Okay, we gotta admit it’s a tiny bit macabre to find a stellar group of antique, vintage and high performance motorcycles on display at a cemetery, literally the last place a bike fan wants to visit. But there was lively reasoning behind the appearance of 13 “celebrity” two-wheelers at the Forest Lawn Memorial […]
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Hey, I could have attended the last Love Ride yesterday. We received a highly secret inside report. Ever since the economy crashed in 2008 the Love Ride has struggled. We discussed the success of the Love Ride and making it better with several longtime attendees, while sitting under the shade of a magnificent pine
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Raven hair and ruby lips sparks fly from her finger tips Echoed voices in the night she’s a restless spirit on an endless flight wooo hooo witchy woman, see how high she flies woo hoo witchy woman she got the moon in her eye
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He meant so much to the millions of Americans who fought in World War II, and to those who had waited for them to come home. He was a kid cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper; Mauldin’s drawings of his muddy, exhausted, whisker-stubble infantrymen Willie and Joe were the voice of
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Hey, I don’t know what to make of this, but I’m trying. More importantly how will any of this effect motorcycling in the future? This comes from The Week Magazine for October 17th: One promising high-tech auto feature in development is “vehicle-to-vehicle” (or V2V) communication, which would allow cars to virtually “talk” to one
SCARY HIGH-TECH SUNDAY POST FOR October 19, 2014 Read More »
Hey, It’s ironic how we learn lessons, what sinks in, or what touches a cord in our memory banks. I had a tooth pulled on Tuesday and they gave me a round of antibiotics. I started to take them and felt weak, then my joints started to ache, and finally I awoke to a splitting
FLAT TRACK FINALS SPECIAL REPORTS AND BABES SUNDAY POST FOR October 12, 2014 Read More »
It doesn’t make any sense, but what does except cool custom bikes and hot women? It’s all a dichotomy. Like the preacher who drinks whiskey, the family man who builds wild choppers and hangs around sexy broads. It’s oil and water, the wicked and the pure, the virgin and satin. But then there are the
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Hey, Most of the Bikernet Crew are in Las Vegas for Bikefest, working hard, or is that playing hard? Did they actually make it to Vegas? Did Bandit find a cute redhead and stop to play? Did he make it past Sheris Ranch in Pahrump, NV? We will find out more
While The Cat’s Away The Mice Do Play Sunday Post for October 5, 2014 Read More »
                 http://www.forgottenweapons.com/guns-and-motorcycles-a-photo-essay/    By Ian McCollum – from www.forgottenweapons.com
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Hey, This is nuts. This month disappeared in a flurry of harried activity and accomplishments, but I still didn’t rewrite my last chapter. Plus this coming week is already snatched with meetings with Lucas Oil and the run to Vegas for Bikefest. Quick, here are a couple of perfect items to kick off Bikerfest. Rogue
LAS VEGAS RUN SUNDAY POST FOR September 28, 2014 Read More »
Hey, I need to rock. We are going to ride to Johnny Rockets in Manhattan Beach for lunch. I missed Sugar Bear’s 75th Party yesterday wading in concrete. But I’ll get over to see him when the party dust settles. He’s moving north and I need to make him a cool house warming present. I
POURING CONCRETE SUNDAY POST FOR September 21, 2014 Read More »
Marko opened the Cantina on a bright sunny day. The morning sun bounced off the harbor and burned off the cool morning dew. The colors glistened against the soft beige stucco exterior walls of the Cantina. The smells from the Cantina kitchen were overwhelming. The Chinaman and his crew had been hard at it
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Hey, Life moves way too fast these days. Weeks fly by. At one time I could make a list for a week and hit two or three main goals, but now I try to stick to one major goal a week. I spoke to Denis Manning yesterday. If you know him, you should reach out.
LAST WEEKEND OF THE SUMMER SUNDAY POST FOR September 14, 2014 Read More »
Hey, I’m feeling sort of overwhelmed. I need to take care of our Bonneville Sponsors, finish the last chapter of a book, wrap-up my final 2014 Bonneville report, handle shipping to a couple of brothers, deal with business, work on a Saddlemen story, check with the staff on content issues, buy a new
SEXY SUNDAY POST TO GET YOU STARTED FOR September 7, 2014 Read More »
Frank over at Wicked Influence in Arvada Colorado builds a wicked bike and through some searching we found a wicked girl to match. With a passion that started with Easy Rider, Frank has been in the industry since the late 70s. After high school he went to school for motorcycle mechanics while his
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Hey, This weekend has been a blur and last night I rolled in late and had a jack on the rocks. I have a splitting headache this morning, and the list is still daunting. I’m supposed to meet on the mountain, ride to Illusions Cycles for their open house, completely tear my CV carb apart
ROLAND SANDS, ILLUSION CYCLES, GETTYSBURG SUNDAY POST FOR JULY 13TH Read More »
The Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, California, specifically its Art Deco style terminal building, has been used in a number of movies over the decades. Among the films with scenes shot here are “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” (1947), “Executive Suite” (1954), which we’ll discuss in more depth down the road, and
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Hey, It’s the Happy Father’s Day Sunday Post, amazing. And we survived a Friday the 13th and a full moon. I spent 2.5 days sequestered in a hotel room working on a final edit of my second Chance book, and perhaps my last fiction book endeavor. I spent almost 16 hours one day just reading
FATHER’S DAY SUNDAY POST FOR June 15th, 2014 Read More »
Hey, I’m confused today, but that’s nothing new recently. There is a lot of confusion out there, like the government handling of the VA health care system, yet they want to control everyone’s health care? We are left to invest in stocks or real estate. Who could ever trust the stock market again? And during
FATHERS DAY WIND UP SUNDAY POST FOR June 8, 2014 Read More »
Hey, I was once on the board of directors of some group homes for kids who were abandoned. Or their folks were drug addicts, or in jail. As a biker I could relate, for some strange reason. In our efforts to be free too many kids got left behind. I’ll never forget meeting with these
DAMN, JUNE 1 SUNDAY POST ROCKS for June 1, 2014 Read More »
Hey, It’s Memorial Day already. I’m missing the Long Beach Swap Meet working on a Sunday Post, every Sunday, except when I’m riding an Indian to the Smoke Out, peeling to Sturgis, or Bonneville. We had some progress on the Bonneville efforts this week. I ordered some dragster parts, the front end, axles, tie-rods, you
MEMORIAL DAY SUNDAY POST FOR May 25, 2014 Read More »
Hey, As usual life is nuts. I took a drive around the port with Dr. Hamster yesterday, and the port is tearing the shit outta Wilmington to enhance port operations, and they don’t have an approved plans. We have a plan for the Wilmington Waterfront approved in 2009 and nothing has been completed—no money they
THE EVER-CHANGING SUNDAY POST FOR May 18, 2014 Read More »
SHUT UP AND DEAL, This is an odd mix of news today. We are waiting for some interesting safety reports from Australia. They’ve determined the real need for helmets, like we have a hundred times. Car drivers should wear them, quick. It’s all nuts. Again, Freedom works, if the control freaks could only listen. Rare
THE CONTROL FREAK SUNDAY POST FOR May 11, 2014 Read More »
Hey, This is incredible. Many said that if the government would just control litigation and abuse in the medical world, we didn’t need Obamacare. Of course the new legislation passed. And now everything medical will be controlled and monitored, including every citizen’s activity. So hang on for this report from The Week Magazine this week:
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