Fox Creek Leather Is Back and Just In Time
Have you ever noticed how things always happen for a reason? The older I get, the more I know this to be true, and the day “the Boss” emailed me about Fox Creek Leather being back in stock at The Bikers’ Den was no exception. You see, last week, the…
Got Riders? Getting the Next Generation in the Saddle
A couple of weeks ago, Harley Davidson released their first quarter financial results and, as usual, it makes for some interesting reading. Now, we’ve talked about profit centers in this column before, but what was really interesting isn’t that profits stayed virtually the same for H-D versus the first quarter…
Will Any of the Sons of Anarchy Spinoffs Ever Get Moving?
Like an awfully large part of the population, I enjoyed Sons of Anarchy when it was on. Sure, it got violent, it got over the top, I thought it was a pretty good portrayal, not of motorcycle gangs, but of certain types of personalities who just happened to ride. It…
Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
Last weekend, as I usually do, I rolled the bike out of the garage and pointed it down the road. No real plans, just a need to get out of the house and burn some fossil fuels. A couple of hours later, in a small town that was slowly dying…
Spring is Finally Here for the Rest of You Guys!
Well it was bound to happen and it did. My old buddy from Elk Mountain, Wyoming called me and had finally had some weather worth riding in. At 7,000 feet, his place sits pretty high and Spring comes late in those mountains, but they’d gotten up to 66 degrees last…
A Different Type of Sunrise Service
So this last weekend, the 2 or so billion Christians in the world celebrated Easter in a lot of different ways. Especially popular in my part of the country – the Bible Belt – is the Sunrise Service. For those of you that don’t have this particular institution as a…
Getting Your Ride Ready for the Road
So here we are, it’s time to drag the bike out and you haven’t done anything that you said you would. You filled up the tank and slammed it in the garage where it’s been lying buried under a tarp since the end of October and now the weather has…
H-D Screamin’ Eagle Team Has Made it Back…
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…
The Trouble With Cheap Bikes
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…
Flipping an Older Harley Davidson Sportster 883
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…
Sportster Gas Tank Repair with a Rattlecan Paint Job
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…
A Facebook Event Page for Biker Charities
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…
