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      Biketoberfest 2013 started with a ride on Thursday morning with friends to the Tropical Tattoo Ride In Bike Show on US1 in Ormond Beach.      The Garage and Old Skool Bikes are a Big Hit and one of the major ride in shows during events in the Daytona Beach area.   […]

   The Broken Spoke Saloon, the nation’s largest and longest running Biker Bar is definitely a place to go if you are looking for a good time during Biketoberfest.             The Broken Spoke Daytona is known for its historic willow tree with motorcycles hanging from it. With the open air bars,

  Reports are pouring in from Daytona Beach Biketoberfest. The attendance numbers from the event are still depressed. Traffic has been down since 2004. The majority of the rolling traffic hits the hub of the action, including the traditional biker areas on Main Street, Beach Street, Daytona 500 racetrack, Mid-Town in Daytona Beach and Bruce

  I met Doug King in the ’70s at his shop King’s Cycle Haven in Daytona Beach. It was a place where bikers went to get their parts and sometimes work on their own bikes. Many people from out of town also found it a place to set up and stay.     Somewhere around

  I am Fast Andie with Fast Andie Racing. The articles I plan to write will be for you ladies! I’m not writing with the intention that you think you need to work on your own motorcycle. If you choose to do that, awesome! If not, join the many men that choose not to work

It all started when a brother was desperate for cash and I bought a basket case Dyna, and with the help of JIMS machine turned it into an FXR. I started to build it for my son, Frank, the tattoo artist, around an old Kenny Boyce-styled pro street frame. Making progress on this build, with

Killing Machine Choppers – The Good Ol Days Chapter 2      After the Redwood Run, I invited Hun to Southern California to see the shop and meet the crew at Killing Machine. Everyone liked her and even after my son Breeze and his closest friend “Lippie” tried unsuccessfully to scare her off, it was

  Editor’s note: The following story is from the book, “The Further Adventures of The Borderland Biker, In Memory of Indian Larry and Doo Wop Music,” by Derrel Whitemyer.     For Chapter 8 Click Here      Riding off the ramp and onto the dome’s roof gave me permission to breathe; I don’t think I’d

      Who is Marilyn Stemp?  Everyone knows she is the heart of Ironworks Magazine, the Editor of the magazine, which she started with her husband Dennis in 1989. With her journalism degree from Penn State University and passion for organization mixed together with her husband’s passion for motorcycles and his amazing creativity they

      Now we’re talking Old Skool biker rally. The Four Corners Rally got it right this year. Moving back to its original venue and bringing back the original promoters has made this into a destination for years to come.   The rally started 21 years ago when Senator Ben Night-Horse Campbell and Mike

It has become something of lore, something to talk about, something that still today is remembered by many. It was the day the Hells Angels came to Porterville. But, it is not that the Hells Angels converged on the town of only 8,000 residents at the time. It is that Porterville stood up to the

In a world gone insane with new tech and import parts, there are still builders who create true works of art the old school way. A couple of years ago, a handful of us, including Billy Lane, Jeremiah Soto, and the boss of Sucker Punch Sally, rode north to Half Moon Bay from Los Angeles.

  Editor’s note: The following story was reprinted from the book, “Borderland Biker, In Memory of Indian Larry and Doo Wop Music,” by Derrel Whitemyer. Revised version August 6, 2013. For Chapter 5 Click Here       Larry’s ten minutes of winding his way downhill with me as a passenger brought us into a warmer

      My name is “T-Bag” Ludlow. I’m a 24-year-old native of Chicago-land and my bike is a hardtail Sporty chop. Yes, I’m living the good life.     Lollapalooza is a three-day music festival hosted annually in Grant Park. It basically drowns out anything else going on near the lake. Previous experience with

  Bikes, Babes, Barbecue….what better sums up the SoCal Kulture scene. But sometimes you have come up with a whole new menu when the cupboard is bare.   Back in 2007 when they couldn’t find a descent bike party in the area, four Venice Beach vintage bike fans put together the Venice Vintage Motorcycle Club…

Hi All,   As many Bonneville racers have been heard saying over the years “sometimes the salt wins”, and much to our dismay was the case for us this past August.Naturally it was a bit of a let down after setting an AMA National record in 2012,but we are already planning and looking forward to next

  Indian Larry Motorcycles is probably one of the most recognizable names in the motorcycle business today. Their shop, located in Brooklyn, has to be on any true chopper jockey’s “must visit” list. There is constantly a flow of traffic through their doors from kids down the street to entire clubs of people who make

On a beautiful Southern California day, three Bikernet staffers darted across town to San Bernardino to the Big Bear Choppers headquarters at the base of the mountain, which was the previous home of Big Bear Choppers, Big Bear. You’ve all read and watched the BBC history, their struggles, the economy, the devastation, the market failures,

Editor’s note: The following story was reprinted from the book, “Borderland Biker, In Memory of Indian Larry and Doo Wop Music,” by Derrel Whitemyer. Revised version August 6, 2013.   For Chapter 6 CLICK HERE      Name’s Christopher Jax but people call me Jax. It’s been a week since I escaped from Ma n’

   Leucadia, Calif.–Rather than compromise his vision by using traditional publishers who wanted to simplify his book, author Allan Karl decided to turn to crowdfunding for the printing of the first-edition of his new book. Beginning today, Allan Karl’s book, FORKS. A Quest for Culture, Cuisine, and Connection is available for pre-order on Kickstarter.   

  Sooo you’ve been searching the internet for dealerships that have new bike sales and you stumble across a husband and wife selling ‘both’ their bikes for two thirds of what you’d pay for a new one. One’s a 2009 Yamaha Road Warrior; the other is a 2009 Yamaha Raider. Both have less than 8500

    I’m using a Baker DD6 transmission and they mount on a 5 speed transmission plate as used in Evolution Softail frames. I don’t care for the flimsy stamped sheet metal trans mounting plates available commercially so I opted to make my own. Back in the day we used to have V shaped rear

  The annual pilgrimage to Bruce’s Bar in Severance Colorado was only delayed a little by the recent floods that ravaged that area. Checking the web site the day before, I found the event had been postponed a week. Ninety percent of the roads and bridges heading from Denver to Severance were still closed because

     Riding Above The Tombstone “When death throws you back”, her strong, vibrant words echo around the room as she addresses veterans and others in hopes of inspiring them to live each moment, as she shares her own story of fighting back from the depths of despair after a devastating motorcycle accident.   Life