Anyway, getting back to what I started this story about, the 23rd Annual Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show at Half Moon Bay Airport. Matter of fact, it’s so special that the airport is closed for this event. A quick email to the promoter, Tim Beeman, got the required credentials as Tim was more than pleased with Barnett’s Magazine Online’s coverage last year. Personally, I...

     That’s right, there was a significant increase in attendance and best of all, zero fatalities. Times are changing and things are looking up with area businesses investing more in the rally. On the down side this will be the last year for Suck Bang Blow Four Corners that is scheduled to be torn down. I will miss the place.    One of the new additions to the rally was the Full...

  This is a riding rally. With the loop south to Charleston and the coastal beaches to the north to Wilmington, you could easily put on a couple hundred miles a day in very little traffic with plenty of gorgeous beaches and historic water front downtowns in Georgetown, Charleston, and Wilmington. Even if you don’t take the scenic rides along the coast, the rally is so spread out it...

              Myrtle Beach Bike Week may not have all the bikes I would like to shoot, but let me tell you, there is no lack of delectable damsels. I still have to say that the South has some of the most beautiful and friendly eye candy in our great country.             Before I take a photo I always ask permission and I’ll bet only one in twenty ladies say no to being...

       I’m not asking you to go hire a professional for photos either. All we require for photos is decent photography that showcases your bike well. Just take a bunch of shots outside of all sides of the bike with a decent camera (No phone cameras please) and if you don’t own one or know how to use it, believe me there’s always a friend of yours who not only does, but is dying to...

           As I traveled down Main Street to get my pretty girl photos I could only wonder if our viewers would appreciate seeing the lovely ladies in sweatshirts, glovers and mukluks. They were huddled together like the Donner party except much more tasty. Needless to say I wasn’t going to get anything done on Thursday so as the true professional that I am, I left Main Street to...

First off on the agenda was covering the Boardwalk Bike Show, the annual ride-in bike show that has produced many a championship bike builds that defy description and sometimes logic. I was off to a good start. One of the things I like best is getting to talk to many of the great people I have met during my ten years of covering events for Barnett’s as well as meeting new builders...

Here are some bikes seen at the Daytona International Speedway that were built by such famous builders such as Eddie Trotta, Rick Fairless, Dave Perewitz, and Roland Sands who seems to be everywhere at the rallies that I cover. There are numerous other photos of equally fine craftsmanship scattered around the speedway and I tried to pick out the best for your viewing enjoyment....

              Is it me or are the ladies getting younger and younger every year or am I just getting older and older? I think we all know the answer to that! I am actually totally amazed that almost all are willing to accept a polite invitation from a geezer like me to grace the Barnett’s Magazine web site.             I give these ladies all the credit in the world for putting up...

  In case you can’t tell from the photos, Saturday was sunny and hot and my kind of weather. I was finally able to put on shorts and ditch the socks, my usual photography costume. It wasn’t just the weather that was hot, so were the bikes. This year the show was a great success with more custom metal sculptures than you can see at just about anywhere in the USA. They actually had...