Owner – Steven in NH – True blue flames inside the Original HD Pinstripe – 18 in Santee Bars – powder coating – big sucker air cleaner – cobra programmer – 255 cams – and a thunder header Audiobarn in Exeter, NH put a crazy stereo in too… Kenwood deck with ipod / iphone hook up in the front pocket, arc audio 4 channel amp, with Hertz High Energy 6 1/2’s in the front, and 6×9’s in the cycle sounds […]
Categories: BestFN Bagger Contest, Readers Bikes
2013 FLTRX Road Glide D&D Boss Fatcat 2 -into-1 w/slant cut & Louvered Wrapped baffle w/ghost pipe Roland SandsDesign Turbine-Air-Cleaner-Black-Ops Screamin’ Eagle Super Tuner Fuel Pak 259 Screamin’ Eagle cams Camtech Customs 16″ Felons handle bars Performance Machine black and elite grips GR Customs Viper Mirrors Badlander seat CVO lighting system (black) Powder Coat Black: Front rim & brake disk Forks Horn Engine guard & mounts Front turn signals Rear turn signals Brake/clutch levers Powder coat Wrinkle […]
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– Stock 96ci with a power-commander and a screaming eagle intake – Exhaust is a cat free stock head pipe with a screaming eagle thunder stick, gives it a unique sound – Front end is lowered 1.5 inches and I painted the forks flat black – The wheel is a 21 mammoth fat 52 spoke with black rim and stainless spokes, also has matching chrome rotors, the chin spoiler came from speed by design and was mean to be used […]
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Like on Facebook to vote for BestFN Bagger – Owner: Tony Rosado – Builder: same – Motor: Board 110cu inches – Bars : Carlinni 16 gangster apes – Wheels: Sinister Big Daddy Spoke – Bags, floor boards, fenders : Harley Davidson – Paint: one of a kind Harley Green and black – Custom Pinstriping: Pillsbury Bike is chromed out and just plain nasty!
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“Loud pipes, loud lights, and loud stereo.” – Owner: Herb – 02 electra glide police. – Thunder header exhaust – Radiantz led lighting – 16″ burly apes – DNA 18″ Fat Spoke wheel – Sony media player – Rockford fosgate 300 watt amp – Biketronics 6.5 speakers & custom tweeters
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Builder: Kustom Kreations Owner: Roger Featured in hot bike Bagger September 2011. Cover feature with an 8 page spread. The bags are a combination on sinister industries bags and side cover along with Bagger concepts loud lids but all molded together. We made rear opening doors from acrylic to mount lights internally to shine out. 21″ renegade aspen in chrome. Rinehart mufflers with v&h dresser dual header pipes. PCV. Screamin eagle heavy breather intake. Sinister industries rear and front […]
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– 18inch custom ape hangers – 2 inch Vance and Hines long shots – 21 inch DNA wheel – Fat Baggers low profile dash – All screaming eagle engines parts bored to a 96ci – Screaming eagle intake
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Photo quality isn’t the best, but nonetheless this is a sweet ride in true SoCal form. Outside Full Throttle from Sturgis 2013
Categories: Amazing Bikes, Sturgis, Sturgis 2013
Cigar Aficionado’s 2011 Cigar of the Year, need we say more? Sure – it’s not that expensive either! I’m going to start off by saying this cigar frikin’ rocks! Yeah, we’ll get into tasting notes and whatnot, but this is one of the best full cigars I’ve had in ages. The only bad thing about this Pensado is that it took me 2 years to acknowledge its existence. For all intents and purposes I’m rebranding the Pensado to El Guapo. […]
Categories: Whiskey and Cigars
We say and do believe it’s not about the destination, it’s about the ride. However, when it is in fact about the ride and not the destination, often times you end up in a unique place. The planned 500+ mile ride from Sturgis to Aspen was cut short due to the myriad of deer on the road and having been told by locals that the route from Leadville to Aspen was considerably more rampant with wildlife and that we’d be […]
Categories: Letters from the Editors • Tags: saloons
Our last evening was spent again in Vegas. We didn’t necessarily have this destination in mind during the trip nor were we certain we’d make it the 705 miles all the way down from Leadville, CO but we did. It was a welcomed stop as we’d been up at the crack of dawn, started the day out at 11,000 feet and 37 degrees and ended in the 90’s. We were worn out from the week and the day’s ride, but energized by […]
Categories: Sturgis 2013
Ever since The Tail of the Dragon the term white knuckle has been given new meaning. Specifically, on our Sturgis trip this phrase became memorialized. What’s a white knuckled ride to one may not be so to another however what remains the same is that this is a ride that shoots sparks of adrenaline through your mid section upwards causing brief perspiration on your forehead followed by ultimate alertness. This is the feeling of truly being alive – pupils dilated living in the […]
Categories: Letters from the Editors, Rides & Destinations
I’ve had the fortunate pleasure of riding to exhaustion and once at that point to where my mind starts to wander about the finer things in life like high thread count Egyptian cotton sheets and plush pillows, I’ve had to find strength to push on to the destination. Nobody likes riding tired and it sure isn’t safe, but it happens and you’ve got to be prepared for it and its implications. I remember when I was a ripe 17 years of […]
Categories: Ride Preparation, Sturgis 2013, Trip Journals
Here I am 34,000 ft in the air rocking like I’m in one of those heart shaped motel beds you feed quarters to. I figure the accommodations that we may be staying at along our ride from LA to South Dakota will be similar. Frankly, if we are lucky this is what we’ll come upon in the early morning hours when our buddies who don’t ride that often anymore are bitching. Ha! Fully prepared over here to be sleeping in […]
Categories: Rides & Destinations, Sturgis 2013
If you ride, like actually ride meaning more than from your house to the city to cruise the strip and look cool you’ll understand the need to maintain some level of physical health. I’m referring to one thing here – the lower back. As we all get older many of us will begin to experience some degree of pain. Lower back pain is very common in older dudes and if your formative years were anything like mine your likely experiencing […]
Categories: Ride Preparation
After the mishap on the Tail of the Dragon the unyielding Road King needed to be checked out so we made our way to a Harley Davidson shop out by Swannanoa, NC. Great people there by the way! Took me right in, fixed some stuff and gave me the OK to continue on for our remaining 1,500 miles safely even though I was missing some fairly important parts (like a saddlebag for example). Going off of the advice from the […]
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Here he lies with pistons and crank Burried up to his ass In the face of this bank He challenged the Dragon To have some fun As you can see, the Dragon won!! -Carl Cooper Deals Gap, North Carolina is home to the Tail of the Dragon. An eleven mile stretch of more twisties than you can fathom through the Smoky Mountains. No intersecting roads, no houses, many of these hairpin turns are banked, few guard rails and even fewer […]
Categories: Rides & Destinations
Your experiences are yours alone. Many may be shared, but what is impactful to you is unique based on prior life events, outlook, neurological wiring, etc. From the communication of shared experience what emerges is the understanding of how much is actually occurring at any given moment in time. It aids us also with gaining new perspective. How those different experiences are reflected upon and shared with one another matters. My longest ride, which I’d done twice (Memorial Day 2011, 2012) was […]
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Taking the bike on the road after this install is like the first cycle of andro…not that I’d know! Inside you’re amazed and maybe a bit shocked, but to the outside world you’re confident as hell, so much so that it wouldn’t be weird at all to have steam firing out your nose. It’s an experience – the new motor that is. I’d need a dual degree in art history and literature as well as a soap box to properly […]
Categories: Amazing Bikes, Parts you Need, Riding Gear
http://bit.ly/Yq0sEv I think a couple extra zeros were added to the left of the decimal place by accident. There may and I stress may be somebody out there who would seriously consider buying this majestic Big Bird chariot which contrary to the look they’re going for – does not fly over the rainbow. Skittles and Necco waffers come to mind. I’ve just vomited in my mouth. Seriously, Kenny Powers wouldn’t even be seen on this thing.
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It didn’t look that far on the map
Categories: Rides & Destinations
On the heels of our article – A Slippery Slope. “It’s not you, it’s me” says self to my 2009 Road King Police (FLHR). “Honestly, you’re perfect just the way you are, but you could be so much better. Don’t you want to be better?” Fairly certain, if the bike had fists it’d knock my teeth down my throat and tell me I should like it the way it is. Let’s face it, of the many things a motorcycle is […]
Categories: Amazing Bikes, Parts you Need
Great finds come out of nowhere, unexpectedly or from seeking them out as a destination ride. I’ve experienced both and though the surprises take the cake the planned destination rides are still thrilling. After all, you can decide what winding and desolate roads you take to get there and are semi-assured where you’re ending up is going to satisfy your thirst for new experiences. I’m not exactly setting this up to undersell and over deliver, but sometimes a good call […]
Categories: Rides & Destinations • Tags: Eats, Letters from the Editors
The most profound experience in riding while cutting through open road is being in the scenery, not viewing it from within an encased hunk of metal and plastic. And though innately we feel a connection to these roads less traveled it’s important to remember we are guests of these places – wherever that may be for you. Native we are not. Let’s call it like it is, bikers don’t exactly roll through town in an unobtrusive and inconspicuous fashion. And […]
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