Cultural Interest

Used to be all bikers shared a common bond, and unspoken code of respect, loyalty, and integrity that transcended words, and was built on actions. There was never a bible written on this code, and there was no need for such. But the times are a-changin’, and there seems to be a lot of new […]

I thought I might check in on the Motorcycle Magazine industry, specifically the chopper guys. Fuck, I didn’t know what I was diving into. A couple of years ago only one magazine survived the cost issues, the internet competition and the distribution expenses, Cycle Source. Some magazines went sorta underground, changed their formats and dropped

  The world as subscribed by Michael Richardson’s art is full of Southern-fried funk, eye popping graphics, face melting illustrations, metal-flake designs, screamin’ guitars, and fast vixens. In three words, Richardson creates, “soul-satisfying stories,” through his artistic view. And he adds a twist to his designs. His work is peppered with Easter eggs. Easter eggs,

How did fossils become fuels? This is a question that will never be answered. Because fossils never became fuels. So therefore, there is no reason to assume that the amount of oil in existence is limited to the body-count of the dinosaur population. It could be that there is just oil. And apparently a lot

I am a Biker and A Disabled Veteran. There are a lot of people who are as well, including Bandit, and most of us deal with the Veterans Administration for our medical treatment. This was promised to us when we enlisted and or drafted into the military.  I have a close friend who is a

  This wisdom quote submitted by me appeared in The Bros Bikernet Weekly News for Sep1, 2022 (click to view). Framed the damn thing in Black & White at my laptop desk — to remind me of it at every moment, especially whenever online or on the phone.   Discovered the simple joy of my

 As much as we do not like to talk about it there are an alarming amount of people being injured while riding their motorcycles. Things are being done around the country in hopes of reducing these incidents. In the meantime, one of the things we can do is to become knowledgeable about what to do

Sound has more impact on life than we know or credit it for. Sound is not just significant to humans but many lifeforms. When we hear a loving voice, our mental mood & thoughts are different compared to a roaring voice of a harsh boss at office. The first voice of a newborn baby has

  Naysayers are quick to spout the dangers of motorcycling but friends, and countrymen lend me your helmetless ears. The psychological and emotional benefits of riding are real. The sense of freedom, thrill of acceleration, escaping the confines of convention, are all real and any rider will confirm that. Motorcycle riding also has physical health

     We are all aware of batteries having toxic materials in their construction. Even if only half of this were true, it is still frightening to the potential pollution at the end of their life cycle.     BatteriesSome amusing lagniappe with some interesting information on the subject. – Anonymous.     When I

“Yet the hoaxes, conspiracy theories and attempts to rewrite history persist, muddying the public’s understanding of what actually occurred during themost sustained attack on the seat of American democracy since the War of1812.”_____AP hack of no consequence This is a sentence of a Jan 1 article by a hack for the Ass-ociated Press,now widely reprinted

Dear Close and Cherished Associate: Holiday Waves to you! Well. It’s been quite a ride, hasn’t it? Whew! Are you staying safe? I know I’m doingeverything EYE can to stay safe. And not just for me! But for everyone else. I don’t thinkI am going to take my mask off even when the pandemic has

Editor’s Note: Wild stuff is happening, and The Wicked Bitch is taking her shot as Climate Doom. Hang on! This is here take on the Google Mandates and not expressly agreed on by the vast and unrelenting Bikernet Editorial Board. –Bandit     Google is now denying the ability of climate change deniers to make

One thing I remember the most is we “rode” our bikes not ride them. We lived the life. Rode hard and fast and built our own bikes to be different. There were no 60-Grand off-the-shelf bikes. It was the commonality of brothers, and trust was earned. Help was there when needed. If you needed a

  Experienced motorcycle riders will often refer to ‘SIPDE’ as a safety teaching mechanism that has gotten them through some difficult situations on the road. Those of you who are familiar with this acronym will be nodding along in agreement, but if you aren’t familiar with SIPDE, there’s no shame –  you’ve come to the

J.J. Solari Note: What follows is a lampoon, a comedy, a sketch, a humor entity, a satire, a witty diversion, a parody, a spoof, a jocular moment, an amusement, a brief frolic in fiction, a delightful playtime vocabularic rondelay so to speak if I may? No one other than the composer of this whatever-it-even-is actually

The mall near where I live, and which has a bowling alley emporium has declared that at least until further notice customers may actually eat food in the “food court.” Which is where you get-and-eat food to eat in the food court, but which has been forbidden-behavior for nearly a year and a half in

All over the English-speaking-world journalist hacks are asking each other “Why is it that Bikernet journalists are so much better than us? While we, on the other hand, are just useless meaningless carbuncles on the ship of literary history? And parchment fragments in the Museum of Bad Writing Skills??” This is what they’re asking themselves.

If you’ve ever looked forward to leaving your car in thegarage and bicycling to your local Amtrak yard to board atrain filled with deranged wandering resurrected-dead from the planet Zarkon….you are in luck, moe-foe Lose-a-Relative Joe is gonna make all your dreams oftuberculosis and probably ebola come true. You can give C-19 a big hug

And no, they are not destined to take over the world. A brother in the Widows Sons riding association contacted Bikernet recently. David Dolph told me, “We are a Masonic Riders Association and a group of Master Masons who have come together to promote Freemasonry within the motorcycling community and help introduce motorcycling to our

Will Self-Driving Cars Push Motorcycles Off The Road?– Will there be a place on the road for motorcycles in a world with self-driving cars? FEMA’s Dolf Willigers takes a closer look at the future of our beloved bikes. The question that concerns many motorcyclists is if there will be a place for them in a

Hood ornaments have gone by the wayside for most automakers, but the heyday of chrome and glass came in the Art Deco ’30s. Several brands offered similar themes of athletic animals, famous (literal) figureheads, or the female form. Here are just seven of our favorites, we’re sure you’ll recognize quite a few. Rolls-Royce Spirit of

Unbeknownst to some, certain car brands started life by making motorcycles. Take Honda, for instance, or BMW. But what if iconic car brands made motorcycles? Budget Direct Motorcycle Insurance took six automakers consisting of two Brits, a quirky Japanese, two electrified Americans, and a French record-holder and went to work. The team specifically chose brands