Event Coverage

Since relocating into our new digs, we've questioned every move, every nail driven and dollar spent. It's a big project and the budgeted cash is slipping out the door, under the rug and through the rusting shutters, quick. As Laughlin approached we considered our fleeting options. We could get gouged by Dalcon promoters and hotels […]

The rapidly growing reunion is sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans of Brevard County, Florida. It's currently the largest grassroots reunion in the nation. It kicked off an a warm Florida sunny Sunday with a motorcycle escort. Over 2,000 riders met at the Moving Wall, which is the 4/5th scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

I attended a benefit for a young man who was wounded in Iraq. PFC Alan Babin is a combat medic with the HHC 1/325 82nd Air. PFC Babin was critically wounded on March 31, 2003 while attempting to render aid to a wounded soldier. As units moved across a bridge over the Euphrates River, a

I just returned from hanging in Dallas for the weekend. I was there for some photo shoots; the folks at Lucky Devil Metal Works had two bikes photographed for national magazines. I arrived in Dallas a few hours before the Houston crew and made my way over to Strokers to hang out. I took some

A couple of months ago on a dreary over-cast So Cal day, the phone rang. It had a different tone. You know, the tone of a teacher calling to report bad grades, a psycho girlfriend calling to say good-bye for the 13th time, or the call from a paint shop that lost your frame. That

First let me say…It’s only 2 or 3 months past due so WTF! Remember there are NO deadlines here at Bikernet! I had the pleasure to attend The Horse Back Street Choppers Smoke Out VI, however this year Spanky, Vanna & myself would be attending as veterans of SO V. We also found a better

Gotta have a girl in every story. This run started just up the road from me crib at an old truck stop, “Tri-County Truck Stop”. It was rebuilt in the mid-fifties when the original structure burned down, and I don't think that it's had a good cleaning since then. I love the place. It's on

The Oyster Run is held in Anacortes, Washington on the last Sunday of September. It has been growing every year and this year estimates were in the 20 thousand bike range. It's supposed to be the largest single day event in the northwest and for most is one of the last major rides of the

I was sent to cover the 30th Annual ABATE of Kansas National Labor Day Run, held at Paradise Point, Lake Perry, Kansas. “It was one of the largest so far, with a count of 4,000 and still counting,” President, Lucky Bass told me at a later phone interview. “We think it was almost perfect, the

As an old crusty butted die-hard rider, I've done Laconia, Daytona and Sturgis and just about every major event in between to death. Been there, done that, got the tattoos. You see the same goddamn bikes and the same faces at every major event here in the states. This year I promised Bandit that I