Special Reports

  I met Doug King in the ’70s at his shop King’s Cycle Haven in Daytona Beach. It was a place where bikers went to get their parts and sometimes work on their own bikes. Many people from out of town also found it a place to set up and stay.     Somewhere around […]

    At the 2013 Motorcycle Riders Foundation’s (MRF) Meeting of the Minds Conference held in September in Columbus, Ohio, the MRF’s Legislative Committee hosted a Legislative Strategy Session. As has been done for the past several years, the MRF requested that it be attended by Sustaining State Motorcyclists’ Rights Organizations (SSMRO) Legislative and/or Executive

The Geo Art Shop is a jewelry store located in the city of Athens, Greece. Except from traditional Greek silver art, its specialty is jewelry related to the biker culture and philosophy, all handmade in both silver and gold. All of his biker collections are made by Sterling Silver 925.   Geo Art Shop was founded

      Now we’re talking Old Skool biker rally. The Four Corners Rally got it right this year. Moving back to its original venue and bringing back the original promoters has made this into a destination for years to come.   The rally started 21 years ago when Senator Ben Night-Horse Campbell and Mike

  5th Annual Biker Belles Ride for a Day – August 6th, Sturgis, SD By Mistress Chris, with most of the photos by Rogue  The Biker Belles Ride is a “Celebration of Real Women, Real Stories and Real Fun” The 5th Annual Biker Belles Ride for A Day was held during the Sturgis Rally on

    Are we free? If you were to ask someone who lived through the Japanese Internment Camps or survived the hellish concentration camps of the Third Reich or any of the refugees displaced by their governments as wide spread genocide grips their country the answer would be a resounding yes – we are free.

  Editors Note: This article appears in the August 2012 issue of the Goodguys Gazette A century ago, there was plenty of brilliant white, thick, hard salt as far as the eye could see at the Bonneville Salt Flats. That meant seeing in double digit miles. As the years unwound, a the damning game of

  It’s got to be the goin, not the gettin there that’s good…. that’s an old Don McClean song, and it’s been my motto for many a year. It also best describes the life and times of my friend Miles Squire. Miles rode just 80,000 miles short of 2 million miles in his lifetime on the six

For the past two months, it has been expected that President Obama would speak out on gun control and the Second Amendment. Obama’s anti-gun base has been hoping that he would finally openly embrace their prohibitionist agenda.  But Obama has proven over the past few years that he knows taking on America’s gun owners is

When the Republican House leadership decided to start the 112th Congress with a reading of the U.S. Constitution, the decision raised complaints in some quarters that it was little more than a political stunt. The New York Times even called it a “presumptuous and self-righteous act.” That might be true, if you could be sure

    This is the letter I wrote to the Fresno Bee. Weall need to get involved in the fight against Senator Pavley’s “loud pipes”bill before it becomes law! Most people drive cars, but I choose to ride amotorcycle. My name will mean nothing to them. The problem is that my life alsomeans nothing to

AND THE WINNER IS–Recently we received some great items to review and pass along, starting with a very cool jacket from Scorpion. Bandit did a complete road test and you can read all about it here. Once the day came to pick a winner, I printed up all the pages of entries and since I

Here's the Bikernet Calendar of the year 2009. Perfect time to celebrate and buy a calendar for the new year. Nobody does it better than Darryl Briggs, an excellent Texas based, bike and girl photographer. “The calendar is normally priced at $14.99 but we are running a $10special,” said Darryl. “The customer gets the calendar

In the profound words of my pit-bull of a partner, Chet O.E.P. Burozski…”ready, fire, aim.” And I respond today… Go with God, but never leave myheart.I met Chet, when he emailed me from a biker website asking me if I wouldpinstripe his next bike build. He mentioned he had met East Coast Artie(who is a

To: KRBFrom: Paul RE: OCC GOES DOWN UNDER!about 575 wordsExclusive to Bikernet: OCC Hits Australia – First Look Yes, Orange Country Choppers trio of Paul, Sr., Paul, Jr. and Mikey have scored a major hit with the Aussies and at this very moment are motoring about Down Under scaring the bejeebus out of kangaroos and

MILWAUKEE (November 2, 2009) – Ever since the first American troops rode Harley-Davidson motorcycles during the Mexican Expedition in 1916, the Motor Company has enjoyed a innate bond with the men and women who have served our nation. To honor the service of active and retired U.S. military personnel, Harley-Davidson has declared November “Military Appreciation

Long, menacing, and very, very blacked-out. The new VRSCB V-Rod is the power cruiser only Harley-Davidson could build. Though based on the award winning and original VRSCA V-Rod, the VRSCB sets its own agenda, with a tougher presence that will appeal to the traditionalist with an interest in performance. The V-Rod is the most popular

Twice in the last couple of months someone called the Bikernet offices on a Monday and dropped a weekend into the center of the week. Not bad. First the new-model call came from Buellton to ride the 2004 rubbermounted Sportster. Then last week I was ordered to fly to Oakland to meet the hardworking Victory

MILWAUKEE (August 12, 2003) – Some ideas never go out of style. Inspired by the classic design cues introduced on bikes like the 1936 Harley-Davidson EL, the 2004 Harley-Davidson Softail family retains the clean profile of the vintage hardtail frame in a variety of custom and classic styles.Each of the six 2004 Softail models utilizes

I am informing you from my own personal nightmare that Volusia County will and can take advantage of you for profit.Bike week has been a tradition of mine since 1979. I also have been going to Biketoberfest since it started in the '90s. This will be the last year I set foot in Volusia County

ABATE, OR AMERICAN BIKERS AIMING TOWARD EDUCATION, IS A NATION wide organization of helmet-hating Harley riders. Mensa is an international organization of geniuses and near-geniuses. Its members must score in the top two percent of the population in an intelligence test. The Gator Alley chapter of ABATE challenged its neighbors in the Southwest Florida chapter

One of the fundamentals of religion is to congregate with those who have the same ideals. This process of banding together often alienates those who profess to the same beliefs. In the modern world men and women have taken it upon themselves to generalize the principle of religion and gather around people who idolize similar

Ed “Mr Lucky” Martin, known as “Edo” in Japan, grew up in Tochigi-Ken andSaitama-Ken riding in the sidecar of his dad's “Rikuo”, a Japanese versionof a Harley. “I grew up as a missionary-brat in Japan during the 50's and60's, and our transportation back in those days was the old 45 flathead withsidecar,” Ed said. He's