Just sayin’. Other than that debacle, the weekend was a huge success with good weather and good attendance. I’m still seeing a lot of very inexperienced riders out there on the road and it scares the hell out of me. Please, get used to riding in heavy traffic before you venture out to a major rally. It’s crazy for even the most experienced rider.

  After checking out their website, Wikked Steel’s St. Petersburg, Florida, shop appears to be the equivalent of Lockheed’s famous California Skunk Works known for little ditties of the air like the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-22 Raptor to name just a few. As far as flying, if it’s strictly unconventional and unheard of, Lockheed’s your go- to guy (so to speak) and so is...

  I guess it probably helps that this is not his first show rodeo as Jack explained, “This is my second show bike. I got a lot of ideas through the years from the different bikes I judged. I know what to look for on a winning bike so I put those concepts into my bike when I was building it. I’m happy with the bike especially since I’ve won eight shows with it so far....

Being a follower of the late great P. T. Barnum who said his Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus was “The greatest show on earth”, I read the hype for the Pacific Coast Dream Machine event and here it is directly from their website. “For a remarkable and singular experience, there’s nothing that matches up to the Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show —Half...

Carey Kiser of Concord, North Carolina, seems to be cut from the same cloth as old George and didn’t let a tough economy stop him from having a cool bike that he can ride the living pee out of while not being part of a same-cow, making-payments herd. This work in progress piece is based on the smart man’s donor bike, a late model Buell utilizing the high quality components like...

This year’s show in Charlotte, North Carolina, was no exception. There were many bikes at the show that I expect to see again in Daytona or maybe even Sturgis. I wouldn’t be surprised that a few of these may do quite well at some of the bigger venues. What is nice about the tour is that the bikes you see on the East Coast are different from the bikes you see on the West Coast or...