In History

It’s not the best looking bike in the Sturgis Museum, and it’s certainly far from the oldest, but it does have a wonderful story to tell. It’s the “Million Mile Motorcycle” – a 1991 FXRT Harley-Davidson, and it was ridden 1 million miles by former Wisconsin State Senator Dave Zien. This particular motorcycle has seen […]

You might think that the relationship between one motorcycle museum and another could be more competitive than cooperative, but that’s really not the case. A great example of the cooperative efforts of two motorcycle museums is the recent “trade” that’s been made between the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame and the National Motorcycle

The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame is very excited to be celebrating its 10th Anniversary on June 1, 2011. In its relatively short history, the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum has grown to be a world-class museum with a collection of nearly 100 motorcycles and an impressive array of memorabilia associated with motorcycling and with

Kenny Price, founder of Samson Motorcycle Products Inc, located in Brea, California, is the inventor and leading innovator of numerous patented and high-performance exhaust systems for Harley-Davidson and Metric Cruiser motorcycles. From his humble beginnings as a teenager in the early ’60s, Kenny’s aspiration was to tweak more power out of his ’56 Vespa. He

Bikernet is sponsoring the Sturgis Museum this year and we offered to feature one of their display bikes each month on Bikernet. We are promoting the Sturgis Museum for several reasons. Our boss is in the Hall of Fame. We don’t know why, but what the hell, he’s old.The Museum represents a great deal for

  Editor’s Note: We’ve made several bike builders rich and famous,because they were featured in magazines and on television, but here’s anarticle about a true motorcycle hero. Sputnik, a man who devoted his life tomotorcycle freedom.     Memorial services for Bill “Sputnik” Strain were held July 10,2010 on the steps of the Texas State

Kingman, AZ – In order to make an extended stop inKingman, AZ you don’t have to attend, as I did a couple of months ago, theLaughlin River Run on the Nevada side of the Colorado river. But it helps.Firstly, one is normally traveling through Kingman and not to Kingman. Beyond “King” – a town thatloudly

Internet auctions offer everything from Janet Jackson’s silhouette on a slice of Gouda cheese to a Russian MiG-17. But there’s nothing like a living, breathing in-your-face auction, the real thing, up close and personal… machines you can touch and real people fighting for ownership of the items bid upon, in this case precious metal, more

The Author, Scott Holton, working on the J&P liner.Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to bring you another story of Salt Flats Speed Trials glory. This will be a three part series from J&P Cycles and follow their streamliner through two years of racing. Hang On!–Wrench I have been fortunate to be selected as part of the

Lee meeting his lifelong partner for the first time.What goes into 35 years of being in the motorcycle “business”? It’s more than just hard work, a job, burning the midnight oil and trying to make your customers happy. It is a life that defines you and who you are that can’t really be put into