What was “in” for years is on a downhill run and a new venue holds the potential to be the go-to venue. Demo rides at the Harley shop along with a beer garden and a few vendors. Pretty neat ─ have a quick brewski while waiting your turn to test ride a brand new 2015 model. Ignacio‘s only attraction is a casino of mediocre quality and since they barred vending in town, the...

     Okay, okay, I’m gushing, but it’s pretty restrained Palermo-gushing for me. Yeah, I got a problem, but have you taken a look yet at Jack Cofano’s photos of this BMW-powered custom?  You don’t have to be a BMW freak or even like anything about the Bavarian boxer, but you have to appreciate whatever the hell is going on there. You’ve never seen anything like this before and if...

   Well everything worked out quite nicely as we parked and got in for free. I hope you enjoy my photos of a real antique swap meet. The bikes, parts, vendors, buyers, and photographer were all antiques. The star of the event was Jim Carducci’s heavily-modified Sporty, that Barnett’s Magazine was the first to feature some years back when it was first built.     After all the...

     Part of that “looking” is trying to imagine what it would be like to ride. I mean, this bike has all the basic ingredients I like from extremely reasonable, bordering on stock road geometry to neat-o suspension front and rear.  Neat-o is probably not a good technical term so let’s say there’s an always lovely springer up front and a set of Progressive Suspension’s 970-series...

  Observing the renewed interest in café racers at the Ace Café was pretty easy for Nick Gale as his bike shop, Nick Gale Custom Cycles, is a short walk from the Ace. It probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise that his entry for the S&S 50th Anniversary Show just might have a café flavor to it, but this is definitely a walk on the wild side compared to his usual fare. “...

     Shortly after the Interstate 40 super slab was opened, people in Seligman who had been ripping off travelers (so I hear) since before The Grapes of Wrath became a book or a movie, short-sticking oil dipstick checks, slicing radiator hoses to make sales, and shooting oil onto shock absorbers to simulate leaks needed a new way to attract people to ride and drive the remaining...

       One thing that might be a clue is Jeff’s description of what Speedking’s all about on his website and that is “Handbuilt Motorcycles and Alternative Photography.” Jeff’s photography is about three steps above top notch and that same eye for a great photo surely carries over to critical assessment of any of his builds from beginning to end.     Take this latest Speedking...

      Bikes On The Bay is a good little hometown event with mostly local bikes that come out of the barns once a year for the show. A few motorcycle shops set up displays. No big time vendors and unfortunately one ambulance chaser. It’s nice.       Since Bikes on the Bay is sponsored by the Capitola – Soquel chamber of commerce, all the workers are volunteers recruited by the...

             In a recent survey it is estimated that one out of ten Americans admitted to having one. The Pew Research Center study found that 36-percent of adults 18-25 and 40-percent of adults 36-40 have at least one tattoo and take it from me, you can’t get just one.             Are they expensive, painful, and permanent? The answer is yes, oh yea, and at the present time cannot...

    Now, throw in some gorgeous girl graphics like the ones Tyler Coletta of Kaotic Designs in Rancho Cucamonga, California, did on his radically-re-imagined 2012 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Custom and you’ve got two of Jacko’s favorite things in one sleek package. Yup, a white custom bagger covered with women — that’s a sure fire way to make sure Jack does a photo shoot of your...