Event Coverage

The past few months have been a blur in many ways from getting to go see and take a few shots of Lindsey Stirling on a Wednesday night, then heading out to cover the Division 4 NHRA races that same weekend, to a change in my “real” job status just prior to the 26th Annual […]

Progressive Insurance Laconia Motorcycle Week®, America’s Original Riding Rally, had decent weather over both weekends and very strong attendance for 2013, its 90th year. Riders enjoyed the White Mountains, crystal clear lakes and great riding throughout New Hampshire. “We launched our AMSOIL Laconia Passport to great success this year” notes Rally Executive Director Charlie St.

Suburban Motors Harley-Davidson’s Steve Rapp took a convincing win in the third round of the 2013 AMA Pro Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson series at Barber Motorsports Park, in Birmingham, Ala., to earn his second consecutive victory of the season.   Despite missing the first practice session of the weekend, Rapp, a fulltime airline pilot who

A great ride, help a charity, set a World’s Record; what more could a soul ask for on a beautiful spring day? How about you add good friends, great music, good BBQ, cold beer and the Colorado Front Range as a backdrop. Yeah, that sounds like a good day, and a hell of a great

A Hollywood script writer couldn’t have dreamed up the story any better. Saturday night in Stockton, California, Sammy Halbert made a triumphant return to racing by taking victory in the AMA Pro Flat Track presented by J&P Cycles Grand National Championship Main Event on the Half-Mile at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds. Halbert, making his

While innovation has always been a hallmark of the World Championship of Custom Bike Building, the 10th anniversary of the show reached a new level. Held for the first time in Europe, at the Big Bike Europe Expo in Essen, Germany, the Championship showcased motorcycles, scooters, trikes and sidecar outfits. Among the power units being

It all started in ’99, which is like 14 years ago now. Is that incredible or what? Indian Larry was still alive, and like some other brothers, he was tired of being hosed with high prices in Laughlin. He stumbled into Amboy, California, on Route 66 and said, “Let’s Party.”     A famous New

Editor’s Note: People from various backgrounds got a glimpse into motorcycling history on Saturday, April 13th from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. Bikes of Days Gone By, a vintage motorcycle show was held in Historic Downtown Melbourne and featured antique motorcycles dating from 1978 and earlier. The show is put on by Jim Kuhman and is

Editor’s Note: I realize age is sweeping through my drug-soaked brain cells, but somewhere between the SmokeOut last year in RockingOut North Caroling and Las Vegas Bike Fest I lost the Chop-in Block trail. So, when this group of builders surfaced in Daytona, I looked at an empty bottle of moonshine and muttered, “Where do

    Winter in Colorado has been tough for bikers, warm sun during the week, cold and wet on the weekends. Those of us who hold down a regular job have been itching to hit the road. A steady job, good wife, and inclement weather has been the ruin of many a good biker. The

Let’s knock off a few of things fast… First, when wrestling on the beach with a honey, sand has a tendency to get into the most inappropriate places faster than you can say Aunt Jemima. Second, they race in Daytona… Really? Racing on the beach is the reason why Bike Week started, but it is

Welcome to Deus Ex Machina’s latest addition to its global ground fleet of marvel outlets located in Venice, CA. The gas station turned flower shop turned Deus Ex Machina is an awesome place to grab a coffee and peruse the goods. Featuring in-house custom built motorcycles by Michael “Woolie” Woolaway, hand-shaped and hand-glassed surfboards from

The National Western Complex where the west comes to celebrate cowboys, cowgirls, rodeos, and all things western invited in the iron horse and all things biker. February 2nd and 3rd the Colorado Motorcycle Show and Swap took over the complex. Bikers from all over the United States brave the cold weather to attend this event.

Even before the V-Twin Expo opened there were comments from some people about the changes scheduled for first weekend in February, 2013. You’re not going to please everyone all the time, so in my opinion I would please the vendors, as they are the ones the show was designed for. Actually it was concocted because

Bikernet correspondant Darren Ho reports from the 21st Annual Yokohama Hot Rod & Custom Show in Japan          Click on any photo to view it full size; hit ‘esc’ to resume reading.       Everyone dreams of knocking items off their infinite “bucket list.” Recently, I had the opportunity to do

The Easyriders 2013 Bike Show Tour is rolling into Anaheim, CA on Saturday January 5, 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center.  Witness hundreds of the planets hottest bikes on display as competitors compete for 59 total awards, cash, and the chance to have their bike featured in one of our magazines. Meet Charlie Hunnam “Jax”

  The Easyriders 2013 Bike Show Tour is right around the corner. Easyriders Events offers your company twenty-plus years of proven performance as one of the most respected motorcycle production companies in the business. We are your connection to the motorcycle consumer.   The Easyriders Bike Show Tour will put your company and products in

The 12th edition of the Thunder Valley Rally recently boomed into Cottonwood, AZ and surrounding scenic areas, attracting several thousand enthusiasts from local counties and neighboring states to this former bootlegging stronghold. Pouring in from the north end of Old Town and corked at the south by a mega sound stage, Main Street was turned

Editor’s Note: We posted Rogue’s story in the Sunday Post, and then he sent this, “I fucked up and sent you the article about the Broken Spoke from Bike Week, last March.” Actually, many of the same players were in attendance, but here’s the roaming Rogue’s story from Daytona just a couple of weeks ago.

There is no shortage of Bike Shows during Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach. Though they all offer something different to the sunburnt folks entering them and also to those attending. Some are more popular than others. Some represent stock-bike ride-in shows, others are more big-buck glamour choppers shows, then there’s the blue collar Tropical Tattoo old

Events sometimes conspire to lead you places you had no intention of going. I met Bandit in June 2011 when he rode the Smoke Out XII Long Road beginning in New Orleans. I live in the New Orleans area and picked Bandit up at the airport and deposited his lanky frame in the heart of

  This Story is reprinted from the J&P Cycles Blog   Labor Day weekend in Eastern Iowa marks one of our favorite motorcycle events of the season, the AMCA Fall National hosted by the Chief Blackhawk Chapter of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America (AMCA). A couple of J&P Cycles’ staff members spent the day

    Friday, September 14, 2012 is the one and only “rest day” onthe 2012 Motorcycle Cannonball – and it’s happening in Sturgis, SouthDakota. What is called a rest dayis for most of these adventurers really a day to work on their bikes – someeven performing major overhauls. At a number of locations around town, old

 “Cold beer…Good food…Children welcome” is a sign that welcomes visitors to Cook’s Corner, a family friendly biker bar nestled in Trabuco Canyon in Orange County, California. Cook’s Corner is named after Andrew Jackson Cook, who acquired the land on which the roadhouse now sat in 1884. In 1926, his son, Earl, turned an old cabin