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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

A Scarlet Macaw torpedoed a calm Royal Palm, slashing open the peach underbelly of the virgin dawn, coming in fast, yawing hard, an expert move by an experienced flier, his red vanishing into the sunrise-tinted green as he pierced the spherical frond canopy at speed. The red dart was halted somewhere within the dome of

As every 4th of July week end crept up, we roamed around Oahu. Yes, Oahu as in the Hawaiian islands. It's always fun to manage cruising the island, surf a bit and just hang out with many friends who we have increased in numbers thru the years. The only downside to this (which is not

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

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

Well, the Holidays are here, time always flies, soon there will be another digit on the year, we will be screwing up checks, and making false promises that we all know won't be kept. Anyway. Well, my early resolution is to hit Japan big. I know they like my bikes there, a lot, but I

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL (November 9, 2006) – The Seminole Hard Rock Roadhouse 2006 Tour will be making its final stop as part of the 18th Annual Toys in the Sun Run on Sunday, December 10th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Aaron Greene’s wild machine. Nobody builds a bike like Aaron. He couples flowing lines with muscle

It has been a busy year since Space Coast Harley-Davidson in Palm Bay Florida opened their doors. They recently wanted to thank all their customers by having a party. Darby Koller who heads-up marketing and promotion for the dealership, put on numerous events during the year but she wanted this one to be special. The

Team Old and Oily is:Keith Bennett, #797Jack Houman, #796Charlie Young, #798Alec Harper the Wrench / pit crewDavid Brock, our corner worker / safety rep. It's been a great season! Can't think of a better way to spend several weekends throughout the year. Here are some team stats:•2nd place in the nation, WERA 500GP class•Southeastern Regional

Mike and Karen Dodds.Gary and Brenda Gagnon are my just some of the old timer biker ties that bind me to New England, forever. Gary, a talented motorcycle mechanic, and his wife Brenda became motorcycle shop owners a couple of years ago. Gary’s forte is old school as in kindergarten. His easel is filled with

I read about the Smoke Out, put on annually by the Horse Backstreet Choppers magazine crew, on Bikernet. People always spoke of it in an almost cultish manner. An event where old school chopperheads appeared in mass out of nowhere like zombies right out of “Night of the Living Dead”, until they had taken over

A brilliant blue sky was a perfect backdrop for the NYC skyline as we blasted across the Tri-Boro Bridge heading to Indian Larry's old shop in the industrial waterfront section of Brooklyn called Williamsburg. We rode quite a way that morning to be among the thousand or so people who gathered together to celebrate the

HERSHEY, Pa. (September 11, 2006) – Hundreds of Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.) members spent their Labor Day week on the sweet roads between Hershey, Pa., and Huntington, W. Va., while on the H.O.G. Road Candy Tour Sept. 5 through 8. H.O.G. members started the week off in Hershey with a party on Tuesday, Sept. 5,

We took off early, in the cool blue dawn, on a Friday, ditching responsibilities and jobs for a weekend blast into the Florida Keys. It was Phil Peterson’s 34rd Annual Poker Run. We usually by-pass the poker hand at the beginning and head straight for Key West! We can buy a hand at the end

Award winning touring custom from AMC 1902.Every trip to Sturgis SD has its joy’s and its frustrations. If you ride with a group of bikers or drive a rig you know what we mean. Breakdown’s are commonplace, and the time needed to get back on the road can be long or short, you never know.

This year marked the entry of Canada into the ranks of nations participating in the affiliate program of AMD’s World Championship of Custom Bike Building. The event was sponsored Belt Drive Betty, the driving force behind Canada’s “The Busted Knuckle Chronicles”, parts supplier Mid-USA Canada and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Fairview Campus. The

Well, Sturgis 2006 is behind us! I had an awesome adventure that started with a marathon iron-butt trip into Sturgis. My partner and I spent the next 4 days living a groundhog-day existence of virtually the same thing over and over. We capped the trip off with a shot into the Midwest to visit my