by Peter Boyles | Feb 13, 2026 | Blasting with Boyles
OPINION
I’m now 82 years old. Since I was a little boy, I’ve always loved motorcycles. I grew up in a little steel mill town, Verona, Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River.
Across the river was another steel mill town called Harmarville and there was a motorcycle club there. This was the era of Marlon Brando and The Wild One. The name of their club was the Harmar Villains. I loved it and they would come across the river and go to a diner called the TV Diner, named in that era because they had a television set where you could watch TV. They brought their girlfriends, aka “Mamas,” and watched TV inside and made a lot of noise with their motorcycles outside in the parking lot. The owner of the diner put up a sign on the parking lot wall that said “No Motorcycles Allowed.” Immediately the Villains returned telling the cops they thought it meant they weren’t allowed to be on the wall. At that point in my little Irish rebel mind I thought this makes sense.
And then in our neighborhood one still unnamed guy I grew up with bought a Harley Hummer, it was a very small motorcycle, I think 125 cc, two cycle Harley Davidson.
Hard for anyone to believe but I suspect he had stolen it. And I was about 13 when I got to ride my first motorcycle. After that I was hooked.
The first time I saw outlaw motorcyclists I was on the Nimitz Freeway and passed by two members of a one percent motorcycle club. The term one percent came from an event in California in Hollister and that was the famous Life magazine staged picture of the drunk, rowdy biker, and Stanley Kubrick picked up the story and made the motion picture The Wild One with Marlon Brando. One of the actresses asked, “What are you rebelling against?” and Brando, in the character of Johnny retorts, “What do you got.” I saw that and something went off in my head.
Much later having gone through a number of motorcycles including Hondas and following bypass surgery I said, what am I missing? And the answer was motorcycles.
And I went to Vinnie Terranova’s shop, Rocky Mountain Harley Davidson. The first time I went into the original dealership it resembled the bar scene in Star Wars. I was hooked again.
My first Harley was a Deuce, and I immediately graduated up to big motorcycles and then I got a chopper.
Then I had two motorcycles and when somebody said how many are enough the answer always was — the next one.
I am now a member of the Ugly Brothers Motorcycle Club. I’ve had a very lengthy conversation with the late Peter Fonda, another milestone, Easy Rider. I found out the title came from New Orleans and a place called Storyville where Louis Armstrong was born. It was shut down by the American military in the First World War, and it was full of gambling, drugs, and prostitution. The easy rider was the man who lived with the prostitute. He didn’t pay her and he didn’t make money from her. He was not her pimp, he was the easy rider.
What was explained to me was we are easy riding freedoms. If there’s one thing that motorcycles are, it’s freedom. I’ve ridden up and back to Sturgis 25 times. I hang out with some individuals that I respect and love that would not be accepted by the general population. And they are some of the best.
Now, I’m an old man. Several years ago, I had a minor stroke. And was having a very difficult time riding two wheels. My response? Get a trike. I have become the ice cream man from hell. The trike is like a motorcycle except it has two back wheels. I can’t drop it.
This column appears in the March issue. The weather is changing. Leaves are going to be green pretty soon and you’ll see a lot more motorcycles out there.
Louis Armstrong — he hated being called “Louie” when asked about jazz — said if I have to explain it to you, you won’t get it.
I’ve learned to say the same thing about motorcycles and motorcycling. If I have to explain it, you won’t get it. There are certain kinds of girls that always want to go with you and others who won’t get on for all the tea in China.
I recently even started wearing a helmet and I hope I have a couple more years in me before we go to the big biker rally in the sky.
We know that these kinds of clubs and thought processes had their beginnings after the Second World War. The original Hells Angels were a bomber crew. People like the Top Hatters, and the Boozefighters, and the early outlaws, and now I see these young men back from Iraq and Afghanistan with tattoos on their bodies that say they’re Infidels doing the same thing the men in the ’40s did after the Second World War. It’s hard to think of another product that people will tattoo the corporate logo on their body.
If you have to explain it nobody’s going to get it.
I got the trike as tricked up as I could thanks to Devil’s Head Choppers in Castle Rock. It’s won three awards in motorcycle shows. I take great pride in that.
One day I won’t be able to do it anymore but until that time, get your chin in the wind, get your knees in the breeze. Live to ride. Ride to live.
Thank you.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Jan 16, 2026 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
Moolah: Republican State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer is known in political circles as the Fabulous Moolah after the 1950’s professional wrestling star. Shown here pounding on one of her Republican gubernatorial opponents.
It’s come to my mind that the Republican Party has a snowball’s chance in hell of putting one of their own in the governor’s throne for the great state of Colorado.
And hence, as Patsy Ramsey wrote, I decided what we really need is a combination of professional wrestling and the folks who fiddle in the middle of stations that are gone.
Let me introduce to you a few of the candidates in two out of three falls, loser leaves town, in a cage match. Hopefully.
Professional wrestling, as we all know, the only true sport left is what’s known as a “work.”
You know the beginning; you know the middle as a high spot; and then the already predetermined end of the match. Can you see this shaping up? This could be a tournament. Also known as the Republican Primary, that looks from the outside to be controlled by the evil eminence, the democrat party, due to open primaries.
So as I once said when I was working in the ring in a rented tuxedo, you would always introduce the bad guy first. Well in this case they’re all bad guys and the biggest bad guy is a gal, Barbara “Fabulous Moolah” and democrat-light State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer.
She is competing against any number of the lunatic fringe of the republican party. And they are, trust me, lunatics.
Let me introduce to you Joe “the Hangman” Oltmann. His finishing move is hanging anyone that disagrees with him. A brilliant finisher.
After he proclaimed how he wanted to be deposed in the Dominion lawsuit and then found himself stepping/running out of the deposition. This is a guy that you really want in that ring.
The newest, and it’s called a “run” in the wrestling business, charging to the ring challenging Moolah and the Hangman comes the Childhood Assassin Victor Marx. Marx has made it a staple of his campaign that he assassinated a man when he was seven years old. Now it’s hard to top a story line like that.
That story appeals to the darkness of Republicans.
He also makes claims of multiple black belts and fast gun takeaways — you can’t beat having a candidate like this in the ring.
This three-way dance will be refereed by iHeart media talk show host and Gazette columnist Jimmy “the Weasel” Sengenberger. And his color announcer will be Congresswoman Lauren “White Trash” Boebert.
And of course, far more important than what goes on in the ring are the voices that describe the action. With Tina Peters, released from prison for one night only to be the ring girl. The crowd wants Tina to be permanently freed from prison.
Rino loving KOA’s Mandy Connell and Ross “the Boss” Kominsky will be the ring announcers. What a night it’s going to be.
Tickets are on sale at Shotgun Willies and other gentleman’s clubs throughout Colorado.
It’s going to be a barnburner, so I advise you all to get tickets now. They go on sale after income Tax Day, April 15th.
All great professional wrestlers have a finishing move. We don’t know what Kirchmeyer’s is because she has no position on anything.
The Hangman’s is self-evident. And Marx will jump off the top rope and karate chop you with his well-honed techniques.
The best part, as I mentioned before, is none of this realty matters because none of them has a chance against the well-oiled democrat machine that controls all statewide offices, a combination of corrupted voter rolls and mail-in ballot harvesting as well as turning the former red suburbs blue.
So, enjoy the WWE 2026 Republican primaries this year.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Dec 15, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
Your Denver Broncos are owned by the Walton-Penner family ownership group. Led by Walmart heir Rob Walton, his daughter Carrie Walton Penner, and her husband Greg Penner. Rob Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, and he is the wealthiest owner in the NFL. Their family purchased your Denver Broncos in 2022 for 4.65-billion dollars. They lease Empower Field but are moving ahead with plans to build a new stadium across I-25 and next door to Ball Arena.
Ball Arena is owned by Stan Kroenke, head of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment. He also owns the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, and Mammoth, along with the LA Rams, British soccer powerhouse Arsenal, and Altitude Sports. Kroenke is married to Rob Walton’s cousin, Ann Walton Kroenke.
A modern Hapsburg empire.
You have to have a program to understand all the connections. Your Broncos plan on moving to historic Burnham Yard, aiming for a new stadium opening date in 2031, creating a 150-acre stadium empire.
This is the Colorado version of Jerry World. That’s the AT&T Stadium in Texas for their Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones is a real modern-day operator, perhaps a monarch, and has built what some of the sports writers describe as what stadiums of the future will look like.
In 2001 you built your Broncos a new football stadium. The city doesn’t own the stadium in spite of what some people want you to believe. The Stadium District does. Remember, when the promoters realized they could not get their tax swindle passed by Denver voters alone, they expanded it into the RTD District to get the yuppies in Douglas County to put the stadium over.
The current lease is up at the end of the 2030 NFL season.
You all fondly remember Mile High Stadium; it was 54 years old when the taxpayers tore that down. This one will be barely 30 years when the new stadium is designated to open.
The cost for the new Empower Field to the taxpayers was 270-million dollars. That was 75 percent of the 400-million-dollar total price tag. I read a study from the Brookings Institute on how tax-exempt bonds play out for NFL stadiums resulting in 3.2 billion dollars across all NFL stadiums.
For me to attempt to understand leasing agreements, tax deals, and sales clauses is a very baffling endeavor, but one thing I walked away with is everybody seemed to be taken care of with the exception of the taxpayers.
The Bowlen family walked away, the new owners walked away, and, of course, now the new development flag is flown.
The entire valley will be redeveloped at a staggering amount of money. Guess whose pockets that money will go into.
Some people believe when the empire made the purchase of your Denver Broncos they had all of these plans in place and were going to recoup plus any money they initially shelled out to buy the team.
They will have a new stadium, they’ll redevelop the valley, and they’ll have a Jerry World of their own.
We have had long conversations about places like Lambeau and Soldier Field and Arrowhead, the traditional stadiums of the NFL. And now the real stinkers, these guys claim that Nissan Stadium is the worst deal the taxpayers got, Raymond James.
The question is how much do you think the taxpayers will be on the hook for the new move? The infrastructure and how the development of the valley will be priced. The NFL walks America with unbelievable power. Dare there be one elected official say no, or will the threat of we will move shut them down?
2031 really isn’t that far away. What would happen in Colorado to any office holder who would put a palm forward of the juggernaut of building new stadiums and say no, not here, not now? The foisted idea that’s supported by much of the sports media is, oh they’re going to pay for this on their own. If you read how Jerry Jones and others built empires for themselves, you’ll see the taxpayer foots a lot of the bill. I know the Broncos are winning and it makes the town happy. But how many of these have we seen before. The bond daddies cheer on, the family will have its way, and the politicians, whoever is in office at the time, will be at the ribbon-cutting, and some guy on the barstool next to you will say, “We’re going to get the Super Bowl.” At this point I always go “we?” What do you got a rat in your pocket? Because I think a lot of these people have a rat in theirs.
Maybe I’ll quit writing this column and become a Walmart greeter. Happy New Year.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Nov 17, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
Once there was a shining spot which was Colorado in the 1970s — a type of Camelot. It’s worth noting that most historians believe in epochs or eras. The one that I’ve always been drawn to is what Jackie Kennedy dubbed Camelot. The very short presidency of John F. Kennedy. Also, again most historians see the sixties as not really beginning until Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, and the sixties don’t end until Richard Nixon resigns. I see a similarity that just occurred in the first week of November.
Dick Cheney dies but reappears in the speech by the newly-elected, Ugandan born, east Asian, democratic socialist Zohran Momdani. He’s the new face of the Democrat party as Cheney was a reflection of the past for Republicans.
Camelot, if you don’t know, was a legendary bright shining moment in Britain that the Kennedys attached themselves to. Jack Kennedy’s clearly King Arthur, Jackie fancied herself Guinevere, and Bobby was Lancelot.
I see Colorado in these terms. Many of us came here and came of age in what was once the bright shining spot, Colorado in the 1970s. It was a place for everyone whether Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or anything else.
In Boulder you would find 1960s like hippies and Soldier of Fortune magazine. We had John Denver making music in the mountains with Coors beer as the real champagne of beers. Ski tickets were affordable. Plenty of young men and women came here seeking their fortunes like the young knights came to Camelot. We were all sitting at the Round Table.
Today, Colorado is little more than a progressive hell hole which will eventually sink into a primordial quagmire. In the British legend Camelot was ruined by the deception of Lancelot and Arthur’s wife, and the devious actions of Arthur’s illegitimate child Mordred, out of wedlock, with his half-sister.
If anyone was our Arthur in the 1970s in Colorado it was Democratic Governor Dick Lamb. Just like Arthur who fought off the invading Angles and Saxons, Lamb fought off the real estate developers who hoped to overrun the state with hordes of yuppies using the lure of the Winter Olympics. But the Democrat voting masses from New York, Illinois, and California still seeped in even though Lamb had slayed the Winter Olympics dragon.
The final death knell for Colorado Camelot was Republican Governor Bill Owens who, in 2005, supported Referendums C and D to give billions to the government rather than the citizens of Colorado. Referendum C passed and fueled the population boom and the growth of government. This in turn propelled Ted Trimpa’s Blueprint for Colorado and the eventual total Democrat takeover of the state with the crushing of any and all dissent.
Now the darkness has taken over the state. If you remember the Colorado Camelot that was Hal Moore in afternoon drive screaming, I love you Denver, the Phipps, and the Broncos. The Mile High Miracle Broncos season of ’76-’77.
I know we’re speaking in allegories and symbols about a Camelot that we all loved turning into a place where now we rank in some of the lowest economic measurements, highest crime, and horrible traffic. We seem to be the epicenter of shootings. The ridiculousness of the Denver Mayor’s policies on homelessness. The historians who study the Arthurian legend call it the Matter of Britain. Now we have the Matter of Colorado.
When Arthur throws the sword, it was caught by the Lady of the Lake symbolizing a waiting for the return of the king. Who are we waiting for? Do you see anyone on the horizon? Barbara Kirchmeyer? Victor Marx? Michael Bennet? If we’re waiting for Michael Bennet we’re waiting for Godot.
So, like the Britons in their darkness we wait now for the next king to pull the sword from the stone.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Oct 20, 2025 | Blasting with Boyles
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OPINION
We’re now facing a Supreme Court decision on a Colorado law that we should see the answer to sometime in June. The case is called Chiles vs Salazar. Kaley Chiles is a licensed Christian counselor and argues that the 2019 ban on conversion therapy for minors infringes on her freedom of speech. The Court isn’t quite certain about conversion therapy if it’s speech or conduct.
Now let’s get into the way-back machine. I challenged everyone of our intelligentsia that reads our publication, can you recall the name of the first girl you kissed or the first boy who kissed you? I was playing baseball summer of 1956 on a team of older guys. And when the game was over there was a young woman, her first name to protect her, if she’s still alive, was Judy. And Judy let all the boys kiss her. I can remember the players on the entire team. I had no desire to kiss Terry Martin the third baseman or Chuckie Neff who played short stop. I only wanted to kiss Judy, and my entire life changed on that spot.
Now these Christian counselors believe that they can take a young gay boy or girl and make them straight. So, if it works one way it’s got to work the other. Do you think if a bunch of people threatened you with exorcism, making you stand in front of a congregation and confess your sins, wear a dress, boys only, and in some severe cases electroshock therapy was used, they would have changed you? You could have done all of those things, including putting a gun to my head, and I wouldn’t be gay.
Why does anyone in their right mind think that you can take a burgeoning young gay boy or girl and embarrass them into being straight. This pseudo-science has been outlawed in much of the known world. So, this really truly is insanity. Twenty-three states in our Union have outlawed this form of child torture. The civilized world also has turned this back. I would urge you to go to Doctor Google and read faith-based and religious practices, psychological techniques, physical and medical “physical intervention techniques” that these people want to perpetrate on age of awareness young Colorado boys and girls.
I never had a choice. I’ve talked to at least a dozen gay friends who also never had a choice.
Ask yourself this. Who would choose to be belittled, beaten up, made fun of, and in high school …choose it?
I know my uncle didn’t have a choice and his life was miserable. My life has also been miserable because I didn’t have that choice. God knows there were a couple of times in my life where I would have chosen gay. It would have made a lot of things easier and doubled my chances for a date on Friday night. But I was stuck with heterosexuality. And it’s very expensive, through divorce. I’m 0 for 2.
But for everything that you hold dear, logical thought, why would anyone allow this to be done to their children? And I’m beginning a study of the life of Jesus. Jesus never said anything about being gay. So, my advice to the Chistian therapist is go hit somebody else over their head with your Bible and leave these kids alone.
— Peter Boyles
