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LET’S TAKE A BREAK AND DISCUSS SEX–“What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.” –Tom Clancy
“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”–Steve Martin
“You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.” –Drew Carey
“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as meaningless experiences go, it’s pretty damned good.” –Woody Allen
“Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.”–Unknown
ON-2 CUSTOM JACKETS–CHECK ‘EM OUT–TEL: 707 795 6172,FAX: 707 795 6182,
–Mike Reynolds
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Arlen Ness on his first custom bike.
BANDIT’S CANTINA INVESTIGATES THE HISTORY OF CHOPPERS–Join and take a look at the history of H-D from ’03 to 1920, then the history of the bobjob and now the East Bay Legacy. You’ll find shit you never dreamed of.
BIKERNET MEDICAL RESEARCH–The American Medical Association researchers have made a remarkable discovery.It seems that some patients needing blood transfusions may benefit from receiving chicken blood rather than human blood.It tends to make the men cocky and the women lay better
–Rogue
BEACH RIDE BIKE ON THE BIDDING BLOCK–POSTERS AVAILABLE– We do have an interested bidder on the bike, in Texas. We are goingto post a photo spread on our new web site: hotfudgeraffles.com. Check itout next week.I will be happy to bring posters to you for distribution to your readers. Iwill confirm the event on Sunday and if it works for you, we can makecontact then. By the way you might want to check out the Gravity Races atthe Korean Bell. It sounds like a lot of fun.
–George
If you will send us one buck, the Bikernet girls will send you a Beach Ride Poster with the knockout blonde, not the guys, and some Bikernet stickers. That’s just a buck to cover some of the postage to: Bikernet, P.O. Box 1168, San Pedro, CA 90733–1168. We’ll send out all the posters George will donate. Don’t forget to include your mailing address.
BIKERNET CARIBBEAN REPORT– I almost forgot that my weekly report was due today, and in reality I have nothing to talk about. So, whatever comes to mind while I write this is what you will receive. I’m not going to bitch or anything like that, I’m just going to share what’s up with you, maybe this will help understand what goes on inside a shop, since I’m not a journalist, not even close, I just build and sell bikes, parts and clothing.
Biketoberfest is near and we are trying to complete 3 customers? bikes for the event delivery. 3 more bikes that I want to complete by Bike Week (keep pushing them back) and a few, let’s say two or three more for customers and friends here. So I guess that’s a lot of work. I enjoy putting those bikes together a lot more than riding them. It?s a challenge and you always find something new to create or something different to do. In part, the entire Discovery shows are opening minds up of the amount of work that creating these bikes takes. I mean for 200 hours of work into 35 minutes of show, mere Joe’s can see the skills of these builders in different ways, metal work, welding TIG and MIG, mechanics, creativity, etc…
It takes much more than buying a kit bike and bolting it together, or going to the local shop and buying all the latest gadgets and put them on. Like Indian Larry said, it’s art, to some extent, some things are repetitive, but most comes from imagination into form and function, it’s kinda of tuff to be able to apply all the ideas, more so when putting a chopper together is not cheap. So every bike built has new stuff, new ideas are applied into it, and let’s not even talk about how hard it is to come with new, unseen before stuff, when there’s so many people building bikes. Again, and another one of the plus is that suddenly stuff is cool when it was not before. Let?s take a look at gas tanks and such, people hated sportser and mustang tanks, I bet some people are looking at them on a different light since the shows aired, that kinda makes life simpler to builders who liked to use them in the first place.
Another big pain in the ass is tools, I guess most people don’t have an idea what it takes, money wise and space wise to have all those gizmos that are needed to build a bike, plus knowing how to use them all. Now with the English wheel, planners, hammers, sand bags and all, there’s a lot of added skills that need to be learned, and to top it off the most precious commodity of all, time to do it.
It’s a different world now, stick welders, imagination and a couple tools don’t cut it, in a sense I admire Chica since he makes miracles with his magic hammer and a couple pieces of wood, but still he has to be a jack of all trades to be able to pull it off, and very important, surround yourself with people that are talented and eager to better themselves and create as well. Sometimes, if not most times, the right hand man is as important or even more, as the man himself.
I guess that’s all I have to say for today,gotta get back to the shop.
–Jose Caribbean Custom Cycles
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