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CANTINA MEMBER RECEIVES SIGNED BOOK–THANKS FOR THE COPY OF YOUR BOOK. I’M LOOKING FORWORD TO READING IT. HERES SOME PHOTOS OF MY PAN WITH IT’S NEW PAINT AND OIL TANK WITH SPIN ON OIL FILTER.
Thanks,
KEVIN FLYNN, FROM NIAGARA FALLS.
TECH INFO FROM GIGGIE OF COMPU-FIRE–We’ve received several “It’s Your Shot” letters from readers running rich with their RevTech motors or Mikuni Carburetors. Hardcase also wrote us about his dual-plug, single-fire, kick start, ’65 Pan chopper. It wasn’t running right. Here’s some info from Joe Minton of American Rider and Giggie from Compu-Fire:
The Bikernet reader’s bike, “Christine”. She’s aptly named after the evil movie car.
Giggie: “You may need 1.5 ohm coils in parallel if you are running a dual fire ignition,” Giggie said. He needed mo’ info such as: plugs, gap (which should be .035), which coils, is it kick start, his battery size, and the ignition system?
But he gave us some items to think about: For dual fire you need one coil to feed the right and one for the left. For single fire you need to run the hot wire from one positive post to the other. The negative side needs one wire to the front cylinder coil and one to the rear from the distributor. Hope this helps some. If not drop Giggie a note to MrGiggie55@netscape.com.
Mikuni info from Joe Minton:
To lean out a Mikuni change the pilot jet to a #20 for an Evo (any engine size), and #17.5 for Twin Cams. Chance the Accelerator pump nozzle to #50 and adjust the linkage so there is no gap.
The main jet has five notches and is usually set on the center notch. Unfortunately there is not much effect by adjusting the notches until past quarter throttle or 65 mph. The needles are sized #95 to #98. Try number #98 for leaner running.
There’s a Mikuni tuning guide available through Mikuni.com, or they will send you one. Parts are available through Fox Distributing (630) 513-9700. The contact is Bernie. They’re in St. Charles, Ill. They sell jets and mileage kits for 42 and 45 mm Mikunis.
BIKERNET CARIBBEAN REPORT–
There’s lot to talk about this week, and I really mean lots….We all have been choppered out in Discovery, the 100th anniversary and much more. I’ve been receiving calls letting me know how Harley’s biggest party went on. I’ve talked to our friends who were the center of the Biker Build Off’s to see what’s up, I guess their phones have been ringing off the hook and e-mails galore. Choppers have actually gone to the masses, or shall I say, motorcycles in general, well not motorcycles, the kind we like (well not all of us).
I have to start this week’s news with a bitter complaint… I missed Elton John at the Harley party. How could that be? Those ingrates never told me that the favorite performer of all bikers was going to give a concert in Milwaukee; I even had my pink leathers and matching turquoise Twinkie ready for it. Can you say GAY? That performance would have made my trip to the Twinkie Mecca more than worth it, oh well. I guess I’ll have to wait another century for the repeat of such magnificent event. NOT!!!!
The few friends I have talked to said that the best time was had at (Water something), I guess bars lined the place and all kinds of mayhem, debauchery and chaos was taking place, my fucking kind of place, Sodom and Gomorra. I’ve got some reports of the “other” places, which are not worth mentioning here. One thing I really did not think about it and I really regret not being there is that a lot of my good friends were actually there, from magazine people from all over the world to builders and industry people. Sure it was Twinkie, black and orange, official merchandise and wannabe heaven, but I’m sure all these people I call my friends must have had a blast, closed the bars and saw more tits than a party at the Playboy Mansion.
However, all the stories lead back to this (Water whatever) street. Some people claimed to see a few custom bikes, even a few choppers amid the sea of Full Dress Twinkies. Cloning was the word of the weekend. One after the other, playing rowdy bad ass bikers in a fantasy world, let’s call it Harley Land in honor of the peyote induced creator of Mickey.
So now let’s go to Discovery channel. We had the chance to see three biker build off’s. It’s great to see our peers on the tube. I have to congratulate the producers for introducing the chopper world to the masses, which might be good or bad, but it’s here to stay. I’m also glad the chopper builders were recognized by the people as the best, and won accordingly. Even to the ones that lost it was a great opportunity to show what they can do. I’m not even going to mention stuff that I believe was out of place, so I’ll leave it at that. I can only say that being fortunate enough to participate in a couple of them has been the best rides I’ve ever done with my friends and hope there’s many more to come.
Sure some of the best material lies on the floor at the editing room, but I guess it’s a pretty tough job to get hundreds of hours of footage and make it into 35 minutes, and sometimes stuff is lost along the way. Even better yet, there’s one more show coming that will pair Billy Lane and Indian Larry (I guess it was scheduled but someone fucked up!) so we will have to wait for airing dates.
Let’s face it, I’m not being brutal here since I don’t have much time and in reality I don’t feel like it, plus I guess I have created enough controversy with my past reports about the rides, let’s just leave it at that. One thing for sure, if I ever get the chance to be on a Build Off, it will look like Monster Garage in chopper building, since I’m going to get as many friends over to help me out.While I’m on this, our friend Melanie has redone her website and it’s looking pretty good, it’s about what we love, hot chicks and choppers, check it out at
I’m in a hurry, since we have to get all the shit done for Biketoberfest and luckily the newest hurricane has gone someplace into the North Atlantic. Needless to say, the waves are gigantic so figure out what I’m doing tomorrow, yeap tackle the big surf.Oh well, that’s about it, kinda lame, I know, but there will be more weeks and more reports, all we need is more time. Something I don’t have right now.
Jose – Caribbean Bikernet reporter
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