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I read about the Smoke Out, put on annually by the Horse Backstreet Choppers magazine crew, on Bikernet. People always spoke of it in an almost cultish manner. An event where old school chopperheads appeared in mass out of nowhere like zombies right out of “Night of the Living Dead”, until they had taken over […]

A brilliant blue sky was a perfect backdrop for the NYC skyline as we blasted across the Tri-Boro Bridge heading to Indian Larry's old shop in the industrial waterfront section of Brooklyn called Williamsburg. We rode quite a way that morning to be among the thousand or so people who gathered together to celebrate the

HERSHEY, Pa. (September 11, 2006) – Hundreds of Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.) members spent their Labor Day week on the sweet roads between Hershey, Pa., and Huntington, W. Va., while on the H.O.G. Road Candy Tour Sept. 5 through 8. H.O.G. members started the week off in Hershey with a party on Tuesday, Sept. 5,

We took off early, in the cool blue dawn, on a Friday, ditching responsibilities and jobs for a weekend blast into the Florida Keys. It was Phil Peterson’s 34rd Annual Poker Run. We usually by-pass the poker hand at the beginning and head straight for Key West! We can buy a hand at the end

Award winning touring custom from AMC 1902.Every trip to Sturgis SD has its joy’s and its frustrations. If you ride with a group of bikers or drive a rig you know what we mean. Breakdown’s are commonplace, and the time needed to get back on the road can be long or short, you never know.

This year marked the entry of Canada into the ranks of nations participating in the affiliate program of AMD’s World Championship of Custom Bike Building. The event was sponsored Belt Drive Betty, the driving force behind Canada’s “The Busted Knuckle Chronicles”, parts supplier Mid-USA Canada and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Fairview Campus. The

Well, Sturgis 2006 is behind us! I had an awesome adventure that started with a marathon iron-butt trip into Sturgis. My partner and I spent the next 4 days living a groundhog-day existence of virtually the same thing over and over. We capped the trip off with a shot into the Midwest to visit my

August 3, 2006:The day has finally arrived to head out to Sturgis. I'm not really looking forward to the next 2 days however. We've got 1,879 miles of driving to do before we'll see Main Street in Sturgis. Sam rented a Dodge Magnum so we'd have room for all my posters I'm taking out. We've

Tommy Thompson served 14 years as Wisconsin’s governor, before accepting a cabinet job as Secretary of Health and Human Services. He now works in the private sector, still involved in world health issues.As Wisconsin’s governor, he initiated the Governor’s Tour at the urging of state senator Dave Zien. It was a way to promote Wisconsin

Esteemed Bikernet photographer, RFR, the lovely Liz and big Eric in the back, a show partner.Kent Weeks, (Lucky Devil Metalworks in Houston), contacted us recently, with a report on the Texas National Bike Show sponsored by Bikernet.com, poster shoot. Just two days prior we received an e-mail report from the esteemed photographer, Rigid Frame Richard,