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Seminole Hard Rock Roadhouse’s Biker Fusion Event Announces support of Black Hawk Medevac Units–DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. –February 17th, 2009– Seminole Hard Rock Roadhouse and Biker Fusion organizers announced today that this year’s Daytona Bike Week Fusion event and fund-raiser will benefit Black Hawk Medevac units in Afghanistan. The event will be held on Thursday, March 5th at the Dog House on Main Street, Daytona.
Black Hawk Medevac Units include amazing men and women that serve as medics, pilots and crew that save lives by treating and transporting our wounded heroes. When a soldier is wounded, the roar of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter with its large red cross underneath means they just might survive. The arrival of the Hawk means a soldier knows they are getting out and the Medevac members know the chances of saving a wounded soldier are best if he receives medical attention with a crucial “golden hour”. These heroes see another side of the war up close. They live in remote bases that almost never have any creature comforts including showers.
The funds raised at Biker Fusion will sponsor Soldier’s Angels backpack care packages. Each backpack is approximately $50 hard cost and include logo blanket, sweat pants, logo zipper hooded sweatshirt, logo t-shirt, socks, cotton knit boxers, knit beanie cap, 60 min phone card, toiletry kit in logo bag, snack and never forget coin. Additional items such as computers, ipods, and other ‘cool’ items are also included when funds allow.
Due to the remote locations of the Units, the backpacks will be shipped to a Convoy Support Center that will deliver them. Additional backpacks will be distributed to our wounded heroes that include a handmade blanket, adaptive sweat pants, logo zipper hooded sweatshirt, logo t-shirt, socks, cotton knit boxers, knit beanie cap, global phone card and toiletry kit in logo bag.
To raise funds, Biker Fusion will auction off one-of-a-kind Hard Rock Fender Guitars specially designed by event hosts, Ami James, Christian Clayton, Shelly Rossmeyer and Billy Lane. Additionally, Biker Fusion message cards will be available for donations at any level. The Fusion cards have an image provided courtesy of reknown photographer, Michael Lichter, and supporters are encouraged to write a message to the Black Hawk Medevac soldiers and to wounded soldiers the Hawks will share them with. Each backpack will be stuffed with the cards.
Biker Fusion is a chance for the general public to mix with the industry elite for a great cause. All proceeds go to Soldier’s Angels and there will be a live auction, featuring Hard Rock Fender Custom Guitars, bikini contest, and a limited amount of admission tickets sold to the general public for a $25 donation. It is always a good time and even better when we see the outpouring of support for our soldiers serving overseas.
Soldier’s Angels “May no soldier go unloved” mission is to “Provide care and comfort for our Soldiers” and offers a multitude of programs and projects to support the effort. For more information, please visit www.soldiersangels.org.
Biker Fusion – Daytona Bike Week is sponsored by Seminole Hard Rock Roadhouse, BIKERNET.COM, R&R Promotions, Bruce Rossmeyer’s Destination Daytona, The Dog House, American Honey, 360 Brake, Baker Drivetrain, Wild Turkey, Spectro Oils, Hot Leathers, Love Hate Choppers, Choppers Inc, Sucker Punch Sally’s, Rise Above Consulting, Biker Design, Two b Printing, Stevensons Cycle, Brass Balls Bobbers and Stripper Juice.
Kids & Chrome 2008 Raises $120,000 for Children?s Home Society and Sturgis Motorcycle Museum–RAPID CITY, SD ? While we all know there is something about kids that opens people?s hearts, the combination of ?Kids? and ?Chrome? brought folks to not only open their hearts, but their pocketbooks as well. Kids and Chrome Foundation announced this week that its 4th Annual Kids & Chrome benefit dinner and auction event, held during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, raised $120,000 in support of two vital Black Hills non-profit organizations: Children?s Home Society, the ?Kids? in the foundation?s moniker, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame, the ?Chrome.?
?The Dakota,? a one-off custom bagger, created for Kids & Chrome by Tom Binyon, of BaggerWorks Custom Touring Motorcycles in Wichita, Kansas, was the featured auction item at this year?s event, bringing $40,000. The 2008 ?Pit Boss,? donated by Lehman Trikes of Spearfish, South Dakota, also topped the list of auction donations, raising $22,000. Additionally, the 2008 Legends Ride?, a celebrity-charity event produced by the Legendary Buffalo Chip to support the mission of Kids & Chrome, raised $38,000 for the foundation, according to Rod Woodruff, Buffalo Chip President and CEO.
?Kids & Chrome provides a very unique, one-of-a-kind platform that unites the eclectic world-wide community of motorcycle enthusiasts, who join us each year during the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, for a very philanthropic and genuinely worthwhile cause,? said Jim Burgess, President of the Kids & Chrome Foundation, promoter of Kids & Chrome.
?It?s just a remarkable event,? Burgess continued, ?that gives us a chance to welcome folks around the globe and publicly thank all of our friends in the industry who come together each August in support of Kids & Chrome, Children?s Home Society and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.?
Funding provided by Kids & Chrome supports the therapeutic programming of the Children?s Home Society, a home and school for children with emotional and behavioral issues, many of whom are victims of severe abuse and neglect.
?This event is always a wonderful demonstration of the generosity and compassion so many Rally-goers have at heart,? said South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Dennis Daugaard, who personally welcomed the event?s attendees at the August 6th benefit. ?This year, the dinner and live auction were especially uplifting. From the video presentation to the testimonials, everyone?s spirits were raised.
The next day, the Legends Ride?, hosted by the Legendary Buffalo Chip Campground to benefit Kids & Chrome, added another dimension to the giving.? Affiliated with Children?s Home Society for more than 18 years, Daugaard is particularly familiar with the community?s outstanding commitment to the ?Kids? of Kids and Chrome.
Kids & Chrome?s funding also supports the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame in its mission to preserve the history of motorcycling.
?The dollars raised through the Kids & Chrome Foundation allow the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame to continue to bring the history of motorcycling alive for its visitors,? said Christine Paige Diers, Executive Director of the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame. ?It is our hope to be able to expand the museum in the next few years using proceeds from the Kids & Chrome events. Without this support, plans for expansion would still be only a distant dream.?
The 2008 Kids & Chrome event was supported by the generosity of the motorcycle community as well as local and national event sponsors like Budweiser, the Kids & Chrome title sponsor. Sharing the spotlight were the event’s premiere sponsors: Black Hills Harley-Davidson, the Legendary Buffalo Chip, BIKERNET.COM, Performance Machine, GEICO PowerSports, Black Hills Surgery Center, BaggerWorks, Lehman Trikes, Scott Peterson Motors, Childress Vineyards, State Publishing & Printing, Sturgis Bike Week, Gustafson Builders and KEVN FOX 7.
Next year?s Kids & Chrome benefit dinner and auction is slated for Wednesday, Augsut 5, 2009. For more information and event updates, visit, www.kidsandchrome.com, or contact Ronda Gusinsky, Executive Director, Kids & Chrome Foundation, at 605/716-9190.
Kids & Chrome Foundation is a Black Hills 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
MATT OLSEN IS DEDICATED TO THE ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLE CLUB OF AMERICA AND TO BRINGING YOUNG ENTHUSIASTS INTO THE FOLD–I can’t believe that it is already Wednesday, I have been putting in long hours trying to get ahead of the ball so I can have a relaxed trip to Daytona in a couple of weeks. I figured that I won’t have much of a chance to get to a computer while I am on the road so I am going to send you three updates for the upcoming week in different emails for your Thursday news section.
I am sending you a pic of the cams for the 45 contest, they were donated by AAOK in Deltah, Utah. They are really nice, there isn’t any pitting on the lobes and the shafts are not scored. They have been cleaned up, bead blasted and parkerized. All the winner will have to do is set up the endplay.
–Matt Olsen
Matt organized a essay contest with the AMCA to promote kids to become involved in the antique motorcycle craze. Get your kids to check their site and enter the contest. If they win they will be given an antique H-D 45-flathead and taught how to restore it. All the parts for this project have been donated by guys in the industry.–Bandit
MOTORCYCLE ARTIST CREATES BLOG–Perhaps you can post another announcement about my blog.It’s beginning to pick up steam.I’m getting some good feedback, gained some regular subscribers, and it’s a featured link on several other blogs.
Most notably Irish Rich’s Homage, and Applied Machete, plus Mistress Marilyn’s Chessie’s Tales.There’s also a new online Gallery/Store linked to the site. Cool and crazy stuff is usually posted daily.The bottom of my header pretty much says it all.
http://motorcycleart.blogspot.com/
http://mcartgallery.blogspot.com/
http://irishrichcustomcycles.blogspot.com/
http://chessiestales.blogspot.com/
–CGK
Dave “Big Deal” Dealhas left the building!–Dave “Big Deal ” Deal passed away this past Thanksgiving. I learned the news from my favorite hot rod magazine. I had just wrote him in November and got no response. I thought he was still ticked at me. This was not the case. I know this is a bike web site, I got the memo. However, there are many that come to Bikernet that were touched by Mr. Deal’s incredible art. Some of us drooled over his cartoons in ” Cartoon Magazine” back in the day, or built his models from Revel way back when. Nobody, and mean NOBODY could draw like this crazy fucker.
A handful of years ago, Concrete Pete learned that I was a life long fan of Deal’s work so he contacted him and told him so. Next thing I know I’m getting an e-mail from Mr. Deal with an original drawing from him. It took me an hour to clean up the shit in my pants. He did this just because I was a working cartoonist and was a fan (kids, see how it use to be?). I sent him some of my stuff back when I was working with ” OL’ Skool Rodz” and received his approval. He signed my guest book at my portfolio web site and even invited me into his home.
To see first hand how the master works would beat the crap out of four years of art school. Before the set date of traveling to his studio, I mentioned my “Nick The Dick” cartoon strip. He requested some samples of the cartoon and I sent them. I received a semi shocking response. “Jon, God did not give you talent to be wasted on such negative crap!”
I was offended by his being offended and we had some words. Game over! A huge opportunity missed on my part (damn you Nick). No respect lost on my end. I was really bummed when I learned of his passing…almost like a piece of my innocent youth had been stolen. Dave’s art has had a big impact on my and many others life. Do yourself a favor and go to his web site to see what I’m talking about…..”Big Deal Art.com”. God bless ya Dave, There will never be another like ya!
–Jon Towle-
DEPARTURE BIKES WORKS BECOMES SWAP MEET PROMOTER–In just over two weeks we’re having another Swap Meet in Fishersville (Take I-64 to Exit 91). The Valley hasn’t had one there in over 8 years and there is a lot of interest. Booths are just $40 each (10×10) for used parts, $80 for new parts. Click on our banner for registration info.
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BIKERNET VOCABULARY LESSON– The teacher asked the class to use the word fascinate in a sentence. Molly put up her hand and said, ‘My family went to my> granddad’s farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It wasfascinating.’
The teacher said, ‘That was good, but I wanted you to use the word fascinate, not fascinating’.
Sally raised her hand. She said, ‘My family went to see Rock City and I was fascinated.’
The teacher said, ‘Well, that was goodSally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate.’
Little Johnny raised his hand. The teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Johnny before. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word ‘fascinate’, so she called on him.
Johnny said, ‘My aunt Ginahas a sweater with ten buttons, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight.’
The teacher sat down and cried.
–from Rik S.
The following is from the AMA…As you may know by now, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) has effectively banned the sale of youth off-highway vehicles (OHVs) as of Feb. 10, 2009. The AMA is issuing a repeated call for action to help reverse the potentially devastating effect this could have on the sport of OHV recreation. We are also asking for your help, as promoters and club leaders, to spread the word to your club members, racers and fans to encourage them to get involved.
While this move could cripple the future of the sport, it does appear that there may be relief for the use of motorcycles purchased prior to Feb. 10. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has compiled a list of prohibited acts in the CPSIA. Neither riding a previously purchased motorcycle nor promoting a race that includes those motorcycles is included on that list. Download the CRS list here.
Still, immediate attention is needed to end this ban on the sale and manufacture of youth model OHVs. In addition to the efforts the AMA is putting in on Capitol Hill, all motorcyclists need to help fight this measure. Here are some quick links to background information and ways you can help reverse this decision:
? Contact your representatives in Congress by using the Take Action button in the Issues and Legislation section of the AMA website.
? Write the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) directly to encourage them to exclude youth model OHVs here.
? Click here for a page that includes suggested copy for a letter you can send to the CPSC.
? Read the AMA press release on this issue here.
? Read the AMA’s comments to the CPSC here.
? Click here to download a PDF version of the CPSIA.
–Cycle News
TWIN POWERTM HIGH PERFORMANCE SEALED BATTERIES FROM BIKERS CHOICE–Bike not crankin? the way it should? Got little hesitations? Time for a new battery!!!
These AGM (Absorbed glass matt) batteries are manufactured as sealed batteries; most people refer to them as gel batteries. Our Twin PowerTM batteries have several things that make them superior to standard conventional wet batteries and other sealed batteries.
These batteries are completely sealed and maintenance free; the design eliminates the need to add water and prevents corrosion and acid spills on expensive paint and chrome and they are ready to go out of the box. They have more, 25% more cranking amperage than the competition and are designed for extreme heat and vibration. They have a flexible design allowing the user to mount the battery in almost any position, (inverted is not recommended).
For more information on batteries or anything else bike part related, check out our new and improved website?www.bikerschoice.com, or visit your nearest Biker?s Choice Dealer.
Happy Riding!!
–Carmen
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