Rides and Cruises
Story/Pics: T-Bone If you have been to any motorcycle event recently across the country, you most likely have seen the work of Duane Ballard. Duane is an artist who’s canvas is the hide of the bovine variety. In the fine art world, artists complain about their patrons wanting art to match their couches where they […]
Story-Photos: T-Bone Before the break of dawn, I’m pounding on the front door to my fellow Merciful; Wally’s place. We are meeting at Wally’s to take his ol’ lady’s Expedition up to Bakersfield for the March Meet. I see the Expedition in the driveway and but no Gordon or Jack. Thinking these guys are fucking […]
The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West will make its debut at Havasu 95 Speedway in Arizona on April 14. Team Cass Racing with driver Jason Fensler plan to make the race in the number 59 Beat Cancer Chevrolet. Havasu 95 speedway is hoping for a great turn out of about 2500 fans filling the stands […]
We like vintage bikes. And we are big fans of Joe Kagerer and his team for putting on a great little event. Each month I try to make it out to the Vintage Bike OC event at Beach Burgers on Beach Blvd. in Huntington Beach, CA. Join in on the fun from 2pm – 4pm […]
Photos: T-Bone Here’s a photo gallery from the 2012 Grand National Roadster Show Trophy Girl Pinup Contest presented by Mitzi and Co and hosted by Megan O’Mary. The winners are: 3rd Place: Miss Dee Lush 2nd Place: Lil’ Bit 1st Place: Miss Lady Bug Congrats ladies.
A Speed and Chopper Shop in the heart of Sin City. Story/Photos: T-Bone Last Year Billy and I went out to Vegas for the Viva Las Vegas Car Show. While there we hit a couple of other hot shows that Easter weekend. The Rat City Ruckus under the shadow of the Stratosphere and Lowbrow Las […]
By Alan Zusman [We sent crazed enthusiast Alan Z up the street to Anaheim to shoot the Easyriders Bike Show Tour kickoff in Anaheim. Alan is a regular at all kinds of automotive and motorcycle events here in Southern California. He has a vast knowledge of racing, classic cars, and builders. We welcome Alan to […]
Here is a first in our new series of photo essays called Best Of. This time we take you back to 2005 where we went to the Temecula Rod Run, The San Diego Kustom Kulture show, Fabulous Fords Forever, San Diego Auto Museum, and others.
By Gary Morin Getting Down on What Goes Up. [I met Maniac-Mike early on a Wednesday morning during the weekly Speedway Riders Breakfast at his café at Cable Airport. Cable is the largest privately owned airport in the world. At over 100 acres the airport was built by Mikes grandfather in 1945. Imagine the scene […]
I tagged along today with Jack Petitt as he went to visit with his buddy Stan. We rolled in his 57 Pontiac Star Chief, the one you may have seen in the special 50th issue of Ol’ Skool Rodz. A very nice car and of course lots of thumbs up as we bumped along north […]
We uncovered a diamond at the SEMA Show. Rare Parts has recently acquired a waterjet machine to make custom or limited run parts more efficient. We’ve seen some of their fantastic new parts with this machine but what caught our eye most was the GM QuadraSteer Lower Ball Joints. If you own a GM QuadraSteer […]
“More knuckleheads than you can shake a stick at.” OK, I confess. For the past 7 years I haven’t made it out to the David Mann Chopperfest in Ventura. Something usually comes up, another event close by or some other lame excuse. This year we got our asses out of bed early and headed north […]
