall not be infringed” do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and liberals.
15. Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.
16. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control — it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them..
22. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the “gun control laws” we have, don’t make more.
24. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
26. “.. A government of the people, by the people, for the people…”
WIDE TIRE SHOVELHEAD–I’ve only got four pictures of the back of the bike, but here’s the details. It’s a ’72 frame with round swing arm. The spread is the same as a square unit. I used a 160 tire on a 4 X16-inch rim, ’73 up. I needed a 1/4-inch offset trans mount plate and a 1/4-inch spacer for the sprocket.
The brake rotor is mounted with a stock spacer. Caliper & mount are aftermarket GMA, but stock will fit. The o-ring chain barely clears, but I can turn off the oiler & keep my back clean with the shorter modified chain guard.
The fender is an aftermarket blank we cut down to size and welded tabs to for mounting to the frame. It’s 7 1/2-inch wide.
If the frame looks different in the seat area to other owners, it’s because it’s been highly modified in the seat area. but the same stuff will work on all swing arms.
Total investment in parts not counting rim & tire about $650.00. Hope this helps other old Shovel riders looking to do something different, but not too expensive. Have also used the same proccess on a ’75 shovel with stock fender & struts, but with a 150 X 16 Avon.
Fits right in the fender.
–fritz
EARLY MYRTLE BEACH IMAGES–These were taken at Myrtle Beach Bike Week. I think they kind of go together.
–Bill Debo
BUELL RACERS IN TOP 10 AT BARBER FORMULA XTREME–Hal?s and Kosco Dealer Teams Take on Factory Teams in AMA Road Racing Competition.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (May 15, 2004) – Buell Firebolts entered by Hal?s Harley-Davidson/Buell and Kosco Harley-Davidson/Buell ran strongly and finished in the top ten in the Lockhart Phillips USA Formula Xtreme class during the AMA Chevrolet Superbike Championship Series at Barber Motorsports Park. Hal?s rider Mike Ciccotto rode a Firebolt to ninth place in the event, while Michael Barnes placed tenth aboard a Kosco Firebolt.
?It?s really exciting to see our dealer teams out there competing in AMA Formula Xtreme,? said Erik Buell, chairman and chief technical officer at Buell Motorcycle Company. ?It was only their second outing in Formula Xtreme, and we all still have a lot to learn to help these riders race with the front-running factory teams in this professional class. I am very excited about the diversity in racing that this class is bringing to AMA fans. This class has a lot of technical innovation going on, with the fastest laps very close to Superbike times, despite the bikes having less horsepower.?
Ciccotto qualified in eighth position on the 2.3-mile, 16-turn Barber Motorsports Park course. Barnes qualified in tenth position.
?We pushed hard but we were a little bit off on our race day set up,? said Ciccotto, who ran as high as sixth position. ?The motor ran flawlessly all weekend and I?m really excited for the rest of this season.?
AMA Formula Xtreme is a class open to highly-modified motorcycles with 600cc four-cylinder engines or larger-displacement V-Twin engines. The next stop on the AMA Chevrolet Superbike Championship schedule is May 22-23 at Pikes Peak International Raceway in Fountain, Colo.
BIKER LADY GRADUATES WITH HONORS–An original biker chick and Bikernet correspondent, who has lived and loved motorcycles her entire adult life, graduated fromcollege this May with the golden ropes of a high grade point average and was given a genuine bikergraduation party.
Catherine “Katmandu” Palmer took a twenty two year journey for a two year degree. Finally she gotto sit in the front row of the Indian River Community College Commencement Ceremony held onMay 8th at the St. Lucie County Civic Center. Katmandu graduated with an Associates of Sciencedegree in Graphic Design Technology. An Honor student, twice on the Dean’s list, she saluted herdevoted biker family cheering from the balcony. She also obtained an Associates of Arts degree inGeneral Education Fine Art.
Now in her mid-forties, Katmandu is a staff writer and photographer for two Florida basedmagazines, Saddletime and CrossRoads. She is a regular contributor to Long Riders Magazine,based out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Her work has been featured in Bikernet, The Horse Back StreetChoppers, In the Wind, Biker, Easyriders, V-Twin , The Enthusiast , American Iron and OutlawBiker. She is page 194 in Sasha Mullin’s book “Biker Lady.”
Her work is on the cover of the Palm Beach Palm and Cycad Society Times, a new hobby that sheshares with her husband “Commander” Randy Palmer. They currently have over seventy differenttypes of palm trees on their small property in Port St Lucie, Florida.
Katmandu suffered from math anxiety for many years, a hurdle that seemed unsurmountable. Withthat formidable female biker courage, she spent hours at the Center for Personalized Training,working with tutors to understand the disciplines of Algebra and Trigonometry. “Math really is a cosmic universal language. Right triangles are everywhere.” she admits with wideeyed amazement at this recent accomplishment. “I’ll never say never again”
Her college experience offers big hope to many who may also be afflicted with thiscommon yet unspoken panic when it comes to math. ” I had to study. I cried. It did not come easilyfor me and that included staying focused on the goal. I had to miss runs and national rallies that arecontinuously calling my name. It got really wacky when I’d try to change the TV channel with mycalculator. That’s when I knew it was time to take a break, go for a ride and clear my head.”
After taking the short walk across that large stage, Katmandu was joined by over a hundred closefriends at a graduation party hosted by the Treasure Coast chapter of the US Military VetsMotorcycle Club at their Stuart Florida Post # 4198. Big thanks go out the TC US MV MC for a great time!
PERFORMANCE MACHINE ALL-NEW CLOTHING LINE–Naked is good for some people. The rest of us need clothes. With that in mind, it seems PM’s elite team of designers have taken a break from dreaming up new things to do with aluminum and applied their talents to cotton. As usual the result is unique and the finished product will undoubtedly be appearing on customs throughout the world.
Their new line includes both short sleeve, long sleeve and baseball cut t-shirts, as well as mens and womens zippered sweatshirts and a new work jacket featuring PM’s Hot Bike cover chopper. The headwear group includes a new cap and even a PM beenie for the truly devoted. We are currently engaged in intensive, hands on testing of all of these products and will be reporting on their progress in future issues.
To get yours, contact your local Performance Machine dealer or buy them online at performancemachine.com.
Performance Machine, Inc.
6892 Marlin Circle,
La Palma, CA 90623
714-523-3000
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