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News and Links for 2006-04-16


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  • Barnett's Magazine: Feature Bikes


    Aldo Quiero Gianetto: Magnificat and North American Warhorse: Hot Rod V-Rod

  • Barnett's Magazine: Harley-Davidson's Road King FLHRI

    "Billed as Harley-Davidson’s multipurpose bike, the Road King offers buyers the Motor Company’s touring chassis with its superb rubber mounting system in a stripped down and lightened version. The windshield and bags give the rider long distance touring capability and the relative light weight compared to the full dressers, provides around town utility as well. When customers come into Barnett H-D and aren’t able to settle on what type of bike to buy, we often recommend the Road King, the jack of all trades. The edition featured here is actually the Firefighters special edition, a bike available only for firemen and women. Only the color is different from the regular versions. Several years back the touring frame had its seat lowered to 27.3” so just about everyone can now fit this bike. The wide handlebars and well positioned footboards make the riding position all day comfortable. Weighing in at 723 pounds, the Road King Standard is only four pounds heavier than the Heritage Softail, Harley’s Softail model with bags and a windshield."

  • MAINICHI NEWSPAPERS: Route 66: Historical Harley Davidson

    "Take a trip of two hours down the freeway from Chicago and through the suburbs of Milwaukee, and you'll find the Harley Davidson headquarters, just as we did on Thursday. Thanks to the cooperation of Harley Davidson Japan, the Geezer Riders traveling along Route 66 were given a chance Thursday to look at the Harley Davidson Museum, a part of the motorcycle manufacturer's headquarters usually off-limits to outsiders. Harley's headquarters may be hallowed ground for motorbike lovers around the world, but it is located in a fairly surprising spot, not far from shady looking suburbs accessed via downtown Milwaukee."

  • Perewitz Update (vtwinplus)

    "4.14.2006 To give everyone an update on our Open House May 6th we just got The Dan Lawson Band. They will also be playing at the Buffalo Chip in Sturgis. We will be having food, raffles, entertainment, and back by popular demand, burnouts! Don't miss the fun and excitement! Perewitz Cycle Fab will also be doing another Discovery Biker Build-off. The filming will begin in June, with LIVE filming on June 21st at our Bike Night. Come by and show your motorcycle spirit! Check out iTunes in begining of May for a new show Master Builder staring Dave and his crew at Perewitz Cycle Fab. These videos will be How-To customize your stock harley. He goes through every step to making your bike custom! You can learn how to put a PM Phattail Kit to changing the exhaust to raking the frame to lower your bike. Great videos for a guy who wants to do it himself! Check our website www.perewitz.com for more to come!! Have a great weekend! ~The Perewitz's "

  • Street Chopper: Super Cool From Super Co

    "Hidden deep in the big city of Los Angeles is a little-known secret — a cool little custom bike shop called Super Company Customs. This shop is known for taking dead bikes from the past, giving them a new heart, and then bringing them back to life by tricking them out with the true soul of their intended riders. The shop has been around for about 10 years but only started getting serious about bikes five years ago. Owned by Trevelen, the shop originally started out working on mostly Chevy Impalas for the Japanese market but would also build a bike now and then, Far East style."

  • Two-Bit Choppers

    "So where does one come up with the idea of starting a Sportster-only chopper business? Well, despite the assertions of some of my closest friends and family, I can tell you it wasn’t something I dreamt up after having a few too many, nor was it a product of the sleep deprivation experiment I lovingly know as my newborn daughter.
    No, I started Two-Bit Choppers because I saw a void in the current American v-twin aftermarket when it came to cool accessories designed specifically to fit the XL/Buell platform. As hundreds of you have set out to transform worn-out, wrecked or otherwise unwanted Buells and Sporties into your dream hardtail bar-hopper, you’ve probably discovered, just like I did, that nearly no one has put any thought or effort into tricking out the venerable XL line, and the parts that they do offer are largely of the token variety.
    That’s where we come in. As a Buell owner and enthusiast since 1999, I’m fully addicted to the kind of power the four-cam motor is capable of. Like so many Buell owners though, I became discouraged over time as I watched the value of my bike plummet year after year. Selling my baby for barely what I had invested in the motor alone never seemed viable, and the trade-in values local dealers were offering seemed like a cruel joke. Then by chance I came across the Redneck Engineering Mutant Buell frame, and the rest as they say is history. Three months and a healthy shot of elbow grease later I had a custom bike that turns heads no matter where I go, and I had spent less than the MSRP on a new 883 to build it. "



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