Terry Whitehurst and I first met at the last Beer Booters Party. I didn't think I knew him at that point, but then he mentioned his first BMW build, which I remembered following on the Chop Cult Forum.

The Born-Free show has always been about bringing like-minded enthusiasts together. This year was no different, but there was a unique attraction that brought fellow racers together for the love of slamming bars and going fast for a couple of hot laps called The Stampede.

Donned in our probe-proof silver suits, we began our journey out to Rachel, NV for another showdown between worlds.

The Hippy Killer Hoedown is the event that kicks off the show season for us in California.

The first Hell On Wheels races that I had the pleasure of checking out was one of the Halloween Hill Climbs some odd years back.

'A labor of love,' I think is the best way to describe the relationship between Fredo Oresto and his '48 Panhead

So I have never been to Chopper Fest before. Not for a lack of trying. The last several years it seems I have been doomed to miss the David Mann Chopper Fest every year it comes around.

Sometimes, things just happen. These opportunities just fall in your lap and demand that you let them materialize organically.

Kevin Bosch's 82 Shovelhead had my interest the second I saw it at Cook's Corner during the M.O.T.O. FAM party. I hung out around it for quite some time trying to figure out who the owner was.

Kernville is a small mountain town in the southern Sierra Nevadas. The gold rush hit the area in 1858 and soon a town popped up and went by a series of names, one of which was Whiskey Flats, after the first bar that opened in town.