Books, Movies & Music Reviews

I knew master artist Eric Herrmann, before being an artist was cool. He lived in the desert outside Phoenix, rode bikes, and was a devoted family man. Eric isn't your standard notion of an artist; he's the bull in the China closet type, when he painted cactus flowers and desert scenes for interior designers. Then […]

We covered the Smoke Out 2009 DVD, DarkTown Strutters, a Movie from 1975 and an Eating Biker's Road Guide from the SouthWhat the hell, it's raining outside. The gloom is ominous and working in the shop on a chopper is out of the question. It's almost on the eve of New Years 2010 and the

Back in the ’70s, you could buy a Panhead or a knucklehead, but you couldn’t find a manual. You can’t do shit without a manual. I was a kid, with my first real job working at Easyriders. The bosses had just reprinted the Harley-Davidson Panhead manual, and it sold like hotcakes. Then they reprinted the

It’s cold in the Bikernet shop nearing the middle of December, and I’m behind as usual. I collect DVDs like a teenager collects unpaid parking tickets. They hang around haunting me until I break down and watch ‘em. It’s like this: I live and breathe motorcycles from the first thing in the morning until midnight

Blood, Sweat, and Gears the DVD recently became available to the public. I saw it on the Choppers Inc. website and had to get it. I knew Billy was doing something special for the soldiers overseas, but you have no idea of the magnitude of each build until you watch this tape. Absolutely incredible! The

Just finished reading UNDER & ALONE by William Queen. WOW, what a ride! In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to

From start to finish, this DVD is a fine example of what John Mayall & his very talented friends are all about. John has been around a long time, so most blues lovers would have heard of him and for those of you who haven't, do yourself a favor and check him out. Mayall was

This is a true story of an Angel on two wheels traveling to Hell and back.Elena, the presenter of this non-fiction piece has ridden her motorcycle through the Dead Zone of the nuclear hell that is Chernobyl today.I read her story in the first few months that she had it online.Since then over 15 million

You never know what snippets of gold you might come across when you're snooping around your local bike shops. I was wandering around “Rollies Speed Shop” in Brisbane ( well known to Queensland bikers) about a month ago and there they were, four volumes of “Easyriders Tech Tips & Tricks”. I couldn't believe it, man

Anyone who read my review of Ewan Macgregor and Charley Boorman’s book Long Way Round, will know I thought it was crap. And I still do.What I now know is that the book was crap because obviously Ewan and Charley just cannot write an interesting story in words.The DVD movie of their circumnavigation of the