“Bikes, Broads, Beer, and Boogie”: 45 Biker Magazines from the 1980s

Easyriders magazine was the motorcycle magazines of the 1970s (with Iron Horse a distant second). Far from being just motorcycle enthusiast rag, it delivered the “biker lifestyle” on its pages.  As you might expect, there was plenty of material on Quaaludes, dirty sex, and stickin’ it to the pigs.  By the end of the decade other contenders arose, not quite as embedded in biker counter-culture, but no less raunchy and lowbrow. As each cover of Outlaw Biker magazine proudly proclaims, it’s all about the: “Bikes, Broads, Beer, and Boogie”

Here is a look at the magazine covers from the dawning of the new decade.  The first few years look very much like the 70s, but the biker mags eventually eased into the fresh new look of the 1980s.  Let’s take it year by year.  Enjoy.

1980

 

Choppers – February 1980

Super Bike – April 1980

Choppers – May 1980

Supercycle – July 1980

Super Bike – September 1980

Super Bike – November 1980

Chopper – December 1980

1981

Super Bike – January 1981

Street Chopper – January 1981

Street Chopper – February 1981

Super Bike – February 1981

Chopper – May 1981

Street Chopper – May 1981

Choppers – May 1981

Chopper – June 1981

1982

SuperCycle – June 1982

Street Chopper – November 1982

Easyriders – December 1982

1983

Custom Bike – February 1983

Supercycle – February 1983

 

Biker Lifestyle and Custom Bike – July 1983

 

SuperCycle – September 1983

1984

Easyriders – February and March 1984

Iron Horse – May 1984

Supercycle – June 1984

1985

Biker Lifestyle – July 1985

Iron Horse – July 1985

Supercycle- August 1985

Outlaw Biker – September 1985

1986

Easyriders – February 1986

Supercycle – March 1986

Outlaw Biker – May 1986

1987

Iron Horse – November 1987

1988

Iron Horse – March 1988

SuperCycle – April 1988

SuperCycle – June 1988

Hot Bike – December 1988

1989

Biker – April 1989

Easyriders – November 1989

SuperCycle October 1989/November 1989