Bikers launch Daytona Beach invasion ; Roaring engines music to ears of businesses, but not to residents

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Businesses in this tourist mecca have a message for the thousands of motorcyclists who roar into town every spring and fall: You're loved and we want you back. The campaign by the area's chamber of commerce and visitor's bureau is designed to counter a cacophony of complaints

Publication: The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)

Biker fashion goes mainstream.

Byline: Jean Patteson ORLANDO, Fla. _ Those macho easy riders in their leathers and tattoos, roaring up I-4 on their monster motorcycles, bound for who-knows-what adventures, have a way of making us mainstreamers feel so tame and mundane. But take heart. Even the most mild-mannered minivan drivers

Publication: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)

Bikers' pounds 40,000 ride-out to save Cowboy's Heilan' hame.(News)

BIKERS from all over the world are digging deep - to save a Scots motorbike shrine and its one-legged owner! Wacky Gordon Cruikshank opened Scotland's first bikers-only guest house. But just weeks after splitting with his wife, the man they call the Cowboy now faces losing the unique house he has

Publication: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)

Bikers protest KSD-TV coverage. (KSDK-TV, St. Louis, Missouri)

St. Louis area bikers have lodged a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against KSDK-TV for "negative and highly prejudiced" news coverage of motorcyclists and biker groups. Terry Weber, director of the Bourbeuse Valley HOGs (Harley-Davidson Owners Group), said bikers are

Publication: St. Louis Journalism Review

Biker Sunday welcomes 300 bikers at Aiken Tech.

Byline: April Bailey Sep. 15--Rows and rows of motorcycles lined the parking lot of the Midland Valley First Church of the Nazarene Sunday morning as bikers revved up their engines in preparation for a day of worship. It was not to be your typical service. Sunday marked the fourth annual Biker

Publication: Aiken Standard (Aiken, SC)

'BIKER' SPINS WHEELS MOTORCYCLE FOOTAGE MIRED IN LISTLESS PLOT.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

Byline: Robert Denerstein ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Fair is fair. Certain accomplishments can't legitimately be expected from a movie titled Biker Boyz. You don't go to a movie such as this for depth, subtlety and complicated dramatic issues. But there's one thing that's probably indispensable if you're

Publication: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)

Roadhouse Biker Church in San Bernardino is the place where 'Jesus loves bikers'

SAN BERNARDINO -- There's a roadhouse in town where bikers are a lot less hell and a whole lot more angel. No pool tables there. But plenty of pews. Harley-Davidson motorcycles are heard outside. Hymns are heard inside. It's the Roadhouse Biker Church, home to a congregation of born- again bikers

Publication: San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA)

HARLEY BIKERS MEET FOR DEATH-DEFYING FUN.(Local)

Byline: Donna Liquori Staff writer When Don Daniels first saw the Wall of Death - motorcyclists defying gravity by riding along the walls of a cylinder - he became hooked. Daniels, 36, continued the tradition from the 1920s by riding a 1928 Indian, a now-defunct make, around the sides of his own

Publication: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)

Outlaw Biker, A Breezy Ride High on the Hog

Like People and Vogue, Outlaw Biker magazine provides ample photographic coverage of parties. Unlike People and Vogue, Outlaw Biker covers the kind of parties where the men ceremonially lynch Japanese motorcycles and the women exhibit their joie de vivre by stripping off their T-shirts and showing

Publication: The Washington Post

FORMER BIKER TURNED MISSIONARY SPREADS MESSAGE OF HOPE [Corrected 08/ 18/05]

WILLIS -- The sultry mermaid inked on Mike Kersey's bicep now wears a bikini. A patch on the biker's blue jean vest proclaims "Loud pipes save lives. Jesus saves souls." Kersey, a 53-year-old who once sold cocaine and ran with the Hell's Angels, now goes by the name Brother Tank and travels the

Publication: The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)