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Richard Tilley Owner/editor It’s hard to believe it has been 5 years since I put an ideal into action and CC Biker & Motorsports Newspaper was formed. Thanks to Ben Hill and Mark Pulido for helping me to get CC Biker started. It has been a blast to say the least. Sure, there has been lots of up and downs financially but the Love that I have been shown from the Biker Community is Awesome. As most of you know I am not a Biker myself. I am a Biker Advocate and sure have made a lot of Great Friends and a few have become Family like Matt Keyes…
makes my heart feel warm as I been known as a newspaper that see it passing by me on the track cares. It is all about Respect of from the stands. Others and Bikers have taught Recently, we have been having me so much about their world and since we both understand In the last 5 years, we have had some fun putting together little and believe in Respect we seem the opportunity to not only get pop up boutique events. That is to mesh together pretty dang to know thousands of Bikers but not much going on and every day well. also other areas of the Motor- we watch small business struggle sports industry. We have attended as we are. I was asked back in CC Biker & Motorsports NewspaDrag Racing, Sand Drags, Mudd dec to do one and so we tried it per has a large coverage area. Boggs, Spring Cars, 360-Winged, and had a lot of fun. So now we We go from Mariposa to just Stock Cars, Flat Track and more. are working with several local north of Bakersfield and the CenIt has been a Blast to say the small business owners who are tral Coast. We have about 550 least getting to attend and at struggling to make ends meet locations that you can pick up most getting pit passes to look and need a place to make some your copy from monthly and have better, take pictures, and talk to cash. As we keep doping these it available online as well. the Racers themselves. We also more and more Biker owned We are a local veteran owned and operated Biker & Motorsports have our logo on a few of these business are joining in the fun. Since the beginning we have Newspaper. As most newspaper racing bikes and cars. Sure,
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Small Business Helping Small Business nervous to be adventuring out and unsure of how I would do. Not only did I have a wonderful day, I sold a lot of stuff, I was left feeling a renewed sense of power that being a small business owner brings.
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I had made connections with other small business owners who had been struggling too. We all had smiles. I know that came from a sense of being able to be a part of a community and for the first time in a long time we were remember meeting Richard and a part of something bigger than Heather Wilbour WRITER the CC Biker family for the first a pandemic. We would soon find Imagine a small business own- time. The love and support they that we had become a family and er who struggled to stay alive showed each of us vendors was would still be supporting each during a worldwide pandemic. so wonderful. From the first mo- other month after month! SpreadCC Biker & Motorsports News- ment I arrived I felt the support, ing the love everywhere we go. paper and Friends made a stand passion, the excitement in the and said let’s help support the air and Love. I can say from the small business community and bottom of my heart I was amazed began to hold Pop-Up Events. at how passionate they all were I am blessed to have been one at helping the small business of those Small businesses that vendors feel empowered for the really found a home in this small first time in a long time. I wasted business community of vendors. no time introducing myself. Being We support each other and found the loud-outgoing person that I a “family” of supporters who have am, I fit right in. It was a small group of us that come together and been a light in came together and made a promthe darkness around us. ise to support each other during How Do i describe my first Popthese uncertain times. I had UP Event...One word comes to vendors I had just met going live mind above all else-AMAZING!!! Facebook and sharing my inforI was nervous beyond words,,,,I mation, I went live and made sure to share their information as well. We had found a family that day, we were small but mighty and had come together to support All these months of only being each other. I am truly blessed to able to go live on Facebook be a part of a community of small (which has really kept my busi- business. Thank you, Richard ness going) was what led me to and the CC Biker family, for evdo the Pop-Up Events. . I was so erything you do!
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going 243mph in 300 ft. He raced throughout the Western United How did you get hooked on rac- States. Racing locally at Avenal ing? Did you see a race on T.V. Sand drags and many other and root for your favorite racer? tracks. After losing his father he Were you taken to a track as a quit racing sand drags. Leaving kid? Did your family race? Here the sport for a bit, only to catch is the story of Pro Mod drag bike the Drag Bike bug. A longtime racer Craig Brown and his love family friend and pro mod drag of racing, passion for the sport bike racer Vincent Testa took him and more. Craig grew up around to one of his races, and there he racing. His Father raced top fuel caught the drag bike bug. There dragsters throughout the 50’s till he once again found his racing the 70’s. Being around his Dad passion, but this time for Drag he learned to love racing and the bikes. ing towards 2021 race season need for speed. His Father Glen and has been testing already. He Brown was inducted into the Ariis in the process of building a Top zona Drag race hall of fame and Fuel Harley Drag bike for next is true legend in the top fuel dragseason. Flaming his passion with ster field. a nitro Harley Craig and his Father built a top Racing is a team sport that takes fuel sand dragster that Craig a lot of time and money. Craig raced for years. He held the Sand has a great team including his Drag National Record for 3 years girlfriend Debbie Brazzel, Ken-
“He is looking forward to seeing the West Coast race scene grow with Western Pro Extreme Association and loves the race family he has found amongst the other racers and crews. Craigs story is one of race passion and finding a way to renew his passion after losing his father. Many of us get hooked on racing, but you like Craig hadn’t ridden bikes much ny Shultz, Tyler Anderson and Craig can go find your passion but after going with Vincent to a his race mentor Vincent Testa. and make those dreams a reality. drag race he decided he wanted Vincent and he race together, Get to a track near you. Fuel your to try drag bikes. He had his 1500 have similar bikes and travel as a fire and keep it lit. cc turbo methanol Hayabusa race team, sharing parts, stories built, got in the saddle and has and so much more. Racers are loved it since. He has been racing always in need of sponsorship, over the last 7 years throughout his sponsors include his own the Western US. His best ET was company Brown Roofing, Vin6.74 going 200 mph in a ¼ mile. cent Engineering and Top-Notch After 6 wins and years of racing upholstery. he won the Western Pro Extreme When I asked Craig what his plans Association, Pro Extreme Class are for his racing future, he stated 2020 Championships. He is look- “Have fun, Go Fast and Be safe.
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by Johnny Killmore | Dec 31, 2020 For Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys There are plenty of people in the scene who are standouts for their level of passion, but I’ve never encountered anyone more deeply immersed in motorcycles than Allan Lane. Here is a man who bounces between the world of racing, street riding, and stunting, who started his own online magazine (Sportbikes Inc.), has created events and industry parties from the street level to the MotoGP paddock, and still finds time to create his own brand of gourmet coffee; all while still finding time for doing track days and street rides.
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In fact, to tell Allan’s story, we had to break this piece into two installments. Allan got into the motorcycle industry doing sales for the famed Fast by Feracci brand back in the early-2000’s when the company was racing Ducati’s and building hot rod parts for the primarily air-cooled street bikes made by the Italian brand. Combined with a background in the Philly street scene, Allan lived in both worlds, moving comfortably between the street scene and the glitzy scene in professional racing. Despite such a unique story, Allan’s start was similar to many. While the majority of riders I know started on dirt bikes, several people had to wait until adulthood to buy their own motorcycle: quite possibly a used 1980’s Japanese bike (I have the exact same beginning story in that regard, including frustrating electrical problems). Allan has come a long way since his early riding days, in more ways than one.
the opportunity about twelve years later– I was about twenty, twenty-one– I finally got my first bike. It was a 1985 Honda Nighthawk 750. It was a red bike, but it had a bad regulator-rectifier… it couldn’t hold a charge [for the battery]. And so, it didn’t really kill the fire, but it got really annoying, not being able to trust the bike. RBMA: “So let’s start at the be- What I do remember and appreginning: what got you into bikes ciate about that bike though, it originally?” the time I spent really learning to AL: “My older brother. I’m the ride it.” youngest of six kids, and it was my middle brother, Gregory. […] I was a bit of a late bloomer because I watched the heart attacks he gave my mother. […] I remember one time, he had a moped, and he led the Philadelphia police on a very long, slow-speed chase. It only ended when he ran out of gas. I was very, very little at the time but I remember thinking, RBMA: “So despite a bit of a sour ‘that’s it, that’s the life, how do I taste early on with mechanical get some of that?’ [laughs]. gremlins, you obviously fell in “And after that, I was maybe seven, eight years old, that seed Being Black Moses Continued on page 7 was just planted. So when I had
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immersed in motorcycles, so the job came naturally. Soon he wasn’t just on the phone making love with motorcycles. How did sales but was attending events– it turn to sportbikes and Ducati’s not just to drum up sales– but to make long-lasting connections. specifically?” Continued from page 4
the same year I did the first Clutch Control, which was the first event in Philly that I put together… just outside of Philly. We did the ride the night before, and that’s when Jason [Britton] and I first met.”
Being black and in the world of motorsport can be a blessing and a curse: people can dismiss you as an event security guard, RBMA: “As in Fast by Ferrac- but once they realize you’re a ci??? [a company that makes fellow gearhead, they’ll instantly remember you the next time you Ducati performance parts].” cross paths. And in a world like AL: “Fast by Ferracci, right. […] motorcycles you run into a lot So fast-forward, I’m working at of the same faces. Allan still ena bank. I’m good at the job but I counters this phenomenon today. A Philadelphia native, hate it. This is around 2003, and I fall in love with the Ducati Mon- AL: “[…] It wasn’t about color Allan has been able to ster, that matte black. And the for us, but people would take spread through many bank that I’m working at is literally note. They’d say, ‘who’s the big facets of the motorcycle on the other side of the mall from black guy in the Fast by Ferracci world while sticking to his Fast by Ferracci’s new location. booth?’ […] Our industry is very roots. […] So, I go into the dealership, small: if someone sneezes on the I buy the bike [a Ducati Monster east coast someone says ‘God For those out of the loop, Jason 620 Dark], and when I quit the job bless you’ on the west coast. So Britton was already a fixture in at the bank, Mr. Ferracci offered news traveled fast that there was motorcycling at this point, having me a job. And that’s when every- this big black guy working for already been in the stunt riding thing, I mean everything, came Eraldo, and Eraldo was sending scene when it was just people me out to be a representative for selling VHS cassettes of riders together.” the company. And that’s when my doing wild stuff on the street, RBMA: “Gotcha. So, now you’re network just exploded.” often shot with hand-held camworking for Ferracci…” eras out the side window of a car. As the scene developed so AL: “Yeah, me and Eraldo… color did Jason Britton, hosting severhas nothing to do with it but it has al shows on Speedvision (later something to do with it. It wasn’t SpeedTV) and forming Team No Eraldo, but there were other Limit, a traveling show that does people, taking note, that a black event appearances, battles it out person hadn’t worked for the in stunt competitions, or just puts shop before, or that they could on its own events. recollect. I stood out. […] To this day, that was my most favorite Allan knew while he planned the job ever. Now, I was with him for But working event booths didn’t first Clutch Control that it couldn’t about four or five years. I was the just expand Allan’s contact list, it just be another bike show. Havfirst one walking in and I was the gave him an understanding of how ing Team No-Limit perform at last one walking out: I loved that events worked. Attending shows, his Clutch Control event was job because I was surrounded by running booths at race events, a no-brainer. What Allan didn’t the things that I loved, every day.” and attending industry parties realize was that it would be the
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happened after that. That’s when people started to notice, ‘hey Allan has a talent for running his mouth [as emcee/event host]… Jason used to call me Stunt Mouth. [laughs].”
AL: “[…] I went to high school with Eraldo Ferracci’s kids. Are you familiar with Eraldo Ferracci?”
“[…] I think I was so successful and stayed there so long because I understood a few things about Eraldo. He was a very passionate man, but passionate about motorcycles and components more than anything else. If you understood that, you couldn’t take anything personally if he got upset at you.”
where the different players interacted (racers, crew chiefs, organizers, sponsors, parts vendors, etc) shined a light on the industry that many can miss: motorcycling is not just about motorcycles.
The different contacts Allan made while working at Fast by Ferracci allowed him to move around the industry’s different areas, and being a black man from Philly also made Allan just as comfortable in the street scene and the stunt riding scene, which was exploding in the early 2000s. In 2007 things really started to spread out for Allan, with him launching his own shop as well as Hard Knocks Motorcycle Entertainment.
Just The Beginning After just over an hour of talking with Allan, I could easily tell we were only at the tip of the iceberg. There are multiple chapters he is still in the middle of. His online magazine, Sportbikes Inc., has survived over a decade in the turbulent seas of online moto-journalism. Hard Knocks Entertainment is still charging hard and has expanded to host events in many segments of the industry, even helping Kawasaki launch their ZX-6R sportbike in Times Square among huge fanfare. Allan even has a Hard Knocks brand of gourmet coffee out.
The only way to do this story justice is to hit the pause button here and break it into two parts. Wish the backstory fleshed out we can see why Allan has his hands stirring so many pots, what it takes to balance that many businesses, manage family life, and handle brand ambassador duties for companies ranging beginning of a partnership and from Ducati Motors to Springfield friendship, with Allan working as Armory. With Allan clearly provemcee for Team No Limit, further ing he is an expert at straddling broadening his skill set and rep- divides and standing on both shores, we’ll also ask him about utation. the differences (and similarities) between the world of street bike riders and those who only get their two-wheel fix on the track.
RBMA: “So after [Jason Britton] comes out to do [Clutch Control], what ends up happening?”
AL: “[…] He killed it, just smashed the show… Philly hadn’t seen Creator of Hard Knocks RBMA: “So there was a lot of anything like it. But what made it Motorcycle Entertainment shuffling. You’ve got a podcast, even bigger– super strong– was In my experience– both in and a magazine, an event compa- he brought his production crew outside the motorcycle indus- ny: even a coffee brand. It had out. […] So, having TV cameras, try– having a job you love means to start somewhere though, in in Philly, [showcasing] our bike culture, was major. And it was esgetting paid less than you’re phases, right?” worth. For Allan though, the job AL: “[In 2007] I started my own tablished that I was the guy who at Fast by Ferracci was com- company, called Everything But put it together. mission-based: the sky was the The Bike, which was a shock,[…] “Now I was ‘the guy’ for Philly. I limit. Understanding your product and it was the same year that I had people keep asking me, ‘can and your customer is essential launched Hard Knocks Motorcy- you do that for us here where I to sales, but Allan was already cle Entertainment. And that was live?’ So, my touring with Jason
Does Allan Lane still get mistaken for a security guard at his own events? Yes, but it only adds to the mystique of a man who can stand with confidence in any room. Until Part 2 of this interview series drops, you can chase down the mythical figure– known as Black Moses to many– by checking out his personal Instagram (@mrblackmoses), signing up to the Sportbikes Inc. online magazine, or by hitting up www. hardknocksmoto.com.
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