Rumor has it there will be another Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Run in 2011. We got the scoop straight from Frank Westfall of the Ner-A-Car museum in Syracuse, New York, who rode his 1914 Excelsior-Henderson in the event this year and completed more than 2,800 miles of the 3,300-mile trip. Next year’s format may be a […]
Well, a couple of those knuckleheads actually made it Portland, Oregon, around 7 p.m. Monday night, successfully completing this year’s 555 rally. Of the eight riders who began 10 days earlier, only two bikes and riders made it the entire way (and by then with empty sidecars). Numerous breakdowns (hey what’d you expect for a $500 bike) […]
* Came across three different discussions about hot rodding outside American borders this week. First, a H.A.M.B. thread on traditional hot rodding in France; second, another H.A.M.B. thread about the custom/lowrider lifestyle in Japan; and finally, an Autoculture post about lowriding in Brazil. Of course, it’s not necessarily news that this is going on in […]