Hey, I went to dinner with some excited folks. I now own a Captain America and Billy bike built by Mil Blair and refurbished in 2019. We decided to go get ’em and film the ride back to Sturgis. This group included our new girl in Sturgis, her husband and son. They were very excited […]
THE LITHIUM BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS–for April 2nd, 2026 Read More »
Hey, It’s been one of those days. The 600th issue of Easyriders is nearly complete. You can’t imagine the details and the folks involved. They all called today and I’ve been so slammed I’m in a daze. Fortunately it’s whiskey night at the headquarters. We added pages to the magazine today. We made the centerspread
THE CRAZY-NUTS BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS–for March 25th Read More »
Hey, I’m late. So what happened yesterday. I was tracking a package to be delivered maybe Wednesday, for sure Thursday, most certainly today. According to UPS it came to Souix Falls then went back to Kentucky. It’s a David Mann painting I’ve been chasing for decades. Some brothers were coming into town to work on
THE LATE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for March 20th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, Life is nuts and then you die. It’s an absolute beautiful day in the Black Hills. We’ve tried over and over to make a winter season start and once a week the frosty god tries. We get close with a splash of snow and a quick rain with temps dropping to the 20s. But
THE 10XMATCH BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for March 12th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, I just received a message from CO2 Coalition boss. He is trying to save motorcycling from being forced to go all-electric. I put him in touch with a major motorcycle rights group. They are all over it. Every week is like this. I received a call with serious implications for expanding the Sturgis Motorcycle
THE MOVING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for February 19th, 2026 Read More »
Wow, It’s been a wild week. We are all about riding free, riding cool bikes and featuring the best builders in the world. What could go wrong, right? Everything can go wrong, but then again the worst can work out to be the best. I know I’m not making much sense, but there’s something in
THE TRYING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for February 12th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, It’s all good. We are just about to go to press with our second Easyriders issue #599. Next issue is #600, incredible. I woke up this morning with a perfectly fine, heartfelt notion of my news intro. Then the metalflake world hit the fan. Two brothers and a sister reached out for bike feature
THE BITCHIN’ BIKERNET NEW YEAR WEEKLY NEWS for January 29th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, Think about what we’re doing, why and how. This is wild. Let me see if I can put it into prospective. So, tomorrow you become the boss of an old radio company. So they made wooden vacuum tube radios, only AM. Then AM/FM radios followed by little dinky transistor radios. I could go on
THE STYLISTICS BIKERNET NEW YEAR WEEKLY NEWS for January 22th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, I like to say, you can do anything because we live in the best of times. That’s true. We have access to the best technology, the best scientific info, you name it. Unfortunately, there’s one really bullshit glitch in the ultimately positive program, and I don’t get it for two reasons. Folks are lying
THE TRUTH BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for January 15th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, This is going to be an amazing year and brothers and sisters all over the world are setting goals to make the most of it. That’s what’s bitchin about our current world. Almost anything is possible, just get off your ass and do it. I don’t care if it’s getting involved in motorcycle rights,
THE BIKERNET GOAL ORIENTED WEEKLY NEWS for January 8th, 2026 Read More »
Hey, This will be an amazing year. It will be a transformative year. It could be a hard fight. But this time next year we will know what the Western-Freedom-Loving world stands for. You will know what Easyriders Magazine and the whole company stands for. I said when I took over, Easyriders Magazine will not
THE BIKERNET NEW YEAR WEEKLY NEWS for January 1st, 2026 Read More »
Hey, This is a special day, a very special day. Tomorrow will be even more special. Have you noticed more Xmas cheer on your TV screen. I don’t watch commercial TV, but I do watch Football games from time to time. I’ve noticed a stronger more cheerful approach to the season. Maybe folks are finally
THE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for December 24-25th, 2025 Read More »
It’s All Good, At Least It Should Be… Merry Christmas ! Hey, We mean it deeply. We are actually living in the best of times. The very best of times from a human development standpoint. Thinks about it, as bikers we can build anything. We have the technology to do it all from wild artistic
THE MERRY CHRISTMAS BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for December 18th, 2025 Read More »
It’s all happening… Hey, Every day is amazing at the Bikernet and Easyriders headquarters. The CEO of a motorcycle company called me this morning. He just got off the phone after an hour conversation with the new CEO of Harley-Davidson. He’s excited about the future of Harley. Here are a couple of quick tidbits: Bill
THE HISTORIC BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for December 11th, 2025 Read More »
It’s All Sorta Confusing… Hey, Bikernet will never be radical and neither will Easyriders Magazine. I’m faced with censored challenges weekly. Don’t talk about anything. You might upset someone. Just be lovely and polish chrome. You’ll come across an Edmund Brooke quote in the news. It basically says if good people don’t step up the
THE RADICAL BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for December 4th, 2025 Read More »
Hey, I keep thinking about Easyriders, the chopper culture and our future. I think about us old guys who knew what they wanted out of life and went after it, because we could. I feel like there’s a lot of confusion in life currently. Over the months ahead I have a mission to eliminate confusion,
THE UNITY BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for November 26th, 2025, Read More »
Hey, This has been a wild week. We finally mastered the Easyriders archives and with the help of Jeremy and his crew they moved the massive 54 years of data, film, merch and pins to Bandit’s 5-Ball Emporium Sturgis, SD. We are in the throes of wrapping up my first complete issue #598 after being
THE NOBLE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for November 20th, 2025, Read More »
Hey, Wish I knew what to write about. We are working on saving the Easyriders Events and you can have your event named after Easyriders, just buy a license. Is it possible? How do we configure it? Should we sell the equipment and run to the Knuckle Saloon and buy a three for one Jack
THE INSANE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for November 13TH, 2025, Read More »
Hey, Fred Harrell from the MRF will dig this. Here’s the simple but difficult challenge. We are living in extremely tumultuous times to say the least. So what’s needed. I told Amy White a gifted writer for Easyriders, we need confidence. We’ve been bullied and even shot at for a decade. We didn’t dare mention
THE CONFIDENCE BUILDING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for November 6, 2025, 2025 Read More »
Hey, When I stepped into this Easyriders gig my mind rattled with notions of saving the true magazine and making it sing again. There’s something engaging and romantic about making it happen for the good of all bikers everywhere. Then there’s the reality. It’s like buying your dream bike. Ya gotta get a loan or
THE SALAD BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for October 30th, 2025 Read More »
Hey, This is wild, I kicked into gear at 7:00 a.m. and about 11:00 forced myself out of my wobbling chair to make a morsel for breakfast. I discussed everything from Easyriders logos to events, advertisers, staff, insurance, trademarks to articles for this issue. I shifted from legal matters to the angle of the article
THE SCRAMBLED BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for October 23th, 2025 Read More »
Hey, The next issue, Nov/Dec is about to hit the streets. The Jan/Feb issue is my first complete issue and it’s going to shake shit up to the core. But wait, here are a couple of other items on my plate. We are moving all of the Easyriders archives to Sturgis, SD. That lead to
THE WILD AND NON-STOP BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for October 16th, 2025 Read More »
Hey, This is completely off the hook, but we might produce the Easyriders Experience and have it available for events all over the country. The Nov/Dec issue went to press. I made a handful of changes. I’m working with everyone in the industry to support the code of the west and bring Easyriders back. It
THE STRANGE AND AWKWARD BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for October 9th, 2025 Read More »
Hey, How does this shit happen? Where do I start. This year’s Life and Times of Bandit will be completely wild. A year and a half ago I bought an 1800s building on Main Street in Sturgis from an old friend, Richard Lester. This building was rented by the Hells Angels every year for 40
THE BIKERNET MEETS EASYRIDERS WEEKLY NEWS for October 2nd, 2025 Read More »
