Biker Story

Part 2: A Biker Died With No Family and We Buried Him Anyway — What 200 Brothers Put on His Casket Wrecked Every Man in That Cemetery

Earl Mackey was, by every standard the world usually measures a man by, a failure. He never married. He never…

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A 6-Year-Old Cancer Patient Asked for One Gift at the Biker Toy Run — What the 280-Pound Club President Did After He Got Home Broke His Wife

The biggest, loudest, most tattooed man in the hospital parking lot got down on one knee in front of a…

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Part 2: A Biker Blocked a Kidnapper’s Escape Route Without Saying a Word — The Security Footage Showed What His Hands Were Doing

Danny Rojas is forty-seven. Mexican-American. Born in McAllen. Moved to Waco in 2001. Six-foot-one. Two hundred ten pounds. Black hair…

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Part 2: For 7 Winters These Bikers Fed the Homeless in Silence — Then a Man Living Under a Bridge Pulled Out His Phone and Broke Their Only Rule

Part 2: Walt Kowalski is 63. Six-foot-one. Retired union iron worker. Thirty-eight years on skyscrapers in Chicago and Milwaukee. Polish…

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Part 2: 30 Bikers Dressed as Princesses, Superheroes and Bunnies Rolled Into a Broke Neighborhood on Halloween — What They Did at Each Door Wrecked Me

Thirty Harleys rolled into the poorest trailer park in our county on Halloween night. The men riding them weren’t wearing…

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Part 2: He Carried a Wrench Like a Weapon — Every Saturday, He Used It to Teach Fatherless Boys How Not to Break

I was thirteen when I started going to the workshop at Jefferson Community Center on the south side of Tulsa,…

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Part 2: His Mother Sewed the Leather Vest by Hand — When He Wore It to the Club, Forty Men Stood Up

I first met Eli Mercer in the back lot of Rita’s Diner off old Route 66, where the coffee tasted…

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Part 2: The Biker Who Jumped Into a Freezing Lake To Save a Stranger’s Kid — He Couldn’t Swim, And That Wasn’t Even The Hardest Part

Denny Parsons got the road name Wolf in 1983 at Camp Lejeune. Marine Corps Infantry. Two tours, one in Beirut…

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Part 2: The 7-Year-Old Who Told Her Whole School “My Dad and 4 Bikers Made My Dress” — And the Reason Why Broke Me

Grizz and his wife Mandy had Lily late. He was thirty-four, she was thirty-six, and they’d been trying for six…

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Part 2: The 300-Pound Biker Who Cried in a Hospital Bathroom — And the 12-Year Secret Only One Nurse Knew

I didn’t know Big Ray’s real name for the first four years I knew him. Nobody at the hospital did.…

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