Event Coverage

First let me say…It’s only 2 or 3 months past due so WTF! Remember there are NO deadlines here at Bikernet! I had the pleasure to attend The Horse Back Street Choppers Smoke Out VI, however this year Spanky, Vanna & myself would be attending as veterans of SO V. We also found a better […]

The 2004 Easyriders tour rolled into Houston, Texas and the George R. Brown convention center readied to party on Saturday. A least that is when the event was scheduled, the mayhem that follows this tour as it makes it way across the nation began falling into place Thursday night. This year’s tour was making stops

Gotta have a girl in every story. This run started just up the road from me crib at an old truck stop, “Tri-County Truck Stop”. It was rebuilt in the mid-fifties when the original structure burned down, and I don't think that it's had a good cleaning since then. I love the place. It's on

I was jolted out of bed the other morning by the “Bandit” phone ringing off the hook. Knowing I hadn’t done anything wrong, I picked it up without hesitation, “yea what’s up? “I thought you were sending some words for all these tattoo expo pictures!” Someone screeched in to the phone. While the cobwebs and

The Oyster Run is held in Anacortes, Washington on the last Sunday of September. It has been growing every year and this year estimates were in the 20 thousand bike range. It's supposed to be the largest single day event in the northwest and for most is one of the last major rides of the

I was sent to cover the 30th Annual ABATE of Kansas National Labor Day Run, held at Paradise Point, Lake Perry, Kansas. “It was one of the largest so far, with a count of 4,000 and still counting,” President, Lucky Bass told me at a later phone interview. “We think it was almost perfect, the

As an old crusty butted die-hard rider, I've done Laconia, Daytona and Sturgis and just about every major event in between to death. Been there, done that, got the tattoos. You see the same goddamn bikes and the same faces at every major event here in the states. This year I promised Bandit that I

Editor’s note:The following is a story sent to us by the evasive Special Agent Zebra from somewhere deep in moneyed bowels of Las Vegas. He has not been seen or heard from for three weeks since his last communiqué. This outlandish tale is further supported by faxes and telegrams and an $18,994.85 hotel bill (generated

First of all, the legendary Mid-Ohio AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days event takes place just south of Cleveland. The track is in the middle of nowhere, and it’s July. But despite sweltering temperatures and humidity that would knock-out the Swamp Thing, the annual Mid-Ohio AMA sponsored swap meet, bike show and vintage races attracted fans from

The Start There are times in your life that you have to sit back and evaluate who you are and what you have done. Some may say it is vanity, others call it planning ahead, but I always try to make goals for my life and meet them head on. I haven't reached every goal

Bandit got in touch with me last week and asked me about writing a story on the Run For Breath. I thought about it for awhile and I decided to write about the history of the Run For Breath, but before I get into that I am going to tell you about Justin and a

The NASCAR races were in Daytona Beach this past weekend and to many that means the party starts. Area bars and hotels are gearing up. Bike Week is only a few weeks away and already newspaper features, radio interviews are jamming the happenings. Typically Bike Week is the first full week in March which actually

Dave Perewitz painted bikes when most riders were just a gleam in their pappy’s eye. He taught Arlen Ness how to tie his shoes, Ron Finch how to kiss a girl and Mondo how to weld. Dave Perewitz is the emperor of the Hamsters, the man, who in a drunken rage, forced his wife to

Over the top and into the mix is a slight understatement regarding the latest in one of our national motorcycling events. Dealership owner, Bruce Rossmeyer, along with the Seminole Native American Nation’s fertile ground for gaming, spruced up the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for the holidays and the 2nd annual Ft. Lauderdale Bike rally.

The second annual AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building reached a crescendo Saturday, November 19th with a remarkable results. Roger the King.The winner, for the second year running, was Canadian custom engineer and parts specialist Roger Goldammer. That was a remarkable Achievement. Nothin’ but Independent class.However, second place was again scooped by Michael Prugh

Twin Club MC is one of the oldest and most respected biker clubs in Sweden. The club was founded in 1969 in the sleepy little sea side town of Norrtalje about an hour Northeast of Stockholm. These are the guys who chopped and built the bikes making Sweden world famous for their long bikes and

Builders demonstrated expert “how-to’s,” bikes were an omnipresent shrine, babes inspired the crowd and the Bandit was unmasked, making the 3rd annual All American Motorcycle Madness the place to be in Santa Maria on May 19-21, sponsored by Bikernet.com.Thorsen Motorsports, the local Suzuki and Kawasaki dealer, brought a new spin to the traditional American V

Once again I was sent on a mission by Bandit. Ride to Scottsdale Arizona, spend a day at Myron Larrabee's Billet Bar and photograph the finest women I can find for “The Girls of the Billet Bar” article. The notorious Myron Larrabee, owner of the Billet Bar in Scottsdale Arizona. Let's review. Ride in Arizona,

Here’s last year’s poster. This year could contain your bike and a near naked girl. This is the original TNBS Poster Bike by Lucky Devil. The Texas National Bike Show will enjoy its second year at the beautiful San Luis Convention Center on Seawall Blvd., in Galveston, Texas November 3rd and 4th 2006. During that

Bike Week in Daytona Beach Florida shook the pavement for 65 years and continues to grow every year. This year was no exception. With the increased amounts of people attending, it has spread out around the state and many are now referring to it as Florida 10- day Bike Week. Bruce Rossmeyer’s new Harley-Davidson dealership

Past the buildup, glamour, good times and disorderly behavior that could become any Daytona Bike Week, there remains a hallowed biker spirit and place. There’s the true born-to-ride brotherhood and any sacred gathering, a mere parking lot and back patio.Daytona’s Bike Week can become a banal rerun, common place, we talk of in terms like

Better read this or you ain't gettin' any. The Seminole Hard Rock Roadhouse kicked off the 2006 Tour at Bruce Rossmeyer’s Destination Daytona during a weather-perfect Daytona Bike Week. On Friday, March 3rd, the Hard Rock Bikes were unveiled to an awestruck audience. The four bikes, through metal, paint, and attitude, truly represented and displayed

Editor’s Note: Get ready for the Bikernet 2006 Florida Bike Week Reports. We’re going to run these bastards in a flurry of blithering complaints and jealous babbling. Hell, I could snivel ‘cause I wasn’t there, while the next guy will make me feel worse ‘cause he did attend and the weather was terrific. I don’t

Antique Motorcycle Club of America’s Nationals Buck and his wife rode in from South Carolina.Linda Manernini and I headed up on Saturday to spend the evening with friends and enter her 1955 Harley-Davidson in the bike show that finalizes the meet on Sunday. This was my tenth year attending what we just bleat out as