++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Happy Chopper New Year One of the true joys of the Holiday Season is the opportunity to thank you and wish you the very best for the New Year. I truly appreciate your contributions to the success of this custom Read more
All this Knucklehead needed was a little TLC, a little gas and two kicks.
Speaking of “character” in a motorcycle, the thing I like best about this video is listening to the lovely throb from that knucklehead engine, either at idle or at speed. I wonder what levels of vibration the rider felt, especially at freeway speeds? Makes me wish HD still manufactured a comfortable, durable, good-cruising 61ci knucklehead. (more…)
EICMA is the largest international motorcycle show. When you have good looking motorcycles, naturally the young men who dominate the shows always like to see the hot models that the motorcycle manufacturers higher to attract attention to their new bikes.
Yes, just like day and night, peanut butter and jelly, good looking babes and motorcycles just always go together! I’ve been around a long time, and been to a lot of Hot Rod and motorcycle shows and can’t remember one that didn’t have good looking gals. Let’s face it, sex sells! Okay, let’s exclude the Viagra commercials on TV, I bet that well over 80% or so of the other commercials have some underlying sex beauty component. (more…)
It’s always nice to look at some very cool looking motorcycles. Personally, there’s no disputing that these are some very custom radical motorcycles, but, I wonder how many of them are truly practical to ride?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
A custom motorcycle is a motorcycle with stylistic and/or structural changes to the ‘standard’ mass-produced machine offered by major manufacturers. Custom motorcycles might be unique, or built in limited quantities. While individual motorcyclists have altered the appearance of their machines since the very first days of motorcycling, the first individualized motorcycles specifically labeled ‘Custom’ appeared in the late 1950s, around the same time as the term was applied to custom cars. In the 1960s, custom artisans like Arlen Ness and Ben Hardy created new styles of custom bikes, the chopper. (more…)
LM847 LAZARETH is a pendulum bike with 4 wheels, powered by a V8 Maserati of 470 horses.
She tilts through design and a specific kinematics of independent suspension.
Braking is provided by two brackets 8 pistons on perimeter records of 420 mm in diameter. A detail, the brake levers are reversed to improve ergonomics and accuracy in braking. The mechanism is inside the handlebar. (more…)
San Diego East County motorcycle ride, Mount Laguna, Sunrise Highway.
Eric’s bike featured in this video, is a 2004 American Iron horse Texas Chopper with the 111 in.³ S&S engine. This motorcycle was given to him by his dad who was the original owner of the bike. Eric rode this bike across country from Florida to San Diego California.
American iron horse produced a number of different motorcycle models, their top-of-the-line flagship model was the Texas Chopper. In my personal opinion the Texas chopper and the Big Dtheog K-9 model are two of the best factory built chopper motorcycles ever! (more…)
A motorcycle rear-ended into an innocent driver during a high-speed chase on Interstate 805 in the North Park area of town.
No biker wants to hear about a motorcycle crash. But, whether in a car or bike it’s really stupid to try to speed away and have the CHP case you on the highway. Personally, I think the stupidity level is doubled when you try to out run the cops on a motorcycle. I think in the majority of these situations the motorcycle is usually ends up dead or seriously injured. But, what is really tragic in stories like this one, is that usually innocent motorist or pedestrians are often injured in these police chases. (more…)
American Ironhorse Texas Choppers ride up to Mount Laguna and Julian CA.
My 2006 American Ironhorse Texas Chopper and Eric’s 2004 Texas Chopper. A November San Diego ride up to Julian California which is northeast of San Diego and about a mile high in elevation.
Julian is a very popular motorcycle riding destination in San Diego. If you ride east out of Julian down the banner grade you leave the tree covered hillsides for typical desert scenery. You can ride around granite mountain on S2 (the Great Southern Overland Stage Route) as you head out toward Ocotillo at the junction of Highway 8. now, depending on your time you can just head back to San Diego on eight as you climb up from the desert floor heading west. (more…)
Motorcycle Thanksgiving 2016 Live to ride and ride to live… you don’t stop riding because you get old, you get old because you stop riding. Bob
Did you know that San Diego County has more motorcycles sold in per capita every year than anywhere else in the USA?
I always thought Los Angeles County with its population almost 3 times that of San Diego County would have more motorcycle thefts than San Diego County. But, actually Los Angeles County has roughly the same number (as San Diego County ) of motorcycle stolen each year.
Police authorities speculate that the reason for the high motorcycle thefts in San Diego County is because of its proximity to the Mexican border. From downtown San Diego the border is just 20 minutes to the south.
On a recent news report, it was disclosed that Mexican drug cartels have targeted motorcycles as a quick and easy way to raise cash from selling the bike parts and the entire bikes themselves to interior areas within Mexico and Central America. (more…)