Event Coverage

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The National Western Complex where the west comes to celebrate cowboys, cowgirls, rodeos, and all things western invited in the iron horse and all things biker. February 2nd and 3rd the Colorado Motorcycle Show and Swap took over the complex. Bikers from all over the United States brave the cold weather to attend this event.

Even before the V-Twin Expo opened there were comments from some people about the changes scheduled for first weekend in February, 2013. You’re not going to please everyone all the time, so in my opinion I would please the vendors, as they are the ones the show was designed for. Actually it was concocted because

Bikernet correspondant Darren Ho reports from the 21st Annual Yokohama Hot Rod & Custom Show in Japan          Click on any photo to view it full size; hit ‘esc’ to resume reading.       Everyone dreams of knocking items off their infinite “bucket list.” Recently, I had the opportunity to do

The Easyriders 2013 Bike Show Tour is rolling into Anaheim, CA on Saturday January 5, 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center.  Witness hundreds of the planets hottest bikes on display as competitors compete for 59 total awards, cash, and the chance to have their bike featured in one of our magazines. Meet Charlie Hunnam “Jax”

  The Easyriders 2013 Bike Show Tour is right around the corner. Easyriders Events offers your company twenty-plus years of proven performance as one of the most respected motorcycle production companies in the business. We are your connection to the motorcycle consumer.   The Easyriders Bike Show Tour will put your company and products in

The 12th edition of the Thunder Valley Rally recently boomed into Cottonwood, AZ and surrounding scenic areas, attracting several thousand enthusiasts from local counties and neighboring states to this former bootlegging stronghold. Pouring in from the north end of Old Town and corked at the south by a mega sound stage, Main Street was turned

Editor’s Note: We posted Rogue’s story in the Sunday Post, and then he sent this, “I fucked up and sent you the article about the Broken Spoke from Bike Week, last March.” Actually, many of the same players were in attendance, but here’s the roaming Rogue’s story from Daytona just a couple of weeks ago.

There is no shortage of Bike Shows during Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach. Though they all offer something different to the sunburnt folks entering them and also to those attending. Some are more popular than others. Some represent stock-bike ride-in shows, others are more big-buck glamour choppers shows, then there’s the blue collar Tropical Tattoo old

Events sometimes conspire to lead you places you had no intention of going. I met Bandit in June 2011 when he rode the Smoke Out XII Long Road beginning in New Orleans. I live in the New Orleans area and picked Bandit up at the airport and deposited his lanky frame in the heart of

  This Story is reprinted from the J&P Cycles Blog   Labor Day weekend in Eastern Iowa marks one of our favorite motorcycle events of the season, the AMCA Fall National hosted by the Chief Blackhawk Chapter of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America (AMCA). A couple of J&P Cycles’ staff members spent the day

    Friday, September 14, 2012 is the one and only “rest day” onthe 2012 Motorcycle Cannonball – and it’s happening in Sturgis, SouthDakota. What is called a rest dayis for most of these adventurers really a day to work on their bikes – someeven performing major overhauls. At a number of locations around town, old

 “Cold beer…Good food…Children welcome” is a sign that welcomes visitors to Cook’s Corner, a family friendly biker bar nestled in Trabuco Canyon in Orange County, California. Cook’s Corner is named after Andrew Jackson Cook, who acquired the land on which the roadhouse now sat in 1884. In 1926, his son, Earl, turned an old cabin

Harley-Davidson kicked off their Labor Day Custom Bike Weekend Show event as a tune up to their 2013 110th anniversary. The Harley-Davidson Museum, located on 20 acres in downtown Milwaukee, hosted 2 bike shows, the AMD Affiliate ProBuilder show on Friday and Saturday and the ride in show on Sunday during the Milwaukee Rally. The

After rolling up about 1000 miles, Cannonball Endurance Run coast-to-coast riders will stop and overnight near the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa. Cannonball Riders and Motorcycles at the Start of the 2010 Event –  J. Geary Photo   This makes for a fun, once in a lifetime chance to visit the National Motorcycle Museum on

The 2012 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show The 21st edition of the LA Calendar Motorcycle Showsponsored by Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys featuring top Celebrity Builders,the Calendar Bike Building Championship & Concours d’Elegance, selectedVendors and Exhibitors, Calendar Girl Music live performances, took place inCalabasas, California. The current 3-year decline in the economy and the resultingimpact on the

  We cut a dusty trail for the Smoke-Out on Friday, June 22nd.  Just before the final bungie cord was snapped into place over my Bandit’s bedroll, I had received an urgent message from Sin Wu saying, “Contact the boss (Bandit) a.s.a.p!”  It seems the bastard lost my cell number.  I dropped everything and made

Click on any photo to view it full size. Press ‘esc’ to resume regular viewing.  Seeing these young riders totally immersed into chop culture brings a tear to my one good eye.   The kids are all right, they’re old school, love the vintage motorcycle vibe and just dig riding. Their first Born Free event

My Colorado riding friends, old & new! Mark, Masyn, Duane, Rachel & Damon. As my days in Colorado are coming to an end, I wanted to do a ride that involved the people of the Colorado bike world, in addition to already enjoying its spectacular roads and landscapes. I called my friend Ken Conte from

Continued from Part I       The FH-DCE (Federation Harley Davidson Clubs Europe) goes back to the 1960’s when the H-D Clubs from the Netherlands Germany and Belgium met at Harley-Davidson Rallys.  One of the most popular was the Pinkster Rally in Holland, the first one was in 1964. After the 1973 Pinkster, the

     I had not heard of the Super Rally®  before now, but I did know that the H-D clubs are just as big in the EU as they are back in the U.S., if not bigger.  I hadn’t planned to go, as is usual with most of my journey so far, but at the last minute

  Lately I’ve had cause to ponder the question, “What makes a Biker a Biker?” Are you a “biker” just because you own a bike? Are you a lifestyle biker, or the occasional motorcycle weekend warrior? I even had a guy comment under a photo of me on Facebook, that he just didn’t understand “people

Everyone loves going to Illusion Cycles events in Westminster. Illusion Cycles Team 25 Speedway Season Opener party was no different. Once again, it was a first class party to celebrate the upcoming 2012 Speedway season and show off Team 25 Illusion Harley-Davidson Sidecar, which was on display and ready for the dirt track. This party

Headin’ for the Party and Keepin’ it Original….’40s police bike came rumbling in with sirens blaring… Four years ago two Los Angeles area bike freaks, Mike Davis and Grant Peterson, decided they weren’t happy with the general type of motorcycle rallies they were experiencing in Southern California. They weren’t into only seeing bling-bikes costing $50,000