INDIANAPOLIS — A man is dead after being struck by a vehicle on the city’s east side early Monday morning, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

IMPD officers responded to a report of a personal injury crash around 6 a.m. on North Shadeland Avenue, near 38th Street and Pendleton Pike. That’s where another crash happened after the first.

Investigators say a man was standing outside of his vehicle. He was struck and critically injured.

Medics took him to a hospital, where he later died. Police confirmed that two other drivers stayed at the scene and are cooperating with the investigation.

Capturing The Feeling

Our photographer, known by many as Pink Bike Mike, shares how he ended up cruising around town on a pink chopper, camera bag strapped to his back.

When I was in second grade, my friend’s mom gave me the nickname “Michael Michael Motorcycle.” She thought she was teaching us how to balance a checkbook, not realizing she was manifesting my destiny instead.

But it wasn’t until eight years ago that my friend Scooter taught me how to ride on his 2002 Honda Shadow Spirit 750cc. We both dropped the bike that summer, putting matching dents on either side of the gas tank. A year later, I bought the Shadow and fully entered a new chapter of my life.

Three years ago, I became a “chopper guy,” earning a reputation for my hot pink 2004 Harley Davidson Sportster Custom chopper. Oil leaks, loose screws, the backbreaking feeling of hitting every small bump in the road, and old men constantly asking, “But why’s it pink?” became a personality statement.

Film photography and motorcycles go better together than prom king and queen. They hark back to a time when you tinkered with the equations and used your hands to determine the results. Plain and simple, they are a vintage lifestyle.

The biggest story in these photographs is the strength of the riding community. Sure, we rag on each other—sport bikes versus cruisers, vintage versus brand-new, carbureted versus fuel injection, Harley Davidson versus … everyone else—but at the end of the day, we are all just little kids cruising the neighborhood showing off our bikes.

Bike Night

Originally founded in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2002, high-performance motorcycle parts manufacturer Horsepower Inc. has called Gasoline Alley in Indy home since 2012. Every year around the Indianapolis 500, HPi hosts a bike night with hundreds of attendees from around the world. What started out in 2018 as a small gathering among friends and customers, with some Sam’s Club hot dogs on the grill and a few bottles of beer or Londo’s Flameade, has turned into a much-anticipated yearly event featuring vendors, food trucks, DJs, and stunt crews including Jeff (C-Bear), CJ and the Concrete Cowboys, Junkyard Kenny, and the EastCoastin’ Crew.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Mortgage expert Tom Hlava joined WISH-TV Sunday morning to talk about today’s market and what it means for home buyers, sellers, and homeowners.

Hlava told News 8’s Stacey Schooler that the Federal Reserve does not change mortgage rates. They change the federal funds rate, which he says is more closely tied to car loans and credit cards.

Hlava says that if we wait until the mortgage rate drops, there will be many more buyers and prices will rise even further.

“Should I wait until the Colts are just about ready to go to the Super Bowl to buy tickets to a game? Probably not, because by then it’s a little bit too late. The market has gone way up. I think it’s pretty much the same way with interest rates”.

The new average home price in Indianapolis for a two- to three-bedroom house is $250,00 to $300,000.

“When I started in the mortgage business many, many years ago, rates were 13% and 14%. But houses were, like you said,

$ 70,000- $ 80,000. We don’t have those houses. Now it’s a half million dollars”.

Hlava added that there is a program for the families of first responders and a duty death program that will erase the loan for that first responder’s family.