Story and Photos by Jack Cofano {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=880|imagecategories=0|} The weekend event was a hoot as usual with all the great garage built bikes and the adult entertainment. Let me tell you what you missed. The Smoke Out was held June 24-25 at the Rockingham Drag way in Rockingham, North Carolina, right across the street from the Rockingham Speedway....

Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=816|imagecategories=0|} As I said yesterday about biker friendly Eureka Springs, Arkansas, it’s a quirky little place. It’s hard to miss the seven-story, two-thousand pound concrete statue of Jesus that overlooks the town. Victorian-era houses and businesses are built right into the sides of steep...

Story and photos by Rodent {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=796|imagecategories=0|} On the first bike week Friday Mike Corbin and I motored over to Eustis, Florida, the site of the annual antique motorcycle parts, pieces, and bike swap meet put on by the local chapter of the Antique Motor Cycle Club of America. Mike, his wife Bev, and I drove to the Central Florida town...

Story by Eric Bass Photos by Dennis Suter   {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=778|imagecategories=0|} Flat track racing on polished concrete has been an established form of the sport dating back to its glory days as a featured event at Madison Square Garden. But to my mind, glassy smooth concrete and flat track racing would seem to go together about as well as denim jeans...

Story and Photos by Jack Cofano {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=879|imagecategories=0|} One of my favorite parts of the Smoke Out is watching and photographing the bikes taking their turns roaring down the quarter mile Rockingham Dragway. I’m talking about Sportsters, Glides, baggers, metrics, you name it. There were even some mini-bikes and a pretty little lady smokin’...

Story and Photos by Rodent {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=857|imagecategories=0|} Back in 1968, San Francisco was celebrating the Summer of Love, Easy Rider was in final production, Woodstock was a year away, and a bunch of bikers at their old ladys’ insistence had cleaned out their garages and sheds and loaded up their excess junk, take-offs and other parts, and were...

Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=815|imagecategories=0|} When you cross the line into this tiny Victorian tourist town, the first thing you might notice is the sign that says, “WELCOME TO EUREKA SPRINGS: Population 2278- Please Ride Quietly.” The entire village is on the National Register of Historic Places, and though it’s nestled...

Story and Photos by Wendy Manning {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=777|imagecategories=0|} It is close to 11 o’clock on a winter morning in Massachusetts, and it’s raining snow in the town of Northboro, home to Stone Motorcycle Company on Route 20, better known as Main Street. It’s a dark morning, made darker by the car radio announcing minute-by-minute reports of...

Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=941|imagecategories=0|} During the four days of the Bikes, Blues and Barbecue Rally, everyone in Fayetteville, Arkansas, falls asleep to the roar of motorcycles (thousands of them), and they wake up to the same tune. It’s fantastic, hearing tens of thousands of bike engines rumbling around town — like a big...

Story and Photos by Jack Cofano {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=878|imagecategories=0|} It’s time again for my favorite Old School chopper browsing, hell raising, hard-core bike rally of the year. This year was the twelfth gathering of like souls who love nothing more than hanging out with their peeps, drinking some beer and checking out the great rides and maybe a...