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...costumes for Halloween trick-or-treating and pet parades. Pet stores and online costume retailers--several of which have formidable animal sections--are seeing a surge this year in requests for such costumes as Superman, Giddyup Cowgirl, Top Dog Tuxedo, '60s Hippie and Hell's Angels Biker. Why the new market? Explains Shari Maxwell, owner of the online AnniesCostumes.com whose pet business doubled in the past year: "Now when parents go out to dress the family for trick-or-treating, they feel bad if they leave out the pooch." Usually ranging from $10 to $20, the getups are at least...
...them up in pet costumes for Halloween trick or treating and pet parades. American pet stores and online costume retailers?several with formidable animal sections?are seeing a surge this year in requests for such costumes as Superman, Giddyup Cowgirl, Top Dog Tuxedo, 1960s Hippie, and Hell's Angels Biker. Why the new market? Explains Shari Maxwell, owner of the online AnniesCostumes.com, whose pet business doubled in the last year: "Now when parents go out to dress the family for trick or treat-ting, they feel bad if they leave out the pooch." Not only that, it's the only...
Another baby-boomer biker is dentist Steven Bobbe, 55, of Melrose Park, Ill. "Driving my car, even for a couple of hours, puts me to sleep," says Bobbe. "But when I'm on my bike, I'm invigorated and can ride for days." Bobbe returned last month from a 2,300-mile round trip to Santa Fe, N.M., driving straight through on the way home...
They have a celebrity role model in Jay Leno, 52, who helps raise money for charities at widely publicized biker runs. Last year the comedian and talk-show host auctioned one of his motorcycles, adorned with numerous celebrity signatures, on eBay to raise money for the Twin Towers Fund after the terrorist attacks...
...sinewy man with a shaved head and a black LIVE TO DRIVE biker shirt guides his 18-wheeler across the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor, Ont., to Detroit. He pulls into the U.S. customs yard, braking next to a National Guard tent festooned with last year's Christmas lights. It's July 1, one of the hottest days of the year, and the stagnant air at the foot of the bridge--the busiest commercial border crossing in North America--is thick with the smell of diesel...