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HARDBIKES LOOKING FOR RIDERS–$2,500 A WEEK–Hardbikes Pays You $2,000 a Week to Ride a Custom Hardbikes Motorcycle.Bob Kay, Hardbikes’ VP Sales and Marketing,is looking for a good man or woman to ride a custom Hardbikes motorcycle up anddown the East Coast during the summer of 2006 for $2,000 a week. The winningrider will meet with Hardbikes dealers, customers, local press, local ridinggroups and attend several local events.
Applications are being taken at http://www.hardbikes.net/wanted.html.
“We’re looking for a Harbikes Ambassador who likes to keep the wind intheir hair and can articulate the Hardbikes’ experience to dealers and eventattendees,” said Kay. “Our ideal candidate loves riding, has a bigpersonality and can’t wait to meet a few thousand experienced bikers. It’sa temporary gig that lasts about a month and will be filled with a lifetime ofmemories.”
The selected individual will be custom fit to a Hardbikes motorcycle using theHardbikes Hardrider system. Using the system, the team at Hardbikes will pullthree measurements that include seat position, forward controls setting andhandle bar position. This ensures that the relationship of the leg extension,arm reach and posterior position fall within a comfortable riding position inthe comfort triangle. The new Hardbikes employee will ride a perfectly fittedbike that avoids back strain and increases safety and performance.
The itinerary under consideration includes the following rallies and events:
Thunder in the Valley – Johnstown, PA, June 22 – June 25, 2006;
EasyridersRodeo Tour – Wilson, NC, July 7 – July 9, 2006;
Vintage Rides – Woodstock, NewYork, July 8 – 9, 2006;
Rolling Thunder- Ride For Freedom – Scranton,Pennsylvania, July 16, 2006;
ABATE of GA Swap Meet & Bike Show – Atlanta,Georgia, July 30, 2006
The Sturgis Rally, August 7 – 13, 2006, Sturgis,South Dakota
Okay, so it’s a lot of fun and you get to ride a gorgeous bike all day. Butit’s a job, and someone’s got to do it. Hardbikes is an equal opportunityfun-loving employer.
PURRFECT ANGELZ ON COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION AWARDS SHOW, APRIL 10TH– The Purrfect Angelz have been asked to perform LIVE at the CMT Awards this coming Monday, April 10th, at 7pm central time so 5pm if you live in LA. Be sure to watch it from the beginning because we are the opening of the whole show with Trace Adkins himself. We will be performing “Honky Tonk Ba Donka Donk” which we are in the video and is up for “Video of the year” and Hottest Video”. You can check it out on CMT. com and even vote for it if you really want to help. Thanks for all your support and I hope you enjoy the performance.
XOXO
— Lisa Ligon
Purfect Angelz producer
EXILES PARTY ALERT– Saturday April 22rd 2006 – Exile Cycles10th Anniversary Open House.It’s their birthday, famed Iron & Lace Calendar builder and TV star Russell Mitchell is holding a party and we are all invited! Russell is holding an Open House at Exile Cycles on April 22nd 2006. Come and join us for some sex and drugs and rock and roll. O.K. so we lied about one, but there will be bands playing, beer flowing, and the lovely Purrfect Angelz dancing up a storm.
The event takes place noon to 6pm at their new shop in North Hollywood.
Exile Cycles,
13209 Saticoy St.,
North Hollywood, CA 91605 .
Phone: 818 255 3330 .
exilecycles.com
Weapons of Mass Seduction!Purrfect Angelz attack the 2006 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show July 15-16thwith 7 weekend performances, including 3 major 1-hour shows
Los Angeles, March 15th, 2006 – So why does Russell Mitchell, star of Speed TV’s Build or Bust and featured custom bike builder in the world famous Iron & Lace Custom Motorcycle Pinup Calendar, have such a big smile on his face? It’s because we just told him all those beautiful girls he’s posing with of the famed Purrfect Angelz show group will be performing all weekend long in expanded performances guaranteed to decimate attendees at this year’s big Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycles Show on July 15-16th, 2006, America’s premier custom and performance streetbike event!
PURRFECT ANGELZ PERFORM AT LA CALENDAR SHOW–The Purrfect Angelz have performed the last 3 years at the Calendar Show as their original 5-girl group, performing two 20 minute sets on stage each day to the screaming admiration of jammed pack crowds. But we can never have too much of a good thing, particularly where there’s beautiful singing, lap dancing, fire twirling, burlesque shaking, cart wheeling, lingerie and bikini clad girls involved.
The fame and the size of the group has been grown these few years, and this year Purrfect Angelz show director Lisa Ligon asked if she could bring the newer, bigger, better, tighter, bouncier, curves, more perfectly endowed 9-girl Purrfect Angelz Show to blitzkrieg the Calendar Show from this year on.
Who were we to tell her “No”? But only if Lisa agreed to help serve as on-stage cohost and MC throughout the weekend, which she did. Have we got clout or what?
BOOK YOUR DAY OFF NOW FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY FOR MOTORCYCLING IN B.C.–The 17th Annual MLA Ride is on Thursday, May 4, 2006. The MLA Ride is amotorcycle ride to the Legislature Buildings in Victoria where riders arriveat noon to take the MLA’s and their staff for a ride on their lunch hour, sothat they can experience the thrill of motorcycling firsthand. This rideenables our members to discuss issues concerning motorcycling in B.C. withtheir MLA and is also the big kick off to help promote May as MotorcycleAwareness Month.
17th Annual MLA Ride
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006
Assembly Points
Vancouver: Riders meet at Tsawwassen Ferry terminal to take 9am sailing
Victoria: Riders meet at Mayfair Mall, Blanshard St,
Victoria, 11am
For info please call (604) 580-0111 or check out http://www.bccom-bc.com
RIDE WITH DAN ACKROYD TO A SPECIAL OPENING OF THE TREV DEELEY MOTORCYCLECOLLECTION– All bikes and riders welcome! Donations gratefully accepted for Canuck PlaceChildren’s Hospice
DATE: April 9th
TIME: Ride leaves at 1pm
LOCATION: Trev Deeley Motorcycles (2375 Boundary Rd, Vancouver)
For info please call (604) 291-2453 or go to http://www.trevdeeley.com
Whitehorse Summer Motorcycle Rally Schedule:Visit our Booths at Americade, Laconia’s Ride to the Sky, BMW MOA, and BMW Finger Lakes
We’re looking forward to seeing many of you in person this summer at New England’s most popular rallies where we’ll be exhibiting and selling all of our popular motorcycle products.
First on our schedule is Americade at Lake George, New York, from June 6–11. Check out our large walk-through booth in the first aisle lakeside at Tour Expo (across from the lemonade stand and the fried dough!).
Then, we head right home to the Mount Washington Valley for Laconia Bike Week from June 11–18 where you can visit us all week long at our warehouse and offices on 107 East Conway Road in Center Conway, New Hampshire, about one hour north of Laconia, and also under the tent at the base of Mount Washington’s Auto Road on Thursday, June 15th for Bike Week’s popular Ride to the Sky.
Next up is the BMW MOA International Rally held this year just outside of Burlington, Vermont, on gorgeous Lake Champlain from July 20, 23. Look for our booth in the air conditioned (yes!) vendor hall at the Champlain Valley Exposition Center in Essex Junction, which will be “rally central” for events, camping, vendors, etc.
And finally, we plan to make another trip to Watkins Glen, New York, for the BMW Finger Lakes Rally over Labor Day Weekend (August 31, September 4) which always draws a great group of nearly 2000 happy riders and campers wanting to test the track and the wineries while making the rounds of Lake Seneca and the gorgeous back roads of this most scenic spot. You can spot us at our pointed circus tent filled with apparel, gear, books, gadgets, and lots of other things you?ve dreamed of having.
Whitehorse Gear
107 East Conway Road
Center Conway, NH 03813-4012
phone 603.356.6556
Phone: 800.531.1133
G2 MOTORSPORTS ENCOURAGE BY GOOD SHOWING IN HOUSTON–Ellis goes to Semi-finals, Smith exits early.With one bike in the semi-finals and the other out early the G2 Motorsports team was encouraged with the weekends results. “We had a pretty good weekend,” said George Bryce, co-team owner. “We have some gremlins that we are chasing but I am very happy with our riders and the team in general. We are just one round worth of points out of third place and there are a lot of races left. We are definitely looking forward to our next race in Atlanta.”
Qualifying
After the four qualifying attempts the G2 Motorsports bikes were qualified in the number three position (Chip Ellis aboard the DRAG Specialties/G2 Motorsports/S&S Cycle Buell – 7.063) and the number ten spot (Matt Smith aboard the Torco/Skull Gear/Red Line Oil/G2 Motorsports Buell – 7.110).
Eliminations – Round One
Matt Smith
Matt Smith was paired off with the Screamin’ Eagle V-rod of Andrew Hines in round one and knew he would have to try a little harder to win the race. “I ran against Andrew in the fourth qualifying round and he pulled me hard. I told my crew that we were in for a tough round,” said Matt Smith. “I knew when I pulled into the lights that I would have to push the tree to make up for the performance advantage we were giving away. The problem was that I pushed a little too hard and lit the red light.”
Smith ran a 7.154 at 186.56 MPH to Hines’ winning 7.107 at 190.35 MPH.”We will go back and make a few changes so that I don’t have to push the tree as hard in Atlanta. I just need to go a few rounds to make us all feel better,” said a determined Matt Smith. “I want to thank Evan Knoll and all of my sponsors for giving us this opportunity. We know that once we get turned around they will all be very happy.”
Chip Ellis
Chip Ellis’ first round opponent was the defending race champion, Karen Stoffer on her Geico Suzuki. Stoffer took a slight lead right off the line but Ellis steamed by her to take the win. Chip ran a 7.118 at 187.03 MPH to Stoffer’s losing 7.239 at 185.05 MPH.
“That was a good way to start the race,” said Ellis. “I have been working hard on my riding and I think it’s really starting to pay off.”
Eliminations – Round Two
Chip Ellis
Round two saw Chip paired up with his former Kawasaki teammate from their Prostar days together, Ryan Schnitz on his newly sponsored Buell. Schnitz took a lead off the line but encountered mechanical problems and Ellis went on to take the win. Chip ran a 7.205 at 186.38 MPH to advance to the next round.
“We made some tuning changes after the first round that didn’t work real well in the high heat and humidity but we won the round,” added Ellis. “We knew we needed to change back to our earlier tune-up before the semi-finals, so that’s what we did.”
Eliminations – Semi-finals
Chip Ellis
The semi-finals would see the DRAG Specialties/S&S Cycle powered Buell taking on the Screamin’ Eagle/Vance and Hines V-rod of two-time champion, Andrew Hines. Chip cut an excellent .003 second light and seemed like he was on the way to another round win.
“The bike just didn’t have any real power,” lamented Ellis. “It wasn’t pulling in 3rd and 4th gear. I peeked over at Andrew and I was still out in front of him. When I plugged it into 5th it picked the power back up but it was a little too late as Andrew got around me for the win. I think we just missed the tune-up which is something that we can correct.”
Post Race Comments
George Bryce, Director of Racing for G2 said, “We really only had one or two good runs with the two bikes. We have some electrical issues with the tuning that we need to work out. Once we do it will be better for everyone.”
“We made some tuning changes from round one to round two on Chip’s bike and they didn’t work, luckily we won the round. We then decided to go back to the tune-up we used in the opening round of eliminations. When we went to the lanes for the semi-finals we were confident that we had a good enough bike to advance to the finals. Unfortunately the electric gremlins didn’t concur.”
George Smith, President of G2 added, “Our team struggled with consistency this weekend. We are working very hard to get the systems in place so that we can perform the way we are capable of on each and every run.”
“We have a very good motorcycle and Chip Ellis is riding the best he ever has. We couldn’t have asked for anything more from him at this race. I know that at times we looked like we were going backwards but I can assure that isn’t the case. All I can say is that once the system is ready everyone else had better watch out.”
ESPN2 Telecast Schedule Eliminations Re-Broadcast – Wednesday – April 5 – 2:30 a.m. – 4:30 a.m. (eastern)
HINES MAKES FIRST FINAL ROUND APPEARANCE OF THE SEASON–Tonglet Advances to Semi-Finals. When the two-bike Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle/Vance & Hines V-Rod team walked away from the first round of qualifying Friday at the O’Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals, predicting a final round appearance seemed nearly impossible.
After that first qualifying pass at Houston Raceway Park, two-time defending NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Andrew Hines was in ninth place. Teammate GT Tonglet wasn’t even qualified.
The weekend, however, came around. The team rallied in qualifying and made the most out of the day that really counts – Sunday.
Hines earned his first final round appearance of the season and 11th of his career, falling short in the final to Suzuki rider Angelle Sampey. Tonglet moved past the first round since the Reading, Pa., event in September last season, where he also earned a semifinal appearance.
“Considering where we started out on Friday and where we ended up on Sunday, we did better than anyone expected,” team owner Byron Hines said. “We were so far off after the first round of qualifying and Matt (Hines, crew chief) decided that we needed to take the bikes in two completely opposite directions. When one bike outperformed the other, we changed the setup for the slower bike. It worked great and we were the last V-Twin standing. I was very happy to see how Matt and the entire crew focused this weekend.”
Hines qualified in the No. 7 position after posting a 7.096-second pass at 190.92 mph, while Tonglet started eliminations in the No. 13 position with a 7.134 at 190.70.
In Round One, Hines beat Buell rider Matt Smith (7.107 at 190.38 to starting line foul) while Tonglet beat Buell rider Tom Bradford (7.168 at 187.65 to foul). In Round Two, Hines beat Suzuki rider Antron Brown (7.176 at 189.47 to foul) and Tonglet beat Suzuki rider Shawn Gann (7.217 at 185.95 to foul).
“The first couple of rounds weren’t exactly pretty, but both bikes saw the win-light and that’s all that matters,” Tonglet said. “We moved up in points and that was our main goal and to do that, we needed to go rounds. It was especially nice to win first round because it’s been a long time since I’ve been past that first round and that was a big relief.”
Tonglet lost to Sampey in the semifinal matchup, turning in a 7.225 at 186.20 to her 7.163 pass at 189.50. Hines beat Buell rider Chip Ellis in his semifinal race, going 7.177 at 189.23 to Ellis’ 7.271 at 185.46.
Hines lost in the final round, but made up points in the standings and is now in second place after two races in the 15-event series. He rode his V-Rod to a 7.200 run at 188.04 to Sampey’s winning pass of 7.144 at 190.11. Sampey leads the category, holding a 63-point lead over Hines. Tonglet is in eighth place, 129 points behind Sampey.
“We struggled this weekend but in the end, the team made some good adjustments and put the riders in a position to win rounds,” said Harley-Davidson Racing Manager Anne Paluso. “Andrew going to the final round and GT making his first semifinal appearance since last season is exactly what the team needed going into a month-long break. Now we have some good data to work from and get ready for the next race in Atlanta.”
Andrew Hines said Sunday made up for the struggles throughout qualifying.
“We can’t complain too much with two semifinal appearances and my first final of the year,” Hines said. “We are starting to figure out the right tuneup, and GT and I are doing everything we can to ride our best. We have a few weeks to get back to the shop and get our V-Rods tuned up. It was a good Sunday, but we still have a lot of work to do.”
The next NHRA POWERade Drag Racing event that features the Pro Stock Motorcycle category is the May 4-7 Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway.
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