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1954 Triumph

Aaron Mason's 1954 Triumph Chopper

Our buddy Aaron Mason, owner of Old Rose Tattoo here in Temecula, CA has a healthy stable of custom motorcycles. The old saying goes something like "Triumph. Makes a mechanic out of any man".  Aaro...
Riding to Sierra Stakeout 2018
California

Riding to Sierra Stakeout 2018

It's pretty likely that the day after the motorcycle was invented, someone rode it to the woods and partied with their friends. Technology improves, culture evolves, society changes and a hundred p...
Real World Road Test: Honda CB1100EX
Erik “Westy” Westergaard

Real World Road Test: Honda CB1100EX

Our Product-Dev guy, Erik “Westy” Westergaard is probably the fastest guy at Biltwell, so when it came time to test Honda’s 2018 CB1100EX it just made sense to have this one-man wrecking crew spen...
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Introducing the new Biltwell Exfil-48 Backpack

Introducing the Biltwell Exfil-48 Motorcycle Backpack. We've had some requests to do a backpack and a moto bag smaller than the Exfil-80 over the past year or so we decided to combine the two ide...
Photo Gallery: Cook's Corner
Artsy Stuff

Photo Gallery: Cook's Corner

Every year we host a party at Cook's Corner with the guys from Show Class Magazine for their People's Champ party the night before Born Free. Of course the half-dozen final contender bikes are gorg...
Bill's 1941 Harley Davidson Flat Tracker
1941 Harley Davidson

Bill's 1941 Harley Davidson Flat Tracker

I’m not very good flat track racing, but it sure is fun. After a couple years of battling other hapless amateurs and a few fast guys on my venerable TT500, I wanted to give the whole tank shift th...
Rico's Crusty Shovel
Barn Burner

Rico's Crusty Shovel

It’s a odd story of an oddball bike. In 2012 I received a call from Bud in Austin TX. Bud’s shop was legendary for old bike kooks and I had traded vintage bikes & parts with him for 30 years. ...
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Back to basics

Back to Basics: Harley-Davidson Sportster Maintenance

It's my humble and totally unsubstantiated opinion that Harley riders started slacking on doing their own work around 1984 1/2 when the last of the kickstart bikes rolled off the Milwaukee assemb...
The Golden Goose - Branden Wildvank’s 1949 Panhead Chopper
1949 Panhead Chopper

The Golden Goose - Branden Wildvank’s 1949 Panhead Chopper

Branden Wildvank’s 1949 Panhead Chopper When our friend Branden got out of the Navy and sold his Evo Sporty, he decided to build a sick pan chop. On a recent weekend ride we cornered him and got s...