Aug 08
It’s official: Papa Piehl is in Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame! In the earlier 1980s Papa Piehl was a recent college grad working for a little company known as Harley-Davidson. One of his first roles was to coordinate test rides but it was later expanded into something much greater – the organization of a company-sponsored …
Oct 23
The last two weeks have been tricky. The Piehl clan was scheduled to make our first European vacation but my sister Kimberly – the family’s best long distance runner – broke her foot and the trip was put on hold until the Spring. Kind of… Papa Piehl still needed to visit Spain for work and …
Sep 05
In the mid-1970s, Papa Piehl was kicked out of graduated from a boarding school / seminary in Wisconsin with an understanding that a holy life wasn’t for him. Instead he hopped on a bus to Milwaukee, graduated from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a journalism degree and eventually got a job working for a then …
Jun 19
Like the editors of Life magazine, you probably think Steven McQueen is the ‘King of Cool’ but that’s only because like them, you’ve never met Papa Piehl. Born in a small Wisconsin town named Wausau, adventure took Papa Piehl from a boarding school seminary and pushed him head first into a life of music, motorcycles, …
