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Sonny Angel: A Motorcycle Legend Calls It Quits

08 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by San Diego dot Com; Hits: 529

A haven for bikers and weekend warriors since 1953 is for sale
The Edge: "There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

-- from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Sonny Angel, who is 84 or 87 still goes to work every day in National City. He runs a motorcycle shop on 18th Street, a mom-and-pop sized operation that bears his name that he's operated for 58 years. Angel is a legend and a speed-hungry daredevil who made his name in the latter part of the 1960s on the road race circuit. He's a Tennessee salesman and he's a master machinist, having turned chunks of raw metal into gears and sprockets and parts for vintage bikes, even an urn for his wife's ashes. It sits on a scrap of royal blue fabric on a back shelf behind the counter. READ ON

Once you strip the stereotypes, riding a motorbike starts to make perfect sense

06 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by Independent; Hits: 402

You've got to be crazy to be a biker; weaving in and out of traffic at full throttle, blasting past cyclists and dodging pedestrians as you go. They treat the roads like a video game, taking their lives in their hands and putting everyone nearby in danger for the sake of a quick journey. They're unhinged. You can see it in the way they glare at scooters.

But then, in front of every biker who loathes scooters, is a taxi driver waiting to maim them with a surprise U-turn. Bikers and scooters can find common ground there. And what about the tipper trucks? Those left-turning leviathans are danger to anything on two wheels, particularly cyclists. So we can expand our two-wheeler alliance to include the pedal pushers, as long as we ignore them as they blast through red lights. READ ON

Solo cross-country journey was an amazing feat

06 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by Record Online; Hits: 402

On May 19, 1969, New Windsor resident Leonard Baur set out to break the record of going solo cross-country (from New York City to Los Angeles) on a motorcycle. Even though he didn't break the record (38 minutes over), it was an amazing test of endurance, stamina and riding experience.

It all started 43 years ago, when Leonard's friend Sammy Armstrong, one of the first mechanics at Moroney's Harley-Davidson, read about Tibor Sarossy in a magazine. The year before, Sarossy had set the cross-country record of 45 hours and 41 minutes riding a BMW model R69S. READ ON

Bikers find salvation at Palm Harbor church in a pool hall

04 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by Tampa Bay Online; Hits: 338

As a cop in Bangor, Maine, Paul White heard it all. Especially when newly arrested suspects sat in the back of his cruiser.

"You'd be surprised how many turn to God when there are no friends around to impress and the handcuffs are on," he says. "I've had some of my best conversations in that setting."

After 17 years in law enforcement, White decided that instead of reaching out to people after they got in trouble, he wanted to be an influence before they made bad choices. It was time to make a change and follow the calling that had been in his heart for a long time. READ ON

One Harley-Davidson rider rolls to all 1,191 Iowa towns

27 Feb 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by Des Moines Register; Hits: 470

Today’s column on the front page of the Sunday Register recounts Jack Whalen’s epic journey on his Harley-Davidson: The retired, 61-year-old stockbroker didn’t set out to do so, but he ended up visiting all 1,191 Iowa cities listed on the state road map.

Whalen drove several motorcycles but used the same modest digital camera throughout his entire journey. He didn’t even load his images onto a home computer and edit them in Photoshop. He simply slid his Canon PowerShot SD 600 across the counter at a Walgreens in West Des Moines and took home the batch of prints to sort manually. Three-fourths of his more than 5,000 photos ended up in the trash or were given away to his mother-in-law.

• Throughout the process, Whalen climbed back on his motorcycle or hopped in a car for reshoots and still intends to return to 80 or so cities. He got fussier about his photos the more he shot. Read On: http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/02/26/one-harley-davidson-rider-rolls-to-all-1191-iowa-towns/