Sometimes I wonder why biker life is sometimes so difficult in some US cities (did I say Myrtle Beach?). Take the French Riviera small historic village of St-Tropez located in the most beautiful landscape you can imagine (have been there many times, done all the St-Tropez crazy stuff…). No place is more protected by environmentalists [...]
TSgt Randy Redman, of Public Affairs at USAF Thunderbirds sent me the following letter about a new OCC theme bike. Personally, I don’t challenge the quality of the fab. work or deny the fact that OCC has probably accomplished the mission assigned by its client Norhop Gruman, but I still think that a motorcycle should look like a [...]
Dirico Motorcycles USA, the brand of Steven Tyler’s inspiration and Mark Dirico’s innovation, will be appearing at the 2009 Sturgis Bike Week. Tyler himself will be there performing with Aerosmith, the official band of the event. Dirico Motorcycles will be displaying bikes at the 7th Annual Metzeler Bike contest on Tuesday, August 4, at Buffalo [...]
Released at the Cincinnati V-twin Expo, these 2 direct plug-in gauges for Harley-Davidson 2004 & up, one for Sporsters & Dynas, the other for Road Kings, Softails and Deuce. Extremely bright LED’s for maximum viewing in direct sunlight. Dakota Digital.
A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00. When the postal authorities received the letter to God /USA, they decided to send it to the President. The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the [...]
Erik Buell is extremely happy. On one of the frozen Dellen Lakes in Sweden, Craig Jones broke the ice speed world record reaching the speed of 148.7 mph (238 km/h) on a heavily modified Buell 1125R. Craig a Stunt Buell pilot humbly stated that “only fear is limiting speed. “I shifted all my gears, lowered [...]
A 1947 Indian Chief Motorcycle restored with a lot of love and passion by Mike Tomas at Indian Kiwi Motorcycles in California. Priceless! Nothing else to add…
Harley-Davidson Inc. is considering closing its main motorcycle assembly facility in Pennsylvania and moving production elsewhere as it aims to lower costs and cope with a sales downturn, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Spokesman Bob Klein said the Milwaukee-based company is exploring ways to reduce costs at its York location. That could include a move, [...]
I am not going to turn my Blog into a recruiting website, but the economy being what it is, I thought that I could help one of my readers find his dream motorcycle job. If you are interested to apply for this “Vice-President Of Product Planning” job, please contact directly on my behalf Henry at [...]
“Wheeler” (pictured on left with Builder Rick Fairless), a Vietnam Vet and president of Wheeler Industries, will is representing the custom Brass Balls Military Bobber on the over 2,000 miles “Long Road” event hosted by the Horse magazine. The Brass Balls Bobbers “Win the Military Bobber for the Troops Raffle” will raise money and awareness [...]
During this week Myrtle Beach Rally, both merchants and bikers seem to have mixed feelings. Not only because of the controversy regarding the city of Myrtle Beach ordinances to crack down on bikers, but also because yesterday Tuesday the city police has installed 4 traffic checkpoints inside the city limits. Something never seen before during [...]
I wrote a post on this topic 3 weeks ago. Blog reader Nicker forwarded to me this text inspired from a LA Times article. Watch out all bikers, because as you know, where California goes, so goes America. “Cars do it. Trucks do it. And now the state of California may require motorcycles to [...]
I bet you don’t know many people specializing in building or rebuilding Café Racers. Steve Carpenter a.k.a “Carpy the Café Racer Ace” is an Englishman who planted his toolbox and lifts in California to show Americans his skills at building CB 750 Honda’s. His dad rode Café Racers in London back in the 50’s. And [...]
Still in progress and to be open this summer, a couple of pictures of the new Colorado Studio/Gallery of my favorite vintage motorcycles painter David Uhl. Expect vintage rides to be exhibited with his paintings. A beautiful place where I would like to build motorcycles and write my Blog.
Gard Hollinger of LA County Choprods has redesigned his internal throttle assembly and he states that it is better then eve. This new unit now uses a “slide plunger” with 2 thread-in double ball bearing pin and bearing assemblies. In addition the new aluminum “outer tube” has (2 spiral travel grooves and has been lengthened [...]
What do you do when a client brings you a Sportster and tells you that he wants a Mad Max look. Flat black paint will never be enough. So, Alan at Santiago Chopper decided to intall a 300 mm rear tire, a solo seat, a Buell front end and brake for a more rugged look, [...]
For the new June 6th edition on June 6th, Big Bear Choppers is going Hollyweird with a Freakshow, a movie stunt man & Gladiator tigers! New for this year, Big Bear Choppers will be hosting a VIP lounge for their customers (if not eaten by the tigers). So if you’re a customer that charged the [...]
What about talking of something else than the economy? Your next vacation, for example. Now that the US dollar regained some of its value against the Euro, why not crossing the big blue to visit one of the European countries. Have you thought about France? (I admit on this one, very biased). Visiting on a [...]
All quality designed and manufactured American products deserve to be plugged in my Blog. Evolution Industries proposes machined aluminum clutch baskets with replaceable steel chain, bearing race, bolt-on ring gear and clutch drive dogs. They weight less than the original baskets and are sold with a very cool 3-year warranty. Evolution Industries has a full [...]
Strangely, no custom builder refused Sylvester Stallone the right to sit on his bike when he stopped by last Saturday during the New Orleans Easyriders Bike Show!!! His most frequent question: is it balanced? So, he had to check and re-checked several of them, but didn’t buy any. Joe Palermo, owner of this bike got all [...]
As I told you before, Greg at Greg’s Custom Cycles has an obsession with aggressive styling and shapes. And still missing to his Deepsickness motorcycle line was a headlight to aggressively lead your way. Now he is offering one with the spiked housing bucket available in black powder coated, mat, gloss, or matching H-D™ wrinkle finishes. [...]
Personally, I never thought too much about it although…I felt it a lot. In New Orleans, I had to have my display next to David Hall of Gusset Jeans, to receive my 1st lesson in jeans anatomy.
A fast post to show you another custom bike coming straight from Italy to participate to the next AMD World Championship in Sturgis. It was built by maestro Luca Andreoli at Andreoli Motorcycles (Picture HRF)
Do you own a pre -2003 Buell motorcycle (or you can buy one for dirt cheap)? A shop in Florida called Lightning Rod Motorcycles offers to turn it into the Pro Sttreet like the one featured here. Quite a cosmetic change. Call Steve Carr or Rick Bonin at 813-416-2666.
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