Editor's note: Hollister 2008 was reported by Down Under Bikernet correspondent Doc Robinson who travelled half way around the world to attend the 61st Anniversary of the infamous first Hollister weekend. His features are also due to be published in Heavy Duty magazine, the largest H-D mag in Australia. “What are you rebelling against, Johnny?”“What […]
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Well another El Diablo Run is in the history pages, making it three times now for this Run. The first I heard of the El Diablo Run was in the winter of ‘07 when a couple of guys I was chatting with out at Cook's Corner, in SoCal, were discussing their plans for the Run.
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The Smoke Out 9 Rally provided two days of outstanding weather and none stop action. The main attraction, of course, was the 2-wheel artists blasting their latest designs down the Farmington Raceway. Everything from techno-chops to resurrected cruisers from the ‘80s made it out to the 2008 edition of the Smoke Out. Low and loud,
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Hey Bandit, we just rolled in from Harley’s 105th birthday bash in Milwaukee… hey, aren’t you almost that old? What? You want us to speak slower or louder? Even though we were there for four days, there was no way to take in everything that was happening around town—even though we noticed that the different
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The Antique Motorcycle Club of America held its second annual Grand National Motorcycle Show and Swap Meet at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in historic Rhinebeck, NY this June. Over 1,000 rare motorcycles from 1898 through 1973 were on display including a timeline with a bike from every year represented. From vintage Harley-Davidson and Indian motorcycles
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THE W8LESS MASTER HEADS TO BONNEVILLE– After a long awaited front tire change Friday after the U P S truck arrived, I hauled ass from San Jose late Friday evening, ADDICTION …. LIFE in the fast lane . MORE ADRENALINE please. DESTINATION … Wendover , Utah , 644 miles one way . DREAM…150 mph on
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On the weekend of March 7th, 2009, I loaded up my trusty 1993 1200 XL and left for an adventure into the great state of Virginia. I had seen an advertisement on the pages of Bikernet.com on an upcoming event to be held in Fishersville, VA. Those of you who really know me…know I have
More than 200 people lost their lives in the terrible bushfires which swept parts of the Australian state of Victoria during February, entire towns were lost and thousands of homes destroyed. The sinister aspect is that at least some of the fires were deliberately lit, a circumstance that lead the country’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
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Sacramento, CA~Jan. 17-18~ The folks from Easyriders brought their 3-ring biker circus into the California capital over the weekend and proceeded to pack the downtown Sacramento Convention Center to the rafters with happy riders. The amazing spring-like weather was no small part of what drew folks out of their humble abodes. But once at the
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Photo from “World's Fastest Indian” movie about Burt's racing history.Here's a good one from Australia. Our Ms Bikernet of the 2009 is, Nicole Brosing, a tattoo artist, who rides and just opened her first Tattoo Shop. She was assigned the coverage of the first Burt Munroe tribute beach race in New Zealand. But her report
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