The dealership featured free food and drinks, museum tours with Buddy, pool tournament, and sales in general merchandise and parts. You could enter your motorcycle in 5 judged categories: Best Bagger, Best Import, Best pre-1983 Vintage, Best MMI Student Bike and Best Custom.  Many entered their classic car for Best of Show. The winner of [...]

I have not taken a formal class in photography so I always jump at the chance to hear other photographer speak and show off their portfolios.  Their personal approaches, experiences, practices and results fascinate me.  Their travels captivate.
Through Each Others Eyes (TEOE) had such a seminar yesterday in Scottsdale.   Their goal is to promote [...]

We Were There In 2009
If a picture is worth a thousand words then we could have written a novel last year. We put a few miles on our bikes and our cameras were almost as busy as our keyboards. Throughout the year you found Quick Throttle staff in just about [...]

Shutterbugs meetings are on the first Wednesday of the month, N. 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ at 7:00pm. The Elks Lodge has a Wednesday night Steak Cookout starting at 5:30 pm and we are invited to join in.  Cost: $9.  Come early and join us before the meeting at 7 pm.. All members are encouraged to [...]

The Oasis Sanctuary is a life-care facility for captive Exotic birds. In particular they are a refuge for parrots, cockatoos, macaws and other Psittacine birds. As a true sanctuary, they do not offer birds for adoption, however they work with and refer birds requiring re-homing to bona fide adoption programs around the country.  The Oasis [...]

Take the most famous photographers as well as many serious amateurs, select their best work and put it all in one place – there you have Onexposure. Every photo is screened, which means it has to be approved by an editor before being published. Onexposure is like a constantly evolving high class photo gallery with [...]

Quick Throttle Magazine photo gallery link

A solid line of support honoring military personnel–current and veteran–from bikers in the Valley of the Sun was on parade for all to see last April 12. Too bad local TV couldn’t provide a glimpse of the patriotic proceedings. You’d think a gathering of 1100 scoots and 1800 people, feted by a flyover [...]

The results are in from the 2008 Layang Layang Underwater Photo Shootout in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. The winners, whose photographs were judged by well-known underwater photographers Settimio Ciprianni, Stephen Wong, and Rod Klein, received prizes including trips to Palau, Truk, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, dive computers and watches, and Nikon and Sony dSLR’s and [...]