The chilling real-life crime that inspired a rock ‘n’ roll classic.

Seventy-five years ago, in the winter of 1951, a young hitchhiker named Billy Cook set off on a brutal cross-country killing spree that shocked the nation. Over the course of several harrowing days, Cook left a trail of terror stretching from Missouri to California and beyond,...

I was ten years old and new to the area when a neighbor boy asked if I had been to the motorcycle range. I hadn't. So off we went on our bicycles, from asphalt to a dirt road and into a canyon. And there it was. The motorcycle range. Men were riding up and down various trails on a large hill. This whole scene that I was taking in changed my life...

You’ll enjoy every memory they share because they’ll remind you of motorcycle memories of your own.

Fred ‘Bro’ Smith takes you back to the 1950s: "I was never a 'star' rider. I just liked to race. I got to know some pretty famous racers, shop owners and officials along the way. I also got to ride on some famous race tracks and in some important,...