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Not sure what to make of today? You’ll see when you scramble through the news. I’m trying to wrap it up early, then peel out. I have a date…
The other day I rode out to Sugar Bear’s shop and pulled up to a rear flat. I borrowed his stock FXR and jammed to an autoparts. Tire fixed.
If you are waiting for your Sugar Bear springer, be patient. He’s had several deaths in the family, and the chrome business is leaving California quickly. He’s working through all his issues, but they all hamper progress.
He had springers of various sizes in different stages of completion all over his shop. He told me a story about a SoCal chromer who was hit by the EPA to the tune of $175,000 to adjust his shop for new rules. When he told them he would rather sell his shop, they said it would cost him $375,000 to clean up his shop before he could sell it. He closed it down and gave the shop to the State of California in his will.
Crazy. Let’s hit the news:
QUICK OPEN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY–A woman went to her doctor. The doctor, after an examination, sighed and said, “I’ve some bad news. You have cancer, and you’d best put your Affairs in order.
The woman was shocked, but managed to compose herself and walk into the Waiting room, where her daughter had been waiting.”Well daughter, we women celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don’t go well. In this case, things aren’t well. I have Cancer. Let’s head to the club and have a martini.”
After 3 or 4 martinis, the two were feeling a little less somber. There were some laughs and more martinis. They were eventually approached by some of the woman’s old friends, who were curious as to what the two were celebrating.
The woman told her friends they were drinking to her impending end. “I Have been diagnosed with AIDS,”
The friends gave the woman their condolences, and they had a couple of More martinis. After the friends left, the woman’s daughter leaned over and whispered, “Mom ma, I thought you said you were dying of cancer, and you just told your friends you were dying of AIDS.”
The woman said, “I don’t want any of those bitches sleeping with your Father after I’m gone.”
–from Jerry and Rogue
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OHIO BIKE WEEK 2014
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How could any musician not enjoy The Iron Cowgirl Band!!!
Original songs, and performed with heart and soul!!!
–Ian MacDonald
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Talladega, AL
JIMS has just released our new Steady Roll Tappets–It is no secret to us at JIMS (and to top engine builders) that performance V-Twin engines require more valve lift than stock designs. This increases the load on the tappet roller, which can lead to failure.
Tappet roller failure is a catastrophic and expensive failure. Broken needle rollers allow the tappet roller to deform, causing cam lobe damage. Pieces of the hard rollers, as well as debris from the cam can easily contaminate other parts, such as cam plates, bearings, oil pumps, and other tappets. Ultimately resulting in a complete rebuild.
To remedy this, we have replaced the needle rollers with a special bronze alloy bushing resulting in increased reliability and longevity. No longer do you need to worry about needle rollers and debris damaging the engine in the event of a failure.
In addition to this, JIMS has invested in new machinery that controls the hydraulic unit fitment tolerance within .00015.” This new failsafe design means even if the bushing wears out, it will be initially retained in the tappet assembly.
The new Powerglide Steady Roll Tappets are available for use on all Twin Cams, Sportster 2000-up, and Buell 2000-up (except 1125R.) For more information contact us at sales@jimsusa.com, visit www.jimsusa.com, or call (805) 482-6913.
–Juliana Thiessen
www.jimsusa.com
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JOIN THE MRF–
The MRF is a membership based organization located in Washington, DC and is primarily concerned with issues at the national and international levels that impact the freedom and safety of American street motorcyclists. We are committed to educating the motorcycling public about legislative issues and to help support your own rights and freedoms.
Your membership includes a member card, patch, and pin along with a subscription to the MRF Reports, our publication distributed every other month. You are also entitled to a free $3,500 accidental death benefit through American Income Life. The MRF website is a comprehensive national information center for motorcyclists’ rights information which can be found at www.mrf.org.
On behalf of the MRF, I would like to thank you for your support and confidence in the MRF. We are a National Motorcyclist’s Rights Organization that we think you will be proud to be a part of.
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If you have any questions or if there are any issues you would like to discuss, please do not hesitate to contact us at our Washington,DC office at mrfoffice@mrf.org or (202) 546-0983.
ELECTRIC BIKES–Range and general acceptance (image) are the only things in the way.
The technology is there. Electric locomotives (powered by diesel generators) have been the standard for years. Last years Red Bull indianapolis GP (as a shameless plug, MotoGP comes to Indy August 8-10, 2014) featured an exhibition by electric bikes. They had plenty of speed, but could only run a limited number of laps (range).
Additionally, they lacked the “excitement” of a race as they were virtually silent.
We need to pay attention to this emerging technology, especially if it gets wrapped in orange and black.
Remember that the Motor Company was able to convince people (albeit a limited number) to spend about $5K to buy a Buell Blast.
Run Silent,
Run Deep…
I mean…
Ride Safe,
Ride Free,
–Jay
We will bring you the full Australian report from Heavy Duty Magazine next week.–Bandit
LOWBROW NEWS–Crazy times around the shop, we are simultaneously getting ready to leave for Born Free 6 in Orange, California on the west coast and The Smoke Out in North Carolina on the east coast. We will have Lowbrow booths at both events, so be sure to come by and say hi, grab a new catalog and some stickers!
The Midwest Moto Swap was a big success this past weekend, and we are already planning the next MWMS in October, so stay tuned! Next on the roster, my personal favorite, the 4th annual Lowbrow Getdown is Friday through Sunday, July 11th – 13th, 2014 at Nelson’s Ledges Quarry Park in NE Ohio. See you there!
Curious as to new parts unleashed upon the motorcycling world? Check out the new products section for more good stuff we have been adding to the shelves! And we are just getting started…
WEED WORLD NEWS–Kingston, Jamaica: Government officials last week announced their intent to relax the country’s marijuana possession penalties.
In a publicly released statement, Justice Minister Mark Golding said that Parliament would amend the nation’s drug laws so that possessing cannabis would no longer be a criminal offense.
“[T]he criminalization of possession of a small quantity of ganja and of smoking ganja has caused significant hardships in Jamaica, particularly among young men,” he said. “A conviction for possession or use of ganja results in a criminal record, which often precludes the offender from engaging certain employment, impacts his ability to get visas to travel overseas, and generally limits his life prospects. This is a serious human rights issue, supporting the cry for reform to our laws in this area.”
The proposed changes in law will amend Jamaica’s Dangerous Drugs Act by eliminating criminal penalties pertaining to the private possession of up to two ounces of cannabis by adults. Rather, such behavior will be reclassified under the law as a “non-arrestable, ticketable infraction … which does not give rise to a criminal record.”
Other proposed changes to the law intend to provide broader protections for those using cannabis for religious or medicinal purposes. “[R]eligious use of ganja ought not to be criminalized, given Jamaica’s history and prevailing socio-cultural and economic environment,” the Justice Minister said. He added, “It is not only wrong but also foolhardy to continue with a law that makes it illegal to possess ganja and its derivatives for medicinal purposes.”
The Justice Minister also said that politicians are backing separate legislation that seeks to expunge the criminal records of those with minor marijuana convictions. Additional legislative efforts are also “underway to develop a legal framework which will allow the emergence of medical ganja and industrial hemp industries in Jamaica,” Golding said.
Various Jamaican national commissions have previously called on Parliament to enact similar reforms, but lawmakers in the past have largely ignored their recommendations.
Under present Jamaican law, the possession of 28 grams or less of cannabis is classified as a criminal offense, punishable by arrest, a fine, and potential imprisonment
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, or Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Director, at (202) 483-5500.
VICTORY MOTORCYCLES COMING TO THE DAYTONA POLICE DEPARTMENT–
DBPD Will Start Patrolling on Victory Motorcycles Oct. 1, 2014.
The Daytona Beach Police Department, an agency that protects and serves in a city that plays host to major events such as Speed Week, the Daytona 500, Spring Break, and Bike Week, will begin patrolling on Victory Police Motorcycles starting this fall.
The Daytona Beach City Commission voted unanimously in May to support the recommendation of Police Chief Michael Chitwood and approve the switch to Victory Police Motorcycles starting Oct. 1, 2014. The police department’s motor officers will be patrolling on a fleet of 12 Commander I VPM models, which are based on the Victory Cross Country.
The department is switching to Victory Police Motorcycles after its current lease to use Harley-Davidson motorcycles expires.
“Every other year our agency ordered new motorcycles, and we were at the mercy of whatever new advances were made to the bike itself, which usually wasn’t much,” said highly decorated DBPD Traffic Unit Officer Jason Kilker. “By contrast, Victory Police Motorcycles provided a two-page checklist of law enforcement-only options that were available for our officers to select what suited them best. These options included, but were not limited to, full-size AR-15 rifle racks, heated grips, and a mind-blowing LED light package that no one can match.”
A growing number of law enforcement agencies across the United States and Canada are switching to Victory Police Motorcycles because of the motorcycles’ outstanding performance, reliability, and long-riding comfort. American-made Victory Motorcycles deliver an unmatched combination of power, maneuverability, cargo capacity, low maintenance costs, and ergonomics that suit officers spending long hours on the job.
“Victory Police Motorcycles focuses exclusively on the law enforcement industry with officer safety being Priority One,” said Victory Police Motorcycles CEO Nita Buckner. “Our continual introduction of new safety enhancements is a testament to this commitment to safety.”
Victory Police Motorcycles is a Tucson, Arizona-based company that acquires motorcycles from Victory and equips them to suit the specific needs of individual agencies. The VPM staff typically equips a Victory Cross Country, Cross Roads, or Victory Vision with equipment such as lights, radio, and siren, a secondary battery to power that electronic equipment, and custom paint that features the agency’s logo. Additional accessories can include tip-over protection, a skid plate, firearms and radar gun holsters, alternate windshield styles, and more.
Because every Victory Motorcycle delivers industry-leading power, braking, and handling, VPM does not need to make any performance or handling modifications to the motorcycles it provides to law enforcement agencies.
“We admire the great work of the Daytona Beach Police Department and are excited that they will soon enjoy the numerous competitive advantages the Victory Motorcycles provide,” said Steve Menneto, VP Motorcycles for Polaris. “It’s rewarding to have such a world-class department choose Victory Police Motorcycles.”
The Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) will lease a fleet of 12 Commander I models, each of which equipped with LED lights, a radio box, and a siren, and they will feature the department’s striking custom paint scheme and famous logo. Volusia Motorsports, the Victory dealership in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, will provide service and regular maintenance for the fleet.
The Daytona Beach Police Department serves a city that is located on the Atlantic Coast with the “World’s Most Famous Beach,” a city that is a year-round vacation destination for visitors from around the world. The department is especially busy during several major events held in Daytona Beach each year. Daytona International Speedway is the site of several weeks of car and motorcycle racing activity each year, as well as numerous non-racing activities. Plus, the city has long been host to multiple Bike Weeks and Spring Break celebrations that attract tens of thousands of visitors each spring.
Starting in October, famous routes in the city such as Main Street, Beach Street, International Speedway Boulevard, Route A1A, and more will be patrolled by DBPD motor officers on Victory Police Motorcycles.
Learn more at www.VictoryPoliceMotorcycles.com.
MORE WEED WORLD NEWS–
Jerusalem, Israel: The administration of oral THC mitigates symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), according to clinical trial data published online ahead of print in the journal Clinical Drug Investigation.
Investigators at the Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem assessed the safety and efficacy of oral THC as an adjunct treatment in ten subjects with chronic PTSD.
Researchers reported, “The intervention caused a statistically significant improvement in global symptom severity, sleep quality, frequency of nightmares, and PTSD hyperarousal symptoms.”
They concluded, “Orally absorbable delta-9-THC was safe and well tolerated by patients with chronic PTSD.”
Separate clinical trial data has previously reported that the administration of nabilone, a synthetic endocannabinoid agonist, can reduce the severity and frequency of nightmares in patients with PTSD.
In 2013, researchers at the New York University School of Medicine published findings indicating that PTSD subjects experience a decrease in their natural production of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter. They hypothesized that an increase in the body’s production of cannabinoids would likely restore subjects’ natural brain chemistry and psychological balance. They affirmed, “[Our] findings substantiate, at least in part, emerging evidence that … plant-derived cannabinoids such as marijuana may possess some benefits in individuals with PTSD by helping relieve haunting nightmares and other symptoms of PTSD.”
For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, at: paul@norml.org. Full text of the study, “Preliminary, open-label, pilot study of add-on oral delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in chronic post-traumatic stress disorder,” will appear in Clinical Drug Investigation.
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Sounds like my kind of event. I will have to put it on my bucket list.
Good Shots Danny
–Rogue
rogue@bikerrogue.com
Palm Bay, FL
HOMELESS AND POOR CAN PARK AND LIVE ON YOUR STREETS–
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-homeless-vehicles-20140620-story.html
DOTTIE IS READY TO RIDE– Dottie Mattern, one of only four female contestants in the 2014 Motorcycle Cannonball, has taken delivery of her 1936 Indian Scout, the motorcycle on which she will contest the grueling 17-day, 4150-mile competition scheduled to begin later this year.
You will see the full report on Bikernet this week.
–Bandit
Truett, Hill and Owens named Grand Marshals of 2014 Sturgis Nationals– The Western Motorcycle Drag Racing Association (WMDRA) is excited to announce that drag racing legends Bonnie Truett, Pete Hill and Marion Owens have been named Grand Marshals of this year’s AMSOIL Sturgis Nationals set for August 5 and 6 at Sturgis Dragway during the 74th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
The festivities coincide with Truett’s induction into the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame for his contributions to Harley-Davidson drag racing. All three racers, who have been named to numerous lists as some of motorcycle drag racing’s all-time greats, will greet the crowd, sign autographs, introduce number one qualifiers and call the bikes to the line, as the WMDRA presents their third annual AMSOIL Sturgis Nationals. The annual event at Sturgis Dragway will feature competition in four professional classes and six sportsman categories as the WMDRA celebrates horsepower and history.
According to WMDRA President Sandra Alberti, “These racers have shaped and grown the sport we enjoy today, and it is an honor and a pleasure to have them join us at the track to celebrate their accomplishments and thank them for their contributions.” Alberti added, “While we enjoy fierce competition at the event, having these legends of the sport on hand really embodies what Sturgis is all about… celebrating our sport, honoring the tradition of competition, and setting new milestones. It doesn’t get any better than this!”
With careers that have spanned nearly four decades, these gentlemen have earned championships across multiple sanctions, collected numerous national event wins and set nearly every record possible in the sport. It’s history in the making for such pioneers and innovators to meet at the track in 2014, and with the multitude of bikes on hand, vintage and modern, you just never know who you’ll see going down the track in Sturgis! (Hint, hint… you don’t want to miss this!)
Legends autograph session and Q&A will begin at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 6, leading us to Opening Ceremonies and eliminations at 3:00 p.m.
Sturgis Dragway is located at 20523 Hwy 79, just off Hwy 34 between the Full Throttle Saloon and Buffalo Chip Campground. For more information, please visit www.westernmotodrags.com or call (208) 850-5795.
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AUSSIE CLUBS FIGHTING BACK– bypassing the anti-association laws
Bikers in the Australian state of Queensland, the ‘declared’ bikers, are circumventing the state’s draconian anti-biker laws by moving club meetings out of clubhouses and into suburbs – and the police are powerless to stop them.
Bikers are gathering in members’ homes – on private property – to circumvent strict laws banning them from clubhouses.
They travel to the meets alone or in pairs to avoid arrest and lengthy jail time under the states anti-association legislation.
The Courier-Mail newspaper was invited to a get-together of the Brisbane chapter of the Rebels motorcycle club, where 15 members met knowing that they were “untouchables”.
The bikers wanted to highlight how they were surviving the Newman Government’s legislation introduced nine months ago, and the subsequent police blowtorch.
Rebel Jamie Ruff said the meetings were like “acts of defiance” in the face of Government oppression.
“I don’t think they’ll ever stop us doing this,’’ Ruff said. “They can do whatever they want, but we’ll still find a way to get together and hang out.
“Basically the last 10 years of my life, I’ve been with these blokes. These guys are my family, that’s why I’m here.’’
Before the VLAD laws were introduced last October, the Brisbane Rebels – like chapters throughout the country – met every Friday night at clubhouses to discuss club business and socialise.
But 46 Queensland clubhouses were declared no-go zones because police said chapters were meeting to organise criminal activities – a claim rejected by Brisbane’s top Rebel.
Chapter president ‘Little Mick’ Kosenko, who hosted the meeting at his North Brisbane home, said the club was not involved in organised crime and any conviction against members would be minor.
The Newman government claimed in figures released in April that 40 per cent of Rebels members had a criminal record.
“Most would be low-level offences, relating to minor drug charges and assault and would have been committed by individual members, not as part of any organised club activity,’’ Little Mick, a Rebel for 33 years, said.
“The club has rules where members are expelled for serious crimes and pulled into line if they seem to be straying from the straight and narrow. We have to meet somewhere. The only place we can do it safely without being arrested is someone’s backyard.”
Little Mick said Queensland motorcycle club members were being forced to toe the “legal fine line’’ between being arrested and being left alone by police.
“It’s just about keeping the club together. We are really under attack by the State Government,’’ he said.
“It’s ridiculous. It’s another thing we’ve got to bring up in the High Court challenge. It’s just another segment of these laws that we are fighting.”
Rebel of eight years, Steve “Sarge” McCrohon, said: “We are like a group of guys who meet at the local bowls club or football club on Friday night.
“But we wear black leather, we ride big motorbikes and we like the male camaraderie.
“It’s a mateship, it’s a brotherhood – we like to know how everyone is going.”
WILMINGTON WATERFRONT EFFORT NEAR THE BIKERNET HEADQUARTERS–
By Donna Littlejohn, The Daily Breeze
Thaleya Walker, left, of San Pedro, gives a high five to stilt walker David Kaplin during the grand opening of the Port of Los Angeles’ $32 million town square & water cut in San Pedro, Calif. Friday June 20, 2014. (Stephen Carr / Staff Photographer)
On the eve of Friday night’s opening of a new $32 million town plaza and harbor cut in San Pedro, several people raised a familiar objection at a harbor commission meeting: San Pedro gets preferential treatment compared to Wilmington when it comes to perks like waterfront development.
“I hate to say we’re back to the bad old days, but I think we are,” said Ken Melendez a Wilmington property owner who along with 14 other residents has started Wilmington Waterfront Forward, a group committed to seeing that the Port of Los Angeles keeps its promises for waterfront redevelopment.
Commissioners, who held a rare night meeting Thursday at Banning’s Landing in Wilmington, got an earful during public comments as several residents complained that the town was getting second-class treatment by the port and city of Los Angeles.
“Pedro’s always getting everything,” Wilmington resident Frank Martinez told commissioners. “We’re always second. … We need to be equal.”
Friday night’s opening of San Pedro’s new Downtown Harbor plaza at Sixth Street and Harbor Boulevard, two years in the making, drew hundreds of people to celebrate the newest waterfront feature. It’s considered a cornerstone project that designers hope will better link the waterfront to San Pedro’s historic downtown shopping district a few blocks away.
“I support that 100 percent,” Melendez said. “But what about Wilmington?”
Melendez, who has served on several Wilmington waterfront panels through the years, said the port’s budget projections tell the story. Over the next five years, he said, citing a port document, $58.4 million will be spent on San Pedro’s waterfront. Wilmington’s projected waterfront expenditures for the same time period? $276,421, he said.
But the document he referenced, said a port spokesman, is merely an outlook or a “snapshot,” not a spending plan. Most of the funding reflected in San Pedro — $56 million of the $58.4 million — accounts for wharf improvements that will be needed for the AltaSea marine research center.
Annual budgets, said Arley Baker, director of port communications, “are approved one fiscal year at a time.” Baker also noted that a new executive director, Gene Seroka, starts in the next week.
“As Mr. Seroka transitions into his new role here beginning next week, there will be plenty of opportunity for further dialogue between the community, the board and port staff about how we can move forward,” Baker said.
In truth, both waterfronts — now being collectively branded as the L.A. Waterfront — have had their share of setbacks over the course of more than two decades.
Ports O’ Call Village, which has been on San Pedro’s redevelopment “to-do” list since the early 1990s, is finally moving forward but remains in the negotiation stage.
In Wilmington, proposals to reclaim that community’s waterfront for retail and recreational uses go back at least 25 years. Residents have long argued that their community takes the brunt of industrial impacts from the port, including truck traffic and container storage yards.
And while Wilmington scored a 30-acre, $55 million waterfront park that opened in 2011 — winning a nationwide nomination for its design — the community continues to wait for other design elements such as a triangle park and a Red Car museum that seem to be taking longer than projected.
Wilmington’s stretch of waterfront geographically, however, also is much smaller than San Pedro’s.
Meanwhile, port officials must juggle revenues and spending plans for waterfront projects estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino said he has been hearing from Wilmington residents about the concerns and is taking them seriously. Among the issues he wants to explore are seeing if State Tidelands restrictions can be loosened to allow retail-residential, mixed-use projects in waterfront districts.
“I want shovels in the ground tomorrow,” Buscaino said. “There’s a sense of urgency that the longer we wait, the longer it will take to put people to work.”
And the longer it takes, the more tourism dollars are also lost, he said.
“Am I irritated that progress is moving slowly? Absolutely,” Buscaino said. “Prosperity begins at the water line.”
But he added: “We need to caution ourselves as Harbor Area residents not to make this a territorial issue. The waterfront belongs to everyone, not a select few.”
“San Pedro’s waterfront is Wilmington’s waterfront and Wilmington’s waterfront is San Pedro’s waterfront, from the east side to the west side …,” he said, repeating the lyrics of Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.”
“This Downtown Harbor (in San Pedro) belongs to San Pedro and Wilmington and Harbor City and Harbor Gateway and Watts and Hollywood,” he said at the plaza’s opening Friday night.
Still, Wilmington residents say they intend to push hard to make sure that their community sees the waterfront promises materialize.
The commission meeting included a presentation by the port on the progress of the Wilmington waterfront projects. Among them:
• Avalon Triangle Park ($5.5 million); Anticipated to be completed in 2016
• Catalina Freight relocation; Anticipated finish in 2016
• E Street and Alameda beautification ($2 million): Anticipated finish in 2016
• Wilmington Youth Sailing and Aquatic Center ($3.1 million); Anticipated finish in 2016
• Pedestrian bridge overpass ($11 million: Anticipated finish in 2018.
Some of the funding comes from $50 million in court-mandated expenditures stemming from a lawsuit brought by homeowners against the China Shipping Terminal expansion in 2001.
Many of these projects have been on the drawing boards for years, critics complain. Funding for them has yet to be allocated as the projects are still in the development stage.
“I’ve been able to travel and every port I’ve gone to has been beautified around a working port,” Ignacio Ortiz, owner of Hojas Tea House Cafe in Wilmington, told commissioners. “Long Beach, San Francisco, San Diego, San Pedro, Seattle, Portland — all except for one and that’s my city, Wilmington. I look at the renderings and think, ‘Why can’t this happen?’ ”
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epithalamion
ep-uh-thuh-LEY-mee-on, -uhn , noun;
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1.a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
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‘I hope you’ll be very happy,’ and I must make do with his whisky-laced epithalamion for the only person we invite to our hasty register-office wedding is Marjorie Morrison and we have to borrow a witness from the previous wedding.
Up and down and round the bells swung, they nodded, they brimmed with joyous sound, the bronze tongues struck the bronze palates, and all these mouths trembled, now one, now another, high and low, all different, but making a single splendour of sound, an epithalamion .
Origin:
Epithalamion comes from the Greek epi- + thalamos meaning “at, upon” + “bridal chamber.” It entered English in the late 1500s.
NEW DANNY LYON’S EXHIBITION–
By Miranda Collinge | Photographs by Danny Lyon, Esquire
Danny Lyon’s seminal photo series on Sixties motorbike gangs features bad boys, bad girls and bad grammar.
Welcome to the clubhouse of the Outlaws, Chicago’s most fearsome motorcycle outfit.
We wouldn’t have wanted to venture much closer (let alone comment on their signage), but photographer Danny Lyon is a braver sort.
He embedded with the gang for four years in the mid-Sixties, crossing the US on long rides and race-meets, resulting in an extraordinary set of photographs that will be on display at Atlas Gallery in London this month.
His startling images capture a world of slick-haired men called “Cockroach” and “Cowboy” who care little for road safety or conventional hygiene and if it doesn’t make you want to rush out and buy a leather jacket – or even a Harley – we don’t know what will.
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders runs from 19 June to 16 August at Atlas Gallery, London. atlasgallery.com
WEEKEND GUN NUT REPORT–Former MAIG Boss: Gun Control Wouldn’t Stop Mass Murderers
Mark Glaze, who just resigned as executive director of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), now says that the gun control restrictions MAIG supports are “a mismatch,” where crimes committed by mass murderers are concerned. “It is a messaging problem” for gun control supporters “when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting,” Glaze told the Wall St. Journal.
Eighteen months ago, however, Glaze was singing a different tune. “The single biggest problem that the [Obama] administration can solve is making sure every (firearms) buyer gets a background check,” he said. Exaggerating the numbers even more than President Obama did a few months later, Glaze claimed at the time, “Nearly 50% of buyers never get [a background check], and that is the dominant problem in gun policy in this country.”
Glaze may have since had an epiphany of sorts, but the same cannot be said for MAIG and Bloomberg’s other anti-gun group, Moms Demand Action. Now billing themselves as Everytown for Gun Safety, the two groups claim, “The single most important thing we can do to reduce gun violence is to require a criminal background check for every gun sale.”
Several government reports, however, provide additional “messaging problems” with these assertions. First, the Bureau of Justice Statistics has reported (see p. 13) that most criminals imprisoned for gun crimes obtain their guns from theft, the black market and acquaintances. None of these methods will be stopped or hindered by the requirement of additional background checks. Second, the BATFE has reported that nearly half of illegally trafficked guns originate with straw purchasers–people who already defeat the existing background check requirement by buying guns for criminals who cannot pass checks. And third, the FBI has reported that more than 200,000 guns are stolen annually (obviously without any background checks).
If facts matter, Bloomberg and fellow gun control advocate Hillary Clinton (see accompanying article) will never convince Congress to impose “universal” checks. However, Bloomberg has been trying to get other gun control restrictions imposed as well. MAIG’s Blueprint for Federal Action, provided to the Obama administration in 2009, called for prohibiting the importation of firearms that are “non-sporting.”
Never mind that the Supreme Court specifically held that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for defensive purposes. The “Blueprint” also advocated requiring firearm dealers to notify the BATFE when a person buys two or more AR-15s or comparable long guns within a five day period. This creates a federal registry of these firearms and their owners. Furthermore, MAIG supported legislation to create a new class of federally prohibited person, based on inclusion in a secret government list.
The following year, MAIG expressed support for requiring purchase permits for all handguns sales, giving law enforcement authorities discretion over the issuance of carry permits, and allowing local jurisdictions to impose gun control laws more restrictive than state law.
Today, Everytown also implicitly supports legislation to require gun owners to store guns in a manner dictated by the government and to require new guns to possess “smart” gun technology. It also tries to convince people that having guns within their homes makes them bad parents. Situations in which children accidentally kill themselves with their parents’ guns “happen all the time,” a new Everytown video falsely claims.
Clearly, what Bloomberg and his proxies are counting on is that make-believe videos, slogans, and “accessible” anti-gun group names like “Moms” and “Everytown” are all that it will take to convince the American people to go along with gun control.
What they likely didn’t count on is the chief manager of their anti-gun efforts throwing in the towel and coming clean with the American people.
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WILL ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLES TAKE OVER THE WORLD THURSDAY NEWS FOR June 19, 2014
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I especially like: I’m not saying let’s go kill all the stupid people. I’m just saying let’s remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out.
–Chris
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longtown, CA
HILLARY CLINTON ON GUN CONTROL AND TERRORISTS– Gun Control Opponents Are Terrorists, Not Entitled to Viewpoint
Hillary Clinton hasn’t said that she’s running for the Democrat Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, but lately she’s been going out of her way to make sure that gun owners know what a Hillary presidency would be like for them.
On Monday, during an interview on CNN Newsroom, Mrs. Clinton made clear that at age 66, she still hasn’t outgrown the zealotry of her youth. With anger characteristic of the political fringe, Mrs. Clinton said of gun control opponents, “We cannot let a minority of people–and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people–hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.”
Mrs. Clinton was asked by a member of CNN’s TV studio audience “. . . as it pertains to school shootings. Do you think that reinstating the ban on assault weapons and banning high capacity magazines would do any good?” Mrs. Clinton responded “Yes, I do. I do.” As she went on, she twice confused semi-automatic firearms with “automatic” weapons.
Mrs. Clinton also said that she was “disappointed that Congress didn’t pass universal background checks in 2013.” Being that we hold the First Amendment in higher regard than Mrs. Clinton, we’ll say she’s entitled to her “viewpoint.”
The facts, however, show that “universal” checks wouldn’t stop the exceedingly rare mass murderer, as acknowledged by nationally-recognized criminologist James Alan Fox in his Top 10 myths about mass shootings.
It’s unclear what Mrs. Clinton hoped to accomplish with her comments on CNN. Some have suggested those remarks–preceded by her earlier statement that gun ownership is something “way out of balance,” which “we’ve got to rein in”–suggest she doesn’t intend to run for president.
In addition, recent polls show that Mrs. Clinton’s characterization of gun control opponents as a “minority” is out of touch with reality. A Gallup poll in January found that only 31% of Americans want stricter gun laws. Similarly, a Rasmussen Reports national phone survey in March found “just 40% of likely U.S. voters now think the United States needs stricter gun control laws, down nine points from last May and the lowest level of support for stricter laws since February 2012.”
HANG ON FOR ILLUSION OPEN HOUSE–July 13, 2014 Sunday* Open House at Illusion Cycles premieres The SoCal Clothing Line… Meet Rusty Coones “QUINN” on Sons of Anarchy.
Proud to introduce our friends KITTY KATCHERS Pet Adoption
This is a Family & Kid Friendly Event. Special Thank You to Russ Brown & Friends.
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ADDITIONAL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT IS BULLSHIT–
arsy-varsy
AHR-see-VAHR-see , adjective;
1.Informal . wrong end foremost; completely backward: an arsy-varsy way of doing things .
adverb:
1.Informal . in a backward or thoroughly mixed-up fashion: The papers are all filed arsy-varsy .
Quotes:
Lucas left her to press Lestrade, who was awkwardly composing a narrative in which he was a marginal figure, brought in arsy-varsy . He found the old guide waiting impatiently, in fear that his clientele would evaporate amid disorder.
…a gob, a prayer, a lesson, a little of each, a prayer got by rote in case of emergency before the soul resigns and bubbling up all arsy-varsy in the old mouth bereft of words, in the old head done with listening, there I am old, it doesn’t take long…
Origin:
This term first came to English in the 1530s. It is probably an alteration of the Latin vice versa with arse substituted to make a facetious rhyming compound.
LOOKING FOR A NEW ADVENTURE? Sail the British Virgin Islands, February 3-10, 2015
You have sailed with us all over the globe from Croatia to Tonga. It’s time to come home, back to the mecca of sailing –
The British Virgin Islands. Join our flotilla of fun friends, wonderful skippers and Dream yachts …
–Captain Woody CaptainWoody@AdventureVoyaging.com
BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY STILL OPEN–
Paddy had long heard the stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday.
On that special day, they’d each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side for their first legal drink. So when Paddy’s 18th birthday came around, he and his pal Mick, took a boat out to the middle of the lake, Paddy, stepped out of the boat …and nearly drowned!
Mick just barely managed to pull him to safety. Furious and confused, Paddy went to see his grandmother.”Grandma,” he asked, “Tis me 18th birthday, so why can’t I walk across the lake like me father, his father and his father before him?”
Granny looked deeply into Paddy’s, troubled blue eyes and said, “Because ye father, ye grandfather and ye great-grandfather were all born in December, when the lake is frozen, and ye were born in August, ya fookin idiot!
–from Rogue and Jerry
TIME TO HIT IT—Ray is shipping his bike, the 5-Ball Raycer to Dan Thayer for tuning. His Raycer is our major effort for this year, as my amazing trike won’t be ready. It’s a major project and we are hoping to display it in Bonneville, just to tease the crowds. Kent Weeks, at Lucky Devil Metal Works, in Houston is pouring over the one -off tube frame coupled to the Paughco touring carriage. I’m working with MetalSport wheels on the rear wheel.
I spoke to Lee Clemens from Departure Bike Works and the Bonne Belle is flying back together. We are hoping to make some passes with our 1940 flathead with the K-model top end, in a Paughco frame and a 5-speed transmission. Sure, it’s crazy.
Tomorrow, we are planning a photo shoot with Peter Linney, this Sporty Chop and a Mermaid. I’m not kidding. And last night our official, certified electrician had his van broke into and caught the perpetrator
Ride Free Forever,
–Bandit
