Click here for more photos Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance Part I – The Bikes Story and Photos by Rodent Last year, America’s newspaper of record, the New York Times, called the “Legends of the Motorcycle” show at the Ritz-Carlton at Half-Moon Bay, California the “Pebble Beach” of motorcycle shows. In 2009, the...

Tending Bar at Major Motorcycle Rallies Is Profitable, But No Easy Task Story by Wendy Manning, Photos courtesy of Kimmy Cruz’s private collection Michael Ballard’s Full Throttle Saloon has been the subject of a reality series on truTV called, appropriately, Full Throttle Saloon. Unlike other rally documentaries this one stayed with Ballard and his Full...

The Helmet Project Story by Wendy Manning, Photos Courtesy of The Harley-Davidson Museum and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design The Harley-Davidson Museum and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design partnered up this fall for The Helmet Project, challenging art students to deconstruct the conventional notion of a helmet and re-envision its function...

Photo Captions: Main Photo: Re-enactors everywhere: At McAuliffe Square, you can meet them from Friday on! The 2010 Street Bob ran strong despite muddy roads and bad weather. Top Row (left to right) Airdrop at Mardasson memorial Expect military traffic anytime: from a WLA to a complete convoy with tanks, you can see everything. NUTS? This is the Bunker where...

Click here for more photos Myrtle Beach Spring Rally 2009 Part 2 Story and Photos by Jack Cofano I know this may sound crazy but something that put a smile on my face at this year’s Myrtle Beach Rally was that the city put up checkpoints on some of the major highways leading into the city proper and thus created traffic jams of epic proportions. You might...

Click here for more photos Myrtle Beach Spring Rally 2009 Part 1 Story and Photos by Jack Cofano The Myrtle Beach Spring Rally has always been the redheaded stepchild of the three big rallies in America; always third and never trying harder. Why should it? Everyone enjoys themselves, it’s a great party and so what if the big names with all the cash didn’t...

Click here for more photos Barber Vintage Swap, Race, and Show – Part 1 Story and Photos by Rodent I’ve been meaning to get to the Barber complex for years and this vintage event gave me the perfect opportunity as it was on the way within a short detour to Biketoberfest. With the future of the motorcycle industry tied to the economic...

  The crowds on opening day were kind of light under sunny ideal conditions. Cold nights in the high 30’s and cool days helped to keep the crowd at the leather and sweatshirt vendors busy while the girls at the bikini bike washes just had to tough it out. The usual venues, downtown Daytona’s Beach Street on the mainland and the Main Street Crawl mingle with the lookie...

  Typical for an LA Calendar event, there was non-stop action again at the 2009 show, what with the Calendar Bike Building Championship bike contest, Calendar Bike Building Seminars, the Calendar Girl Music Festival, the Brown & Koro World Record Dyno Shootout, free Can-Am Spyder demo rides, complimentary admission aboard the Queen Mary ghost ship, and the Saturday Night Iron...

  I’m assigned the West edition and Barnett Magazine’s photojournalist Jack Cofano, the East edition. I passed on the cross-country race, ride, and tour. I rode cross-country for many years on a variety of bikes from a Norton to Beemers to Harleys. I only had two wheels and one three-wheeler back then (No, not a trike, but a BMW/Steib side-hack) and a bike was my only means...