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2023 Featured Sturgis Builder Athena “Chickie” Ransom
Builder Interview

2023 Featured Sturgis Builder
Athena “Chickie” Ransom

Meet 2023 Sturgis Flying Piston Benefit Featured Builder: Athena “Chickie” Ransom   Athena “Chickie” Ransom a.k.a. “The Vagabond Chickie” is part of the this year’s women’s takeover edition that is bringing a female emphasis to the event. She has been riding and wrenching on motorcycles since her teens. She is Read more…

By Editor, 14 hours3 hours ago
Artist Interview

2023 Featured Sturgis Artists:
Barbie The Welder & Lora Wilkinson

Meet our 2023 Flying Piston Benefit Featured Artists: Lora Wilkinson and Barbie The Welder   We are happy to welcome two female artists to headline the 2023 Flying Piston Benefit Builders Breakfast at Sturgis Buffalo Chip. As part of this year’s women’s takeover edition, Barbie The Welder & Lora Wilkinson Read more…

By Editor, 5 days2 days ago
Bare Bones Leather Skate Deck
Artist Interview

Bare Bones Leather Skate Deck: A Fusion of Skating & Cycles create an Edgy Art Experience

We interviewed Georgian Curt Green from Bare Bones Leather before the 2023 Daytona Bikeweek rally. He’s self-taught artist and is a premiere leather saddle maker. Curt is multi-talented as he can draw, sculpt, air brush, pinstripe, and create murals. His friends and business associates asked him to create murals, paint Read more…

By Editor, 1 week5 days ago
Freddie Villa Artist Pinstriper/YouTube Creator
Artist Interview

2023 Art On Deck Interview: Freddie Villa

Artist Interview With Art On Deck Artist Freddie Villa   Freddie Villa is an artist that hails from the sunny climes of Florida. He is one of the Flying Piston Benefit 2023 Art on Board presented by Gnarly Magazine competitor. pinstriper and YouTube Creator. We asked –Being an artist–   Read more…

By Editor, 3 weeks6 days ago
Exclusive Interview with Curt Green
Artist Interview

Bare Bones Leather Skate Deck: A Fusion of Skating and Motorcycles for an Edgy Art Experience

The Concept of the Bare Bones Leather Skate Deck Curt Green of Bare Bones Leather talks about the concept of creating the Art on Deck presented by Gnarly Magazine Skate Deck that goes up for auction at the 2023 Flying Piston Benefit in Daytona. The first half of my life Read more…

By Editor, 4 weeks6 days ago
Lisa Kosarko Sotero
Artist Interview

Lady of the Flies:
Lisa Kosarko Sotero

A brush with… An in-depth interview with artist Lisa Kosarko Sotero on her cultural experiences and greatest influences. Lisa is an Official 2023 Daytona Bike Week “Art On Deck” artist. Being an artist Who is Lisa Kosarko Sotero—East coast artist, Lisa Kosarko Sotero, is an illustrator, sculpture, tattoo design artist, Read more…

By Editor, 3 months6 days ago
Spotlight Interview: Artist Kelly Campanile
Artist Interview

Spotlight Interview:
Artist Kelly Campanile

Interview with Underground Artist Kelly Campanile These days the term underground art is used to describe a subculture of art, like graffiti art or comic strip art. Since the late 1990s the internet has become a forum for underground art thanks to its ability to communicate with a wide audience Read more…

By Editor, 3 months6 days ago
Artist Interview

Decking the Walls with Skateboard Art, The Michael Richardson Experience

The Michael Richardson Skateboard Art Experience The world as subscribed by Michael Richardson’s art is full of full of Southern-fried funk, eye popping graphics, face melting illustrations, metal-flake designs, screamin’ guitars, and fast vixens. By Jeff Najar, Co-Producer I got to know Michael Richardson through his Instagram presence before I Read more…

By Editor, 4 months6 days ago
Ethel 1981 Yamaha XS650
Builder Interview

Meet Evan Favaro:
Owner of Speakeasy Motors

Meet Evan Favaro: Custom Bike Builder + Entrepreneur Episode #19 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy the ride… Episode #19 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Evan Favaro, Owner of Speakeasy Motors, is also the Former Creative Director / Fabricator of Orange County Choppers. He is currently working on his Read more…

By Editor, 6 months6 days ago
The Rod “Woody” Woodruff Interview
Artist Interview

Meet Scott Jacobs:
The Original Harley-Davidson Artist

Meet Scott Jacobs: The Original Harley-Davidson Artist Episode #24 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Scott Jacobs… Scott Jacobs is an American painter known for his photorealistic work of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. He became the company’s first official licensed artist in 1993. Born in New Jersey, Jacobs Read more…

By Editor, 7 months6 days ago

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