Hey, Wow, what an interesting week. I don’t know where to start. The rally is a couple of weeks away and every day the phone rings with another opportunity. A roadhouse wants the name Easyriders. We are discussing more rodeos. There’s discussion about bike shows starting. I’ve been trying to go for a ride for […]
THE PRE-RALLY BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for July 23th 2026 Read More »
Hey, This is a wild week. Almost daily we receive stories about folks who have Easyriders or family history in the industry. A guy contacted us about his badass mom who was on the cover with Rip 30 years ago. A brother drove from Colorado to show me his father’s bike. He took his entire
THE STORIED BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for July 16th 2026 Read More »
Hey, You won’t want to miss the next issue of Easyriders Magazine, number 602. Danial James created this to illustrate a wild story about the state of the American motorcycle market. Hang on. The Wi-Fi was down in the Black Hills of South Dakota, so there was pandemonium everywhere. Life is nuts and I need
THE NUTS BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for July 9th 2026 Read More »
Hey, Life is a challenge every week for anyone who is attempting to do anything. I don’t care if you’re building a bike, breaking up with a girlfriend, moving to another state, planning your ride to the Black Hills for the Sturgis Rally, whatever. Every element is a challenge. I pointed something out to one
THE CHALLENGING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for July 2nd 2026 Read More »
Hey, It’s another crazy day in podcast land. Somebody else tried to throw me under the bus with lies. They even said I was rich. Unfortunately, I’ve never been rich. Sure, I’ve been successful, generally because I work my ass off. But any guy who has been married six times, had five Mrs. Balls and
THE MOODY BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for June 25th 2026 Read More »
Hey, This is another wild Thursday. The new issue was just dropped on my doorstep. We went through several iterations of the cover to come up with the final. On Monday we planned a very cool photo shoot with this bike, but transmission problems blew the shoot and we shifted. I wanted to create a
THE NEW ISSUE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for June 18th 2026 Read More »
Hey, We rolled in from Ohio to Sturgis yesterday evening, about 3,500 miles. Fuck, I don’t know where to start. We blasted to the bottom of Ohio, 22 hours straight last Sunday. We had a mission to grab the Easyriders Rodeo Captain America and Billy Bike and blast back to Sturgis. The bros, Jason and
THE HOME BASE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for June 13th 2026 Read More »
Hey, We are loading the 5-Ball Racing Van for the run to somewhere in Ohio to pick up the Captain America and Billy Bikes. I’ve ridden to the Smoke Out several times in the past, but I don’t believe I’ve been through some of the states I’m headed into. We are going to visit some
THE TRAVELIN’ BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for June 4th 2026 Read More »
Hey, This is one of those crazy days. I don’t know where to start. In fact, there’s another project I haven’t even touched. The good Prince Najar recommended the equipment I need for our run to Ohio to bring the Captain America and Billy bikes back to Sturgis. I need to order the video tools
THE CRAZY BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for May 28th 2026 Read More »
Hey, I just rolled into the headquarters from seedy, slimy Las Vegas. The place is a trip. The whole city needs to be steam cleaned. I jumped on an Allegiance flight on Sunday and ended up in Phoenix on a whirlwind of delays. I didn’t sleep for 40 hours and ended up splashing water in
THE VEGAS GLITTER BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for May 21st 2026 Read More »
Hey, Interesting. Every week is packed full of action. We added another product to the Easyriders merch line-up. Nothing is easy and involves several members of the team. Check it out. It’s the Classic round logo on a quality shirt. https://easyriders.com/product/the-classic-of-classics/ We are heading out to meet with an apparel company. Plus here’s a good
THE HARRIED BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for May 14th 2026 Read More »
Hey, This is one of those mornings, and shit is flying everywhere. I met with Doug from the Longmont Chapter of the Hells Angels. I’m testing their brand of Whiskey 81 Spirits and he slipped me the Longmont, Colorado community magazine with the club on the cover. The article explained their hot sauce and whiskey
THE WILD BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for May 7th 2026 Read More »
Hey, Hang on for this. I recently received the AMA magazine. Some issues don’t cover legislative issues but this one splashed the Top Ten on the cover. I’m going to hit them quick here. The AMA doesn’t always jive with my way of thinking, but they did a good job with breaking each issue down.
THE WATCH OUT BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for April 30th 2026 Read More »
Hey, I mentioned something last week about changing your mind. Think about anything for a minute. Think about your breakfast. You could think: It’s not enough, it’s too much. It’s too cold or it’s too hot. Or you could think: Fantastic, I love it, every mouthful. It’s magnificent she took the time to make it
THE RUMMAGING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for April 23rd 2026 Read More »
Hey, What an incredible week. Yesterday 80 copies of issue 600 arrived at our doorstep. It’s a knockout. I also received a copy of the new Tattoo book by Billy Tinney and he’s headed to a major Tattoo Convention this weekend, the Houston Tattoo Convention at the NRG Center. Also, George Christie’s latest novel was
THE PASSION-FELT BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for April 16th 2026 Read More »
Hey, Slipping into the shop can be sorta like making time for the gym. It’s a meditation of sorts. Okay, so I rewired the King Bike, changed the seat from the classic Danny Grey to a sprung canyon seat. The safety pin springs included with the seat were bullshit. Maybe an elephant’s ass would have
THE BLEEDING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS—for April 10th Read More »
Hey, I went to dinner with some excited folks. I now own a Captain America and Billy bike built by Mil Blair and refurbished in 2019. We decided to go get ’em and film the ride back to Sturgis. This group included our new girl in Sturgis, her husband and son. They were very excited
THE LITHIUM BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS–for April 2nd, 2026 Read More »
Hey, It’s been one of those days. The 600th issue of Easyriders is nearly complete. You can’t imagine the details and the folks involved. They all called today and I’ve been so slammed I’m in a daze. Fortunately it’s whiskey night at the headquarters. We added pages to the magazine today. We made the centerspread
THE CRAZY-NUTS BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS–for March 25th Read More »
Hey, I’m late. So what happened yesterday. I was tracking a package to be delivered maybe Wednesday, for sure Thursday, most certainly today. According to UPS it came to Souix Falls then went back to Kentucky. It’s a David Mann painting I’ve been chasing for decades. Some brothers were coming into town to work on
THE LATE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for March 20th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, Life is nuts and then you die. It’s an absolute beautiful day in the Black Hills. We’ve tried over and over to make a winter season start and once a week the frosty god tries. We get close with a splash of snow and a quick rain with temps dropping to the 20s. But
THE 10XMATCH BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for March 12th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, I just received a message from CO2 Coalition boss. He is trying to save motorcycling from being forced to go all-electric. I put him in touch with a major motorcycle rights group. They are all over it. Every week is like this. I received a call with serious implications for expanding the Sturgis Motorcycle
THE MOVING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for February 19th, 2026 Read More »
Wow, It’s been a wild week. We are all about riding free, riding cool bikes and featuring the best builders in the world. What could go wrong, right? Everything can go wrong, but then again the worst can work out to be the best. I know I’m not making much sense, but there’s something in
THE TRYING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for February 12th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, It’s all good. We are just about to go to press with our second Easyriders issue #599. Next issue is #600, incredible. I woke up this morning with a perfectly fine, heartfelt notion of my news intro. Then the metalflake world hit the fan. Two brothers and a sister reached out for bike feature
THE BITCHIN’ BIKERNET NEW YEAR WEEKLY NEWS for January 29th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, Think about what we’re doing, why and how. This is wild. Let me see if I can put it into prospective. So, tomorrow you become the boss of an old radio company. So they made wooden vacuum tube radios, only AM. Then AM/FM radios followed by little dinky transistor radios. I could go on
THE STYLISTICS BIKERNET NEW YEAR WEEKLY NEWS for January 22nd, 2026 Read More »
