Event Coverage

When you shoot the bull about attending a motorcycle show, images of cool bikes, hot babes and rows of vendors come to mind. This show had all that, but the key word was CCI dealer. The Custom Chrome facility located in beautiful Morgan Hill, California hosted its annual dealer show, October 8th thru the 10th, […]

I just returned from hanging in Dallas for the weekend. I was there for some photo shoots; the folks at Lucky Devil Metal Works had two bikes photographed for national magazines. I arrived in Dallas a few hours before the Houston crew and made my way over to Strokers to hang out. I took some

Hey Guy's, here’s some pics from the Big Island, for the Labor Day Run 2004. It was amuch needed vacation. Sound’s funny that just going to another island soclose would be a vacation from Oahu, but to get away from work which hasbeen crazy lately, all the stress from the 2nd Annual Choppers Only show

A DEVILISH PARTY– Lucky Devil's “Polish Your Pipes” Bike Wash & Bar-B-Que.The fine folks at Lucky Devil Metal Works decided to have a party to celebrate their participation in the upcoming “Big Texas Chop-Off” taking place at the Fort Worth Speedway the weekend of September 17th through the 19th. Not having a massive advertising budget

Hawaii was calling… not the thought of lazing under a palm tree on a sandy beach drinking Margaritas with beautiful Hula girls dancing and the setting sun a fireball in the distance. No, it was the 4th July – 2nd annual “Choppers Only Show” the promise of checking out the choppers, some ol' school, some

Not many artists can say that their art makes you feel as though you're in the picture, but David Mann’s art is the bikers' prime example. For over 30 years David Mann shared his motorcycle art with the custom bike world. If you looked at one of his pictures, you could imagine the wind in

My decision to make the journey to the SMSO V was last moment to say the least, once decided, I was worse then a 6-year-old waiting on his first trip to Disneyland! Is it time to go yet Are we there yet? Bradley Da Polisher has represented our great state with honor in previous years,

It all started five years ago with 400 die hard chopper freaks, and Edge, a straight shooting fulltime military man, who loves old school choppers. “We wanted an event that would not be flooded by billet barge riding R.U.B.'s sporting more money than taste parading around in their brandy new “Officially Licensed Motor Clothes” posing

First let me say…It’s only 2 or 3 months past due so WTF! Remember there are NO deadlines here at Bikernet! I had the pleasure to attend The Horse Back Street Choppers Smoke Out VI, however this year Spanky, Vanna & myself would be attending as veterans of SO V. We also found a better

The 2004 Easyriders tour rolled into Houston, Texas and the George R. Brown convention center readied to party on Saturday. A least that is when the event was scheduled, the mayhem that follows this tour as it makes it way across the nation began falling into place Thursday night. This year’s tour was making stops

Gotta have a girl in every story. This run started just up the road from me crib at an old truck stop, “Tri-County Truck Stop”. It was rebuilt in the mid-fifties when the original structure burned down, and I don't think that it's had a good cleaning since then. I love the place. It's on

I was jolted out of bed the other morning by the “Bandit” phone ringing off the hook. Knowing I hadn’t done anything wrong, I picked it up without hesitation, “yea what’s up? “I thought you were sending some words for all these tattoo expo pictures!” Someone screeched in to the phone. While the cobwebs and

The Oyster Run is held in Anacortes, Washington on the last Sunday of September. It has been growing every year and this year estimates were in the 20 thousand bike range. It's supposed to be the largest single day event in the northwest and for most is one of the last major rides of the

I was sent to cover the 30th Annual ABATE of Kansas National Labor Day Run, held at Paradise Point, Lake Perry, Kansas. “It was one of the largest so far, with a count of 4,000 and still counting,” President, Lucky Bass told me at a later phone interview. “We think it was almost perfect, the

As an old crusty butted die-hard rider, I've done Laconia, Daytona and Sturgis and just about every major event in between to death. Been there, done that, got the tattoos. You see the same goddamn bikes and the same faces at every major event here in the states. This year I promised Bandit that I

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First of all, the legendary Mid-Ohio AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days event takes place just south of Cleveland. The track is in the middle of nowhere, and it’s July. But despite sweltering temperatures and humidity that would knock-out the Swamp Thing, the annual Mid-Ohio AMA sponsored swap meet, bike show and vintage races attracted fans from

The Start There are times in your life that you have to sit back and evaluate who you are and what you have done. Some may say it is vanity, others call it planning ahead, but I always try to make goals for my life and meet them head on. I haven't reached every goal

Bandit got in touch with me last week and asked me about writing a story on the Run For Breath. I thought about it for awhile and I decided to write about the history of the Run For Breath, but before I get into that I am going to tell you about Justin and a

Well there I was, bags packed , a kiss goodbye to my wife, settled in for the 3 hour bus ride to Brisbane Airport, followed by an hour flight to Sydney International Airport, hassle my way thru customs for the 9 hour flight to Hawaii. As I sat waiting for the flight to get under

The 3rd annual Hot Bike/Bikernet.com West Coast Super Show Sponsored By Bikernet.com delivered as promised. The on grounds bike parking was filled to capacity though out the weekend with thousands of bikes. The owners made their way through the rows of 120 plus vendors in the Performance Machine motorcycle market place. Everything from the latest

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Bikes, Beer, Babes, Friends, and Tattoos – All were at this year's 18th Annual Donnie Smith Invitational Bike Show.This show gets better every year, and this year was no different. Winters can be brutal up here in Minnesota,and to me, this show signals the beginning of riding season here in this frozen tundra. I look

A couple of months ago on a dreary over-cast So Cal day, the phone rang. It had a different tone. You know, the tone of a teacher calling to report bad grades, a psycho girlfriend calling to say good-bye for the 13th time, or the call from a paint shop that lost your frame. That