There were plenty of customs also on display from builder such as Dirty Bird Concepts, Binford Custom Cycles, Jim Nasi Customs and many more as well as bikes from the Friday show. I did not make it to the Baddest Bagger Competition on Saturday due to personal reasons.             There are plenty of interesting stories behind a lot of these custom creations and I’m sure...

            There were plenty of customs also on display from builder such as Dirty Bird Concepts, Binford Custom Cycles, Jim Nasi Customs and many more as well as bikes from the Friday show. I did not make it to the Baddest Bagger Competition on Saturday due to personal reasons.             There are plenty of interesting stories behind a lot of these custom creations and I’m sure...

            The 14th annual Las Vegas BikeFest ran from Thursday, October 2nd, through Sunday, October 5th, at the CashmanCenter on 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North. The crowd was expected to be around 30,000 strong with 80-percent of attendees hailing from outside Nevada and 20-percent of those are international.             Throughout the four days of the Bikefest there are bike shows,...

      Gooding’s Auctions are the on-property auction house featuring cars one only dreams about. On Saturday, I wandered down on the empty 18th fairway to check out the condition of the grass in drought stricken California and I was glad to see that the drought hadn’t affected the show field.     Later I stopped into the party at the McLaren setup and enjoyed a little...

     Also held on a separate portion of The Quail property is the annual Bonham’s auction of exotic motor vehicles. Elvis wasn’t in attendance, but his Rolls Royce was being offered at auction. Bonham’s did peddle a ‘60s red Ferrari for 38 million greenbacks plus setting a record for an auction car. Not too shabby!       Rock ‘n’ Roller, Sammy Hagar, is now in the rum...

     The motorcycle auction Mid-America used to have took place in a tent at PebbleBeach next to Gooding’s, now the only auction house on PebbleBeach property. But, since Mid-America’s sale to Mecum last January, the motorcycles are at the Mecum auction site at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey. Bonham’s auction is adjacent to The Quail Golf Course in CarmelValley. Walking around...

     SBK stopped at Laguna Seca having last week raced in Portugal and next week in Spain, so it seems we in the USA were just a slight detour. EBR (Eric Buell Racing) was one of the contenders and they are American bikes made by a guy who formerly made the namesake Buell motorcycles for the Harley-Davidson Motor Company. Eric’s new bikes cannot carry the Buell name so they are...

    Here’s a bit of information for you to make your own decision on whether it’s something you should fire up the bike and attend direct from Thousand Islands’ own Mary Compeau, “In the summer of 2007, the Alexandria Bay Chamber of Commerce hosted the Thousand Islands River Run Motorcycle Rally in Alexandria Bay, New York. It was a great success and with each passing year the...

    Here’s a bit of information for you to make your own decision on whether it’s something you should fire up the bike and attend direct from Thousand Islands’ own Mary Compeau, “In the summer of 2007, the Alexandria Bay Chamber of Commerce hosted the Thousand Islands River Run Motorcycle rally in Alexandria Bay, New York. It was a great success and with each passing year the...

     At Corbin headquarters, a couple miles north of the San Benito Street madness on San Felipe Road, the tradition continues with the annual Corbin Customer Appreciation Days corresponding with the downtown event. Check out the photos of dinosaurs across the road from Corbin’s. Why they are there, who knows?      The Corbin event is unique in the fact that there are no...