Event Coverage

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

Harley-Davidson kicked off their Labor Day Custom Bike Weekend Show event as a tune up to their 2013 110th anniversary. The Harley-Davidson Museum, located on 20 acres in downtown Milwaukee, hosted 2 bike shows, the AMD Affiliate ProBuilder show on Friday and Saturday and the ride in show on Sunday during the Milwaukee Rally. The

After rolling up about 1000 miles, Cannonball Endurance Run coast-to-coast riders will stop and overnight near the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa. Cannonball Riders and Motorcycles at the Start of the 2010 Event –  J. Geary Photo   This makes for a fun, once in a lifetime chance to visit the National Motorcycle Museum on

The 2012 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show The 21st edition of the LA Calendar Motorcycle Showsponsored by Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys featuring top Celebrity Builders,the Calendar Bike Building Championship & Concours d’Elegance, selectedVendors and Exhibitors, Calendar Girl Music live performances, took place inCalabasas, California. The current 3-year decline in the economy and the resultingimpact on the

  We cut a dusty trail for the Smoke-Out on Friday, June 22nd.  Just before the final bungie cord was snapped into place over my Bandit’s bedroll, I had received an urgent message from Sin Wu saying, “Contact the boss (Bandit) a.s.a.p!”  It seems the bastard lost my cell number.  I dropped everything and made

Click on any photo to view it full size. Press ‘esc’ to resume regular viewing.  Seeing these young riders totally immersed into chop culture brings a tear to my one good eye.   The kids are all right, they’re old school, love the vintage motorcycle vibe and just dig riding. Their first Born Free event

My Colorado riding friends, old & new! Mark, Masyn, Duane, Rachel & Damon. As my days in Colorado are coming to an end, I wanted to do a ride that involved the people of the Colorado bike world, in addition to already enjoying its spectacular roads and landscapes. I called my friend Ken Conte from

Continued from Part I       The FH-DCE (Federation Harley Davidson Clubs Europe) goes back to the 1960’s when the H-D Clubs from the Netherlands Germany and Belgium met at Harley-Davidson Rallys.  One of the most popular was the Pinkster Rally in Holland, the first one was in 1964. After the 1973 Pinkster, the

     I had not heard of the Super Rally®  before now, but I did know that the H-D clubs are just as big in the EU as they are back in the U.S., if not bigger.  I hadn’t planned to go, as is usual with most of my journey so far, but at the last minute

  Lately I’ve had cause to ponder the question, “What makes a Biker a Biker?” Are you a “biker” just because you own a bike? Are you a lifestyle biker, or the occasional motorcycle weekend warrior? I even had a guy comment under a photo of me on Facebook, that he just didn’t understand “people

Everyone loves going to Illusion Cycles events in Westminster. Illusion Cycles Team 25 Speedway Season Opener party was no different. Once again, it was a first class party to celebrate the upcoming 2012 Speedway season and show off Team 25 Illusion Harley-Davidson Sidecar, which was on display and ready for the dirt track. This party

Headin’ for the Party and Keepin’ it Original….’40s police bike came rumbling in with sirens blaring… Four years ago two Los Angeles area bike freaks, Mike Davis and Grant Peterson, decided they weren’t happy with the general type of motorcycle rallies they were experiencing in Southern California. They weren’t into only seeing bling-bikes costing $50,000

A half-million bikers were expected to roar into town for the 71st Daytona Bike Week. Uhh, probably not… Bike Week got pushed back because NASCAR bumped their opening race, the Daytona 500, back a week and the Daytona International Speedway requires a week to convert the track from cars to motorcycles. What does this have

There are numerous bike shows during Daytona Bike Week. But I never miss the parking lot Tropical Tattoo Old School Chopper Show , 825 Yonge Street (US 1) in Ormond Beach on Thursday from noon until 4:00 in the afternoon. The sun blazed. The girls were hot, and the old school bikes glistened. In its

  Well, it looks like raisin pie for everybody! All you old timers will remember that phrase from the early days. It meant success and a job well done, and it still fits today. The 2012 Easyriders Show in Sac Town contained a great collection of the best custom bikes on the West Coast. There

Part 1: By Krylon John The spirit of David Mann, and his many contributions to the biker lifestyle lives on at Chopperfest held every December in Ventura, California, since 2004. Now heading towards its 9th annual celebration the event will once again return to the Ventura County Fairgrounds adjacent to the glistening shores the Pacific

Disclaimer – Can it really be considered late if I got it done in the same month? I had ventured off to the runways of Milan to try my hand at shooting some high fashion. OK so maybe it was the runways of Cut-N-Shoot but still…     Every year as the days get shorter

After riding a motorcycle 20 some years, I can honestly say I still LOVE to ride. I love to ride, I love to love, and I love to live. Love Ride 28 took place this past month, and I think I have only missed the event a couple of years. After this year’s event, I

   Click on the images to view them full size, press ‘esc’ to resume standard viewing      I made my way back out I-10 east to Baytown for the annual gathering of fuel, fun and frolic. But I don’t think I frolicked for the Texas National Motorcycle Rally at the recently renamed Royal Purple

My name is Blake Axelson, and this is my story about our journey to Bonneville. Let’s start from the beginning, so throughout the summer before Bonneville we were having ignition problems with our motorcycle. My dad built a custom rigid bike, with a Buell XB9 engine in it. In my opinion, it is one of