If you’re a regular reader of Barnett’s Magazine Online, you might remember a couple of previous articles we’ve run like Juli’s first event where she held back two screaming Harleys in a haze of tire smoke and burning rubber or her first appearance in Sturgis where she set a new time record for holding back two bikes. CMT television covered the Sturgis event and did her...

       A favorite stop is the small campground, gas, and inconvenience store just south of the Richardson Grove with massive Redwoods narrowing and darkening the road even in bright sunlight bought half way to Garberville. If ya run US101 from Piercy to Garberville you know the spot. It’s got the closest beer store to the venue. By the by, the gate people were stopping bikes with...

     While most of us were still stuck in the cold, cruel grip of a particularly stormy and prolonged winter, enduring record late-season snowfall, frigid temps, ice storms, hundred-year floods, and other signs of the apocalypse, some 90,000 weather-beaten but brave souls motored in from unfriendly climes and parts undesired. According to rally officials, attendance was up roughly...

  Women poured through the rally gates this year, showing up day and night alone, in pairs or packs, and dressed in trendy Scottsdale finery, designer leathers or swanky salon fashions. Once almost the exclusive domain of savage and crazed men, motorcycle rallies have seen a steady influx of women riding or walking in, adding balance and clean faces and nice smelling hair to what...

     But, enough of my ranting, on with one of America’s  premier motorcycle events, The Quail Motorcycle Gathering, in its 6th year at the classic Quail Lodge and Golf Club just off of Carmel Valley Road in Carmel, California. It’s always a great event with classic and historic motorcycles on display, food and drink worthy of mention that attracts a class of attendees not normally...

       If you aren’t disgusted yet, let me run this by you. I have been asked why I only take photos of young ladies for my Lovely Ladies articles. The fact is most are bartenders and paid to serve us our favorite beverages and have a good time. Since I always ask permission to photograph these beautiful barmaids I usually get a nice pose from them. On the other hand, although I...

              I had a few more bike photos that didn’t make it in the previous articles so I thought I’d run another day with them so I didn’t leave anyone out. We will be running almost all the builds you have seen in the shows as separate features in the near future. But, as is always the case, there are some bikes I have no information on ─ no name, no email address, no nothing....

     The sign-in was held at Whiskey Creek Saloon just around the corner from the infamous Johnny’s Bar & Grill, named after the Marlon Brando character in the film that put Hollister on the map, The Wild One. After signing in, people had a choice to either get blessed or BBQ’d at the San Benito County Fairgrounds in Bolado Park about eight-miles south down CA25 towards...

 The venue is at the south end of Lost Wages Blvd, at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa, AKA the Lost Wages Strip. It’s a few miles from the main part of the strip so there are less crazies and a good venue for Mid-America’s auction.       Mid-America has always been a family operation and I’ve attended their auctions in Las Vegas and Pebble Beach. I’ve...

              The 75th Daytona Bike Week is in the books and it was a banner week according to the local news and a slow week according to some of the bloggers and the social media. Who’s right? I certainly don’t know. The local new says that the hotels reported sell outs for most of the week and the bloggers claim otherwise. It seems to me that traffic was a lot better than...