Many of the customs that you see here you will also see at the Rat’s Hole Show, which is coming up next on our photo intense coverage. So if you don’t see your bike here, there is a good chance you will see it in our next posting. I try to shoot as many bikes as I can but if I missed some it’s only because they tend to put the bikes a little too close together to get a decent...

  This show is also my favorite because I get to talk to a lot of the people that I know and only get to see a few times a year. One of those people is Steve Galvin of Wikked Steel who received the honor of Best of Show. Steve comes up with some crazy unique designs that baffle the imagination and this year was no exception. I understand that some people had a problem with the...

  So, anyhow vehicles started arriving, some on a flat bed. The tow truck’s owner had an extremely loud, 600-plus horsepower hot rod. Other more civilized classics drove up under their own power. Both sides of 12th Street were marked as tow zones for non-party participants. Imagine, the city of San Francisco making preferred parking for us disreputable personages. Bikes started...

This year there was a new addition that focused on American V-twins aptly called the American V-twin Dealer Show with the affable pair of V-twin aficionados, Bob Kay and Jeff Najar making sure the selection of bikes presented in a show format had something for everybody. You’ll be seeing more of those in the upcoming articles, but for now take a look at One-eyed Jack’s quick take...

  It seems that most of the devices used by attendees were iPhones, iPads, and other Apple products at an event that Apple boycotts. This is the last year for Microsoft being the headliner with Steve Balmer playing second banana to Ryan Seacrest in a stupid skit with a lousy choir singing tweets. Yeah, I said it was stupid and so did most of the media. How strange. We didn’t...

  The other thing I keep an eye out for is attendance and this year, despite the crappy rainy weekend and the fact that the NASCAR preview event was also going on at the Convention Center, attendance seemed to be right up there with previous years. This year along with a great selection of new bikes to peruse there were the custom cars that are now a staple at the show. Also on...

     Possibly the most positive general thing I can say about this whole debacle was that the bikes were a lot more interesting than last year so I guess that’s a good thing. But, the high drama, and there was more of it than on a whole season of American Chopper (yes, I watch that religiously too like any motorcycle-related TV show) was just a bit too much without really getting...

  And that was just the reason to head off to the lovely Larz Anderson museum in Brookline, Massachusetts for the wonderful lawn show of European motorcycles on their beautiful 64-acre compound. The show featured every brand of European motorcycle you know about and a hell of a lot of others you had no idea about. The designs, configurations, and colors were stunning and could...