Hey,
We live is such strange times. It’s like elementary school principles have taken over the academic and governmental world. They want everything to be safe and they want to control everything. They will make up any excuse. With helmet laws they used the public burden issue. It was bullshit.
And now they use the planet as there excuse to control everything that rolls and even your barbecues. And anyone who disagrees is a denier. I know guys in the industry who make cams, who are afraid to say anything.
The not-so-funny thing about all of this is the notion of a Free Society. At the end of the day if we recognize freedom, all these issues find balance. But when the bastards throw freedom out the window problems start.
Let’s hit the news:
BIKERNET WEATHER ALERT– Pacific Ocean Seeing One Of The Quietest Typhoon Seasons On Record
Pacific Ocean Seeing One Of The Quietest Typhoon Seasons On Record
All of the attention on hurricanes this summer has been in the Atlantic. It may come as a surprise to some then that global cyclone activity has been pretty much normal so far this year: http://wx.graphics/tropical/
In fact, the North Atlantic is the only region where ACE is above average, with the Western Pacific and Southern Hemisphere being particularly low.
By Paul Homewood
By: Rob Bushway – Climate Depot.com
STURGIS MUSEUM ANNOUNCEMENT– Nominations for the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame Class of 2018 are now open. As always, there are no restrictions on who can submit a nomination, but you do have to meet the deadline of December 29, 2017. Established in 2001, the Sturgis Hall of Fame recognizes individuals or groups who have made a longterm positive impact on the motorcycle community.
After vetting and voting, the Class of 2018 will be honored at the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony presented by Strider in August of 2018.
“We were honored to be inducted with friends Jim Thiessen, Cory Ness and Terry Vance,” said Colleen Barnett-Taylor after this year’s induction ceremony. “Emcee John Paul DeJoria’s comments were so inline with what we have always felt about the industry and quality of our products!”
With the exception of current members of the board of directors and employees of the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum who are ineligible, all qualified individuals are welcome and there are no restrictions on who may submit nominations. After the deadline, all nomination forms, emails, letters and postcards are then reviewed by the Hall of Fame committee (made up of the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum’s board of directors, its Executive Director and staff directors).
“The criteria for being inducted into the Hall of Fame is to recognize the men and women who have dedicated much of their lives to improving, promoting and advancing motorcycling,” stated Robbins. “We also have a separate nomination specifically for the Freedom Fighter Award, which recognizes those individuals who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to protect our rights to ride.”
Note new deadline is December 29, 2017 NO EXCEPTIONS.
Click here to download the official nomination forms for both the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall Of Fame and the Freedom Fighter Award.
THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS OPEN ON SUNDAYS– After Quasimodo’s death, the bishop of the cathedral of Notre Dame sent word through the streets of Paris that a new bell ringer was needed.
The bishop decided that he would conduct the interviews personally and went up into the belfry to begin the screening process. After observing several applicants demonstrate their skills, he decided to call it a day when a lone, armless man approached him and announced that he was there to apply for the bell ringer’s job.
The bishop was incredulous, “You have no arms!”
“No matter,” said the man, “Observe!” He then began striking the bells with his face, producing a beautiful melody on the carillon.
The bishop listened in astonishment, convinced that he had finally found a suitable replacement for Quasimodo. Suddenly, rushing forward to strike a bell, the armless man tripped, and plunged headlong out of the belfry window to his death in the street below.
The stunned bishop rushed to his side. When he reached the street, a crowd had gathered around the fallen figure, drawn by the beautiful music they had heard only moments before. As they silently parted to let the bishop through, one of them asked, “Bishop, who was this man?”
“I don’t know his name,” the bishop sadly replied, “but his face rings a bell.”
GUESS HE FACED THE MUSIC…
–from Rogue and Ed
THE SPECTRO CODE FOR FLUSHING BRAKE LINES– Open valve, squeeze lever and bleed until master is almost empty.
Fill master up to the top with fresh fluid.
Open valve, Squeeze lever and bleed until master is almost empty.
Repeat until you see the fresh new fluid bleed out.
Close valve fill to the top and you are all set.
DO NOT EMPTY Fluid and get bubbles, it’s a nightmare to get those out.
–Joe Russo
National Sales Manager
BIKERMENT INTERNATIONAL EDITOR IN FLIGHT– Amazing how fast a one hour plane ride seems after one of 14 hours.
Haven’t been in country even a week yet but seems like much longer.
1/2. Airport like long beach. Small and folksy.
3. It’s is a big university.
4. My hotel looms in background as one of few highrise buildings.
5. Panoramic View from my room on the 11th floor. Very nice 4-5 star hotel.
Hot and humid today so I opted to see inside the a/c mall. Very much like Chon Buri Central Mall just a few years older. Had to get a phone chord for my power bank.
Food court here has prices of the old days in Bkk. Two large main dishes and a drink $4.
People are friendly but few speak much English. A little cumbersome.
Last night was one year anniversary of kings passing and was declared a national holiday so everything was closed. Tonight I’ll try again. Fortunately the hotel is in the middle of the entertainment district walk to most all.
I asked directions from a girl yesterday and she said get on my motorbike and I will take you. Friendly.
This evening is pre-wedding dinner at the hotel.
Tomorrow Post wedding reception guest list has swelled to 600. Who has that many friends ??? Should be interesting. See the wedding in the Bikernet Weekly News.
–Art Hall
CLIMATE HUSTLE– The film that changes the climate of debate on global warming.
Concerns about man-made global warming have consumed nearly all other environmental issues as proponents claim increasing carbon dioxide will result in a global catastrophe unless nations drastically reduce[s] emissions.
Global warming has evolved to be blamed for a range of issues beyond just rising temperatures or sea levels. Now rising CO2 emission are said to cause floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes and even maladies like prostitution, bar room brawls, airline turbulence and less snow or more snow, depending on the season.
More than a year in the making, Climate Hustle is now smashing onto the scene to rock the climate debate and set the record straight.
Produced by “CFACT Presents” and hosted by Climate Depot publisher Marc Morano, the film features prominent scientists from around the world who used to warn about the dangers of man-made global warming but have reexamined the evidence and have now grown more skeptical or become outright skeptics of man-made climate change fears.
The film is not a one-sided documentary with only one narrative presented. Instead, Climate Hustle comes alive to the viewer with archival video clips and news footage spanning over 40 years. The film presents both sides of the climate debate in an engaging and pop culture-friendly way that walks viewers through the dire climate claims being made and examines them one by one.
Viewers of Climate Hustle will get an informative, humorous and entertaining journey through seven key sections that lay waste to the media-promoted climate claims.
For example: One powerful segment, called “Stacking the Deck,” shows how the notion of a “scientific consensus” on climate change is pure fabrication and is simply a political tool used to stifle
debate.
Another segment, entitled “Sleight of Hand,” examines whether CO2 is really the villain it’s made out to be and shows viewers some of the crucial facts that Al Gore omitted from his famous propaganda documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
Viewers are taken on a journey back in time to reveal centuries – yes centuries – of climate panic and fear. The film shows rarely seen clips of 1970s global cooling newscasts and how “stagecraft” was employed to juice the narrative of man-made global warming fears in the
1980s.
Sea level rise scares? Polar bears? Polar ice melts? Climate Hustle offers viewers a virtual A-Z examination of the evidence for man-made climate fears.
–from ClimateDepot.com
Hang On–
Hugh Hefner was a great educator.
Name another publisher who taught so many ….teenage
boys how to read a book with one hand!!
–Jim Waggaman
Number 1 Student
A LASTING TRIBUTE TO JOHN PARHAM– 10 Reasons Why You Must Visit the National Motorcycle Museum–
Flying Merkels at the National Motorcycle Museum
Wow. Walk through the doors of the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa, and be prepared for sensory overload. What a collection!
When I visited a couple weeks ago there were 497 motorcycles spread around several showrooms. Everywhere you look there’s artwork, photos, posters, memorabilia, signs, historic bicycles and themed displays. Your eyes don’t know where to look first.
After three hours straight of walking around checking it out I still kept noticing things I’d missed the first time around. The collection is so diverse there’s something that will appeal to any motorcycling enthusiast. And it only costs $10 to get in. That said, here’s 10 reasons why you need to visit the National Motorcycle Museum.
–by Bryan Harley
American Iron Magazine
QUICK, OPEN THE BLONDE WING OF THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
The executive was interviewing a young blonde for a position in his company. He wanted to find out something about her personality so he asked, “If you could have a conversation with any person, living or dead, who would that be?” The blonde quickly responded, “The living one.”
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NEWS FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT– CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON OF BRENCHLEY– If it’s totalitarian and unresearched, it’s not a consensus.
Arturo Casadevall and Ferric Fang, two academic microbiologists with no special knowledge of climate, recently used their article in the Hill to commit the repellent but now commonplace hate-crime of describing researchers skeptical of the sillier exaggerations of the climate-change establishment as “denialists.”
This disfiguring hate-word, calculated to invite an invidious comparison between climate skeptics and those who say the Nazis did not murder six million Jews, is not fit to be uttered by any serious academic. Here, as always, its misuse by intellectual pygmies indicated more than a little nervousness on the part of the establishment, for the world continues to warm at a rate well below what was originally predicted, and, as it turns out, there is a good explanation for the discrepancy.
The two hate-speakers tediously trundled through the history of challengers to the scientific establishment who were proven right (Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Galileo, Benjamin Franklin, and John Scopes), but they did so without appreciating that it is we climate skeptics today who are the sciconoclasts, and it is the entrenched and generally totalitarian academic elite with which they pietistically identify themselves that is as wrong today as the mob that is said to have murdered Hypatia for her nonconformist astronomical notions and the cardinals who condemned Bruno to death.
The two microbiologists have missed the point entirely. They talk of “virtually unanimous consensus” that Earth is facing a period of anthropogenic climate change. Yet the largest sample of academic papers on climate ever studied — an impressive 11,944 papers over the 21 years 1991–2011 — showed only 0.3 percent “consensus” explicitly supporting the proposition recent global warming was mostly manmade. The question whether the small warming that is to be expected will prove dangerous was not even asked; the “consensus” on that question is even smaller.
Even if there were a “virtually unanimous consensus,” science is not advanced by consensus but by informed dissent. The instances the microbiologists themselves cite make it quite clear that where there is a “consensus,” it is nearly always wrong, at least at the margins.
Newton’s celestial mechanics was universally regarded as correct for three centuries, but relativity has replaced it — thanks to the work of a skeptical patent clerk from Switzerland.
And what was the response of the scientific “consensus” then? In Germany, 100 scientists wrote a book against Albert Einstein and his “Jewish science.” Where are they now?
The microbiologists indulge in the rebarbative mantra of the hard left to the effect that “the Trump administration has repeatedly belittled the value of scientific expertise and eliminated scientists from panels that advise the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice.”
No, but the Trump administration has eliminated political activists posing as scientists, replacing them with scientists who are willing to put science first and totalitarian politics nowhere…
They were wrong to blame the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean on global warming, for the good and sufficient reason that worse and more frequent hurricanes have occurred before — as they would have discovered if they had remembered that scientific opinion is valueless unless it is based on at least a little elementary research.
Don’t call us skeptics “deniers,” call us “correct.” It is official climatology’s party line that is more and more obviously false, as well as self-serving.
Nobody pays me to ask scientific questions where so many others, bullied and hectored by a handful of bossy conformists, fear to tread. I and those like me ask questions because, unlike the faithful who bang their heads on the floor and say “I believe!” when informed of the party line, our approach to the natural world is a holy marriage of the curiosity and awe that are embodied in the two words, followed by a question mark, that are the fons et origo of all true science: “I wonder?”
Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, MA (Cantab.), is the author of several learned papers on climate sensitivity and mitigation economics.
THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS SINFULLY OPEN– A pastor and two of his deacons are out on the river fishing in their rowboat. Twelve o’clock rolls around, and one of the deacons notices a nice spot on the bank to have lunch.
He turns to the others and says, “That looks like a nice spot for lunch. What do you say we have lunch over there?”
The other deacon agrees, and so does the pastor. The deacon stands up in the boat, steps out onto the river and walks over to the bank.
The pastor looks on with amazement, and thinks to himself, if his deacon is holy enough to walk on water, surely he can. The other deacon stands up, picks up the picnic basket, steps out of the boat, and walks over to the bank and sits with the first deacon.
Again, the pastor thinks, if his second deacon is holy enough to walk on water, surely he can. The pastor stands up, steps out of the boat, and falls right into the water. While he’s splashing around the first deacon turns to the second and says, “Think we should have told him where the tree stumps are?”
–from Rogue and Ed
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL MOTORIST ASSOCIATION (NMA)–
Omni Directional Law Enforcement Confirmation Lights
It should. Bismarck, North Dakota and St. Louis County, Minnesota are among communities that will soon be installing blue lights at signalized intersections with the intent of catching red-light runners. Omni Directional Law Enforcement Confirmation Lights – the acronym ODLECL rolls right off the tongue – are simply blue lights that begin flashing as soon as a traffic signal turns red. The idea is that if a police officer in the area notices a strobing blue light and also observes a vehicle just entering the intersection, he has justification to issue a ticket.
Mind you, the cop doesn’t have to be in position to sight down a stop bar or intersection line to determine precisely whether the vehicle crossed when the light was yellow or red, just be in the general area to observe the flashing blue light and the general position of the vehicle. This is a critical distinction, particularly in permissive yellow states where a driver can legally enter an intersection during the yellow phase of the traffic light. (A few states – Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, and Wisconsin – have restrictive “shall stop when facing a yellow signal unless too close to stop safely” statutes that make entering an intersection on yellow a technical violation in many cases.)
Both North Dakota and Minnesota are permissive yellow states. Both also prohibit the use of automated enforcement such as red-light cameras, probably no coincidence. ODLECLs legalize blue-light special tickets. The proper defense would be to question the ticketing officer at trial about how he was able to determine the exact moment of intersection entry in relation to the yellow-red transition of the light. The likelihood of the court accepting his “I observed” statement, regardless of where he was positioned at the time, is high.
Intersection safety is a byproduct of proper engineering, from adequate yellow light timing and sufficient red-light clearance intervals to well-marked intersections and bright, visible traffic signals. Enforcement has its place in certain situations but relying on flashing blue lights as an after-the-fact deterrent amounts to no more than intersection safety based on hope and no less than revenue capture based on certainty.
Use this link to share this NMA E-Newsletter with others:
https://www.motorists.org/alerts/omni-directional-law-enforcement-confirmation-lights-sound-ominous-nma-e-newsletter-457/
WOW IS LIFE INCREDIBLE OR WHAT— But Bikers keep plugging away, riding to the next adventure, the next redhead, the next party, the next build, the next race, the next rally, you name it.
Okay, what’s next. I’m going to post a Tony Sanfelipo story tomorrow morning about laws and flashing taillights. He’s an amazing writer. Then I will start on another story about the Panhead I’m building and on a feature article about Deny Babin’s Knucklehead build for Born Free.
I’m also working on Magnum K feature with Ryan McQuiston in Long Beach. And another Cantina Episode is brewing. We have event features, legal analysis, etc. headed your way. Read and ponder freedom.
I laugh to myself and think about the religious groups in the past who burnt peeps at the stake who didn’t agree with them. They called them witches. And what about Joan of Arc? She started to use gunpowder as a brilliant warrior leader. Gun powder was invented in China. It scared the establishment so bad they burned her at the stake. Maybe we should start the Deiner’s MC. Or I remember the Question Marks MC from the ‘60s.
Screw it, I’m working on my Panhead this afternoon. Can’t wait.
Think Freedom Always,
–Bandit
