Event Coverage

SMOKE OUT 16, THE RIDE HOME—There’s a buzz in the industry. We are entering a new world of custom motorcycle upheaval. It flies under the blistering Banner of Cycle Zombies, Brat Style, the Smoke Out, Born Free, The Race of Gentlemen, Bonneville Speed Trials, Suicide Machine, Speed Monkeys, LowBrow, Pat Patterson, Jeff Cochran, or you […]

  This past Sunday, the phone rang and it was my friend Shannon Sweeney of SS Classics, a restorer/builder of righteous vintage Hondas, and I was thinking it was about the new project bike, a rare Red Dragon, but it wasn’t. He was about to leave his house in Alhambra to ride over to Deus

The 7th Annual Quail Motorcycle Gathering was on May 16th Armed Forces Day May 16th, new day and oops…gotta get a new tire. Lucky for me Gilroy Motorcycle’s owner Steve Schaub was able to replace the rear tire on my Raider and send me on my way to the Quail Motorcycle Gathering in Carmel Valley.

  In the ultimate expression of human creative skill and imagination, custom motorcycle builders create incredible beauty, sweeping lines that beg for the wind paired perfectly with precise feats of mechanical engineering. The Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s 2015 Motorcycles as Art Exhibition presents famed photographer Michael Lichter’s “The Naked Truth – 35 Customs / 35 Years

Mama Tried is an indoor motorcycle invitational, showcasing the most honest, home-built and unusual bikes in the Midwest. I managed to spend about three hours at the 2nd Mama Tried show in Milwaukee today. MAMA TRIED MOTORCYCLE SHOW FEBRUARY 21-22, 2015 1741 W. ST. PAUL AVE. – MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN 53233 There were 50 people waiting

      This year’s 17th Annual “Thunder By The Bay” Motorcycle Festival promises to once again be one Sarasota’s premier events kicking off the new year.   And the people came….    This year’s festival begins with a new sporting clay tournament on Thursday. Then on Friday a “Born To Be Wild” kickoff party

      A record crowd of show bikes and spectators filled the spacious grounds of the Ventura County Fairgrounds this past Sunday, December 14th to celebrate the 11th  Annual Chopperfest. They were able to shop for that particular bike part or Christmas gift with some 200 vendors and swap meet booths to enjoy. There

    The show was held on Thursday the first day of Biketoberfest at Tropical Tattoo in Ormond Beach Florida.     I believe it is the largest bike show during Biketoberfest and Bike Week. I say that because it is always packed and rightfully so. The bikes on display represent 20 different classes.  

    Well folks, it’s early Sunday morning, the night after the 11th Annual Indian Larry Grease Monkey Block Party, and once again, Stellar weather, swarms of great & unusual people, incredible custom motorcycles, atmosphere, and on and on and on.         Way too much to say in a simple post. What

Lawless Harley-Davidson had their First Annual Freedom Rally and it was a huge success with riders coming in from surrounding states. The Lawless Freedom Rally was a 3-day weekend full of bikes, rides, stunt shows, the Lawless Saloon with live bands and of course the Miss Lawless Harley-Davidson contest all while paying tribute to the

      When the Petersen Museum announced that the first 150 motorcyclists who showed up got a free Sunday morning pancake breakfast plus two for one museum entrance tickets, people were setting their alarm clocks, this rider/writer included. In part it had to do with an exhibit of café racers on display, but any

    The WMDRA’s AMSOIL Sturgis Nationals brought some of the quickest and fastest drag bikes on the planet to a vintage 1/8 mile strip just out of Sturgis, South Dakota for the 74th Annual Sturgis Race and Rally, along with–oh–400,000 friends.         The WMDRA came to be a part of the

      The 2014 Cannonball Run is an endurance test of motorcycles built prior to 1937 that started at the Daytona Beach Resort in Daytona Beach Florida on September 5th. The riders started to assemble on the beach at 8:30 AM for a group photo.  They started the 3,938 mile ride to Tacoma Washington

    The 1st annual Hawaii Motorcycle Rally (HMR) 2014 is officially in the books. Mother Nature finally agreed to let the show happen this weekend since it was previously re-scheduled due to the two hurricanes anticipated a few weeks ago.           It was nice to see an event that brought

    “The heart of rock ’n roll and 2-wheel hot rods” is centered at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, and every Labor Day the dedicated come to celebrate on the museum’s hallowed ground. The weekend spectacular included not one, but two custom bike shows, with the Harley-Davidson Museum Invitational Pro Custom Bike Show featuring

      Sturgis is over and everyone who went should be back home by now. I have finished most of my articles and they are posted here on Bikernet including the ones that started somewhere else and ended up at the CHIP.       NO Report on Sturgis would be complete without mentioning

    At Biker Pros we put on custom bike shows across the country with the objective to support the industry and keep customizing alive and well in the USof A. Our 2015 series kicked off in Sturgis and will visit 13 cities and award over $90,000 in cash and prizes.   On Tuesday, August

        It was a crispy July morning in Winston Salem. I was at the car show, soaking in the sun, as the candy paint reflections of hot rods and choppers cooked my skin from all angles, like the Smoke Out did the weekend before. To my delight, no one mentions the heat.

    The annual Sturgis Legends Ride is organized by the Sturgis Buffalo Chip to raise funds for local charities, including Black Hills Special Olympics and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame was held on Monday August 4th beginning in Deadwood at the Historic Franklin Hotel.   Riders who have tickets for the

      Michael Lichter and Paul D’Orleans produce a show at the Buffalo Chip during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally named Motorcycles as Art. Now in its 14th year this year’s theme is BUILT FOR SPEED. It is Race Inspired Custom Motorcycles & Art.         On Sunday August 3rd motorcycle industry and

    I have been lucky enough to ride to Sturgis for their Black Hills Classic Motorcycle Event for many years. I have ridden by myself, with others, on interstate highways and country roads trying to make each ride just enough different to stay interesting But one thing I have been doing and not changing

    Now in its 23rd year, the 2014 edition of the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show was held this year on the lush lawns of the Malibu Golf Course, in the Santa Monica Mountains, near the Pacific Ocean.   Highlighting this year’s activities was the emergence of a new custom bike builder to the sport.