Painting
by Cross-Eyed
When you purchase or build a bike, you make many
decisions based on what you would like, such as
stock or custom, what model, new or used, chopper,
vintage or rat, the pipes, the color and maybe even
the seat. You have to be honest with yourself both
on taste and purpose because let’s face it an old
rigid shovelhead sucks if all you do is long highway
trips. Paint also requires some thought and
decisions that many riders struggle with.
Paint is a large part of your bike’s appearance. Just
like buying a new bike, there are many decisions
that need to be made taking into account your
ideas, schemes, graphics, influences, storylines,
characters and perhaps also mood.
Technical
by André Bobinas
I’m in shit again!
I invited a friend for a weekend
ride but when I picked her up she
was holding 4 suitcases full of
“stuff” … hum! Now what? I had
to explain to her that we were
only leaving for one night so
the clothes on her back, one warm sweater
and some fresh garments for the following day would
be about it. There’s not much more carrying room on
a bike. Well it worked that time but something tells
me that I’ll have to come up with a solution for our
next ride (which will be in “four days”!). I know that
in my previous articles I implored Satan for motors
that would serve hell on wheels or trannys that would
get me through hell and back but this time I needed
divine intervention… God help me! My prayers were
answered with a vision of a trailer. “A trailer?” Trailers
are for old guys! Hey I’m not getting any younger and
will I sacrifice great weekends with my honey because
it ain’t cool? “NOT”.
Our Readers
WILD DEUCE
By Mike Eddy
So here’s the scoop on my ‘02 Harley Davidson
Deuce Custom if I can even call it that anymore.
The only thing original on the front end other than
the hand controls are the front wheel and headlight,
both of which I really like. They have that “old
school” look. When I first started this project my
goal was to add a wider rear tire and rake the front
end but before I knew it I was beginning to build a
“Pro Street”.
This Deuce has HHI brake calipers on the front
and rear wheels, all braided lines and Pro-1 (fivedegree)
triple trees with six-inch oversize fork
tubes. The LED signal lights are built into the lower
triple tree keeping the look of the bike clean which
also gave me one less thing to do. The bars are
Wild-1 “Chubbies” with aftermarket Harley grips
but I’m thinking of replacing them with
Accutronix’s Gothic (grips) and matching
pegs. The Legends forward controls
have a two-inch extension. I installed a
set of Vance and Hines (Long Big Shots)
exhaust for the great sound. I threw in a
set of baffles last winter to quiet it down
a bit because every time I rode past a
parked car that had an alarm system
installed, I would set it off (nearly giving
me a heart attack every time).
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Send photos of your bike, your trips, your
parties, Memories, events, etc.
The funniest will be published. Winner of the year will get full page (once a year).
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we will send it back to you.
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Old School
HIP'S PARTS-SERVICE CYCLE
Phone calls… When you really think about it isn’t it
amazing how much stuff can get done just
by making a phone call? I mean a simple
phone call can start quite a chain of
events. Would you believe that a
simple phone call was actually the
nucleus for the story you’re reading
right now? This article started not
too long ago when a modern version
of Alexander Graham Bell’s (1870
patented) electric speech transmitter
was used to convey some information
to none other than Pascal, our ever-busy
magazine editor. The sender of this message
was motor head machinist extraordinaire Pat
Juteau of J-Precision in St-Hubert, Quebec. It
seems that Pat was a little “eager” about relaying
information about a certain Ontario motorcycle
shop that might be of interest to us here at
Revolution. A little while after Pat hung up a
second telephone call was made. Pascal was
glad to convey Pat’s info, which in turn connected
me to my next mission and subsequently “Old
School” report. It didn’t take a lot of persuading
for me to agree that 900 Colborne Street East
in Brantford was where I was headed. When
words like (Harley-factory-replica) and (threegeneration-
family-run-bike-shop) are used, my
cell phone battery gets charged and my bags
get packed! The third phone call that links to
this story is the one I made to the shop in
question, Hip’s Cycle. Fortunately for me Jon
Hipkin answered my plea. After my intro,
explaining how I got their name through
J-Precision and sharing a few bad jokes, Jon
agreed to open the doors of his family run
business and give all of us a privileged look
inside.
Interview
Heather New
I don’t know about you, but I am so ever
tired of this fucking ego driven industry. If
I were born with enough middle fingers,
I would be content raising them in each
deserving direction. It is ever obvious that
the two-wheel industry is hurting. And I
mean really hurting. Being somewhat of
a collector, I find my inbox and voice mail
filled with emails and voice messages
from those ready to fire sell their bikes
and parts. Sad really. Sad that it has come
to this when in my eyes, builders are not
rewarded for the amount of blood, sweat
and tears that go into their art already.
Plenty of reasons for this industry limp
have been postulated, including that of an
economy in recession, the self-correcting
rebound of an industry after gross popularity,
and maybe those damn metric priced
bikes. Yet, I don’t think anyone really has
the balls to look in the mirror and ask themselves
whether it was something “they and
their ego did” that individually and hence
collectively have put off many two wheel
consumers.
