Hey,
Another day in Paradise. It’s all good and nuts. I’m working on a motorcycle screenplay. I hope to point out the fun and freedom associated with riding motorcycles.
I’m also thinking about writing another book, but I should sell the ones I have. This one was going to be based in Tombstone, Arizona. I had a contact with Pat and Brook Kennedy and came up with a terrific notion for a book. I wrote the outline 20 some years ago and it’s lost. I won’t let that stop me, but something else surfaced.
The Redhead is the manager of a sub-standard Wilmington Marina. She faces drug addicts, violence, murder, deranged threats, and drunks daily. It’s almost too good to pass up and I’ve been making stories into Cantina episodes. Let me know what you think regarding the book plan, Tombstone or Port of Los Angeles.
Let’s hit the news:
AMERICA CHILD FOOTBALL OHIO PATERNITY PREGNANCY SEX USA– Pregnant teen seeks 13 paternity tests after gangbang with football team
A nineteen-year-old girl has officially asked an Ohio judge that several members of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team pass paternity tests to determine the father of her child.
Jessica H. Cockburn, 19, says she partook in consensual sex with at least 13 members of the team during a late-night party several weeks ago and has since then fallen pregnant.
Cockburn admitted participating in the orgy willfully but now seeks to determine who is the father of the child-to-be.
“I didn’t check if they were all wearing protection, it slipped from my attention,” she told Judge Andrews.
The young woman told the judge she had since reflected upon her actions and has greatly matured from the experience.
“I am not the same person I was before. I’ve learned my lesson and believe I have what it takes to be a mom,” she said in court.
A “lucky” member of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team could be the unexpected father of the child conceived during a late-night party, which turned into an orgy several weeks ago.
Judge Martin Andrews has ordered that several members of the Ohio State Buckeyes football college team pass paternity tests after Jessica H. Cockburn, 19, allegedly had sex with at least thirteen of them.
Cockburn’s lawyer made a list of thirteen names with pictures of the players of the college football team found on the team’s internet website and that his client specifically remembered having sexual intercourse with that night.
Other individuals she had sex with that night she could not find any information about and could have been acquaintances of the players or Ohio State University employees she conceded.
Judge Andrews said that even though the mother-to-be’s judgment had “failed her that night” and that her actions were “extremely irresponsible,” that her future child did have the right to know the identity of his biological father and agreed to order the paternity tests.
An Ohio State Buckeyes spokesman would not comment upon the allegations and said the university did not regulate the players’ activities outside of official games and practice time.
–Rogue
Hey, this is so interesting and telling. Even when they consent they can still fuck with you, and one guy may be fucked for a long time to come. Teach your kids what to avoid. –Bandit
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FROM THE VETERANS RESEARCH–Expand private health care options for veterans.
Four years ago, Americans were shocked by the scandal at the Phoenix VA hospital, where VA employees were letting veterans wait months to receive critical health care. For some patients, this wasn’t just an inconvenience. It was fatal.
America understood that our veterans were not receiving the timely health care they had earned. So, Congress quickly passed legislation that allowed some veterans to see private doctors. The ensuing “choice” program offered limited opportunities for some veterans to access private care if they were unable to get timely treatment at the VA.
It was an important reform, but it wasn’t enough.
The prevailing problem plaguing VA health care is not leadership, but structural. In other words, veterans will never thrive with top-down, one-size-fits-all health care. Outgoing Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is the latest in a long line of well-meaning leaders who have done their best to wrangle an inflexible, government-run health care system, only to fail.
Shulkin pledged to reform the department further and started strong in 2017, implementing a new law that made it easier to fire bureaucrats who were failing our veterans. Unfortunately, he was ultimately undone by his own ethical issues and his inability to work with the rest of administration.
For the VA to truly deliver, we must expand healthcare choice for veterans and ensure that they can access the best possible care. In many cases, it will be receiving prosthetic or psychiatric care at their local VA. But in other cases, it may be getting treatment at a private provider that can offer faster and more convenient care. The next VA secretary should urgently work with Congress to get these reforms implemented.
Even at a time when it seems like we can’t agree on anything, providing veterans with the care they need should bring everyone together.
Dan Caldwell is executive director of Concerned Veterans for America and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War.
USA TODAY’s editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff.
–Editorial Board
USA TODAY
–from Rogue
EXCLUSIVE: An “ugly” chapter that didn’t make the Bestseller Book: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
Marc Morano of Climate Deport has given me exclusive publication of this special chapter, that is not included in the book. It details all of the comparisons to Holocaust deniers and RICO and death threats, etc. against climate skeptics. He writes:
I think it is one of my favorite chapters, but the book was too long to include it.
Excerpts:
The Earth does not have a fever. Scientific evidence simply doesn’t support the belief that man-made climate change is a catastrophic threat to the planet. And unreliable climate models are poor substitutes for actual data.
Then why don’t more scientists buck the “consensus”? The answer is simple. Anyone who questions the climate change scare is attacked and threatened. As more and more scientists speak out, dissenting from the climate change orthodoxy, the attacks against them have increased.
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Climate campaigners seem to think: If you can’t counter the message, silence the messenger. From smears to intimidation to name-calling to lawsuits and threats of criminal prosecution, climate activists are leaving no stone unturned. Activists—and “reporters” for theoretically objective media outlets— have targeted skeptical scientists.
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Many climate activists find the idea of jailing skeptics appealing. In 2014, the warmist Gawker website urged, “Arrest Climate-Change Deniers”; said “Those denialists should face jail”; called global warming skeptics “Criminally negligent”; and argued, “It’s time to punish the climate-change liars.”
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Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki called for government leaders skeptical of global warming to be “thrown in jail”: “I really believe that people like the former prime minister of Canada should be thrown in jail for wilful blindness,” Suzuki said in 2016. In 2017, climate activist John Gilkison at EV World accused me of “crimes against humanity” for “retarding any meaning action to mitigate climate change.” A list of those who dissented on man-made climate change, including my old boss Senator James Inhofe, were slated for a 2029 “trial.”
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One climate activist predicted that skeptics will be lynched. “As climate impacts continue to become clearer to the general populace, fossil fuel executives, and climate misinformers who have played a part in this catastrophe, may some time soon prefer a safe jail cell to the torches and pitchforks that are coming their way,” wrote Peter Sinclair of the climate fear–promoting website Climate Denial Crock of the Week.
On June 5, 2009, former Clinton administration official Joe Romm of Climate Progress defended a posting on his website warning that climate skeptics would be strangled in bed for rejecting the view that we face a man-made climate crisis. “An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds,” he warned.
The book has now climbed to #80 on Amazon as of this writing, maybe it will climb higher.
–Anthony Watts
THE BIKERNET CHAPEL EASTER PRAYER–
Dear Lord,I pray for Wisdom to understand my man; Love to forgive him; and Patience for his moods.
Because, Lord, if I pray for Strength, I’ll beat him to death.
AMEN
–the Redhead
Talked to Linda Wash today. I’m on Back order on my Comp. Sprocket.
Roeder Racing in Monroeville Ohio had my trans apart on my 09 Tri-Glide.
They are installing one of your 6SP. Reverse kits on my trike when they noticed that my Sceaming Eagle Comp. with 11,000 on it was TOAST.
I hope your product is Better….THANKS
— Bill “Grease” Willer
williamwiller@att.net
Lindsey, OH
A buddy has a Street Glide with the Screamin’ Eagle 6-speed upgrade. It also went to hell. He reached out to Baker, but their fix would involve a new Baker Transmission. He’s going to use JIMS replacement parts.–Bandit
The new fight between the feds and California about fuel economy, explained fast– Reports that officials in the Trump administration are preparing to scrap fuel efficiency standards aimed at making cars burn less gas in The Washington Post and other outlets have prompted yet another warning shot from California leaders who say they will fight it.
On Twitter, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said he is “prepared to take whatever action or otherwise, that we must protect our economy, our environment, and the public health of people of California.”
Details of how the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump will roll back the Obama-era emission standards are expected to be revealed in the coming days, The New York Times reported.
EPA secretary Scott Pruitt is a known climate change skeptic and has publicly questioned the science showing that greenhouse gases contribute to global warming.
But the threat of rolling back those emission standards — federal efforts to fight climate change by making automakers manufacture more fuel-efficient cars — has displeased environmental groups and even automakers like Ford Motors.
Here’s why it is such a big deal and why this could spell yet another battle between California and the Trump administration:
How will the EPA roll back fuel emission standards?
Details of these plans have not yet been made public, but sources have told The Post and The Times that the EPA is convinced that the fuel-efficiency standards are too high to be met.
Under the Obama-era standards, The Post reports, carmakers must produce cars and light trucks that can average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025. Currently, 2018 models average 38.3 miles per gallon, the paper noted.
Why is California so concerned about this?
Over the years, a special waiver in the 1970 Clean Air Act has allowed California to set aggressive fuel-emission standards for carmakers and for other states to adopt them. At least 12 other states have borrowed California’s standards, per the Los Angeles Times. Automakers have also folded these standards into their production lines nationwide so as to avoid conflicting standards from one state to another.
The EPA’s action could result in a courtroom clash that may force California to roll back its standards or even neutralize California’s ability to set its own standards. Becerra, the state’s attorney general, told The New York Times in an interview that California would not give up its approach without a legal fight.
“We’re going to defend first and foremost existing federal greenhouse gas standards,” he said. “We’re defending them because they’re good for the entire nation. No one should think it’s easy to undo something that’s been not just good for the country, but good for the planet.”
Cities like San Diego have built federal and California greenhouse gas emission goals into their own climate programs.
San Diego’s Climate Action Plan, adopted in 2016, is a set of policies that aims to cut greenhouse emissions in half and make all electricity used in the city come from renewable sources by 2035. The success of the plan, however, relies heavily on the implementation of federal and state standards.
Without those federal and state standards, cities like San Diego could be left scrambling to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as explained by two local journalists on Twitter.
One UCLA environmental law professor, Ann Carlson, told the Los Angeles Times that the federal standards are a critical factor in encouraging carmakers to embrace a future with less emissions. If the EPA scraps those standards, California is vowing to fight. And Carlson said “this is going to be a big legal battle.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=uUGg6QEjjjs
BAD POLITICIAN FILES--Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Porker of the Month for spreading false prophesies about the wildly successful tax relief law.
On November 17, 2017, prior to passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Sen. Warren appeared in a video with then-Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) where she mocked the idea that companies would use their share of the tax cut to benefit employees, saying “Somehow, [companies] are going to share it with all of their workers … it’s never worked that way.”
Sen. Warren was proven wrong after the tax relief bill became law and companies immediately began announcing wage increases and bonuses. Some announced that they were giving $1,000 bonuses to all of their employees, while other companies raised their minimum wage to $15 per hour, and others beefed up their benefits packages and retirement plans.
To date, more than 450 companies have increased compensation and benefits, allowing 4 million American workers to gain from the new tax law. For her blatantly false predictions about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Sen. Warren is the March Porker of the Month. Read more about the Porker of the Month.
–from Rogue
BIKERNET CREW INSTALLS CHAIN DRIVE—The brothers were in the shop yesterday installing a chain drive on “Tile Man” James Conway’s ’99 Dyna.
We did it with the help of several JIMS tools and replaced his clutch with an extra plate Barnett Clutch pack. You’ll see the tech in the next couple of weeks on Bikernet.
That’s Jeremiah on the left, James Conway and James Hicks.
–Bandit
CUSTOM BIKE scene surges at J&P Cycles UBCBS–King of the Builders crowned and all class champions awarded – over $70,000 in cash and prizes!
Top motorcycle builders in the Industry from all across the country came to compete in the prestigious J&P Cycles Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show at the seven-stop Progressive International Motorcycle Shows Tour. Admire the Championship builds below and click here to see the winners from each city on the IMS Tour.
Check out some of the bikes, builders and garages involved in bringing the best of show to the largest custom bike show series with the biggest purse.
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BIKERS FOR CHRIST NEWS– That time of the year again, April 3rd is our first night back with Bikers for Christ “Fatburger Bike Night”!
Every Tuesday for the next 7 months, we raise $$ for the “Down Biker” fund. Please come out and help support this great cause. Same place and same time, 6-9pm, drawings start @ 7:30.
Fatburger in Carson off the 91 fwy and Avalon. Great Raffle prizes, 50/50, Best Bike trophy. Please pass the word around.
Fatburger, 501 Albertoni st. Carson CA 90746
Be Blessed, Be a Blessing:
Brian aka Menace
Bikers for Christ South Bay
Chapter Elder
*MUST READ FOR BANKERS AND CUSTOMERS TOO*–Whit Goldberg was posted in a rural branch in Texas on his promotion to Branch Manager.
One day an illiterate Redneck came to the branch and asked Whit for a loan of $200 million.
Whit asked him why he wants a loan. The Redneck said he wants to buy few buffaloes and start milk business. Whit asked him whether he can give collateral security for the loan. The illiterate Redneck asked what is collateral security.
Whit replied that for the loan bank needs equal amount of security in the form of any land or house.
The Redneck asked since the bank will be charging interest for the loan, why then collateral security??
Whit got annoyed and told him that without collateral security bank would not give the loan.
The Redneck replied he has a small house and forest land which will cost around $300 million and agreed to offer it as security.
The formalities were completed and loan of $. 200 million was sanctioned with 9% RoI repayable in 5 years.
After 8 months, the Redneck returned to the branch and met Whit.
He told him that he wanted to pay off the entire loan amount with up-to-date interest.
Whit calculated the same and the Redneck paid the entire amount.
Whit asked him how is his business. The Redneck replied it is going on very well and he could amass good amount in a short period.
Whit thought of his Deposit target for March and asked the Redneck what is he doing with the money he earned.
The Redneck replied that he has kept in his house in a locked box.Whit was so happy to hear that. He told the Redneck that he can keep the money in his bank and bank will pay him interest and take care of his wealth.
Now comes the most interesting part, which describes the state of our banks…
*The Redneck cooly asked “What Collateral Security your bank will give??”*
–Wayfarer
Supreme Leader
Bikernet Trikes
New Bikernet BAGGERS Reader Comment!–Bikernet Baggers Tech: TWIN POWER LITHIUM-ION BATTERY INSTALL
http://baggers.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=13061
How’s vehement battery after 3 years?
–Bert
fatbobrob@nyc.rr.com
Brooklyn , NY
Bert – The battery was installed in March of 2016 and to date it is working
fine.
The owner of the motorcycle it was installed in is happy with it. He also
noted he uses GPS, Radar Detector, Heated Clothing and other items.
So far so good
–Rogue
Editor Bikernet Baggers
Bikernet.com
BANGKOK MOTORCYCLE RAID–90 arrested, 74 motorcycles seized in crackdown
Bangkok police arrested 90 motorcyclists and pillion riders and seized 74 modified motorcycles in a crackdown on street racing on Bangkok streets.
At the end of the operation on Friday night, tourist police deputy chief Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpal held a press conference at 2.30am early on Saturday on the main ground in front of Tesco Lotus Extra on Rama IV Road. He said police had set up road checkpoints at several spots in Bangkok to inspect motorcycles suspected of being illegally modified for road racing and seized 74 bikes. He said 90 motorcyclists and pillion riders were arrested. Fifty of them were under 18 years old and the rest over 18. Five of them tested positive for drug use.
He said police also arrested Suparirk Chaowangyen, 20, who used his Facebook page “Aggressive Youths (Bang Sue)” to encourage road racing. Surachet said police would continue the crackdown on road racing.
Breaking News By The Nation
–from Art Hall
Bikernet International Editor
MORE ON THE VA–
I believe that Shulkin was doing good for the VA and made many good changes.
I agree many did not happen fast enough, but considering how long issues have been going on, still pretty good.
I personally thing that Care Outside The VA Should Happen.
All in all people are working on solving the issues with veteran’s health care.
–Rogue
Can Trump’s doctor cure what ails VA?
Easily lost amid the latest Twitter-announced firing within the Trump administration — in this case, dismissal of VA Secretary David Shulkin — is what is best for the millions of veterans he was serving.
Ethical missteps by Shulkin, the only Trump nominee confirmed 100-0 last year by the Senate, left him exposed to dismissal. But the underlying issue is whether the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care system should be largely privatized. Shulkin, rightly in our view, made clear that would never happen on his watch.
Now he’s gone, slated to be replaced by President Trump’s telegenic personal physician, Ronny Jackson. Jackson, a Navy officer and Iraq War veteran nominated a week ago for a higher (second star) rear admiral rank, is best known for his fulsome assessment of Trump’s health.
He isn’t, however, known for having management experience, which raises serious doubts about his ability to tame one of the government’s largest and most intractable bureaucracies.
Second only to the Pentagon, the VA has a $186 billion budget and 360,000 people who provide benefits and health care to nearly half the nation’s 20 million veterans through a sprawling network of 145 hospitals and more than 1,200 outpatient clinics.
Shulkin, a former hospital administrator brought in under President Barack Obama to run the VA’s health care program in the wake of delay-in-care scandal that rocked the agency in 2014, imposed a slate of improvements. But he committed an ethical lapse last year spending $122,000 on a business trip to Europe, using taxpayer funds to bring his wife and accepting free Wimbledon tickets — “serious derelictions” according to an internal investigation.
In the end, it didn’t matter that Shulkin modernized the VA’s sclerotic appeals process for benefits, boosted patient satisfaction, increased transparency, decreased wait times and improved mental health care. Or that large veteran organizations like the American Legion wanted him to keep his job.
Major forces at work within and outside the administration — such as billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, key financial supporters for the group writing the opposing view to this editorial — prefer leadership willing to embrace reimbursed private care for veterans, with an eye toward potentially and eventually dismantling much of the VA health care system.
That ought to be a non-starter. For all of its faults and history of deficiencies, VA health care remains singularly capable of treating the complex wounds of war and service: post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, prosthetics and orthotics, spinal injuries and rehabilitation, to name a few.
A recent RAND study of private care resources in the state of New York demonstrated that even after more than a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, private sector physicians are unprepared to treat the chorus of ailments veterans suffer.
The VA knows how to do that and Shulkin was moving it in the right direction. Now it’s up to the Senate, as part of the confirmation process, to ensure that his successor is someone with the inclination and ability to continue that progress.
USA TODAY’s editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff.
–Editorial Board
USA TODAY
FAMOUS MARKUS CUFF PHOTO EXHIBIT IN LOS ANGELES– Pop Obscure records. Owners: Sherry, and Dustin. Both ride black Triumphs.
Xavier was the drummer for many years in Josh Todd’s Buckcherry. Also : Josh Home, from Queens Of The Stone Age, on his Exile bike, also in the show.
Priced to move, and nothing smaller than 20 x 24-inch, on archival rag paper
— Cheers, Markus
Officially Certified Bikernet Feature Photographer
Also shoots for:
Tattoo Magazine
Cycle Source
American Iron
Easyriders
THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS OPEN ON EASTER– Q What do you call a handcuffed man?
A: Trustworthy. .
A blonde city girl named Amy marries a West Virginia farmer. One morning, on his way out to check on the cows, the farmer says to her,’The artificial insemination man is coming over to impregnate one of our cows today, so I drove a nail into the 2 by 4 just above the cow’s stall in the barn. Please show him where the cow is when he gets here, OK?’
The farmer leaves for the fields. After a while, the artificial insemination man arrives and knocks on the front door. Amy takes him down to the barn. They walk along the row of cows and when Amy sees the nail, she tells him, ‘This is the one right here.’
The man, assuming he is dealing with an airhead blonde, asks, ‘Tell me lady, ’cause I’m dying to know. How would you know this is the right cow to be bred?”
That’s simple,” she said. “By the nail that’s over its stall,’ she explains very confidently.
Laughing rudely at her, the man says, ‘And what, pray tell, is the nail for?’
Amy turns to walk away and says sweetly over her shoulder……’I guess it’s to hang your pants on.’
–from Rogue and Sidehack Jerry
NMA ALERT–Walking While Distracted–Nobody Wins:
Have we become a nation of cellphone zombies? Many experts believe that the increase in distracted driving, in particular using a cellphone to text while driving, has been a big factor in the increase of traffic fatalities since 2009.
Another factor apparently is distracted walking. Pedestrian deaths account for 16 percent of all traffic fatalities. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 5,987 pedestrian deaths in 2016, which is a 22 percent increase from 2014. A late February report from the Governor’s Highway Safety Association stated that nearly the same number of pedestrians were killed in 2017.
Of course not all pedestrians killed were distracted walking, but cities are certainly taking notice.
In 2011, five pedestrians died in Rexburg, Idaho and the city adopted a distracted driving ban the same day as a distracted walking ban. Since then, not one pedestrian in the town of nearly 28,000 has met a similar fate. Officials say enforcement and education have been key.
Montclair, California, population 39,000 recently passed an ordinance that will take effect in August that makes it illegal to cross streets while on a phone, texting or listening to music with buds in both ears. First fine is $100 and can go up to $500 with repeat offenses. City Manager Edward Starr said something had to be done about these “cellphone zombies” who have their noses buried in their cellphones and their minds miles away.
Last year, Honolulu, Hawaii enacted a similar law. Honolulu is the first major city that has tackled this problem and certainly has a much larger footprint than Rexburg or Montclair. Honolulu also has many tourist pedestrians which is an additional issue for the city in the enforcement and education against distracted walking.
A number of states and cities are contemplating such a law including New York City and the state of Washington. Tech companies and automakers are rushing to make such laws moot in the development of driverless cars. Safety features such as pedestrian detection and avoidance has been promised but was recently compromised.
On March 18, a pedestrian was killed by an Uber driverless test car in Tempe, Arizona. This is the first known pedestrian fatality of a driverless test vehicle. Elaine Herzberg was walking across the middle of a dark street, outside of any crosswalk area, with her bicycle when hit by the car. The investigation is ongoing as to what went wrong. Why the woman walked directly into the path of a moving car perhaps can be chalked up as another distracted walking incident or to the mistaken belief on the woman’s part that a vehicle in full motion would automatically cede the right of way at the last moment.
By the same token, the very nature of autonomous vehicle technology requires sensing and reacting to its surroundings. Why didn’t the car’s sensors pick up on the approaching “object” and respond accordingly? The National Association of City Transportation officials recently released a Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism. One rule is that autonomous automakers need to make their vehicles safe without depending on other road users wearing sensors to be detected.
The assumption that autonomous technology will bring an end to all road deaths is not only mistaken, it is foolhardy. All road users must take personal responsibility for the safety of themselves and others, whether walking, riding, or driving. Anything less than that will result in more fatalities like that of the tragedy in Arizona.
Maybe we should pass a pedestrian helmet law?–Bandit
Use this link to share this NMA E-Newsletter with others:
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IT’S EASTER GODDAMMIT—It‘s time for a break. I’m heading out on a mission today. I’m going to go look at a ’54 Chevy sedan delivery. I keep looking for the perfect vehicle. I may need to pull a trailer to Bonneville.
Next week I’ll go meet with the Saddlemen Seat crew, then Vanderhall is delivering a trike to roadtest. We have Paul’s report on a partnership with Deus Machina and the Hero builders. Or at least they are sharing a building in Venice.
Dmac wrote a stellar report on Gloria’s new book. And I may meet with Larry Settle about his Trask turbo-charged Dyna. The brothers around here are removing their belts ad replacing them with chains. We will have a tech next week.
And I’m working on a new Bandit’s Cantina Logo. Let me know what you think.
Hang on and Ride Free Forever,
–Bandit
