A million years ago, when my Uncle Jack sold cars in Atlanta, he would always joke around about the selling of cars in the early days of NASCAR – “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” and by the time I came along, NASCAR had turned into a commercial sport and I pretty much quit watching […]
In the continuing saga of my Harley flip, and if, for some reason, you can’t remember my story from last week, then here it is: Found a cheap Harley, bought a cheap Harley, getting ready to sell a cheap Harley for more than I bought it for. This thing is a time capsule. 24 years […]
Over the years, I’ve shared a lot of restoration ideas for you guys and the latest scheme was the Cushman Truckster. That didn’t work out, but it sure sounded like fun. Unfortunately, I suffer from scanning the online classified like Craigslist for stuff like old cars and bikes to play with and, from time to […]
So last weekend, a buddy of mine called me on the phone losing his mind about his gas tank. He’d taken the bike out from under the cover and there, for everyone to see, was a fist-sized dent on the left hand side of his tank. What was worse? It had been there awhile – […]
In the last post, I told you guys about the Boozefighters Club in Southern California and how the club had burned down. Even worse, that they did a ton of charity work and when the clubhouse went, a load of their charity donations went up in smoke, too. That got me to thinking (never a […]
Here we go again. No matter what we do as bikers, the world sees us all as 1 percenters. Criminals, thugs, drug dealers, or deviants. Last year, there was plenty of coverage for the bad apples in the news when some dummies shot up a show in Colorado, but the other day, a club in […]
So for the most part, I keep my other hobbies out of The Bikers’ Den, but over the years, I’ve let on that I spend a little time restoring stuff that isn’t just bikes. My Texas Dually Project is nearly finished and like any red-blooded American, I have a few things that go bang around the […]
Now I know that plenty of you guys are stuck in the cold and the snow and really jonesing for a few hours in the saddle. Even if there isn’t any snow, the cold is enough to turn even the most insulated butt into a popsicle and that means short rides. On the other hand, […]
One of the things that I always enjoy as a holdover from my years in an office is reading financials. I certainly don’t have a portfolio worth bragging about (the old lady does, though), but trying to read between the lines is always fun. As a writer, I also like to read the “spin” that […]
I get it. You’ve been cooped up for what feels like months and the bike is sitting, clean, set and ready to go and Spring seems years away. For folks that don’t have the benefit of warmer winter weather like me (I had to swat a damn mosquito the other day – in January!) there […]
Every once in a while, you get surprised. That may not happen as often as it used to for a lot of us, but I was unpleasantly surprised when I opened up the paper the other day to find that Polaris was shutting down operations of its Victory motorcycle line “effective immediately.” THAT one kinda […]
You’re not fooling anybody. You’ve polished every inch of chrome on the bike, you’ve checked the battery 12 times, you even cranked the engine over a few times “just to see”. In all honesty, your bike hasn’t been this clean since, well, last year at this time. And you’re running out of stuff to do. […]
So here we are, in the “blahs” of January. Snow is actually in my forecast here in the south and for once, it is too cold to ride. With the beginning of a New Year, we’ve all made some resolutions, and I figured I’d go back and check on mine from last year. In all, […]
