Many of the great works of art that you will see in the photos galleries come from an array of young builders, mostly from the Southeast being that the show was in Charlotte. Through the years, Barnett’s Magazine, both in the old print version and the current online magazine has always tried to give coverage to the future of custom bikes by showing a little of what we...

   You’ve got to remember that Arizona is a no-permit-required state where you can legally carry a loaded firearm either hanging off your belt like Wyatt Earp did or concealed on your person. The only exception is that some establishments have signs stating “No Firearms Allowed” which trumps Arizona’s law. I didn’t see such sign at Roadrunner’s. Everyone was...

         Dale Walksler, the owner and curator of the Wheels Though Time, all-American motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, travels the country in search of vintage motorcycles and the parts that he uses to restore and display them. The museum is known as the “museum that runs” because everything in there starts and runs. If you ask Dale to start it and it doesn’t, I...

              Because there were so many quality builds Barnett’s Magazine Online is going to run three days of bikes, different bikes every day. There will be twenty-plus different bikes each day in the gallery. It’s like viewing three different bike shows each day.             This show had everything bobbers, baggers, trikes, café racers, and some I don’t know how to describe....

    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...

   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...

     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...

      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...