Outlaw Biker, A Breezy Ride High on the Hog
Like People and Vogue, Outlaw Biker magazine provides ample photographic coverage of parties. Unlike People and Vogue, Outlaw Biker covers the kind of parties where the men ceremonially lynch Japanese motorcycles and the women exhibit their joie de vivre by stripping off their T-shirts and showing their breasts.</br></br>Outlaw Biker is immature, antisocial, obscene and very funny. "We keep it raunchy, righteous and real for ya," proclaims a house ad, which promises subscribers "the wildest parties, the hottest bikes, the finest women, the dirtiest jokes."</br></br>Outlaw Biker is the best of a genre of magazines that includes Biker, Easyriders, Iron Horse and others. These aren't motorcycle mags, they're biker mags. There's a big difference. Motorcycle magazines are about motorcycles -- their frames, their spark plugs, their airflow. Biker mags are lifestyle publications for men whose lifestyles revolve around fast bikes, loose women, baroque tattoos, knuckle-busting jobs, unemployment checks, probation officers, lots of beer and God knows what other mind-altering substances.</br></br>"Here's what the lifestyle of a biker is all about -- the fun, the broads, the bikes and the parties," proclaims the latest issue of Biker as it asks readers to send in photos of their bikes, their parties and their womenfolk. "We're popping the rubber band off the bankroll and paying out $20 for every shot we use."</br></br>These magazines are not for the squeamish or the politically correct. They're fun, though, if you're willing to take them in the spirit in which they're offered -- a spirit captured in their subtitles. Easyriders bills itself as "Entertainment for Adult Bikers -- and rehab survivors." Biker says it's the publication "For Dissenting Adults Only."