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When I got the call to go cover the Rhinebeck Vintage Bike Show & Swap Meet in Upstate NY, I had just returned from Sweden and seeing more bikes was the last thing on my mind for the weekend. I begrudgingly agreed to hook up with a few of my local buddies and take the […]

I got the call from Sweden on a snowy winter's day in Upstate NY.Henkan, head honcho of Twin Club M.C.'s Custom Bike Show in Norrtelje was on the line. “Yo, TBear, are you planning on coming back to judge our show again this June?” “Shit yea man, you know I wouldn't miss it” I told

Here we go! BTW, that’s my double decker rig just behind me….yeah…in my dreams. I come down pit road for practice, and who is directly ahead of me but Jay Springsteen on his Harley XR750TT! That orange #9 staring me in the face….I took a deep breathe, pulled up along side (exhaust side) and just

The 25th Annual Laughlin River Run or should I say the 25rd, like the T-Shirt bags read, has come and gone.Also known as the Spring Rally, for reasons that don’t make complete sense, I admit that it’s spring, but a spring rally sends thoughts of that first weekend as you slip past fields of flowers

You know we have a forum board here on Bikernet that rivals any in the industry. Sometimes a reader sets up a few pictures in such a way that they open your imagination and tell a story all on their own. One of our members, Ironheadziggy, recently went to the Harley drags at beach bend

Daytona 2007 ReportThe reports on the Streets were bad. Daytona was down to Biketoberfest attendee levels,” said Lee Clemens from Departure Bike Works in Richmond, VA. High prices, traffic and more events nationwide might have something to do with diminishing traffic. Some said it was the cops that kept them away. Let’s hit it through

Billy Lane won the ER Columbus show and peeled to Daytona to show off his classic. The end of February found me in the winter humdrums. My bike had been down since I got hassled in December at the local DMV for having my VIN numbers obscured by the lock tab on my 1978 Narrow

Everything in Switzerland is a tad different. An extraordinary lively biker-community faces a government that is about to discipline bike-riding much more than neccessary and almost to a total end. This is the feeling you get when you look at all the rules that are officially meant to make biking safe and protect the biker

Running into its 14th year, the annual BIKE EXPO at Padua has established itself already as THE season opener, not only south-side of the alps: With lots of visitors passing the gates already on Friday, both Saturday and Sunday. Again the show was crowded beyond belief! There were times when you thought that this exhibition

It was about to be one of those dark and stormy nights mystery writers enjoy, except it was going to include the daytime as well, not much fun when you’re planning to putt to the Pomona County Fairgrounds/L.A. Fairplex to ogle the forest of chrome and billet that sprouts annually around January, better known as