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South Dakota Circuit Court Judge Warren Johnson on November 14, 2008, dismissed the last criminal charges filed against members of the Iron Pigs police motorcycle gang involved in the barroom shooting of a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club during a barroom fight during the 2008 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

Members of the Iron Pigs Motorcycle Club involved in the shooting of a Hells Angel during the 2008 Sturgis rally are waiting to hear if weapons charges against them will be dismissed.

Meade County Judge Warren Johnson is deciding whether Ronald Smith, Scott Lazalde, James Rector, Erik Pingel, and Dennis McCoy were in the wrong when they carried guns into the Loud American Roadhouse during the Sturgis Rally. A fracas at the roadhouse involving the five Pigs resulted in the shooting of Angel Joeseph Mcguire on August 9.

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By Tim Anderson

You couldn’t ask for a better stage.

On October 11, 2008, the weather was cool and overcast, with a light mist falling.
The stands were filled with motorcycling football fans; many of whom rode to the field.
The opponents were ready to square off—playing for pride…one side trying to end a three-year skid, the other looking to make a statement.

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Up at Maddog Custom Cycles in Conifer, Colorado, they’ve taken a personal interest in making sure area kids have as great a Christmas as is possible. So have a few hundred of their friends.

By Sammi

Bikers aren’t generally perceived by the non-riding public as soft in any way. But, we all know that when it comes to kids at Christmastime, bikers give and give and give.

There’s no exception to that here in Northeastern Wyoming, where every year for more then 20 years, the local A.B.A.T.E. chapter has sponsored a toy store geared towards helping create a merry Christmas for area kids who might not have one otherwise.

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It’s a regular ritual at Sun Harley-Davidson in Thornton. Hosting blood drives is just something they, and their customers, do. They eat chili, then go donate blood.

“We’ve been doing this for several years,” said Sun spokesman Duane Yakiama. “We do it twice a year and we always have a pretty good turnout. The chili cookoff is something that came from the HOG chapter after we started the blood drives and it’s just kind of continued. It seems to work.”

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By Joe Maher

It’s been rolling for eight years now, and this year was the biggest yet. Nearly 300 riders took advantage of the fine weather and turned out October 4th for the 8th Annual Susan Komen Run in Colorado Springs. The event’s growth in recent years was evident, as another 350 or so people were at the after run party at Indigo Joe’s.

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September 27, 2008 was a fine autumn day. The colors of the season were out in all their glory…light green, orange, brown, yellow…and black, chrome and pink.

Pink is officially a fall color one day of the year in Colorado—the day of the annual Emily’s Parade from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, to Platte Canyon High School near Bailey, Colorado. The event, a fundraiser and remembrance event honoring the life and tragic death of 16-year-old Emily Keyes, has worked its way into a permanent spot on the biker riding calendar in Colorado.

As the South Dakota legal system is dealing with charges filed in connection with a shooting incident during the Sturgis motorcycle Rally August 9,2008, at the Loud American Roadhouse, Those accused are answering the charges, and in one case, charges are being dismissed.

Prosecutors in South Dakota dismissed a felony assault charge against Seattle Police Detective Ron Smith in September after determining Smith was the victim in the barroom altercation that left a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Joseph McGuire of Imperial Beach, California, hospitalized with two gunshot wounds.

The kids at High Country-Harley Davidson in Frederick, Colorado, have been playing hard—and fast—all summer. All that hard play paid off in September, when they went faster than everyone else.

The High Country Race Team came home from the BUB Speed Trials at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with a new record and the title of running the world’s fastest 2000cc bagger.