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"Bikers: The Inner Circle"
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"Bikers: The Inner Circle," a one-hour radio and video show that will feature interviews with real bikers from all walks of life throughout the nation, as well as a little bit of road music, will premiere on  Produced by Charlie Brechtel, of the famed Charlie Brechtel Band that is most well known around this area for their Rally performances at the Buffalo Chip Campground, the show promises to be a wealth of information about motorcycle issues, and biker features. From interviews with old-time custom bike builder Ron (Grott) Grottinelli, the owner of the Hog Farm in New York who fought Harley-Davidson Corporation in court when the company tried to strong-arm him into losing his HOG name that he had since 1969, to talking with Sturgis Mayor Mark Zeigler about the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, east coast correspondent Cliff (Beeb) Bouquin said there will be a wide variety of topics covered on the show.

"It's not polished in any way," said East Coast correspondent Cliff (Beeb) Bouquin. "We want to interview people like Grott. Real biker builders - people who aren't on TV. People who have been doing it long before the people on TV, and bring their story to the real bikers. We also want to do some interviews with different motorcycle clubs because a lot of bikers are interested in that stuff."

Music, Beeb said, will also be a big part of the show, though not in the conventional way. Rather than bringing big name groups to the bikers the show will seek to play material from such bands as Carolyn Wonderland and Ross and Rotten, whom bikers may know from their experiences at the Buffalo Chip Campground. In fact, Beeb said though the Internet radio show will be based out of California where it is produced by Brechtel's Big 7 Productions, the whole thing came together from various bikers getting to know each other through affiliations with the Buffalo Chip Campground. Beeb told his story of getting to know Chip owner Rod Woodruff during his inaugural trip to the campground in 2002. Later that year, when Beeb was looking for ways to distribute fliers about the Buffalo Chip, he attended a blues festival where the Charlie Brechtel band performed.

"The Charlie Brechtel Band was on the flier," he said. "So I went to the venue with a small stack of the fliers and asked him if he wanted (them)," Beeb said. "He looked at the fliers and he looked at me and he said 'get in here!' He introduced me to the band and they were all excited because they were going to the Buffalo Chip that year. That's how I met them, which is kind of funny because they're from California and I'm from western New York. The only reason I met them was because of the Buffalo Chip."

From there, Beeb said a strong friendship grew between the bikers. Then, just a few months ago in late 2005 Beeb said Brechtel announced his intention to launch this biker radio show. Beeb signed right up, and since then has spent every chance he can get away from his full time job as a computer specialist at the Chatauqua County, New York Nursing Home, interviewing bikers around the country. Just recently he was in the Black Hills, where he traveled from Hot Springs to Belle Fourche, talking to local bikers.

"It's the idea that we know people who no one is going to get the chance to meet, just because we get around," Beeb said.

Though Beeb said he enjoys his work for the radio show, he stressed that there are many other correspondents throughout the country who are also talking to real bikers for the show. Some names include Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Freedom Fighters Hall of Famer John (Rogue) Hurley, Mickey Jones, custom motorcycle engine builder Berry Wardlaw, Wild Bill Sterne, "Wild Ones" author Bill Hayes, Bobby Reynoso, custom builder "Thumper," and many others.

Overall, Beeb said he is very excited about having the opportunity to get out and meet new bikers and bring them to the rest of the world. "I'm just a guy who lives out in the country, who wants to ride his bike," he said of his 1100 Honda Shadow that he has put 56,000 miles on. "The real neat thing about it being Internet radio - it's available all over the world. So people in Europe or Asia or Japan, or anybody who is interested in motorcycles, they can get online and listen to the show."

Though a specific time has not yet been planned for the show, Beeb said it will air every Saturday, and will be online at www.big7productions.com throughout the week

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