Hey,
I’m sorta under the weather. I caught a Mung cold somewhere between Charleston, SC and Los Angeles and it kicked my ass, almost. I missed the Born Free Weekend, but you will see various reports.
The discussion continues with comparisons to the Smoke Out and comments from Born Free. A younger rider felt there were too many posers at Born Free, trying to look the part. On the other hand the infamous Michael Lichter shooting for Easyriders, was severely impressed with the invitational bikes, the Harley-Davidson customized offerings, and the Hot Bike Invitational. Don’t miss his annual show in Sturgis at the Chip.
It’s all good when it comes to our industry. Anything celebrating the growth and talent in our small industry raises awareness and inspires new builds. Let’s hit the news.
DIRECT FROM BORN FREE—
Born Free’s lost its old charm, everything’s all chromed out, slickly painted, engineered to perfection, blinged out! Except this classic from Custom Cycle Engineering.
–Markus Cuff
NEWS FLASH, INDIAN MOTORCYCLE is the Official Motorcycle of the Hollister Freedom Rally— That’s right Indian is now the Official Motorcycle of the Hollister Freedom Rally.
Don’t Miss it. This could be the first of many true historic Hollister Rallies.
–Seth Doulton
KEEP THE BIKERNET JOKE LIBRARY WIDE OPEN ON THE WEEKENDS–
Q : Where does a Jewish husband hide money from his wife?
A : Under the vacuum cleaner.
Q : How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb?
A : (Sigh) “Don’t bother. I’ll sit in the dark. I don’t want to be a nuisance to anybody.”
Q : What’s the difference between a Rottweiler and a Jewish mother?
A : Eventually, the Rottweiler lets go.
Q : Why are Jewish Men circumcised?
A : Because Jewish women don’t like anything that isn’t 20% off.
–from HS Hamster
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Run What Ya Brung Street Drag Race Day is Here!
Let’s hump this bitch! 2015, here we cum!!
–anj cov
taoislove@live.com
Back Street, WA
I will ask Mooneyes Steve and Shige Also have RSD send a recommendation. LT is an amazing builder.
–Art Hall
Supreme Bikernet International Editor and Defense Minister
QUICK, New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
Greene County Choppers For 2006
I wish you would include information about pricing. If I’m on a web page that does not have some kind of pricing I usually just keep surfing. I have a picture of a bike and I would like to know if you made it.
Can’t figure out how to attach the pic though.
— Daniel Johnson
johnsondaniel128@yahoo.com
Waterloo , IA
ANOTHER AMAZING BUILDER HEADS TO BORN FREE–
I’m heading to the BF7 show tomorrow. Will you be around? Would be cool to catch up…
This is something new and different! I have the cap your reader is interested in, let’s try to catch up tomorrow?
Good days
–Jesse Rooke
GUN NUT REPORTS FROM THE FRONT– A Utah resident has just been told that he must pay up if he wants to sue the police officer who gunned down his dog down.
Sean Kendall’s dog, Geist, was shot and killed by a Salt Lake City cop who was searching for a missing child last year.
Neither Kendall, nor Geist had anything to do with that missing child. But that didn’t protect the dog from the trigger-happy officer.
Salt Lake city officials eventually offered Kendall a $10,000 settlement, after public outrage began to mount about the canine killing.
Kendall rejected the offer, saying: “It would be like, ‘For $10,000 you can break into my backyard and kill my dog.’ That’s not right.”
He said he wants to sue the officer who actually pulled the trigger, not just receive hush money from the city. But now his attorneys have been informed that if he wants to sue the police officer, he will need a lot more than $10,000.
That’s because Utah law requires anyone who wishes to sue a police officer to pay their court expenses up front. The citizen is only reimbursed for those court costs if they win the case. This makes it virtually impossible to sue a police officer in the State of Utah, no matter what they have done.
Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is Kendall’s attorney. He says that this bizarre requirement “severely undermines the rule of law, while letting abusive law-enforcement officers off the hook for their violations of the state constitution and other state legal protections.”
He is now awaiting a court ruling as to whether these legal fees are in fact to be deemed unconstitutional.
(Article by M. David and S. Wooten)
–from Rogue
VIDEO OF THE WEEK— Music and Marrionates in New York City. Hang on!
–Jim Waggaman
GUN NUT REPORTS CONTINUE, Serious Anti-Gunners Show What Compromise on Gun Control Would Mean–
Whether to capitalize on a tragedy for political purposes, or because their urge to “do something” isn’t tempered by a sense of reality, Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) reacted to the deplorable murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last week by saying that they may reintroduce so-called “universal” background check legislation to require background checks on private sales and trades of firearms, including those between many family members and friends. NRA members and supporters will recall that a previous version of the Manchin-Toomey “universal” background check legislation was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate in 2013.
As we noted at that time, such a system could only be enforced through national gun registration. But don’t just take our word for it, even Obama administration “experts” wrote that the effectiveness of “universal” background checks “depends on . . . requiring gun registration.”
Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that Manchin wants to focus on preventing the acquisition of guns by people diagnosed with a mental illness. However, the person who admitted to the South Carolina church shooting had no such diagnosis in his background. Like the perpetrators of a large percentage of other multiple victim shootings, he passed a background check to acquire a gun because there was nothing in his record to prohibit him from doing so.
Background checks don’t stop criminals from stealing guns, or buying them on the black market, as noted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in Table 14 of a May 2013 report. And they don’t stop criminals from getting guns through straw purchases—using people who can pass background checks to buy guns for people who cannot pass them—as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives indicated in a separate report.
In addition, there is another reason to oppose expanding the scope, intrusiveness and record-keeping practices of so-called “universal” background check systems. Giving in to what gun control supporters call “common sense” restrictions would simply take us closer to their ultimate goal.
Last year, Hillary Clinton said that people shouldn’t be allowed to even have an opinion in opposition to gun control. And just last week, former president Bill Clinton, who would presumably wield significant influence over public policy if Mrs. Clinton is elected president in 2016, said people shouldn’t be allowed to “walk around” with guns in public. At the same time, the Violence Policy Center encouraged people to believe there’s not much to be gained by carrying guns in public in the first place, falsely claiming that “Guns are rarely used to kill criminals or stop crimes.”
And then there’s former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, who’s made it very clear that he supports a ban on the private possession of firearms. O’Malley’s position reflects gun control supporters’ refusal to recognize that people have a fundamental right to possess guns for self-defense; that guns are often used for self-defense; and that criminals would reap an enormous advantage from any gun-ban that is effectively implemented. As civil rights attorney Don Kates and Professor Gary Mauser have noted, “violent crime would not fall if guns were totally banned to civilians . . . . [I]ndividuals who commit violent crimes will either find guns despite severe controls or will find other weapons to use.”
Indeed, the FBI reports that one-third of murders, 59 percent of robberies and 78 percent of aggravated assaults reported to law enforcement agencies are committed without firearms. As an example of the first of those statistics, Charles C.W. Cooke noted for National Review earlier this month that a woman was brutally killed by a knife-wielding attacker recently, unable to defend herself because her pending New Jersey handgun permit application hadn’t been approved.
Meanwhile, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that President Barack Obama, always enamored by gun bans in other parts of the world, cited, as he has previously, Australia’s massive gun ban and confiscation via a mandatory “buy-back” in the 1990s as an example of what he’d like to see happen in America.
Obama also blamed the Senate’s rejection of his 2013 gun control proposals on that perennial anti-gunner bogeyman, “the grip of the NRA on Congress.” What he fails to realize is that the NRA’s strength comes from its millions of members and tens of millions of supporters throughout the country. As a result, to gun control supporters’ everlasting regret, public opinion places more faith in guns and gun ownership than in gun control.
ANOTHER WILD SUNDAY VIDEO– HANG ONTO YOUR SEAT. Audi races motorcycles on the Autobahn.
In Germany, the Autobahn between Stuttgart and Munich is used by the auto industry for their high speed test tracks. The Germans have three types of divided highways, limited access, freeways, and the Autobahn. All have speed limits except the Autobahn.
The thing that surprised me was, at least the last time I was there, you are not allowed to pass on the right, which both the motorcycles and the Audi did in the video. The highest speed traffic is to be in the left lane and if you are overtaking another vehicle you are to flash your lights and the other vehicle is to move to the right allowing you to pass.
(Take a look now and then at the speedo in the car- 270km/hr seems like nothing to them !)
–from Buckshot
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ANOTHER GUN NUT REPORT– California: Firearm-Related Legislation Expected to be heard Next Week
Contact Committee Members TODAY to SUPPORT AB 950 and OPPOSE SB 347 & AB 96
Pro-gun Assembly Bill 950 is scheduled to be heard this Monday, June 29 in State Capitol room 4203 at 10:00 a.m. by the state Senate Committee on Appropriations. AB 950 would allow a person who is subject to a gun “violence” restraining order to transfer his or her firearms to a licensed firearms dealer. Please contact the members of the state Senate Committee on Appropriations and urge them to SUPPORT AB 950. Contact information for this committee can be found here.
Anti-gun Senate Bill 347 is scheduled to be heard this Tuesday, June 30 in State Capitol room 126 at 9:00 a.m. by the state Assembly Committee on Public Safety. SB 347 would add to the list of misdemeanor convictions that would result in a 10-year prohibition on the possession of firearms. Please contact the members of the state Assembly Committee on Public Safety and urge them to OPPOSE SB 347. Contact information for this committee can be found here.
In other news, anti-hunting Assembly Bill 96 passed the state Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water by a vote of 7 to 2. AB 96 has now been scheduled to be heard by the state Senate Committee on Appropriations on Monday, July 6. AB 96 would prohibit a person from purchasing, selling, offering for sale, possessing with intent to sell, or importing with intent to sell ivory or rhinoceros horn, except as specified, and would make this prohibition enforceable by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Please contact the members of the state Senate Committee on Appropriations and urge them to OPPOSE AB 96. Contact information for this committee can be found here.
Don’t forget to forward this alert to your family, friends, fellow gun owners and sportsmen and urge them to call the members of the respective Senate and Assembly Committees to SUPPORT AB 950 and OPPOSE SB 347 and AB 96.
NEWS FROM THE ATOMIC HEADQUARTERS–
“So ya got the piece up on the wall!! Awesome! I’m so glad you like it and that I could give it to you in person!” Said Mr. Atomic.
“I have some things for you also. I’ve been searching and doing new work for jacket designs. Here’s a few I’ve been working on!”
We are working with Mr. and Mrs. Atomic on some 5-Ball Leather hand painted designs, which we will offer on our jackets, shirts, and vests. But you can always ask for something custom.
–Bandit
5-BALL RACING SALT TORPEDO REPORT COMING NEXT WEEK–
I was wondering if you’re still out running around on that hot rod of yours? I remembered that I was supposed to hold on to the fat-five install info until you got back, but I forgot when that was supposed to be. . . .
–Kent
I’m back, and hopefully we will launch this article next week. We have only two months left to make history.–Bandit
I changed my motorcycle horn to gunshot sounds. People move out of the way much faster now.
A man and a woman who had never met before, but who were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a trans-continental train.
Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in the upper berth and she in the lower. At 1:00 AM, the man leaned down and gently woke the woman saying,. ‘Ma’am, I’m sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket? I’m awfully cold.’
‘I have a better idea,’ she replied ‘Just for tonight,…… let’s pretend that we’re married.’
‘Wow! That’s a great idea!’, he exclaimed.
‘Good,’ she replied. ‘Get your own f … ing blanket.’ After a moment of silence, he farted.
You can tell a lot about a woman’s mood just by her hands. If they are holding a gun, she’s probably pissed.
I didn’t make it to the gym today. That makes 3,267 days in a row.
I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
–from Rogue and Jerry
New Bikernet TRIKES Reader Comment!–
Trikes for Disabled Riders
I use to ride a trike. Loved it! My son is in a wheelchair and I would like to be able to ride him around town safely. Would the transfer kit you have allow us to do this. I imagine I will be in the Driver’s seat.
I’m wondering if it is safe for people to ride in the wheelchair in that kit. Please let me know.
Thanks and God bless you
–Carla mikus
mdalrac@yahoo.com
Denver, CO
If your son is going to ride with you, you need to be looking at sidecars. Start investigating sidecars with storage abilities. The Ural has an option
to carry a spare tire so that may be modified to carry a wheelchair
http://imz-ural.com/
http://www.bikernettrikes.com/pages/Vintage_Sidecar_on_a_Indian_Chief_Vintag
e.aspx
–the Triking Viking
ART FROM THE FALCON– Hope you are feeling better. Here’s a little collage I made of Downtown Long Beach…showed a few of my friends and across the board, this one got a great response!
Remember Falcons fly Keith! Lifting it up when you are feeling down…
–Falcon
N.Y. Data Reveals Futility of Gun Registration Laws–
In an utter embarrassment to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and anti-gun legislators in Albany, recently released New York State Police data reveals massive noncompliance with the SAFE Act’s registration provisions. Out of an estimated 1-1.2 million semi-automatic firearms within the state that are required to be registered under the new law, 23,847 people have registered a grand total of 44,485 guns. Using the lower estimate of one million semi-automatic firearms, the new data shows a compliance rate of 4%.
The scale of noncompliance was only revealed following a lawsuit brought by a New York gun rights organization. In 2014, the New York State Police rejected requests for the number of registered semi-automatics. On April 30, New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. McNamara determined that the state police had improperly withheld the information from the public, and ordered them to turn over the registration data.
Following the passage of the SAFE Act, many New York gun owners made it clear that they would not register their firearms by the April 15, 2014 deadline. Numerous protests against the SAFE Act were held from Buffalo to Albany, with noncompliance as an important theme. Some Second Amendment supporters in Saratoga Springs went so far as burn close to a thousand registration forms. A gun rights advocate at the Saratoga Springs rally, told a local newspaper, “We are opposed to registration because the evidence is clear that registration leads to confiscation.”
Gun owners concerns over confiscation are well-founded. Many New Yorkers are likely familiar with the repeated confiscations carried out by New York City officials. In 1967, New York City enacted a law requiring the registration of rifles and shotguns. Subsequently, in 1991 the city banned many semi-automatic firearms. As New York City already possessed a registry of firearms and their owners, the city notified the owners that their newly illegal firearms must be removed from the five boroughs (not a realistic option for many people of lesser means), permanently disabled, or relinquished to the authorities. This shameful scenario played out again in 2013, when the NYPD sent out another round of letters to New York City gun owners, once again demanding the removal, destruction, or surrender of legally registered firearms made illegal by a subsequent law.
While the recent experience in New York is strong evidence of the American public’s unwillingness to comply with firearms registration, it is only the latest instance illustrating the futility of these types of laws. In Connecticut, a 2013 law required residents to register certain types of semiautomatic firearms, and individual magazines with a capacity greater than 10, by January 1, 2014. Out of an estimated several hundred thousand guns and 2.4 million magazines that were required to be registered, by the deadline Connecticut gun owners had registered 50,016 firearms and a mere 38,290 magazines.
In March, the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, assembled by Governor Dannel Malloy “to review current policy and make specific recommendations in the areas of public safety, with particular attention paid to school safety, mental health, and gun violence prevention,” issued its final report. The commission suggested that Connecticut “Prohibit the possession… of any firearm capable of firing more than 10 rounds without reloading.”
Similarly, in 1989 California enacted a law requiring registration of certain semi-automatic firearms. According to a February 17, 1992 Los Angeles Times article, in the years since enactment only 46,062 semi-autos were registered. The article goes on to note, “The state Department of Justice has estimated there are 200,000 to 300,000. Others have calculated as many as 450,000 to 600,000.” The authorities attempted to bolster the lackluster compliance with a 90-day amnesty period at the start of 1992; this program only netted another 13,470 firearms.
The results of New Jersey’s semi-auto ban were comparable. An April 17, 1992 New York Times article titled, “Owners of Assault Guns Slow to Obey Law,” notes, “In New Jersey, which enacted an assault weapon ban in 1990, 2,000 weapons have been surrendered, made inoperable or registered as collectors’ items, according to the State Police. The state Attorney General’s office estimates that there are between 20,000 and 50,000 assault weapons in New Jersey.”
During Cuomo’s 2014 reelection campaign, the New York State Democratic Committee ran a pro-Cuomo campaign ad that claimed the governor had helped to enact “the smartest gun law in America.” In reality, considering just how few New Yorkers have bothered to comply with the registration provisions of SAFE Act, along with the inclusion of unworkable provisions like the infamous seven-round magazine limit, Cuomo has the distinction of having supported one of the confusing, irrelevant, and unworkable gun laws in America.
CHOPPERTOWN MEETS MOONEYES– We’re so honored to have the digital premiere of the Mooneyes Hot Rod Custom Show movies this weekend! These awesome movies are out of print and available for download exclusively in our weekly specials section. They’re just $5 each this weekend, so grab them both and enjoy 170 minutes of custom goodness.
Also as you know it’s Born Free this weekend, so the Born Free movie is on sale for a couple more days to celebrate! Grab it now for just $5.
Hint: As always, we usually leave the sale running a couple of extra days so if you visit the site on later in the week you can probably still take advantage of the special sale price.
Stay independent,
–Zack and Scott
www.choppertown.com
Mooneyes Hot Rod Custom Show 2012
Mooneyes Hot Rod Custom Show 2013
noun
1. Slang. something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
Quotes
This was the stinkaroo deal that came to define the dot-com era.
— Chris O’Brien, “Where does WhatsApp acquisition rank in history of tech deals?” Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2014
Origin
Stinkaroo arose in the 1930s from the word stink combined with -eroo, a suffix that creates familiar, usually jocular variations of semantically neutral nouns.
DIRECT FROM BORN FREE–
Carrying Will’s idea forward, monoshock rubber mounted Dyna by Sugar Bear.
–Markus Cuff
BLACK DEATH IS A DRAG— But there is always a brilliant light at the end of the tunnel. About the time I get over this shit a redhead is taking a train back into my life.
I’ve managed to scramble through my Scott Jacob’s Art Empire article. I hope it will inspire many. Another tech on our Salt Torpedo is coming, and more art articles from the Atomic Dice family.
I need to reach out to Bling and Jeff Cochran about my intake tech. And I would like to write a piece about the vast and unrelenting SmokeOut, which was more vibrant than ever this 16th year.
Many things are coming to Bikernet in the next week, plus I have a Cycle Source deadline. Never a dull moment, sicky or not.
Ride Free Forever,
–Bandit
