What was Prince’s “Purple Rain” motorcycle? Last night while nursing a scratchy throat with some tea, I was flipping through the channels and stumbled across the movie Purple Rain. I immediately began to feel really old when I realized that it was released 26 years ago. Sigh. I remember when I was a kid it [...]
Well hello! Happy 2010 everyone! Now that we’re all coming out of our post-holiday food coma & forced family fun haze, it’s time to shake off the cobwebs and get things rolling in the new year! Like I mentioned in my previous post, I like to be reflective of the year gone by. Since I [...]
Harley-Davidson has declared November “Military Appreciation Month” to honor the services of active and retired U.S. military personnel. Ever since the first American troops rode Harley-Davidson motorcycles during the Mexican Expedition in 1916, the Motor Company has enjoyed a bond with the men and women who have served our nation. In honor of Military Appreciation [...]
The ongoing saga of Billy Lane, one of the most talented motorcycle builders of our generation has reached a new stage as he was sentenced to 6 years in the slammer with a 3 year probation to follow and a lifetime loss of license today. I try not to delve too much into other peoples [...]
Harley-Davidson is doing something cool this year for the 2010 motorcycle catalog. The cover of the new catalog is going to be a photo mosaic of images of the people who ride their motorcycles and make up the Harley-Davidson family. Anyone around the world is open to pick a favorite photo with their bike or [...]
Life has a way of kicking you in the balls, or in my case, punching you in the ovaries. A lot of you know that in addition to writing about my passion for motorcycling, I work full time as an Interactive Designer. I design websites, online advertising, email campaigns and that sort of stuff. I’ve [...]
For those of us who eagerly wait for the next season of Sons of Anarchy to come about, we will take any little scrap of news about the upcoming second season. Kurt Sutter recently posted an update on his blog about the progress of writing for season 2: I’ve finished a draft of the first [...]
Hey all! Slackey McSlackbag is here back in action. I feel like Rip Van Winkle, or Rippin Van Winkle as the case may be. All of a sudden I looked at the calendar and realized I’ve missed half of the month, my day job is slowly eating away my soul and I’ve seriously been neglecting [...]
Over the past few months I’ve been trying to keep up with what’s been going on with the Myrtle Beach rallies. At one point, I even had a Myrtle Beach newspaper call me to get my POV on the rallies from a blogger in the biker community. Sadly, there will no longer be any rallies [...]
I think The Donald is going to have his hands full in the boardroom this season. The cast of the next season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice was recently announced and among them is none other than Mr. Jesse James. (I suppose when you have a new show coming out around the same time, a little extra [...]