Books, Movies & Music Reviews

I was going to be merciful for my first movie review for Bikernet, until I found a copy of one version of the cover art for this clunker. A busty woman in a torn T-shirt with a shotgun, pants unsnapped at the waist, a couple of scoots raging towards the viewer with a gun raised […]

By Randy Leffingwell and Darwin Holstrom Foreward by Bill Davidson Motorbooks scores another home run with The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection. Now out in soft cover at 408 pages with 650 superb photographs the Archive Collection covers the H-D Museum collection in depth. From the 1903 “serial number one” to the 2008 Buell Model

        Book Review: The Ride So Far: Tales from a Motorcycling Life A good storyteller draws the listener into the story; like a campfire next to a tent after a long day on two wheels draws a tired rider. Motorcyclists have been telling stories since the first kickstand hit the dirt. The

When I received Bill Hayes’ email in mid-July announcing American Biker would be available in October, I put it on my must read list. I had met Bill in early 2004 when he offered my club the opportunity to contribute to his previous book, “The Original Wild Ones: Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club”. I

365 Motorcycles You Must Ride   From Motorbooks we get 365 Motorcycles You Must Ride. Sign me up! Is there going to be a booth at Daytona in a few months? Imagine getting in line and riding one after the other-from the AJS E-90 Porcupine to the Yankee 500Z. I don’t even know what these

Through Western Europe. Author Toby Ballentine has spent a lifetime exploring Europe, beginning as a child with his parents and as an adult on his own. He combines his love of the continent with his passion for motorcycles in this excellent travel guide from Whitehorse Press. “This book will focus on what I consider are

Harbor Town SeductionK. Randall Ball5-Ball, Inc., $19.95, 287 pp.www.Bikernet.com K. Randall Ball is better known to most of us as Keith Ball: The man who was the Editor of Easyriders magazine for two decades. The man who was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2005. The man who was the first head honcho

    A hearty Hello from the great Midwest to all my bro’s at Bikernet.com. I’ll start with the usual “Where did summer go?” and continue from there. The answer to that timeless question is that I spent the time tracking down a health issue the doc’s laid on me in late June: Langerhan’s Cell

I know summertime is the time to ride not read, but try to make an exception for Maximum Control: Mastering Your Heavyweight Bike.   At 159 pages Maximum Control is full of advice and drills for riding your big bike. There are also beautiful full color photographs of motorcycles in action doing said drills and

Harley-Davidson Drag Racing is 144 pages with 300 color pictures. This book is filled with crisp pictures of Harleys blasting off from the starting line. There are drag bikes with billowing clouds of smoke at the burnout pit and even a shot of an engine disintegrating. This would be a great book for fans of the All Harley Drag