As we turn the page toward a new year, the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) is energized by what lies ahead in 2026. At the top of the legislative agenda is the Surface Transportation Reauthorization, commonly known as the Highway Bill — a critical federal funding and policy package that Congress updates roughly every five years. […]
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Hey, This will be an amazing year. It will be a transformative year. It could be a hard fight. But this time next year we will know what the Western-Freedom-Loving world stands for. You will know what Easyriders Magazine and the whole company stands for. I said when I took over, Easyriders Magazine will not
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Hey, This is a special day, a very special day. Tomorrow will be even more special. Have you noticed more Xmas cheer on your TV screen. I don’t watch commercial TV, but I do watch Football games from time to time. I’ve noticed a stronger more cheerful approach to the season. Maybe folks are finally
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It’s All Good, At Least It Should Be… Merry Christmas ! Hey, We mean it deeply. We are actually living in the best of times. The very best of times from a human development standpoint. Thinks about it, as bikers we can build anything. We have the technology to do it all from wild artistic
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Why Congress Must Act Now to Protect Rider Choice, Fair Repair Access, and the Future of Motorcycling — by Michael Infanzon Across the country, riders are confronting a series of federal policy decisions that will shape the future of motorcycling for decades. New motorcycles depend on software-based systems for diagnostics and repair. Some states are
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It’s all happening… Hey, Every day is amazing at the Bikernet and Easyriders headquarters. The CEO of a motorcycle company called me this morning. He just got off the phone after an hour conversation with the new CEO of Harley-Davidson. He’s excited about the future of Harley. Here are a couple of quick tidbits: Bill
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Hey, I keep thinking about Easyriders, the chopper culture and our future. I think about us old guys who knew what they wanted out of life and went after it, because we could. I feel like there’s a lot of confusion in life currently. Over the months ahead I have a mission to eliminate confusion,
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On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine LIFE is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White. LIFE actually had its start earlier in the 20th century as a different kind of magazine: a weekly humor publication, not unlike today’s The New Yorker in its
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Photo credits: Congressman Van Orden’s Facebook Page On Veteran’s Day, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson ordered members of Congress to return to Washington, DC, to vote on ending the government shutdown. Because of the Schumer Shutdown, those lawmakers found themselves in a travel conundrum just like every other regular old average citizen. They couldn’t
Waymo, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of Alphabet, continues a rapid nationwide build-out of its driverless fleet. This month, the company announced fully autonomous operations, initially for employees in Miami, Orlando, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, with public launches expected in 2026. This expansion doubles the number of cities where Waymo vehicles drive without a human behind
Hey, This has been a wild week. We finally mastered the Easyriders archives and with the help of Jeremy and his crew they moved the massive 54 years of data, film, merch and pins to Bandit’s 5-Ball Emporium Sturgis, SD. We are in the throes of wrapping up my first complete issue #598 after being
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MRF Watching User FeesEnsuring Fairness For Motorcycles As Congress prepares to take up a major highway and transportation reauthorization bill in 2026, proposals to impose new federal registration fees on electric and hybrid vehicles are expected to resurface. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) this week stated that user fees on EVs
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Hey, Fred Harrell from the MRF will dig this. Here’s the simple but difficult challenge. We are living in extremely tumultuous times to say the least. So what’s needed. I told Amy White a gifted writer for Easyriders, we need confidence. We’ve been bullied and even shot at for a decade. We didn’t dare mention
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Hey, How does this shit happen? Where do I start. This year’s Life and Times of Bandit will be completely wild. A year and a half ago I bought an 1800s building on Main Street in Sturgis from an old friend, Richard Lester. This building was rented by the Hells Angels every year for 40
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Hey, Okay, I done did it. I bought the entire Easyriders Empire, lock, stock and archives. Are we going to have fun now? In fact, we’re thinking about changing the name of Bikernet to EASYRIDERS formerly Bikernet.com. What do you think? We started the Easyriders Channel on Youtube. Monday we kick off our first Editorial
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Once in a while I run into a shop owner or mechanic who says, “Watch out for those TV bike builds.” Almost a decade ago the Build-off director called. With a couple of San Pedro thugs we rolled into the Hollywood hills to retrieve the long rugged looking sled. Just my style. I like ‘em
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The 85th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (August 1–10, 2025) proved to be a roaring celebration of iron, grit and glory. The brotherhood stepped up and made it worthwhile for everyone, with almost no visible criticism in mainstream media. In finality, traffic into Sturgis surged by 11.3% over the previous five-year average, with 537,459 vehicles entering during
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Hey, The 85th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is just two weeks away. You’ll stumble across the press release below. We moved the Easyriders Streamliner into the Sturgis motorcycle Museum a couple of days ago with a tremendous amount of help from friends and brothers. Turned weird in the parking lot as a storm loomed and the
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Hey, Wow the missions are piling up. We started a group to encourage the city to be in favor and supportive of the Sturgis rally. At our last meeting we met with comissioner Ruth Kopp who suggested we start an effort to save, rebuild and make the historic ½ mile come alive again. There was
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Hey, Suddenly there’s a ton of action happening in Sturgis for the 85th. This was a wild week, as we scrambled into July. Suddenly we feel non-stop pressure to prepare for the 85th annual Sturgis Rally. Other than Arlin Fatland, who owns TwoWheelers on Main in Sturgis the rest of us don’t know what the
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I just watched the George Clooney and Evan McGregor film, “Men who Stare at Goats.” It made no sense, but about a decade before the Iraq war, maybe two, I owned goats and was a member of the Hells Angels. I lived on a half-acre in Sun Valley on the outskirts of the San Fernando
Hey, Did you know there’s an ongoing fight to save the Sturgis Rally? Did you know a fight is brewing to save Harley-Davidson and I’m right in the middle of a battle to save Easyriders Magazine. Hell, President Trump is kicking ass to save our country and the Free World. Oh, and I’m road-testing my
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Hey, We are living in truly strange times. There’s a bleak side of society trying to destroy the country. One example is the climate doom business. But last weekend my buddy Don Whalen and his entire family drove their ICE vehicle to the Petersen Museum, in Los Angeles, to celebrate Father’s Day and enjoy the
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Hey, Is life nuts or what. While 2 percent want to destroy everything, 98 percent keep the faith and struggle to survive. For once, most of us are in the 98 percent group. We believe in freedom, order, even in law enforcement. We have brothers and sisters who are fire fighters, veterans, on active duty
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