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| The Life and Times of Edward Winterhalder |
| A blog about the life and times of celebrity biker author Edward Winterhalder, author of "Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club; The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty" (November 2005); "The Mammoth Book Of Bikers" (September 2007) and "The Assimilation" (March 2008); who is also the Executive Producer of the reality television series "Living On The Edge". |
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| Edward Winterhalder to Appear on "Outlaw Bikers" - A new TV series on History Television in Canada |
| 2008-10-07 15:39:29 |
Edward Winterhalder will be featured in October and November 2008 on History Television's new series "Outlaw Bikers" as a historian and commenting on the positive aspects of motorcycle clubs.The series debuts in Canada on October 14th, but Winterhalder will not appear until the 3rd episode which will air on October 28th; he will also be in the 4th and 5th episodes which will air on Nov 4th and Nov 18th respectively.The 1st episode (October 14th) of the series is about the infiltration of the Mongols in California by ATF agent Billy Queen and the 2nd episode (October 21st) is about the infiltration of the Hells Angels in Arizona by ATF agent Jay Dobyns; both of these episodes aired in the United Sates earlier this year on the National Geographic channel.The last three episodes document Mom ...
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| Former Gang Leader Comes To Event To Promote His New Book |
| 2008-06-19 08:49:37 |
By Geoff Cuningham Jr.Laconia CitizenArticle Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008A former top motorcycle gang leader who wrote a book about his group's dealings with the Hells Angels will be traveling to the Lakes Region during Bike Week.Edward Winterhalder or "Connecticut Ed" as he was known when he helped head the "Bandidos Motorcycle Club", will be appearing in Laconia at the Sundial Shop for signings of his newest book, "The Assimilation: Rock Machine Becomes Bandidos — Bikers United Against the Hells Angels."Winterhalder, 52, was once a top leader of the worldwide "Bandidos" gang and has since taken up a life dedicated to chronicling the history of biker gangs and promoting the positive aspects of motorcycle clubs.The longtim...
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| Celebrity Biker Author Appearing During Laconia Bike Week |
| 2008-06-11 15:46:42 |
Edward Winterhalder was known as “Connecticut Ed” in the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, where he was a high-ranking world leader until his departure from the organization in the fall of 2003. Winterhalder is now considered to be one of the world’s leading authorities on motorcycle clubs, and will be autographing copies of his new book The Assimilation during Laconia Bike Week at the following locations:-Borders, 30 Ash Brook Road. Keene, New HampshireMonday, June 16th, 5pm to 8pm. Info: 603-357-7667-Innisfree Books, Mills Falls Marketplace. Meredith, New HampshireWednesday, June 18, 2pm to 4pm. Info: 602-279-3905-Sundial Books, 604 Main Street. Laconia, New HampshireThursday, June 19th, 1pm to 4pm. Info: 603-524-3322-Border...
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| Edward Winterhalder Attends The Academy Of Country Music Awards Show & Charity Harley Ride |
| 2008-05-25 12:28:36 |
Edward Winterhalder, celebrity biker and author of books about the biker lifestyle, has just returned from Las Vegas, Nevada, where he participated in the 5th annual Montgomery Gentry Academy of Country Music Charity Ride, held on May 17, 2008.This year the riders, led by Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, rode about 60 miles from Las Vegas up in to the mountains near Mount Charleston, where they had lunch with the more than 1,000 bikers that rode with them, to raise money for the Academy of Country Music’s Charity Fund.Along with American Gladiator star Hollywood “Wolf” Yates,...
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| Hartford Courant, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun & Newsday Newspaper Article |
| 2008-05-25 12:26:17 |
A Not-So-Easy RideFormer Bandido Now Focuses On His Book, Businesses, Family LifeMay 7, 2008He was known as "Connecticut Ed" in the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, where he served for years as an organizer and international ambassador. Outlaw biker is one of many hats worn by North Branford native Edward Winterhalder. Others have included musician and songwriter, motorcycle and heavy equipment mechanic, husband and father, business owner and author.Winterhalder's new book, "The Assimilation" (ECW Press, $24.95), is due out in June. Co-authored by Wil De Clercq and subtitled "Rock Machine Become Bandidos — Bikers United Against the Hells Angels," the book details Winterhalder's efforts to take Canadian bikers into the Bandidos' fold amid a bloody war in Quebec.That effort ultimately failed, and...
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| Looking For Bikers’ Women To Interview For New Book By Best Selling Authors Arthur Veno Ph.D. & Edward Winterhalder |
| 2008-02-19 07:42:03 |
Dr. Arthur Veno and Edward Winterhalder are in the process of writing a book called “Women Bikers and Bikers’ Women, which will be published worldwide in the spring of 2009. Art and Edward are looking to do a phone interview with females that have been, or currently are, bikers’ women. They prefer to talk to females that have been around the lifestyle of the outlaw motorcycle clubs, but would consider anyone that has been around a serious independent biker. (To be a part of this, read information at the bottom of this blog.)Veno and Winterhalder are the authors of the following books, which are available at all book stores worldwide (or Amazon.com, in case a trip to you...
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| Biker Author Edward Winterhalder Interviewed On Bravo TV's "The Word" Show |
| 2008-01-14 11:26:00 |
Click on the following link to view a four minute television clip showing celebrity biker author and television Producer Edward Winterhalder's December 2007 interview on Bravo TV's "The Word", which is a television show that features interviews and news about prominent and interesting authors. The TV segment about Winterhalder and his first book, "Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club - The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty" appears right after a short piece about famed Harry Potter author JK Rowling.Winterhalder's Interview on Bravo TV's "The Word" ......
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| Edward Winterhalder Now Represented By Frank Weimann and The Literary Group International |
| 2008-01-09 12:51:48 |
We are pleased to announce that Frank Weimann from The Literary Group International is now Edward Winterhalder's literary, television and film agent, effective October 31, 2007; Frank can be contacted at 212-274-1616.Steve Lassiter from APA-Nashville remains Winterhalder's agent for personal appearances; Steve can be contacted at 615-297-0100.Edward is the author of "Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club - The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty" (Nov 2005); a contributing author to "The Mammoth Book Of Bikers" (Oct 2007); the co-author with Wil DeClercq of "The Assimilation: Rock Machine To Bandidos - Bikers United Against The Hells Angels" (Jun 2008); the co-author with Dr. Arthur Veno and Dr. Juli...
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| Entertainment For Bikers Now Available - Demo DVD & 3 Books |
| 2008-01-09 12:51:20 |
Happy New Year everyone!A demo DVD for our documentary reality series and three of Edward Winterhalder's books are now available at Amazon.com, in case a trip to your local store is out of your way:"Living on the Edge: Riding with the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club in Pennsylvania""Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club - The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty" (Blockhead City Press/Seven Locks Press - Santa Ana, CA - November 2005)"The Mammoth Book Of Bikers" (Constable & Robinson - London, England - October 2007)"The Assimilation: Rock Machine To Bandidos - Bikers United Against The Hells Angels" (ECW Press - Toronto, Canada - June 2008)For more information please click on the following link: Winterhalder Bo...
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| Limited Edition, Demo DVD of the Pilot for "Living on the Edge" Now Available at Amazon.com |
| 2007-10-20 13:40:30 |
A limited edition, demo DVD of the pilot for the documentary reality series “Living on the Edge” is now available at Amazon.com and/or Ebay.com.“Living on the Edge: Riding with the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club in Pennsylvania” is a biker orientated, Harley-themed show that focuses on the positive aspects of motorcycle club life, through the lives, families, communities and jobs of club members.As you ride along with the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club and their guest, corporate executive Mike Crowe, the bikers host a picnic for returning Iraqi and Afghani war veterans and visit a local Harley dealer to attend a book signing.To purchase this DVD, click on the following link:Purchase “Living on the Edge” DVDTo view a ...
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| Video Clip (trailer) from the Pilot Episode of "Living On The Edge" |
| 2007-08-27 17:19:14 |
Here is a trailer clip for Blockhead City Entertainment's new DVD/TV Harley-themed reality series "Living on the Edge". Each episode will feature a different motorcycle club, focusing on the positive aspects of motorcycle club life, through the lives, families, jobs and communities of club members."Living on the Edge: Riding with the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club in Pennsylvania"This is a six (6) minute clip from the pilot episode, which follows the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club in Pennsylvania and their guest for the week, Michael Crowe, as they host a picnic for Iraqi/Afghani war veterans and attend a book signing by Dennis Fritz at White's Harley Davidson in Lebanon, PA.The Executive Producer of the series is Edward Winterhalder, celebrity biker and auth...
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| What's Been Happening While We Have Been Filming The Pilot For The "Living On The Edge" DVD/TV Reality Series |
| 2007-08-19 19:01:29 |
These past few days have been filled with excitement for the people who live in the Reading area. Filming began on Thursday for the pilot of the DVD/TV reality show ‘Living on the Edge’. Throughout the weekend the crew filmed certain Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club members in their daily lives. The cameras followed them to their jobs, homes, and club functions. On Friday, July 26th the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club welcomed Mike Crowe from Johnson Controls in Milwaukee. Later that day White’s Harley-Davidson in Lebanon, PA lent a pair of 2007 motorcycles to Crowe and Ed Winterhalder, the author of “Out In Bad Standings", for the weekend. Lancaster NBC TV8 was there to catch Crowe riding away on his Harley rental.Frid...
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| Iraq, Afghan Veterans Honored By Their Vietnam Counterparts |
| 2007-07-30 10:53:38 |
This is a newspaper article from “The Reading Eagle” that appeared today in Reading, PA: About 300 people attend an appreciation picnic held by a statewide motorcycle club in Ontelaunee Township.Berks County, PA - Veterans of an unpopular war from the past honored those from another unpopular conflict Sunday at Blue Falls Grove in Ontelaunee Township.The Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club of Pennsylvania sponsored the picnic to show their appreciation for local Iraqi and Afghan war veterans and their families, said Bruce “Fuzz” Terreson, state president of the club.“We are all military,” said Terreson, 58. “If you don’t support the war that’s fine, but don’t let the troops down. They are doing their job.” ...
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| Two Authors, Film Crew Create Excitement |
| 2007-07-26 09:24:48 |
This is a newspaper article from "The Patriot-News" that appeared today in Harrisburg, PA:2 Authors, Film Crew Create ExcitementWednesday, July 25, 2007There will be lots of excitement between 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday at White's Harley-Davidson Buell, Lebanon, where guests will include the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club, two authors and a film crew for a new TV reality show, "Living on the Edge."The club will be at White's to attend a book signing by Dennis Fritz, author of "Journey Toward Justice," and Edward Winterhalder, author of "Out in Bad Standings: Inside the Bandidos Motorcycle Club."Fritz's book chronicles his story of being imprisoned 12 years as co-conspirator in a 1982 Oklahoma murder he did not commit and being freed ...
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| FREE PICNIC FOR IRAQI & AFGHANI WAR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO BE FILMED FOR TELEVISION/DVD REALITY SHOW |
| 2007-07-19 17:06:49 |
Reading, PA – July 19, 2007 - Southeastern Pennsylvania area Iraqi and Afghani war veterans and their immediate families are invited to a picnic, to be held in their honor, at the Blue Falls Grove & Water Park on Bowers Road, off of Rt. 73 between Hwy 61 and Rt. 222, on the north side of Reading, from noon until 5:00pm on Sunday July 29th.The public is also invited to attend the picnic, which is being organized by the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club of Pennsylvania, to personally thank the war veterans for their sacrifice. Non-Iraqi and non-Afghani war veterans and the public can eat for only $5 per person, which will help cover event expenses; non-alcoholic drinks are not included in the $5 charge, but will be available ...
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| Harley Dealer To Be Filmed As Part Of The "Living On The Edge" TV/DVD Reality Show Pilot |
| 2007-07-19 17:04:32 |
This past week we finally put the finishing touches on Edward Winterhalder's MySpace Page, Larry Pearson from the Judge Parker Band dropped in to visit for a few hours and this Press Release from White's Harley-Davidson in Lebanon, PA, was distributed to the media:LOCAL HARLEY DAVIDSON DEALER TO BE FILMED FOR SEGMENT OF NEW TELEVISION REALITY SHOW WHILE HOSTING A BOOK SIGNING Lebanon, PA – July 15, 2007 - Harley riders and the public are invited to hang out while TV camera crews film the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club and their entourage at White’s Harley-Davidson & Buell, 1515 East Cumberland Street in Lebanon, on Saturday, July 28th, from 1pm until 4pm.The Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club will be at White’s to attend a book signing there by famed author...
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| "Living On The Edge" Reality TV Show Pilot Gets Green Light |
| 2007-07-16 18:44:52 |
Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club spokesman Bruce "Fuzz" Terreson announced today that the Pilot for the "Living On The Edge" TV reality show will be filmed in Pennsylvania later this month. Mr. Terreson also confirmed that members of the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club will be the primary focus of this Harley themed show, and that corporate executive Michael Crowe will be the personality appearing as a guest of the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club.In this episode of "Living On The Edge", Mr. Crowe will be injected into the lives of various Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club members, spending time with their families, at their jobs, and in the communities in which they live. The Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club, with Mr. Crowe riding along, will attend some...
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| Never A Dull Moment Here At Blockhead City |
| 2007-06-28 09:53:24 |
A few days ago, Steve Murphy, who is the Executive Producer & Host of the MSNBC television show "Insider Exclusive", a Senior Producer of the "SkyRadio Network" (Talk Radio for all of the major airlines) and the Executive Producer & Host of the nationwide radio talk show "Law Business Insider", had a very interesting conversation with our resident celebrity biker, Edward Winterhalder. It seems that Mr. Murphy is extremely interested in interviewing Mr. Winterhalder soon for a segment to be aired on either the "Insider Exclusive" and/or the "Law Business Insider" in early fall.We have also been very busy around here trying to work out the details for the filming of the Pilot for the "Living On The Edge" television reality series, which has now been funded. We hope to start filming in la...
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| Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, The Largest Biker Gang In The World |
| 2007-06-16 12:15:01 |
A Press Release from January 1, 2006:Rapidly rising through the ranks of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in the late 90’s, Edward “Connecticut Ed” Winterhalder was one of the most powerful Bandidos in the world at the end of the twentieth century.Since founding the Oklahoma chapter of the Bandidos in early 1997, “Connecticut Ed” had been regularly assigned important projects by the worldwide leader of the Bandidos, George Wegers. It was not unusual for Winterhalder to organize and establish new Bandido chapters, as well as Bandidos support club chapters, all over the world.But when assigned the unwanted responsibility of overseeing the Bandidos’ assimilation of a Canadian motorcycle gang known as the Rock Machin...
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| Best Selling Book Takes You Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Gang |
| 2007-06-16 12:14:46 |
A Press Release from March 1, 2006:Written by leading motorcycle gang expert Edward “Connecticut Ed” Winterhalder, “Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club – The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty” is the first book ever written on the world’s second largest international biker gang. Commonly known as hard core 1%ers, the lives of the members of motorcycle gangs such as the Bandidos, Hells Angels, Outlaws, Pagans, Sons of Silence and the Mongols have until now been a closely guarded secret.Rapidly rising through the ranks of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in the late 90’s, Winterhalder was one of the most powerful Bandidos in the world at the end of the twentieth century. During the apex of his c...
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| Self-Publishing Dreams Can Come True: Gang Book Sales On Fire |
| 2007-06-16 12:14:29 |
A Press Release from May 1, 2006:It is not often that a self-published hardcover book sells a thousand copies, but a small press in Owasso, OK has done just that and more in less than six months.Blockhead City Press today announced that their first title, “OUT IN BAD STANDINGS: Inside the Bandidos Motorcycle Club – The Making of a Worldwide Dynasty”, was recently ranked at # 41 on the Barnes & Noble bookstore’s website, indicating that the book was one of their best selling titles this month. Since its’ release in November 2005, “Out In Bad Standings” has now sold more than five thousand copies, to book readers in almost every country in the World.When ex-motorcycle gang leader Edward Winterhalder set out to find a publisher for his memoirs, he...
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| Book Review Printed from the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies |
| 2007-06-16 12:13:53 |
By Don HenniganFrom November of 2006Motorcycle travel books are an established genre, from Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.'s One Man Caravan to Alan Noren's Storm. Such books written by women, however, are still relatively rare. Karen Larsen's book Breaking the Limit recounts "one woman's journey" from Princeton, New Jersey to Alaska and back, on "Lucy," a used Harley-Davidson 1200 Sportster, modified with a larger gas tank and windshield. While it might be argued that most motorcycle travel books emphasize the adventures and dangers, Larsen does, at least in part, the reverse: she is intent on demystifying motorcycle travel for non-riders while invoking all its pleasures.Traditionally books about motorcycle clubs are written ...
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| Author/TV Biker Celebrity Available For Personal Appearances |
| 2007-06-16 12:13:27 |
A Press Release from May 15, 2007:Edward Winterhalder, author of the current best selling biker book "Out In Bad Standings" (distributed by American Publisher Seven Locks Press and published by Blockhead City Press) and co-executive producer of a new nonfiction TV reality series about motorcycle clubs called "Living On The Edge," is now represented by APA, which is one of the largest and oldest talent agencies in the country.During your event, Winterhalder is available to mingle with your guests, take part in organized rides, do book signings, hang out at evening socials, do event hosting or whatever else you may have in mind. Steve Lassiter (known for his association with other high profile Harley loving celebrities like T...
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| 2007 Book Expo America in New York City |
| 2007-06-16 12:12:51 |
Last weekend biker celebrity Edward Winterhalder (author of "Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club; The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty", contributing author of "The Mammoth Book of Bikers" and co-author of "The Assimilation") was at the annual Book Expo America (BEA), which was held this year at the Jacob Javitts Convention Center in New York City. Winterhalder, along with his friend Dennis Fritz, author of the best seller "Journey Towards Justice", were the guests of Seven Locks Press Publisher Jim Riordan; also appearing at the BEA this year were James Patterson and Stephen Colbert.While attending the BEA, Mr. Winterhalder spent some ti...
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