One could expect a trek across the United States to be a little taxing, but making the journey on a pre-1916 motorcycle racing against more than 50 other competitors cross-country could get more than arduous – if the rider makes it at all.
The Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Run, a coast-to-coast race on vintage machines, will make a stop in Fort Smith this evening as the riders break for food before heading into Oklahoma, according to Terri Hargrove, motor clothes manager for Old Fort Harley-Davidson, which will host a barbecue dinner for the bikers.
Hargrove said they anticipate the vintage motorcycles will start arriving around 4 p.m. this evening at the shop, 6304 S. 36th St., and be on display in the parking lot until 6:30 p.m … Details
Motorcyclists by their very “outlaw†perspective on transportation tend to dance to a different drummer. Whether you’ve strapped a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine to your Schwinn Stinger bicycle or carved a custom chopper from a solid block of billet aluminum, the impetus for creating two-wheeled “kinetic art†is the common denominator where the uncommon is common. Case in point, the smorgasbord of “custom bikes†seen here. Ours is not to judge, only to give the thumbs up to the road less taken.
The Biggest: GUNBUS 410 – World’s Largest Ridden Motorcycle
You’re not hallucinating… the people seen with this bike are not elves … Details
Workers at Harley-Davidson’s Menomonee Falls plants have caved to Harley-Davidson’s labor restructuring ultimatum today, voting to approve a seven-year labor contract that would see 275 jobs cut and a two-tiered workforce implemented in the company’s Wisconsin-based production plants. The vote comes after Harley-Davidson threatened to move its Wisconsin production outside of the state (Kansas City being one of the alternatives), which would see the unions losing its entire 1,350 member workforce  … Details