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 REGARDING LANE SPLITTING! As a former California resident, I took advantage of the traffic law that allows motorcycles to travel between cars when freeway traffic is at a stand-still. In Southern California during rush hour….traffic is almost always at a stand-still. The California Highway Patrol, and the California department of Transportation after exhaustive research, determined that lane splitting eases traffic congestion. Not to mention the fact that many motorcycles are air coole...

LOOKING AT BIKES IS ALWAYS FUN!       Some four wheel car art! RUDYS RUDE RIDE!! THE END....SORTA!

EDITOR’S CHOICE BIKE SHOW DAYTONA 2013  The Question “How Do I Get My Bike In A Magazine” Is Answered! If you have ever wondered how to get your bike featured in a national motorcycle magazine, this year during the First Annual Daytona Bike Week Twisted Tea Editor’s Choice Bike Show, The Broken Spoke and the National Motorcycle Magazines will provide an answer. For the first time ever Bike Week attendees, scooter tramps, and biker veterans can hang out at the Broken Spoke ...

SWEDISH STYLE CHOPPER CHASSIS        This Swedish style straight-leg rigid chopper frame is available in four distinct configurations: four inch over stock down tubes with two inch extended backbone, six inch tubes with thee inch backbone, eight inch tubes with four inch backbone and ten inch over down tubes with five inches in the backbone. These rigid frames are also available in stock or ultra wide rear section versions to accept up to 180 width wheel tire combination when use...

WOMAN RIDER OF THE WEEK    Do you recognize this pretty woman? She is Eastbound on Interstate 90 at 80 MPH about 50 miles West of Billing, Montana, July 2, 2012. That’s a Harley-Davidson Dyna-Glide doing the work. You go girl……she’s gonna need a stiff brush for that hair don’t ya know, but she is in the wind huh? Buck

WHAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF BAGGER?  CHOPPER! They don't teach this stuff in school!!   Way back in the good-old-days when Baggers were considered garbage trucks, Choppers were the coolest. To many of us out here in biker-land, Choppers are still the only real way to ride motorcycles. They are still the coolest. Choppers are the “in your face machines” that squares couldn’t or wouldn’t understand. Especially the no front brake choppers. Baggers are to motorcycles are what motor homes...

EAST INDIA CARGO CHEST     Looking for the ultimate cigar survival kit? The East India Cargo Chest is sure to keep any cigar smoker happy with this limited edition suitcase, full of special hand-crafted cigars made by the blend masters of K. Hansotia & Co. The limited edition East India cargo chest is a copper suitcase full of 284 special release Wicked Indie and Red Witch cigars: 51/2 x 60 perfectos, 7 x 60 Grand XO's and 6 x 56 double strength ligero's, named 'Double Fuerte'. ...

Several years ago (seems like a million years) I launched a short lived publication titled Hardtail Magazine......strictly for rigid frame chopper enthusiasts only. It was very, very popular with the Chopper guys (no kidding) but the magazine was under capitilized and I couldn't keep the thing afloat. Here is a few pages of one of those Hardtail Magazine issues....sooner or later I'll get this magazine up and running. Buck CHOPPERS FOR LIFE.....................

RCX TRUE DUAL HEADERS They hear you coming.....then they see the exhaust system......"TRUE" duals from RCX.       ALL NEW to the RCX product  line up is the RCX True Dual Header system for 2010 & Up Harley-Davidson FLH Touring models (say Bagger).  These new headers feature smooth radius bends and are wrapped in 2 ½” heat shields which are available in show quality chrome plating or an aggressive black ceramic finish coat. RCX Headers include all necessary hardware ...