Biker Tales ...and We Don't Eat Our Young!

Biker Tales is my autobiography in eighty-two short stories.

I have had an incredible, exciting life starting with my childhood. Growing up lower middle class with seven brothers and sisters, my art career, high school mischief, professional sports car racing career, living in the "e;hood', politics, my Harley-Davidson adventures.

I've also traveled to twelve countries, met interesting people and learned their cultures.

In the last chapter I share with you my secrets for success that I teach to at risk teenagers in prison and high school.

You will laugh and you will cry. I live by "e;drive it like you stole it"e;. If you lived in Michael's neighborhood in the late 50s or early 60s, he pinstriped your bicycle.

Starting his career as a pinstriping artist, he went to work for Wally Signs in Toledo, Ohio, and learned the art of sign painting.

Upon high school graduation, he earned his journeyman's sign painters union card.

Michael has lettered or pinstriped hundreds of exotic cars, classics, motorcycles, hot rods and motorcycles.

He has five cars in or have been displayed in museums including the Henry Ford, Corvette, Gilmore, Indianapolis 500 and Fremont Speedway.

The most famous car he pinstriped is the oldest Ford known to exist, 1903 #30 on display at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.

Michael also spent a career racing sports cars from 1967-1973 (Shelby GT350 and a Greenwood Corvette) on the SCCA National Circuit and IMSA FIA Endurance Circuit including the Daytona 24 Hour, Sebring, Florida 12-Hour, Watkins Glen, NY 6-Hour and Mid-Ohio 6-Hour. In 1962, he bought his first Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

He has ridden coast to coast including Alaska in 2013 (8,001 miles in 22 days) and was a founding member of the Toledo Chapter Harley Owners Group. 120,000 miles later he is still riding. This book is a series of short stories about his life's adventures both here in America and around the world from childhood to his senior years.

His tombstone will read, "e;If you can dream it, you can do it!"e;