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  1. Papi

    Who's your favorite Powder Coater for MC stuff?

    Hey gang, who's your favorite powder coater (including blasting and prep) in the Bay Area? Also looking if they do other coatings like Cerakote. I have MC frames, wheels, parts, all kinds of sizes. What say you? TIA
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    Back from the Mojave Mile/Magnum, New 200MPH Club Member

    The 2018 West Coast Top Speed Season is Officially Underway! This last weekend was opening of the Mojave Mile/Magnum, and the first event in Top Speed. After running 199MPH there last year in 2017, I was determined to break out and get a more solid pass. After the shake down pass at 170, the...
  3. Papi

    Holiday Special! SpotTrace only $49.99 Protect your Stuff!

    Hey Barfers!! Spot Trace is now only $49.99 until December 31st, 2016. It's a great time to save money and get your bike/car/boat/trailer protected! Please send me an email- racing@apgi.com, or call me direct 1-650-444-6824 and I'll be happy to help you out. We also have IP67 Power Cables for...
  4. Papi

    Let's stop Trailer and MC Theft!

    Barfer's - Like you, I'm just sick of hearing another buddies trailer or bike got stolen. Thieves are scumbag maggots! I've had racing friends lose highly valuable collectable bikes that were stolen along with their trailer and truck! Well, we decided to help do something about it, and we...
  5. Papi

    RIP Sam Wheeler - MC Streamliner Legend

    Sam Wheeler died after crashing his MC Streamliner at Bonneville during the test and tune session, then complications from surgery. Sam was the epitome of Bonneville and LSR with his heart and soul in our sport. He was innovative and a true sportsman through and through. He will be sadly...
  6. Papi

    Coming out of the darkness.

    My fellow barfers, I'm coming out of the darkness, with a hope to help others. This year I took part in a program that used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy to address my lifelong depression. After years of medications and therapies (over 30 years), it became clear to me that I...
  7. Papi

    Where's Waldo, or WTF happened here?

    OK Barf wizards, let's see who knows what happened here. Hint: It's not the chain. Before I rip this apart and shoot a bunch of pix; I'd like to see who can figure out what the issue is and why it happened. Successful and most - thought out thorough answer articulated well - will get a Mojave...
  8. Papi

    Eroding away at the BLM, one chip at a time

    For all of you following Clear Creek, I pulled out of the public on that in 2010. Since that time, those of us behind the scenes took another angle to erode the BLM's power. Here is one such action pending-...
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    Let's talk about Dog food

    It's taken a long time, and a lot of abuse, but I'm becoming a true believer in you are what you eat. My own personal battles with food, emotional eating, blah blah blah... Anyway, I have two Weimaraner's, one AKC purebred (dog), and the other is a puppy milled runt rescue (bitch). Almost all...
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    I'm a dead man, save me before I'm deader...

    So it's a Wednesday night, I take the wife unit out for her birthday dinner. All's good, bellies are full, and then I do it. Leaving the place we are at, I'm backing up, the smash the wife's newish car into a pole. Yeah, like that. The crunch was nauseating. I thought I had actually hit another...
  11. Papi

    Je Suis ThumperX

    Yes.
  12. Papi

    Cafe Racer "Custom" style in WSJ

    WSJ had a nice article about custom cafe styled bikes today. Here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-simple-beauty-of-the-custom-built-cafe-racer-motorcycle-1429805322 :Party .
  13. Papi

    MothaPhookin Four Fifty Four!

    Hey Fellow Barfers! Have I got a deal for you!! We are rebuilding our racing tow vehicle and this wonderment of a motor just popped out of it. It was like giving birth to a precious baby beluga whale covered in fresh Exxon Valdez crude. You will not find another like this, I promise you. With...
  14. Papi

    SSR Racer Nick just up'd his game

    Fellow Barfers- Please congratulate with me, my team mate and fellow racer on the Shooting Star Racing Team, Nick Gomez (and fellow barfer) for receiving his first #1 AMA Plate. His outstanding and (believe me when I say) challenge at the AMA Land Speed Championship was exceptionally well...
  15. Papi

    Digital Designer/Art/Drawer Person for thing

    Second posting, so I'll skip all the detail again. We put it up on CL to, so read all about it here: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/crg/4714587254.html
  16. Papi

    They always run the best...

    .. just before they blow. :( If you are gonna waste 15 minutes on the interwebz today, at least do it with some awesome video aboard a TZ @ Brands Hatch. That bike is as crisp as she comes, just before the boom boom. UNVqcFvoRq4#t :ride .
  17. Papi

    Fiverr - wut?

    OK, I'm getting desperate for some reasonably priced design/art work. Some is logo, some is illustration, typography design, blah blah, the usual graphics design stuff. So I'm poking around Fiverr and see some decent work, I send a few messages - proposals to artists/designer types in...
  18. Papi

    Congrats to Nick (Lucky13xx) -New AMA Record!

    I'm super proud to see and announce in the AMA Record book another one of our own! Congrats to my team mate Nick (Lucky13xx) for doing the deed and pushing that old Suzuki (vintage at that) to a new Top Speed Record! 2014 AMA Land Speed Grand Championships – Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials...
  19. Papi

    (Update: BIKES RECOVERED) 4 Cannonball Motorcycles Stolen- Please help $20k REWARD

    Barfers, please spread the word far, deep and wide to help find these classic MC's stolen, including the trailer. Appreciate it, --Papi $20,000 Reward! PLEASE HELP! Read, share, spread the word. Last night, four Motorcycle Cannonball bikes and their support truck and trailer were stolen from...
  20. Papi

    Sweet baby jeebus- NEW RG500 x2 on ebay

    6 days to go, now at $95kAU, 54k£ or $87,000USD . And the bidding isn't over yet. 2 Brand New never ridden RG500's. Taken from crate, stored indoors. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331311773114 I just wet myself. Twice.
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