I see Jack Daniels ads everywhere. I got a lift to pick up my blacked out Road King from Larry Settle’s shop in Harbor city. That’s less than two stinkin’ miles from our Wilmington ghetto headquarters and there’s two sky-high Jack Daniels billboards along the streets leading home. Are they running banners on Bikernet? Hell no. So why the hell would I run a feature on an official production chopper built for Jack Daniels? It’s been my drink for 35 years, maybe that’s why. It got me through three divorces and four psycho broads. On the other hand it got me into three fist fights and my first knock out. Wait, I hit that guy with a fifth of Quervo Gold.

It kept me warm in front of run bonfires for years. I wonder if it was the whiskey or the fire? I drank it straight then. I remember years ago at Easyriders when we tried to lure liquor companies to advertise with us. We used broads and freight trains but it didn’t work. So I don’t suspect they’ll advertise on a website that’s been writing about drinkin’ Jack for ten years. Ah, but what the hell, Big Mike built these bikes for the Jack Headquarters in Tennessee, and he’s cool. They’re not available to the public, not yet, but BMC bikes built on the same Hooligan platform are ready for shipment. Hell, you could have any drink you like painted on the tanks from Coors Lite to Capt. Morgan Rum. I kinda like the notion for Capt. Morgan.

Oh, suppose I’ll feature these bikes. The guys at Easyriders featured the black one in the December Issue, so it must be okay for Bikernet. Watch for it. Big Mike takes a lot of pride in the fact that he’s the only manufacturer ever called by the JD factory to build a series of choppers. They commissioned a race care and decided they needed a motorcycle likeness for fill out the vehicle line-up. Mike built four, then the factory ordered five more. Not bad. We featured a Jack bike that made a tour across the country with the Jack apparel licensee. That bike was built by Deacon in Hawaii. It’s still archived with our bike features.

Mike also built a Dickies bike for the FORD worker of the year. A lucky lady in New Orleans won it. These bikes have class, and old school streetable style. This guy is a biker to the bone. His brother is a biker, and Mike works hard at keeping him out of jail. His bikes are solid, simple rideable choppers with traditional biker class. I like the classic wishbone frame, the pinstriped rims, powder-coated to match the whiskey theme. I even think the whitewalls are cool on the Black and White Jack model, and I hate white walls.

The black model without the sprung seat or highbars was featured in Easyriders, but we’re not limited with magazine page restrictions, so we can deliver both bikes, the Dickie bike and a shot of the massive, brand new BMC factory. Not bad for three low-lifes and four broads in the Wilmington web site.

Watch for these bikes at all the Fat Zone Jack Daniels events in 2007, displayed with Mike’s full line of BMC apparel.

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