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Amen Motorcycles Offers Building, Assembly, and Training Classes Mike Brown, owner of Amen Motorcycles in Rogersville, TN, is opening up his manufacturing facility and engineering department so students can see and take part in an in-depth, hands-on fabrication class.Attendees will get to build and understand all aspects of motorcycle frame fabrication, along with using all the tricks, tools and fixtures Mike has developed over the years. He will teach up-and-coming builders how to save vast amounts of time and money during their future bike builds. The classes will cover overall planning of the build, wiring, plumbing, and all other major components of motorcycle building theory.Please check Amen's website for the latest news and information about times and locations for their upcoming class schedule. School is in session and Amen Motorcycles is sure to produce many brilliant pupils through their all-encompassing workshops.Please visit www.amenmotorcycles.com, or call (423) 272-6061 for complete and detailed information.

BIC Awards Sweepstakes Winner With 2007 Big Dog Motorcycles K-9 ChopperBIC USA Inc. has awarded Ogden, UT, resident Casey Whitely with a 2007 Big Dog Motorcycles K-9 Chopper and a $500 Big Dog Motorcycles gift certificate as the grand prize in the company's BIC Lighter Big Dog Motorcycles Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes was sponsored by BIC USA Inc."The K-9 Chopper was presented to Casey on Wednesday, August 9, at Rolling Thunder Motorcycles, which is located in Salt Lake City," said Mark Funderburk, associate brand manager of BIC Lighter Marketing, BIC Consumer Products USA. "The Big Dog Motorcycles Sweepstakes provided BIC with the opportunity to reach out to our consumers in an exciting way. I don't think anyone could have been more excited to win. Casey is a true bike enthusiast."Other prizes included a pair of trips for two to Daytona, FL, for 2008 Bike Week and $500 spending money. Twenty second-prize winners received a $200 gift certificate to J&P Cycles (www.jpcycles.com). Fifty third-prize winners received a one-year subscription to HOT BIKE magazine.Visit BIC at www.bicworld.com.

Bikernet.com Tops1Million!The 11-year-old website, founded by K. Randall Ball, recently hit its highest readership numbers to date. According to Ball, over 335,000 unique users translate into 650,000 visits, 1.1 million impressions, and 10 million hits. The average reader stays in the vast, ever-changing archives for seven minutes per visit."We're very proud to hit those numbers," Ball said. Bikernet changes daily with the addition of bike features, tech articles, fiction, event coverage, bad jokes, ride reports, road tests, radio interviews, Bikernet Television, and news covering everything that moves in the industry twice a week. "That's in the free section," Ball said. Over 80 percent of the site is absolutely free, but there is a special section called Bandit's Cantina, housing complete books by Ball.The Cantina archives exclusive antique features, wild motorcycle historic discoveries, The Girls of Bikernet, Sunday News, games, and much more. The Cantina even has its own soap opera that is updated monthly.Bikernet was designed to be user friendly. It archives everything for future use, and gives bike features and tech articles the space they deserve. "If a bike or a tech needs 10 pages, that's what we give 'em," Ball said. The staff of Bikernet.com is easy to reach. The boss is available at Bandit@Bikernet.com, and they have their own forum board for immediate complaints or tech questions.