The BAKER Gearhead Newsletter

May 29, 2018 News Archive

Release #13

Hot Product Of The Month: BAKER Hydraulic Side Covers

Featured Dealer of the Month: Tell us who should be featured next!

Gearhead School Class: Bleeding a Hydraulic Side Cover

News: Closed on Memorial Day

News: Like My Bike Contest

News: The BAKER 2018 Poster Calendar

News: Hail To Those Who Have Served

Release #12

Hot Product Of The Month: Primary Rebuild Kits

Featured Dealer of the Month: Open Road Cycles

Gearhead School Class: Torque Capacity of a Transmission

Daytona Bike Week Recap

Like My Bike Winner

B-Note Program and Veterans Discount Reminders

Release #11

Truss Style Shift Lever

Featured Dealer of the Month:Rolling Thunder Cycles Inc.

Gearhead School

Daytona Bike Week

Chicago International Motorcycle Show

Release #10

N1 Shift System

Featured Dealer of the Month: Plymouth Cycle & Speed

Taking New Product Requests!

See Us at the Chicago IMS

Release #9

Transmission Rebuild Kit

Featured Dealer of the Month: Atomic Custom

Baker Gearhead School: Aligning Primary

Release #8

Factory 6-Speed Tapered Roller Bearing Kit is now available!

BAKER B-Notes Rewards Program

Featured Dealer of the Month: South Side Motorcycle Co.

BAKER Gearhead School: Adjusting your clutch properly

Holiday Schedule

Run what you brung! Free Drag Racing In Sturgis!

BAKER Drivetrain is enabling the public to go all-out on their motorcycle by bringing back the FREE drag races. Run what you brung!

Free On-Site GrudgeBox Installs During Sturgis Bike Week

We're known for providing free installation of top, select products during the motorcycle rallies that we attend. Added to the list for Sturgis 2017 is the new GrudgeBox.

From the Vault: Bert Baker’s Organ Donor: Final Assembly and build wrap-up

If you’ve been following the saga of Bert Baker’s Organ Donor, the payoff you’ve been waiting for is finally here. Get your popcorn, fill up that double-size Big Gulp, rip open that bag of Twizzlers, and keep your waxy Milk Duds close at hand because we’ve got a beast of a blockbuster for you. Weighing in at the size of a Mama Grizzly, the Organ Donor finally hits the pavement in Daytona with a roar.

From the Vault: Baker Jive Train: Ridin’ Dirty

Back in ’95, Bert Effin Baker’s 1994 FLSTN bike was stolen in Daytona by some no-good, thieving little crapstain. Even though Bert loved that bike, the theft was the best thing to ever happen. Why? Bert, under the wise guidance of his better half Lisa, took the insurance money and built a new custom bike from the ground up. In building that bike, he was nagged by substandard transmission engineering decisions that traded less vibration for worse performance. Never one to compromise, Bert was motivated to design an elegant 6-speed transmission on his own, and he knew right away he had created something special. A simple idea turned into an American business success when Bert partnered with his wife to launch BAKER Drivetrain.

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of BAKER, subscribing the help of company friends, the crew decided to build a new bike as a replacement for that bike stolen all those years ago. In this edition of From the Vault, we walk down memory lane to see how the BAKER Jive Train came to be.

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