Edited by Wendy Manning, Photos by Horst Rosler. {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=833|imagecategories=0|} Continued from here. With an impressive display of hard work, ingenuity and workmanship, builders from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Japan competed for the title of North American Champion in four distinct classes of custom Motorcycles, Championship,...

Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=940|imagecategories=0|} For fifty-one weeks a year, Fayetteville, Arkansas is a peaceful college town. But beginning the last week of September, things get crazy. Bikes, Blues and Barbecue (aka BB & BBQ, or BBB) is the largest charity event in the US, and one of the fastest growing rallies in the world....

By J. JOSHUA PLACA {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=921|imagecategories=0|} Modified motorcycles have become curious inventions of vivid imagination in recent years. Artful metal fabrication has reached unprecedented heights, drawing on surreal dreams, childhood toys, comic book heroes and villains, and our dirtiest, darkest nightmares. None of this was more evident, or...

Edited by Wendy Manning, Photos by Horst Rosler {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=832|imagecategories=0|} Building on the reemergence and success of the Custom Chrome Dealer Show in 2010, this year’s Dealer Show proved to be bigger, better and more valuable to attending dealers. For Custom Chrome preferred dealers and vendor partners, the 2011 version is giving every...

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Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=831|imagecategories=0|} The Northwest Arkansas Motor Officers’ Skills Competition and Stunt Show was held on Saturday, April 30, and it was a day full of fun and challenges. Fifteen-hundred happy people descended upon Pig Trail Harley-Davidson in Rogers, Arkansas, which is where the event was held. Linda...

  The number of vendors was way down this year and that was a little sad. Normally there are big name companies set up down the middle aisles of the show with at least four aisles on either side full of small and one-man companies trying to break into the big leagues. I’m sure those guys are still out there, either the economy or weather kept them away. The show took place the week...

By J. JOSHUA PLACA {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=938|imagecategories=0|} These days, it’s rare to find towns brave enough to host a motorcycle rally, especially right on Main Street. We’re usually segregated, pushed off to some parking lot outside of town or a dirty, dusty, saddle-tramp loving livestock fairgrounds, away from decent, law abiding citizens. Now and...

Story by Sedrick “Mitch” Mitchell, Photos by Mitch & Rup {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=898|imagecategories=0|} Some sort of motorcycle dare devil show has been part of motorcycle events since the beginning. The Thousand Islands River Run committee quickly incorporated a motorcycle stunt show team as part of the entertainment lineup for last year’s event, and...

Story and Photos by MB McQueen {phocagallery view=categories|categoryid=856|imagecategories=0|} They call Arkansas “The Natural State,” but it could just as easily be called “The Biker State.” It’s hard to drive for more than half a mile without seeing a motorcycle of some sort at this time of year. A lot of bikers have moved here from other parts of the country, and if they...