Tagged: Custom Choppers

Sturgis Rally Trademark Post Mortem – Vendors Say They Got Killed

Attendance was down for the 71st Sturgis Motorcycle Rally from last year, and no one seems quite sure as to why that was. The number of vendor permits issued by rally organizers was down to  719 this year from 761 in 2010 and 696 sold in 2009. “So far I...

Classic Danny Lyon Motorcycle Photos – The Bikeriders

Danny Lyon is a self-taught American photographer and filmmaker whose first book,a study of outlaw bikers and racers, The Bikeriders, has become the foremost photographic historical treatise on what it meant to be a biker in the midwest during the mid-1960’s. To realize his masterwork, Lyon joined the Chicago Outlaws...

Mongols Motorcycle Gang Beats Up on the Feds Over Logo Licensing Issue

A federal judge said no way to a bid by prosecutors to legally relieve the Mongols motorcycle gang of their name and trademarked logo. Calling his ruling ‘regrettable,’ U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II said he had to rule in favor of the gang because the government did not...

The Top Motorcycles Blogs – All the Data You Can Stand

The Top Motorcycles Blogs – Who We’re Running With These are, adjudged in an entirely scientific way which includes RSS subscribers, Alexa rank, Google Page Rank and the ratio of sites linking in to pages published, the top motorcycle blogs we could find. Whether or not they’re your favorites is...

Motorcycling Without Beer? You Might Want to Try the Grape from V-Twin Vineyards

Though it may not be the best idea to drink while you’re riding, in a lot of ways, having an adult beverage or two is  built into the culture of motorcycling. The most sensible riders cover the ground they intend on riding during the day, and then stopping for a...