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WHEELS THROUGH TIME 2009 KNUCKLEHEAD RAFFLE–This is a great offer for a worthwhile cause?.The 7th Annual Raffle will be held November 2009 For This 1947 Harley-Davidson FL-74in. Knucklehead Or $20,000.00
The Wheels Through Time Museum, a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit corporation, will be conducting their 7th Annual Museum Raffle in November of 2009.
The annual event started seven years ago during the opening week of the museum in its newly relocated home in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Raffle tickets are available now for a $10.00 donation for one or purchase 7 tickets for $50.00 and receive a free Wheels Through Time Museum T-Shirt. All proceeds from the raffle will be used to create new exhibits, enhance museum displays, and help keep us… “The Museum That Runs.”
To purchase raffle ticket(s), mail your name, address, and good phone # to the below address, with appropriate payment amount and shirt size if applicable:
Wheels Through Time Museum Annual Raffle
P.O. Box 790
Maggie Valley, NC 28751
Or you can charge tickets online! If you are charging tickets online, you agree to have your entry information transferred by hand to a raffle ticket that will be added to the pot.
If you’ve purchased seven or more tickets you qualify for a free T-Shirt from the Wheels Through Time Museum. You will be asked one size on your order form. The T-Shirt(s) will be sent to the billing address unless a shipping address is specified.
BIKERNET WORKING WITH ENGLAND’S BACK STREET HEROES MAGAZINE AND CENTURY MOTORCYCLES ON HISTORIC VINCENT STORY–Keith Ball asked me to forward some a few pictures I took of the Vincent at Century Cycles.He also thought you might be interested in seeing some of my art and my blog.http://motorcycleart.blogspot.com/
–Cheers!
–Chris Kallas
HISTORIC HAMSTER RIDE ANNUALLY TO STURGIS–For the past 5 years a group of us have ridden out from Spearfish to meet the West Coast Hamster Ride to Sturgis. It’s on the Calendar……. This year’s ride will leave Spearfish on Friday July 24th. Approx. 18 of us will do this ride. This is an awesome ride if you like to ride!!
Thursday, we’ll meet Bandit and the Bikernet contingency in Thermopiles, WY.Friday; Ride into Sturgis with West Coast Ride, ( Barry and Arlen)
–Harlan
LONDON TIMES REPORT ON IRAQ–What do you bet that when our troops all get sent home that our new President is going to take all the credit???? Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!
Winning Isn’t News!!
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
(Iraq: What would happen if the U..S. won a war but the media didn’t tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we’ve defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq.
London’s Sunday Times called it ‘the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.’ A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has in over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul. The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare.
We can thank President Bush’s surge Strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering. We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.
Al-Qaida’s loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there. Now, in Operation Lion’s Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. .. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.. Sunday Times (London) reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into the countryside.
Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government has achieved ‘satisfactory’ progress on 15 of the 18 political benchmarks ‘a big change for the better from a year ago.’ Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates , which over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed byBaghdad, an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab st ate in thefuture of a free Iraq .
But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the MediaResearch Center pointed out last week, ‘the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN’sAnderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks ‘that signaled political progress.’ The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because President Bush stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don’t seem to consider this historic event a big story.
AUSTRALIAN SWAG AVAILABLE IN THE US–Bushwakka Australia had been selling the Lite-Rider to the Aussie bike industry for approx’ 15 years in a slightly different design. Now, in response from our local market we have changed the design significantly so that the swag now has a “free standing capability”. Our web site gives a detailed description and photos of this model. The new concept Lite-Rider is a much more versitle swag making it popular within the bike industry, although it has many other market applications due to its compact size when rolled up.
CURRENT:Our swags are manufactured offshore using our own specification canvas. All swags come with a full 12 month replacement warrenty however the swags are very durable and once purchased, are a “life time investment”.
WAREHOUSING:Bushwakka Australia is now stocking all 3 models swags in Aurora ILL. This allows for timely delivery anywhere in Nth USA within 4 working days. Customers can go online, fill out and fax the order form to the warehouse. Options for payment are: Credit Card, check or direct debit, all this is disclosed on the order form.
QUERIES:Should there be any queries of a technical nature all customers can e-mail me directly via the web by linking on “manufacturer inquiries”. All sales inquiries link on “customer service”
DISTRIBUTION:Bushwakka Australia is seeking retail outlets that are in the relevant industry to distribute our products. Only in the interim will we sell direct to the public as it is our aim to have a distribution network in place and provide support to them.A Business Proposal and Terms of Trade can be provided for any registered business. Promotional DVD’s and marketing materials are all included with the proposal.
–BRETT O’DONNELL
DIRECTOR
BUSHWAKKA AUSTRALIA
GAS CITY CYCLES, ALBERTA CHECKS IN– -35 degrees Celsius up here in Medicine Hat, Alberta,Canada ,but riding is just around the corner.! I?m the owner of Gas City Cycles, been fixing Harley?s for the past 18 yrs. It has been one hell of a Ride, and through all those miles , us riders come to meet some really good people who, like us love to ride to ride the hell out of the asphalt and live to the fullest. This girl is one of them.
Trayci is a local rider who went down a couple yrs ago during a local charity ride. She wasn?t spooked and got right back in the saddle. Nothing seems to knock her down in her journey,one very strong girl. She also has an incredible talent of photography. Since I?m a regular to Bikernet and the Cantina, I thought I?d send her link to you. Maybe some readers would like see some of her work.
Thanks Bandit, and friend, I just know we?re going to get through all these crazy times, just gotta work together. Canada and the USA have history of hard times, only to pull through stronger than ever.
–Darren Staruiala
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JULY ISSUE OF AMERICAN IRON CLOSING NOW–As your motorcycle industry representative for American Iron Magazine, RoadBike Magazine, and the new www.Motosportsbusiness.com, I have opened up a new office and will be having new contact information next week. FYI ? we are closing for the JULY issues now the hot buying season so if you are interested in getting ads rolling please don?t hesitate to contact me!
–John
American Iron Magazine
RoadBike Magazine
203-325-2254 FAX
johnsmo@gmail.com
www.americanironmagazine.com
Young motorcyclists and ATV riders join state lawmakers to seek lead-law exemption–Young riders, parents, state lawmakers and others concerned about the current federal ban on selling youth dirtbikes and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) rallied on the steps of the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, Wednesday, March 4, to support an exemption to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) reports.
The press conference that followed was organized by State Rep. Tom Self (R-Cole Camp), who also sponsored a successful Missouri House resolution urging the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to “provide a waiver or exclusion for youth ATVs and motorcycles from the lead limit requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.”
Under the CPSIA, which took effect Feb. 10, manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers are barred from making, importing, distributing or selling any product intended for children 12 and under that contains more than 600 parts per million of lead in any accessible part. According to the CPSC, that includes youth-sized motorcycles and ATVs, which include lead in such things as batteries, brakes and engines. The ban also shelves many parts needed for repair.
The CPSIA greatly concerns the AMA, the industry and the off-highway vehicle (OHV) community because it encourages parents to put their youngsters on adult-sized OHVs. There is also great concern for the survival of powersports dealers and their employees, which are already struggling given the current recession. According to the Motorcycle Industry Council, the CPSIA could lead to $1 billion in lost economic value annually for the industry.”Washington, D.C. tells us that this ban is a result of unintended consequences, effectively passing the buck,” said Ed Moreland, AMA vice president for government relations, who spoke at the rally. “That’s not good enough. These changes need to be made now before kids are injured, and thousands of small family-owned businesses are needlessly put out of business.”
Moreland added that it is ironic that the agency with which the AMA and the industry have spent years developing youth-sized OHV standards is now charged with enforcing the CPSIA, effectively rendering the standards useless.
Moreland asked all concerned parents and riders nationwide to contact their own state lawmakers to urge them to pass resolutions like Missouri’s, supporting an exemption to the law banning youth-sized motorcycles and ATVs. They also need to contact the members of their federal congressional delegations and the CPSC to demand that the law be changed to include an exemption, he said.
The easiest way to do this is to go to the Rights section of the AMA website at www.AmericanMotorcyclist.com, and then click Issues and Legislation. There, riders and their parents can contact lawmakers and the CPSC to voice their concerns.
–Source: USRiderNews
QUICK THROTTLE RIDES TO LAUGHLIN AND ARIZONA BIKE WEEK–For some of us, riding season never really ends, but the riding EVENT season is kicking off with a bang this month, and at Quick Throttle we couldn’t be more excited! In April alone we have two of the biggest – Arizona Bike Week and the Laughlin River Run.
These are two great, old school events that also attract new riders every year, and all are welcomed. Yet these two events couldn’t be more different, each possessing their own style and attitude, and both being well worth your time. If you’ve got the time, attend them both and as they say, when in Rome…do as the Bikers do!
You won’t be disappointed.In this edition of the QT Newsletter, you’ll find teasers from the March issue, which is in shops at over 1,000 locations right now. But don’t forget to look for our big April issue – it’s our 8th Anniversary! That’s right – 8 years of pretending we all have real jobs, when really all we’re doing is playin’ with bikes. Thank you all for the support, and here’s to the next 8 great years!
We’ll see ya out there,
–CD
HOTLEATHERS.COM New ladies’ apparel– Any lady riders wanna go shopping?
Have you seen our We Ride brand? The We Ride brand isn’t made for all women. This is a brand for women who sit in the drivers seat of their bike. Women taking the handle bars into their own hands is not just a trend. It’s a phenomenon! Check these shirts out!
Hot Leathers.COM has the answer to your riding apparel needs. We offer a huge variety of styles and designs for every lady rider out there. Need a new tank top or boy beater? You can find all your favorite garment styles at the lowest price!
Hot Leathers is at all the major bike rallies, and they know what’s HOT! Deep v-necks, garment dyes, tattered edges, we have all these styles in stock and ready to go. Nobody knows motorcycle apparel better then the company that leads the pack, Hot Leathers. Check out HotLeathers.com today, to get your hands on some great ladies riding apparel, leather jackets, helmets, or maybe browse around the 100’s of motorcycle related product categories.
Don’t like buying clothes online? Do you feel like you need to try it on before you buy it? That’s fine, Hot Leathers has 5 convenient year round locations. Click here Are you going to any bike rallies this summer? We are! Click here 
13th Annual Arizona Bike Week– Just in case you didn’t get enough of the perfect Arizona spring weather, 80 degree temperatures and miles of outrageous riding in 2008, we’re making big plans to do it all over again March 27th – April 5th, 2009. Start making plans now to rock ‘n roll during the 13th annual Arizona Bike Week. “Pre-Rally Days” parties and rides get in gear March 27th – March 31st with events all over the state.
Westworld opens April 1st with vendors, concerts, demo rides and more. Don’t miss out on the fun!
Visit the website at www.azbikeweek.com for a complete list of rides, events and happenings as well as discount tickets.
Victory Kinpin’s Evil Twin– Motorcycle manufacturers generally design and build models purpose-specific. Their street machine is a totally different animal then Le Tour Delux, as it should be. It’s rare a bike has the esthetic and performance for both. Ever see the Road King without saddlebags or ridden a Sporty 400 miles? It aint pretty.
Is there such a creature that can actually grace both worlds? Running with a street gang by day, yet slay hundreds of miles by night? My search for this elusive Jekyll and Hyde led me to the 2009 Victory Kingpin. Its unique platform actually boasts a larger front tire than a La Tour Delux big brother.
— By Gary (Koz) Mraz
NEVADA CALL TO ACTION to all motorcyclists– Nevada has a helmet bill introduced as of today, it is AB300. We are presenting the bill primarily as a tourism revenue generator. If your from out of state let our legislators know that you would visit and vacation in Nevada if it was a freedom of choice state.
–John Bland – NV MRF Rep. and Northern Nevada ABATE Pres.
CALL TO ACTION! ACT NOW! AMEND NEVADA’S HELMET LAW!
E-mail, Call and Write the Transportation Committee Members and ask then to support AB300.
This bill eliminates the requirement of wearing protective headgear for drivers of motorcycles who: (1) are 21 years of age or older; (2) have possessed a valid motorcycle license for not less than 1 year; and (3) have completed an approved motorcycle safety course. This bill eliminates the requirement of wearing headgear for a passenger of a motorcycle who is 21 of age or older.
You can see the bill on the Legislative web site: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
These are the key points you can use in your correspondence to the Legislators:
– Nevada has a tourism based economy and amending Nevada’s helmet law will encourage motorcyclists to visit Nevada.
– When states modify mandatory helmet laws – sales, ownership and riders sharply increase.
– Amending Nevada’s helmet law will generate millions of dollars for Nevada without raising taxes through increased motorcycle sales and tourism.
– When states modify mandatory helmet laws – sales, ownership and riders sharply increase.
– Amending Nevada’s helmet law will generate millions of dollars for Nevada without raising taxes through increased motorcycle sales and tourism.
– Helmets increase neck injuries, fatalities average 12% in all states regardless if the helmet is mandated or not.
– Motorcycles are 6% of the national traumatic brain injuries, Bicycles are 7%, Pedestrians are 13%, Occupants of Enclosed Motor Vehicles are 62%, Others are 12%. Motorcycle injuries are not a cost burden to tax payers.
Contact legislators on the Assembly Transportation Committee and ask them to support AB300
–From Cindy Hodges
JOCKEY SHIFT UNDER CONSTRUCTION–This is a mock up of the jockey shift that I am putting on the bike. I’m going to fill in the bracket with metal to take up the space and make it look better
–Eric Phillips
Divorce Vs Murder–A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, “I would like to buy some cyanide.”
The pharmacist asked, “Why in the world do you need cyanide?”
The lady replied, “I need it to poison my husband.”
The pharmacist’s eyes got big and he exclaimed, “Lord have mercy! I can’t give you cyanide to kill your husband. That’s against the law! I’ll lose my license! They’ll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen. Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!”
The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist’s wife.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, “Well now, that’s different. You didn’t tell me you had a prescription.”
–from Rik
STURGIS GLENCOE CAMPGROUND AND ROLLING THUNDER VENUE SOLD–Gary Lippold, who owned and managed the Glencoe Camp Resort and the Rock?n The Rally concert venue in Sturgis, S.D., has sold the property. The property, which sees most of its visitors during the massive Sturgis Motorcycle Rally each year, was sold for $8,595,000 to Devorah Lopez of Hacienda Heights, Calif., according to the Black Hills Pioneer.
The paper cited a three-page document filed at the Meade County Courthouse. Sean Clark is expected to continue running the campground and outdoor stage. The Web site for the campground promises a full bar, two stages and all kinds of biker amenities like pool tables and barmaids.
The Rock?n The Rally stage was the site of some controversy at last year?s event. Larry the Cable Guy pulled out of his Aug. 5 support slot because the promoter did not have the funds to cover the performance, manager J.P. Williams told sources.
–Quick Throttle Magazine
PAUGHCO RSD-300 DROP SEAT CHASSIS–Check it out. Paughco has just released a sleek new frame that provides great lines and a perfect 23 ?? seat height. The new Right Side Drive frames accept 300 rear tires and feature a 1 ? backbone stretch, 2? diameter single front leg and 1 ?? diameter tubular swing arm.
Additionally the chassis comes with a 1? hidden axle assembly and integral forward control mounts. The Paughco 13 ? fender, oil bag and solo seat in this photo are sold separately.
Goin? Pro-Street? Try the model with 5? stretch in the backbone and 38? neck rake. The chopper version, shown here, has 4? in the backbone, 7? in the front leg and 38? neck rake.
For complete details call Paughco direct at 775-246-5738 or visit them on the Web at www.paughco.com
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