It wasn't long before the Black Dragon was riding wheelies through the neighborhood, a feat for which he is still known to this very day, some 30 years later. His first street bike was a Honda Silver Wing CX 500 and his first race bike was a Red, White and Blue Honda Intercepter 750. In the years before he turned 21 years old he owned a Kawasaki KZ 1000, Kawasaki KZ 900 Z1R, Kawasaki 1300, Honda Hurricane 1000, Yamaha FJ1200, Honda Seka 750, Suzuki 1150 ES and a Kawasaki Ninja 900. Needles to say racing was in his blood! He went through motorcycles like they were water - some he wrecked, some he lost in races, some he won, some he gave away and some he sold.
The Black Sabbath MC
In the early 1980's the Black Dragon left Oklahoma for good and joined the United States Navy. He served in the elite Silent Service and was transferred to San Diego in the late 1980's. There he met Senior Chief George Clark III (Magic) who was the President of the Black Sabbath MC. The Black Dragon had been sent to Magic for discplinary action (showing disrespect to a senior Petty Officer) and it was the desire of the Chiefs that Magic would be Black Dragon into a bloody pulp - instead Magic took a liking to Black Dragon's ferocious biker attitude and invited him to come down to the Black Sabbath San Diego club house after work. That's when the Black Dragon's head was swivled around on his neck! Ten minutes inside the clubhouse and the Black Dragon knew he wanted to be a Black Sabbath. But his journey into the Black Sabbath MC was not to be an easy one. The Black Dragon was a hard head and a trouble-maker and after being kicked out of the club numerous times - 5 years later the Black Dragon completed his prospect requirements to become a member of the Black Sabbath Motorcycle Club San Diego (Mother Chapter).
Black Iron Motorcycle Magazine, Urban Biker Motorcycle Magazine
By the late 1990's the Black Dragon began to notice that there were no readily available posters of African American women to put up on the walls of the Black Sabbath MC club house walls. He noticed that all of the posters on the walls were decades old and no motorcycle magazines featured black women of any kind. This revelation led him to create Black Iron Motorcycle Magazine, with the intention of creating posters of black women on motorcycles that motorcycle clubs could hang up and be proud of women of color too. From Black Iron Motorcycle Magazine sprang his biker newspaper Urban Biker Cycle News. From those two publications Hollywood came calling with an idea for a movie later named Biker Boyz.
Biker Boyz
As one of the lead Technical Advisors of the DreamWorks movie Biker Boyz (directed by Reggie Rock Bythewood) the Black Dragon played an important role in bringing to the silver screen the first movie ever depicting the lifestyle of African American bike clubs on the southern California biking set.
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