Starting from early on as a kid, many of our motorcycle riding careers start off with a two-wheel pedal type. We often pretend that our BMXs, 10-speeds, and mountain bikes have a motor packed between the frame rails as we race up and down the neighborhood. For Tracy Henry, he too started down the two-wheel path on a bicycle and quickly moved on from there. Tracy explains, “As a kid growing up watching the older guys in my neighborhood riding dirt bikes, me and my childhood friends, that I call my brothers, used to imitate the guys by jumping off the curb making motorcycle sounds like ‘nee-nee-nee.’ We had a passion for motorcycles, but we had to settle for bicycles.”

As we get older and our disposable incomes go up from side jobs and paper routes, so do our machines, but the source of the passion remains the same. The next logical step from a pedal bike involves a small motor and some knobby tires. Tracy was no different. “One Christmas, some of my friends got RM 60s and RM 80s and we all started riding them in the same canyon we used to ride our bicycles. Over a period of time, we all ended up with motorcycles of our own and started competing against each other to see who was the best. From there the trouble came as we started getting chased by the police because we took the dirt to the streets.” Years later, Tracy finally graduated to full street bikes and eventually found his way to a loud and proud ground-pounder. “In the early ’90s, one of our friends decided to get a KZ1000. So we all started getting into street bikes. In 2008, we traveled to Los Angeles and went to a motorcycle dance by Rarebreed MC. They all had H-D baggers fixed all up with candy paint and big rims and music and that struck a nerve.

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They all had H-D baggers fixed all up with candy paint and big rims and music and that struck a nerve.