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[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Lew Bleiweis” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
LEW BLEIWEIS
Anybody who rides a motorcycle knows all that steel has a serious magnetic pull. Sure, you might get away from it for a while, maybe even a few years, but that power and wind and the lean…. READ MORE
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JESSE AND HEATHER GRAY
It didn’t take long; it didn’t take long at all,” Jesse Gray says describing how long it took him to realize he wanted to marry Heather Layton. The 35-year-old motorcycle mechanic went to West Henderson High School near Hendersonville…. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”text – Dale Walksler” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
DALE WALKSLER
Dale Walksler bends over the 1909 Harley-Davidson and presses his mouth to the gas tank opening, then exhales forcefully to push gas from the tank into the carburetor. It’s the kiss of life, the resuscitation of a machine…. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Eddie Heath” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
EDDIE HEATH
When Eddie Heath went off to college at Texas A&M, he was determined to get a motorcycle. In a moment of serendipity shortly after school began, Heath was visiting a friend in Houston who was “practically giving away”…. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Josh Leder” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
JOSH LEDER
A vintage Bell Moto 3 helmet sits on the bookshelf in Josh Leder’s office next to his father’s collection of antique cameras. “That was mine when I was a kid,” Leder said. “For my fifth birthday, I got a red motorcycle. You don’t forget that…. READ MORE
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ASHEVILLE POLICE MOTOR UNIT
Asheville Police Department’s trio of Electra Glides moves in unison through the mid-day interstate traffic. Mirror-to-mirror, the team switch lanes without ever braking formation. There’s a gap beside the third officer, and I’m…. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – STACY BOWEN” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
STACY BOWEN
Etched on the left and right side mirrors of Stacy Bowen’s black Harley-Davidson 1200, two simple words carry a deceptively deep message: “Prince” and “Charming. Sure, it’s a nod to the bike’s low-slung, dashing stature, but it’s also clearly a reference to…. READ MORE
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DR. LAURA ELLIS
Four years after learning to ride a motorcycle, Ellis, a serious rock climber and mountain biker, has run through a half-dozen increasingly powerful bikes, starred in a documentary chronicling a grueling two-week charity benefit ride in Peru with well-known cyclist Neal Bayly… READ MORE
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LARRY OFFILL
Larry Offill had heard stories of an amazing motorcycle that had been abandoned. A farmhand had ridden it for years around the property he worked. The farmhand died, and the machine was parked amid tools and hay bales, all but forgotten…READ MORE
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LINDA CLUXTON
Women are the fastest growing group of motorcycle riders. Talk to anyone who has taken a motorcycle safety class in the last decade and they’ll tell you that more than half of the students in their class were women…. READ MORE
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SARAH MERRELL
You’d never know Sarah Merrell once lacked confidence as a motorcycle rider seeing her walk up with all the poise and grace of a runway model with a pink-accented helmet and wearing a shirt emblazoned with the phrase …. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Mike Weimers” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
MIKE WEIMERS
Mike started everything young. He grew up in Moline, IL, the home of John Deere tractor. “The laws then allowed me to ride on the street downtown on my small Kawasaki, I was t 9 or 10 years old…. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Lauren Bergrud” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
LAUREN BERGRUD
The white fences and green pastures of the southern Blue Ridge roll past as Lauren Bergrud navigates her way across the familiar terrain. She’s in her element here, whether on two wheels or four hoofs. Her vintage black Yamaha hums along next to the ….READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Wendell and Taylor” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
WENDELL AND TAYLOR HOWARD
Everyone knows that drinking liquor and driving motorcycles don’t go together. But now, making liquor and driving motorcycles, that’s another story. In fact, it’s the story of father-son team Wendell and Taylor Howard…. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Susan Dunlap” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
SUSAN DUNLAP
Susan Dunlap probably couldn’t have a more buttoned down job. As the director of communications, she heads up a bustling department of professionals at the region’s largest medical center, Mission Hospital. It’s a serious job in a…. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – TERRY AND LAMONT BELLAMY” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
TERRY & LAMONT BELLAMY
Normally, Lamont Bellamy might not complain about an attractive young woman squeezing him a bit. But, when you’re on a fairly high-powered sport bike on a winding mountain highway, and you left the speed limit behind …. READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – TOM PLACKIS” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px” saved_tabs=”all”]
TOM PLACKIS
After 20 years with the Fire Department of the City of New York, Plackis was ready to retire, and the well-traveled Long Island native knew exactly where he wanted to end up. He’d been through the mountains of Western North Carolina several times and…. READ MORE
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THOMAS MONTGOMERY
With a calm, taciturn demeanor that smacks of an old-fashioned movie cowboy, Thomas Montgomery doesn’t seem like the restless type. But the owner of Eurosport Asheville, the BMW motorcycle dealership for Western North Carolina, most definitely is. He raced dirt bikes as a kiD… READ MORE
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MIRIAM MCKINNEY
For five years, McKinney wrote lesson plans, corralled kids and taught music to children enrolled in Buncombe County Schools. Drawing on her love of the piano – she started playing at the tender age 3 and began lessons at 5… READ MORE
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – ROLAND LINDER” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”30px|30px|30px|30px”]
ROLAND LINDER
Sitting in his office chair – a race car seat on swivel wheels, naturally – Roland Linder draws a visitor’s attention to a black and white picture of a much younger version of himself involuntarily dismounted from a speeding motorcycle…. READ MORE
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