I learned you have go with the cards you’re dealt and make the best of it. I now ride very little because of my back issues but that’s okay because I still can do it. Just not as much. Motorcycles have been a big piece of my life and 50 years of riding has been good to me. I had the opportunity to meet great people, see great places, and express myself through motorcycles. Life...

     Anyway, getting back to what I started this story about, the 23rd Annual Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show at Half Moon Bay Airport. Matter of fact, it’s so special that the airport is closed for this event. A quick email to the promoter, Tim Beeman, got the required credentials as Tim was more than pleased with Barnett’s Magazine Online’s coverage last year. Personally, I...

     That’s right, there was a significant increase in attendance and best of all, zero fatalities. Times are changing and things are looking up with area businesses investing more in the rally. On the down side this will be the last year for Suck Bang Blow Four Corners that is scheduled to be torn down. I will miss the place.    One of the new additions to the rally was the Full...

  This is a riding rally. With the loop south to Charleston and the coastal beaches to the north to Wilmington, you could easily put on a couple hundred miles a day in very little traffic with plenty of gorgeous beaches and historic water front downtowns in Georgetown, Charleston, and Wilmington. Even if you don’t take the scenic rides along the coast, the rally is so spread out it...

              Myrtle Beach Bike Week may not have all the bikes I would like to shoot, but let me tell you, there is no lack of delectable damsels. I still have to say that the South has some of the most beautiful and friendly eye candy in our great country.             Before I take a photo I always ask permission and I’ll bet only one in twenty ladies say no to being...

Here are some bikes seen at the Daytona International Speedway that were built by such famous builders such as Eddie Trotta, Rick Fairless, Dave Perewitz, and Roland Sands who seems to be everywhere at the rallies that I cover. There are numerous other photos of equally fine craftsmanship scattered around the speedway and I tried to pick out the best for your viewing enjoyment....

              Is it me or are the ladies getting younger and younger every year or am I just getting older and older? I think we all know the answer to that! I am actually totally amazed that almost all are willing to accept a polite invitation from a geezer like me to grace the Barnett’s Magazine web site.             I give these ladies all the credit in the world for putting up...

  In case you can’t tell from the photos, Saturday was sunny and hot and my kind of weather. I was finally able to put on shorts and ditch the socks, my usual photography costume. It wasn’t just the weather that was hot, so were the bikes. This year the show was a great success with more custom metal sculptures than you can see at just about anywhere in the USA. They actually had...

        This area was once part of the huge copper mining operation in Bisbee. After the mine was closed, Jay and a few of his friends bought up some of the buildings on Erie Street in the Lowell burb. There is a retired airline pilot, a photographer, a drag racing mechanic, and Jay who was brought up in Bisbee.                 Look at the photos of some of Jay’s toys as they...

  During the last eight years, our mayor’s office was filled by another Harley rider who turned out to be great for bikers. He rode in the local Toy Run, gave away the grand prize to the raffle winners of our blood drives, made sure we got our parade permits, and much, much more. So we thought what the heck, and we let mayoral candidate Oscar Leeser, come to the store. In 2010,...