Every month I post links to the most recent research into motorcycle culture, subcultures, clothing and identity, along with the biggest events in the motorcycling calendar. Here’s what caught my eye this month — a mix of the European and US event calendars plus a substantial new photobook on US motorcycling.
European Bike Week 2025
Lake Faak, Carinthia, 2-7 September. The 27th edition of Europe’s largest Harley-Davidson gathering, drawing somewhere north of 100,000 visitors over five nights of music, custom bike judging and rides into the Alps. Free to attend and increasingly multi-brand, despite the H-D sponsorship.
https://www.h-dmediakit.com/eu/news-articles/european-bike-week-returned-to-faaker-see-to-celebrate-all-things-harley-davidson.html
Myrtle Beach Fall Bike Rally 2025
End of September into early October, Ocean Boulevard. The Atlantic seaboard’s longest-running rally, currently in a quieter phase compared to its 1990s peak but still bringing thousands of riders into the Carolinas every autumn. The local SunNews coverage flags the recurring debate about whether attendance is dwindling or just decentralising.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/myrtle-beach-fall-bike-rally-100000612.html
Jack Lueders-Booth, American Motorcycling Culture
Stanley Barker, published 4 September. A photobook drawing on Lueders-Booth’s archive from 1980 to 2000 — road races, women racers, child racers, vintage scrambles, motorcycle blessings, swap meets, street cruisers. The era he documents is the one most current academic work on US motorcycling has to reach back to; useful primary visual material.
https://www.stanleybarker.co.uk/products/american-motorcycling-culture
See also PetaPixel’s December pickup of the Lueders-Booth photobook.
That’s it for this month. If you’ve come across research I’ve missed, feel free to email me.