In my opinion, this is the premier custom bike show at Bike Week with the best bikes and best judging. If you win a Rat trophy, you know you are worthy of being called a bike builder. As is usually the case, there are the few whiners that won’t compete in this show because they say it is unfairly judged. Bullhockey! All I can say to the Negative Nellie’s is put on...

 The venue is at the south end of Lost Wages Blvd, at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa, AKA the Lost Wages Strip. It’s a few miles from the main part of the strip so there are less crazies and a good venue for Mid-America’s auction.       Mid-America has always been a family operation and I’ve attended their auctions in Las Vegas and Pebble Beach. I’ve...

              The 75th Daytona Bike Week is in the books and it was a banner week according to the local news and a slow week according to some of the bloggers and the social media. Who’s right? I certainly don’t know. The local new says that the hotels reported sell outs for most of the week and the bloggers claim otherwise. It seems to me that traffic was a lot better than...

      Bonhams’ 2014 Las Vegas motorcycle auction was held at Bally’s Hotel & Casino which was formally the MGM Grand until the disastrous fire that kill some 85 people about 25 years ago. The hotel was rebuilt and renamed. It’s now part of the Caesars casino empire. A tip, always stay below the 6th floor as that’s the reach of fire truck ladders.   As always...

     Allegedly, this year’s show was bigger, more products, more buyers, more media, blah, blah, blab . . .  I believe it. Between the venues at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Sands Expo Center, there are millions of square feet of exhibits. It seems to have grown larger than the exhibit areas quite a bit as they’ve run out of room inside the massive venues....

     I mention this because unlike guys, who couldn’t care what they look like, women are usually conscience of their looks. Not an easy task at a rally that has no showers, no shade, and all of the above weather conditions. The hardcore ladies of Smoke Out couldn’t care less. They know what they are getting into when they arrive and if they didn’t, they find out soon enough....

   Larry is a  guy with many vices from boats to getting plans and building his own bi-plane that he’s flown coast to coast to coast with FAA certification and paid for by Larry’s incredible store, repair shop, used parts emporium and junkyard. Larry has it all.      You walk into the shop from the front parking lot and it seems to be your normal accessory store. But,...

   The similarities between custom bikes and custom cars are so one in the same that they begin to feed off of each other for new ideas or reinterpretations of old ideas. The end result is mind blowing whether the vehicle has two wheels or four and the “must have” quotient is pretty much the same for me. I’m just trying to figure out how I can have both types in my stable and not...

              I am always so grateful to the ladies that pose for these photos with a smile and a positive attitude. I very seldom get a negative response from them and they seem more than happy to treat me with the same respect that I treat them.             I don’t know what else to say other than a picture says a thousand words so enjoy the photos. I hope you enjoy looking at...