The idea for this show came about when Clear Channel Entertainment and Curtis Media Group approached Ray Price Harley-Davidson to come up with a way to increase attendance at Alltel Pavilion (now the Time Warner Cable Pavilion at Walnut Creek). Merging the show with concerts at the Pavilion was a huge success. The idea was to develop North Carolina’s first downtown motorcycle...

A true rat bike is just an assemblage of ratty crap stuck on a ratty bike until it becomes a two-wheeled dumpster. Oh those rat bikes have their bit of strange charm in a funky-cool way and I’ll always look and enjoy them, but they’re basically rolling pieces of oil-leaking sh*t that shockingly surprise most people (especially me) that they roll at all. This unbelievably...

The 8th Annual Bikes on the Bay Vintage Motorcycle Show came off without a hitch. The chamber has lots of workers to move, setup, and direct so confusion was kept to a minimum. The event is officially open from 9am to 4pm, but in reality, it’s better to get there by 8am to be able to look around before the gawkers with strollers arrive. It’s a great little event in spite of...

              The Rims on the River – Car, Hot Rod and Motorcycle Show was supposed to take place on Saturday April 21, but due to an approaching rainstorm it was moved to Sunday. This could have been a disaster for many car shows but not this one. There were a large number of quality vehicles that stayed over ‘til Sunday, which turned out to be a beautiful day....

      What Mark started with and what he ended up with are two totally different things. He began with what was probably the epitome of an ‘80s UJM (universal Japanese motorcycle), a 1982 Suzuki GS 1100. After a hell of a lot of tweaking, it was no longer universal in any way, but a non-stock ride that Jack Cofano shot at this year’s BikeWeek Boardwalk Show. Pulling off a build...

     Actually, there’s an interesting story behind all of this as Terry is not only well known for his wild American V-twin customs, including our recently featured radical Buell café-style bit of brutality. This Honda chop was built as a tribute bike to an old friend of Terry’s who has passed on to the perfect riding roads of the afterlife. According to Terry, “This bike and build...

     Possibly the best part of this whole deal for me was that Adam’s answers to my questions were so to the point, I thought I’d just do something a bit different and let the man himself tell it like it is without me jibber-jabbering away about squat. Hey, check it out for yourself below if you don’t believe me.    What is the primary object of your business?      I started O...

    In a rare move, the city has taken over the event, turning the entire town into a party. During Prohibition, the area was notoriously known as a hub for the production and risky distribution of illegal spirits. None other than the dastardly likes of Capone and his ilk were known to walk the same streets and back alleys as law biding bikers travel today.   The event attracted a...

  (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) Singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur Toby Keith has taken his love of motorcycles to a new level as he partners with Brass Balls Cycles’ Dar Holdsworth as co-owner of the award-winning, Oklahoma City-based custom/production bike builder. The partnership will be publicly announced August 6 as Keith returns to headline the legendary Sturgis...

    He then forwarded me some interesting information that is really quite impressive. In 1872, Giovanni Battista Pirelli, a young engineer, founded Pirelli & C. in Milan at the age of twenty-four. A year later, the first facility for the production of rubber articles was up and running.  The new millennium saw yet another revolution in the tire sector: the MIRS™ production...