Wednesday, Sept. 20

   We could tell you about our personal experience with motorcycles, but it involves dumping a bike on the shoulder of the road, a torn up leg and doctors plucking bits of gravel out of a gaping wound. Oh, wait we just told you. Never mind. Motorcycles are everywhere!! as the bumperstickers say and Wednesday Sept. 20 is Bike Night at the Hard Rock Cafe. Last time, they did this there were about 400 bikes parked outside around Clarendon street. Must have been quite a sight. Wednesday's event, from 6-8, is free, but you'll want to bring cash as there's a raffle that will benefit Denis Leary's Leary Firefighters Foundation. (The last Leary benefit at the Cafe, with Dropkick Murphys, raised $20,000.) There's also a bike contest, so get your hog looking spiffy. 

131 Clarendon St., 617-353-1400 hardrock.com