Left picture. Seeing this hole, you would probably slow down… Right picture. It’s only a piece of urban art moved around each day. A speed control technique supposedly used in Eastern Canada. Pretty clever or dangerous? (thank you Mike Chadwick)
Archive for August, 2010
Hoka Hey Update August 17, 2010. Skepticism To The End. Is It The End?
Published by August 16th, 2010 in Editorial.On Wednesday August 11th, 2010 in a ceremony at the Sturgis Broken Spoke Campground front of a small group of Hoka Hey participants present in Sturgis and a few curious, organizers Jim & Beth Durham confirmed that Will Barclay is the winner and “the toughest motorcycle rider on the planet at the moment” and handed [...]
2010 Metric World Champion Of Custom Bike Building. Born To Be Raced.
Published by August 16th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.The custom motorcycle scene is one world and if you would need any proof of it, look at the country of origin of a lot of machines competing this year in the AMD World Championship Of Bike Building. The show includes competitors coming from countries that at best we very occasionally hear about, but that [...]
Harley-Davidson Sold Back MV Agusta To Its Previous Owners For 3 Euros.
Published by August 15th, 2010 in Builders, Editorial and Events.When 2 years ago Harley-Davidson bought Italian motorcycle maker MV Agusta for $109 million the US was already in a deep recession, Harley sales were sagging with a management extremely worried about its core baby-boomer customers getting older and losing their will to ride a motorcycle. MV Agusta was also in financial trouble.
Seeing The Sturgis Rally Like You Never Saw It Before
Published by August 14th, 2010 in Editorial and Events.I wish I would have known about Bill Groethe at least 10 days ago, posted about him and his work hopefully sending many of you to his photo studio in Rapid City. How many among you know somebody who has known the Black Hills Rally still in its infancy, kept a sharp memory of all [...]
2011 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150. Most Powerful Ever.
Published by August 14th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.While Harley-Davidson was showing its 2011 motorcycle lineup in Sturgis on Lazelle Street, Ford chose the Buffalo Chip campground to unveil its new Harley-Davidson F150 model. The successful collaboration between these two icons of the open road has produced nine F-150 models, as well as six Super Duty F-250 and F-350 models, and in 2009, [...]
2010 Sturgis Bike Week. The Best In Many Years.
Published by August 13th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.I used to measure the success of any big rally by my level of exhaustion. And it must be 5 years that I have never been so much exhausted by all the action, things to do , friends to meet, motorcycle and parts to look at and contagious excitement of all those like me waking [...]
2011 Harley-Davidson CVO Street Glide®
Published by August 13th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.At a MSRP of $32,499, the new CVO Street Glide Twin-Cam 110″ (1803 cc) ESPFI is equipped with a 19-inch Agitator front wheel the largest-diameter wheel ever offered on a Harley-Davidson Touring motorcycle (Rear wheel is 18″) Ventilated fairing lowers house two of the six speakers that are part of a high-output audio system boosted [...]
Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall Of Fame 2010 Inductees
Published by August 12th, 2010 in Editorial and Events.Yesterday morning went to the Sturgis Hall Of Fame Museum breakfast held at the Rapid City Rushmore Plaza Civic Center for the induction of 6 new members. The museum mission statement is “to collect, preserve, honor those who have made a positive and significant impact on the sport and lifestyle, and pay tribute to the [...]
Krugger Motorcycles Is 2010 AMD World Champion OF Custom Bike Building
Published by August 11th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Events.Freestyle Class: 1- Krugger Motorcycles (World Champion). 2- Thunderstruck Custom Bikes Inc. 3- Yuri Shif Custom (YSC). 4- Garage 65. 5- Speed Shop Design. 6- Blech & Drueber. 7-Hardly Civilized. 8- Cook Customs. 9- Fine Custom Mechanics. 10- Speed Dept & Mayhem Kustomz. 11- Headbanger Motorcycles. 12- Kris Willems. 13- TPJ Customs. 14- Speed Shop [...]
Live Video From Sturgis. Awards Ceremony Of 2010 World Championship Of Bike Building At 5PM EST.
Published by August 11th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial, Events and Videos.Awards Ceremony is finished. Live video feed was removed. Fred Krugger is the new 2010 World Champion Of Bike Building. See results and his motorcycle in post above.
Michael Lichter’s Eternal Combustion Exhibit At The Sturgis Buffalo Chip
Published by August 11th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Yesterday evening huge motorcycle industry crowd for the 10th annual “Motorcycles As Art” exhibition entitled “Eternal Combustion- 30 In The Wind”. During all the rally, 30 custom motorcycles from top builders are on display alongside the largest single exhibit of Michael’s photography (from 1979 to 2010.) If you are in Sturgis, take time to visit [...]
AMD World Championship Of Bike Building. Live Video From Sturgis At 5PM EST.
Published by August 11th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.80 high end custom motorcycles including 23 coming from abroad are competing in the 2010 World Championship Of Bike Building. Certainly one of the major custom motorcycle industry events going on during this 70th Black Hills Rally. The competition lasts 3 days during which competitors are happy to answer all questions from the public, are [...]
Sturgis. Hamsters USA raise $257,000 For Children’s Care Of Rapid City
Published by August 10th, 2010 in Editorial.Yesterday evening the international motorcycle group Hamsters USA raised $257,000 for Children’s Care Hospital & School in Rapid City during their annual meeting and dinner on Monday, August 9th. Funds raised will provide physical, occupational, and speech therapies, plus special educational and psychological services. The banquet was held in Spearfish, SD, as part of the [...]
Seen In Sturgis. Next Generation Of Custom Bike Builders Doing Their Thing.
Published by August 10th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Black Hills Pit Stop At Jeff Nicklus Customs
Published by August 10th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Was invited by Jeff & Contad Nicklus to stop by their Desperado Custom Cycles display at the Golden Hills Resort in Lead, just above Deadwood. Just front of them, a bikini bike wash. I mean very close! Jeff & Co don’t mind to be water splashed from time to time if their custom bikes stay dry. We didn’t [...]
Sturgis Bike Week. Indian Concept Motorcycle
Published by August 10th, 2010 in Builders, Editorial and Events.Even before I left Florida to join the rally, the whisper was that Indian Motorcycle would have a concept bike on display in Sturgis. A concept motorcycle shown to the public at the same time the company is introducing its new 2011 Blackhawk model? It’s a lot for a young manufacturer just entering its third year [...]
John was a salesman’s delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmicks. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change…One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector. It was about 5:30 [...]
Rubber Burning All Over Sturgis Bike Week
Published by August 9th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Motorcycle burnouts are almost as old as motorcycles. Done free standing or in continuous loop circles, they are always loud and crowd pleasing events. And this year being the 70th Anniversary of the Black Hills Rally, a lot of the celebration is done with a lot of burned tires and smoke filling the air…Some do [...]
New Limited Edition Custom Motorcycle. The Brawler GT.
Published by August 9th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.The FXR model, because of its rubber mounted engine, is still considered by many as one of the best riding Harley bikes and had many custom builders for many years use it as their preferred canvas. After a long hesitation about what should be its new limited edition model, Dar Holdsworth of Darwin Motorcycles a.k.a. [...]
Sturgis Kids & Chrome Charity Event With Pee-Wee Herman And Lorenzo Lamas
Published by August 9th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Big Rallies like Sturgis are full of charity events and I want to mention this one called “Kids & Chrome” because I think it was very creatively conceived with the sponsoring of Schwinn Bicycles, of the Legendary Buffalo Chip and the participation of Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) and of Lorenzo Lamas (Lamas Cycles). Schwinn [...]
Exclusive. Motorcycle Cruiser To Racer. In 5 seconds…
Published by August 8th, 2010 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.This evening in Sturgis is the VIP Industry party organized by the AMD World Championship Of Bike Building and of course the first opportunity for all professionals present in South Dakota to discover and admire all the new competing machines. From my point of view most are going to deserve to be featured in my [...]
Hamsters Motorcycle Club Block Party
Published by August 7th, 2010 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.I am happy to report that after 2 successive years where the Hamsters MC lost a brother on his way to Sturgis, this year all members arrived safe at their Spearfish headquarters. Mark Shadley, John McCarthy, Mike Paganini, Harlan Schillinger made a stop at the place where Bruce Rossmeyer lost his life last year in [...]
Sorry, guys. Today, I could not update my Blog sooner….Now that I arrived, I am going to try to report as much as I can. Since I don’t have much yet to say about this 70th rally, just let me report about the 1st big rumor waiting for me in South Dakota. Both cities of Sturgis and Rapid City intend [...]
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