Volume 1 (2005)

March 2005

Articles

Lily Phillips, "Blue Jeans, Black Leather Jackets, and a Sneer: The Iconography of the 1950s Biker and its Translation Abroad"

 

Christopher Thomas Potter, "Motorcycle Clubs in Britain During the Interwar Period, 1919 – 1939: Their Social and Cultural Importance"

 

David W. Russell, "The Dirt Bike and American Off-road Motorcycle Culture in the 1970s"

 

James J. Ward, "Hierarchies of Meaning and Value in the Classic British Bike Scene"

 

Guest Column

 

Michelle Ann Duff, "The End of Grand Prix Racing . . . Almost"

 

Reviews

 

Christian A. Pierce, "Burned Out:  Review of the film Torque (2004)"

 

Ron Milam, "Harleys, et al: Review of Born To Be Wild:  A History of the American Biker and Bikes by Paul Garson"        

July 2005

Photographic Essay
 

Matthew Linton, "For Love of the Machine"

 

Roundtable

 

Barbara Joans, "GLIB WITH GUTS AND GORE: I Come to Bury HT, Not to Praise Him: The Legend of Hunter Thompson"

 

Katherine G. Sutherland, "Forty Years Later: Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels"

 

Randy D. McBee, "A "Pontential Common Front": Hunter Thompson, the Hell's Angels, and Race in 1960s America"

 

Gary L. Kieffner, "Myth, Reality, and Revenge in Hunter S. Thompson’s Hells Angels"

 

Reviews

 

Nan Curtis, Review of Bike Lust: Harleys, Women and American Society, b y Barbara Joans

 

Lisa Garber, Review of The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles, by Melissa Holbrook Pierson  

November 2005

Articles

 

William L. Dulaney, "A Brief History of 'Outlaw' Motorcycle Clubs"

 

Kris Slawinski, "Sex and The Art Of Motorcycle Mechanics: Motorcycles as Personal"

 

Roundtable: Easy Rider

 

Michael J. Chappell, "The Failure of the Flag in Easy Rider"

 

William Cummings, "Easy Rider and American Empire: A Postcolonial Interpretation"

 

Greg Semack, "What Happened to My Motorcycle Movie?"

 

Reviews

 

Amber Clifford, "The Seat of a Revolutionary: A Review of The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara"

 

Eric Primm, "A Review of The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon"

 

 

Volume 2 (2006)

March 2006

Articles
 

Sarah Boslaugh, "Getting Past the Stereotypes: Women and Motorcycles in Recent Lesbian Novels"  

Roundtable:Women and Motorcycling

 

Kris Slawinski, "Motorcycles as Political"

 

Susan Semack, "The Reluctant Rider"

 

Adele Kubein, "Grease Under the Angel’s Wings"

 

Reviews

 

Suzanne Ferriss, Review of Breaking the Limit: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through North America by Karen Larsen

 

Amy Ruth Tobol, Review of Kickstart:  A Cosmic Biker Babe’s Guide to Life and Changing the Planet by Carol Setters    

July 2006

Articles

 

Steven Alford, "Teaching Motorcycle Travel Literature"

 

Katherine Sutherland, "Reading the Ride"

 

Leland Giovannelli, "Teaching the Design History Of The Motorcycle"

 

Sample Syllabi

 

Katherine Sutherland, Thompson Rivers University

"Studies in Fiction:  Motorcycle Literature, Speed and Masculinities"

 

Randy D. McBee, Texas Tech University

"Born to be Wild": A Post-World War II History of Motorcyclists in the United States

 

Resources

 

Steven Alford and Suzanne Ferriss, "Classifying Motorcycle Writing: A Preliminary Consideration"

 

Geoff Crowther, "Motorcycling and Consumer Studies: A Bibliography"

 

Case Study

 

Ted Bishop “It’s not the hardware, it’s the history”: The Harris Vincent Gallery

November 2006

Articles

 

Peter Hughes Jachimiak, "Lambrettas Down Leafy Lanes: The Scooterist as Ruralist"

 

K. Alex Ilyasova, "Dykes on Bikes and the Regulation of Vulgarity"

 

Reviews

 

Don Hennigan, Review of Out in Bad Standings, Inside the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, The Making of a Worldwide Dynasty, by Ed Winterhalder

 

Chad DeMars, Review of Riders for God: The Story of a Christian Motorcycle Gang, by Rich Remsberg

 

Volume 3 (2007)

March 2007

Articles

Timothy A. D. Holmes, "Motorcycle Myth: Rebels without a Horse"

 

Steve Koerner, "Whatever Happened to the Girl on a Motorbike?  British Women and Motorcycling from 1919 to 1939"

 

Allison Perlman, "The Brief Ride of the Biker Movie"

 

Lars Lagergren, "Make Way for the Biker: Media and Swedish Motorcycle Culture"

 

Ivan Rabinowitz, "A Generous Imaginary: Contingencies of Value in the South African Charity Run"

 

Reviews

 

Michael Chappell, Review of Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books, by Ted Bishop

 

Suzanne Ferriss, Review of American Borders: A Motorcycle Misadventures Journey, by Carla King

July 2007

Articles

Mary K. Coffey and Jeremy S. Packer, "The Art of Motorcycle (Image) Maintenance"

 

Ed Youngblood, "The Birth of the Dirt Bike: Technology and the Shift in Attitude toward American Motorcyclists in the 1970s"

 

Suzanne McDonald-Walker, "Outcast but not Cast Out: The Effects of Marginalisation on the British Motorcycling Community"

 

Gary L. Winn, "The Rise of the Vintage Motorcycle Competition Movement in America"

 

Richard Hutch, "Speed Masters Throttle Up:  Space, Time and the Sacred Journeys of Recreational Motorcyclists"

 

Reviews

 

Randy D. McBee, Review of Biker: Truth and Myth--How the Original Cowboy of the Road Became the Easy Rider of the Silver Screen, by Bill Osgerby

 

Richard B. Verrone, Review of Run for the Wall: Remembering Vietnam on a Motorcycle Pilgrimage, by Raymond Michalowski and Jill Dubisch                         

November 2007

Special TT Centenary Issue

Articles

 

Simon Vaukins, "The Isle of Man TT Races: Politics, Economics and National Identity"

 

James J. Ward, "The Flying 'M' on the IOM: The Matchless Name and the Tourist Trophy Races"

 

Sasha Disko, "The Image of the 'Tourist Trophy' and British Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic"

 

Charles Lamb, "New Zealand and the Isle of Man TT: A History of Kiwi Involvement and Public Perceptions of an Iconic Event"

 

Kris Slawinski, "The Isle of Goose TT: T-T-Licious!"

 

Geoff Crowther, "Embodied Experiences of Motorcycling at the Isle of Man TT Races"

 

Guest Column

 

Michelle Ann Duff, "Do You Believe in Fairies?"

 

Roundtable: The TT and the Future of Road Racing

 

Paul Phillips, Neil Tuxworth, Mick Duckworth

 

Book Review

 

Katherine Sutherland, "Writing Man" (review of Mark Gardiner’s Riding Man)

 

Mark Gardiner, excerpt from Riding Man

 

 

 

Volume 4 (2008)

Spring 2008

Articles

 

Lisa MacKinney, "'Mmmm, he's good-bad but he's not evil': The Shangri-Las, 'Leader of the Pack,' and the Cultural Context of the Motorcycle Rider"

 

Matthew Biberman, "Cold Pastoral: Notes on Becoming a Vincent Owner"

 

Barbara Brodman, "The Motorcyclist as Revolutionary: Looking for Mr. Guevara"

 

Reviews

 

Ed Youngblood, Review of BackTrack, written and produced by Kent Taylor

 

Ron Milam, Review of Living on the Edge, dir. Edward Winterhalder

 

Paul Atkinson, Review of Motorcycle by Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferriss

Fall 2008

Articles

 

Errol Vieth, “Take the Trip” Down Under: The Significance of Stone (1974)

 

Adrien Litton, Finding the Zen in Motorcycling  

 

Reviews

 

Steven E. Alford, Review of Mobility without Mayhem by Jeremy Packer

 

Jeremy Packer, Excerpt from Mobility without Mayhem

 

Michael J. Chappell, Review of Review of The Mammoth Book of Bikers, edited by Arthur Veno

Christian Pierce, Review of Hell Ride, dir. by Larry Bishop

Volume 5 (2009)

Spring 2009

Articles

James J. Ward, "The Mysterious AJS 10R: A Real-Life Motorcycle Detective Story"

Gary L, Kieffner, "Police and Harley Riders: Discrimination and Empowerment"

Roundtable: The Wild One (1953)

Paul Nagy, "The BRMC and its Humor in The Wild One"

Julie Willett, "Behaving Like Brando: Transgressing Race and Gender in The Wild On"

Michael J. Chappell, "Death by Discourse, or The Fate of Jimmy in The Wild One"

Interview

An Interview with Sputnik, Chairman, Texas Motorcycle Rights Association

"History Changes You" by Darilynn (Dee) McClure

Reviews

Christian Pierce, Review of Feasting on Asphalt by Alton Brown

Steven E. Alford, Review of Bodies in Motion by Steven L. Thompson

Matthew Kiesner, Review of The Pink Angels, dir. Lawrence Brown