Hey,
Every holiday season had a different personality as you know. If you have the blues, it’s not fun. If you’re in love, the lights are brighter and shopping more fun.
So, what the fuck is it going to be this year?
Hang on. Let’s hit the news
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DR. HAMSTER’S Pan Project—Hang on for the first report, while we build the World’s Fastest Trike. As soon as we have a few more pieces, we will put together a build article.
Here’s our Paughco order list:
B500C Mechanical brake switch kit Black
B5002 front brake rod
B500A Clevis ends 3
B501A Clevis for rear brake rod
B501 brake rod
Need end for 501B Left side
188 and 189 front mechanical brake studs (springer)
Need front brake shoes and springs
Need front brake lever to cable
704 Intake Linkert to O-ring manifold
741A Panhead motor mount
712CM Panhead exhaust system
Need brake lever plate right side for frame
Need shifter plate left side for ratchet top trans
Florida gun group: Ron DeSantis supports openly carrying guns– without requiring permit
Eric Friday, the general counsel for Florida Carry, said he spoke to DeSantis about the issue.
Ron DeSantis told a gun rights advocacy group that people should not need a permit to openly carry a firearm in public, according to the group’s lawyer and a release sent out by the organization this week.
Eric Friday, the general counsel for Florida Carry, said he met with DeSantis in Kissimmee while the Congressman was there for the Republican “Sunshine Summit” in June, which featured a debate between DeSantis and his rival in the governor’s race, Adam Putnam, as well as prominent speeches from prominent Republicans like Ben Carson.
DeSantis’ position was originally touted in a roundup earlier this week of various lawmakers’ stances on gun issues based on conversations they had with the group.
Florida currently requires a permit (and thus, background checks) for anyone wishing to carry a handgun, and it must be concealed. Thirty-one states have adopted permissive “open carry” laws that allow people to carry guns without a permit if they are in plain sight. This is also sometimes called “constitutional carry,” because its supporters believe the Second Amendment bypasses the need for a license.
“What Congressman DeSantis said is he doesn’t understand why you need a license to exercise a fundamental right in the first place,” Friday said in an interview with the Times/Herald. “He did not make a commitment to support open carry or unlicensed carry. He didn’t say he would he would push for it in the Legislature (if elected governor).”
“We were very pleased with his answers and very pleased to hear him express support,” Friday added.
In the original release, Florida Carry also said that DeSantis supports “campus carry,” or allowing gun owners to carry firearms on college or university campuses.
Campaign spokesman David Vasquez did not respond to requests to confirm DeSantis’ statements made to the group.
Florida Carry is a state organization comparable to the National Rifle Association, though Florida Carry has sometimes taken stronger positions than the NRA.
The issue of gun rights has continued to draw a great deal of political oxygen throughout this campaign cycle, as the Parkland students completed a national bus tour registering young voters. February’s murder of 17 students and teachers in Parkland also returned to the fore this week as students went back to school, this year with armed guards required on every campus.
Then, last month, a broad daylight killing of an unarmed man in a Clearwater parking lot sparked renewed furor over Florida’s self-defense law.
READ MORE: 27 Days: The Markeis McGlockton case, from shooting to stand your ground furor to shooter’s arrest
Also according to the Florida Carry release, DeSantis’ rival in the Republican race for Florida governor, Adam Putnam, “refused to meet” with them. Friday elaborated that a staff member from Putnam’s campaign agreed to meet with him in Kissimmee but then stopped responding to texts to set it up.
That’s uncharacteristic of a candidate who has received A+ ratings from the NRA and has drawn ire from the left for tweeting that he is a “proud NRA sellout.”
On the campaign trail, Putnam said more than a year ago that he would support a “pathway for Florida to get to a form of open carry,” as well as campus carry. He did not specify whether he would support allowing open without permits.
While serving as Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture, Putnam also advocated for streamlining the process to issue concealed carry permits. It was later found that his office mishandled that process and failed to review background checks in several thousand cases.
His campaign’s spokeswoman, Meredith Beatrice, said Putnam’s reported refusal to meet Florida Carry was a “misunderstanding.”
She then doubted DeSantis’ authenticity.
“You mean to tell me Congressman DeSantis, who recently stood with Al Sharpton and Democrats against Florida law enforcement on Stand Your Ground, previously told this group he is in favor of constitutional carry?” she said in a statement.
“That’s the real story here, he will pander and say anything to get a vote. There is no one in this race who is a stronger advocate of Second Amendment rights than Adam Putnam.”
–from Rogue
SALT TORPEDO BONNEVILLE PROJECT UPDATE—My homework assignment called for buying the tubing and making the body fit the existing exhaust pipe frame. Unfortunately a big chunk of the exhaust pipe had to go.
But I’m getting damn close to making the body fit. It needs to come up in the front at least an inch and I need to notch the fiberglass where the shocks run into the body.
Then I need to start to work on the firewall between the rider and engine. It’s coming. Kevin Kahl could be back from Kansas by the middle of December with his tube bender and I need to be ready.
Hang on.
–Bandit
PARADISE FIRE DAMAGE REPORT–Bryon Farnsworth said Paul is staying with a friend. He has his dog and computer. That is all. Over 30 bikes, his home & shop were destroyed.
If you wish to help, Chuck Daly started a Go Fund Me account for him. It is posted on the Hopetown Facebook page and the Pre 1975 Motocross Facebook page. Or his temporary mailing address is: 73 Temperance, Chico CA 95928 1 530 877 7327
–from Rick Chew
Paul Hunt is in the Trailblazer Hall of Fame. He lost all his personal possessions in the Paradise fire.
BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
S&S X-WEDGE SERVICE MANUAL
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/SS_XWEDGE_SERVICE_MANUAL_.aspx
Where can I get the Manual?
— Jon Henry
jonshenry@charter.net
Medford, OR
Did you check the S&S Web site? They have them. –Bandit
THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS UNDER RECONSTRUCTION–
Q: What do you call a cheap circumcision?
A: a rip off
–from Rogue
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY POTENTIAL STUDENT SURVEY–Things to ponder after you stuff yourself with turkey. Have a great Thanksgiving everyone.
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
Can you cry under water?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated
instead of just murdered?
Why do you have to “put your two cents in”…but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”?
Where’s that extra penny going?
(taxes)
Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for
eternity?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up like every two hours?
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked
anyway.
Why is “bra” singular and “panties” plural?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?
If the professor on Gilligan’s Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can’t he
fix a hole in a boat?
If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
Why Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Why did you just try singing the two songs above?
Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the atmosphere, but call
it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your butt?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
–El Waggs
NEWS FROM THE LOWBROW HEADQUARTERS–I am hanging out at home right now in Richfield, Ohio, but this is what I am thinking about…
Can you picture one of those perfect days, riding with your friends, getting lost, in no hurry to get anywhere in particular? I can, and I want more of it!
So, here in Ohio the weather isn’t exactly the best for riding, but that’s okay. The winter gives me plenty of time to work on my bike.
I think I am going to change the exhaust on my Panhead (it’s the ’59 in the photo above, and it was my first Harley) for the next long road trip up into Canada we are planning now for the early Spring.
You should dial in your bike and make plans with your friends starting TODAY. The next thing you know it will be one of those perfect days…. time flies…
We have all the coolest and highest quality motorcycle parts and riding gear. And right now you can save a lot of dough, and get free shipping, so look below or click here to check out the deals before they end on Monday! See you out there… – Tyler
CURTISS MOTORCYCLES WENT WITH CROWD-FUNDING–Curtiss is the most contextual brand to lead battery electric two-wheeled mobility.
We prepared 7 years before re-founding Curtiss Motorcycle Company, Inc. (CMOT; February 20, 2018). We synchronized this event to the Harley-Davidson Motor Company (HOG) launch of Livewire (its BEV). Crazyhorse has his Custer.
Today, on Small Business Saturday, we transparently launch our equity crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder.
Please consider a small ownership stake in CMOT as a vote of confidence.
–Matt
Direct: 205-460-5855
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BIKERNET™ BOOK REVIEW–
The Harley-Davidson Motor CO. – Archive Collection
By: Randy Leffingwell and Darwin Holmstrom
Publisher: Quatro Publishing Group
Like those too broke for Sturgis parties this books gives us a glimpse into the Harley-Davidson museum. Through amazing photos and a strong narrative it give you a peek into what you will see when you actually get to make that pilgrimage to the source.
H-D is one of the few companies that saw the need early on to preserve its history in both documentation and examples of its product. Not all items in the Archive Collection are original but the idea it to capture and preserve forever the memorable moments in the companies wonderful past.
— David Campbell
Earl’s Garage – Motorcycle, Hotrod, and Event Photography
www.earlsgarage.co
There’s more. See the whole tamale tomorrow on Bikernet.–Bandit
NEW STAFF AT THE LIBRARY, SO WE CHANGED THE NAME: BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
Q: What should you do if your girlfriend starts smoking?
A: Slow down. And possibly use a lubricant.
Q: What’s the worst thing about dating a blonde?
A: If you don’t know what hole to put it in neither do they.
Q: What did the penis say to the vagina?
A: Don’t make me cum in there.
Q: Why do women rub their eyes when they get up in the morning?
A: They don’t have balls to scratch.
Q: What do you call ball’s on your chin?
A: A dick in your mouth!
–from Rogue
MORE ABOUT THE HORSE—We received this name change to the Horse image. Rumors are spreading as to why, but some members need jobs, so we’re glad they are still alive.
–Bandit
NMA NEWS–Caught in the Cogs of a Bureaucratic Machine
Since early August, the Virginia Department of Motor vehicles continued to badger one of our Virginia members, Mike, about needing proof of insurance for a vehicle that only had, per agency records, 16 characters in its Vehicle Identification Number. Since VINs have exactly 17 characters, the DMV was asking for proof of a vehicle that could not exist!
Some seventeen years ago, when Mike’s late wife Linda bought a used Lincoln, a DMV clerk apparently omitted a single letter from the standard string of VIN characters. No matter. The problem became Mike’s to resolve.
Mike immediately responded to the first of three DMV “nasty grams” with proof of insurance and other documents that each showed the correct VIN. He included comments that explained the obvious error. No response.
The second threatening letter from the DMV came a month later. Same demand but with an escalation of threats by mentioning large fines and fees to restore his vehicle registration. Again Mike sent the required forms and supporting information. Again crickets!
The third, nastier threat came in early October with an Order of Suspension if Mike didn’t respond by November 2nd. Some excerpts:
“Please submit the VA title and a Registration-VIN-Business Change Application (Form VSA71) along with 2 or more of the following as proof of the correct VIN:
1. Pencil tracing of VIN
2. State inspection showing VIN
3. Maintenance record from licensed mechanic that lists the VIN
4. Bill of sale
5. Odometer statement
The documents will be reviewed in the DMV Customer Service Center. Once the VIN is verified, the record will be updated and a new title will be issued. When the review is completed, if it is determined that a DMV error occurred, the title will be issued at no fee. If the CSC determines that no DMV error occurred, there will be a $15.00 fee charged for the new title.”
“For each vehicle listed above, if the vehicle was not insured on 08/24/18, pay the DMV the $500 statutory fee and have your insurance company file form SR22 “Certificate of Insurance” with DMV. . .”
“If you fail to respond and this suspension becomes effective, you must comply with the requirements of this order and pay a $145 reinstatement fee before your privilege to operate motor vehicles and register vehicles can be reinstated. Virginia law requires payment of a $5 fee for each additional suspension or revocation order in effect.”
Mike refused to pay any DMV fees, including the $145 to have the state police come out and verify the VIN on the vehicle. Instead he got his local Chase City police chief to do the inspection and verification – for free!
After still not getting an acknowledgement to the forms he sent in twice, two visits to the regional DMV office in South Hill (a forty mile round trip) followed. Mike was ultimately told that he’d have to go to Richmond, the state capital, to submit information in person. He found a sympathetic clerk at another DMV office who instantly saw the problem, made a quick call to Richmond and printed out a new, corrected vehicle title in about 15 minutes.
As Mike, an 80 year old whose driving independence is critical to him, noted, “Criminalizing paperwork mistakes, even when made by the DMV, makes your car into a lawn ornament. You lose your livelihood. Lacking public transportation, many old people simply give up the ghost. And government couldn’t care less! Such administrative errors could be handled in a respectful, friendly manner instead of treating the public as crooks, especially as those errors have nothing to do with highway safety!”
Hoping to force reform, Mike decided to write letters to the editors of a few different local papers, describing the frustration of trying to correct a problem not of his making with the DMV. Interestingly, it was one of those letters, not the forms filed with the DMV in triplicate, that caught the attention of Virginia DMV Commissioner Richard D. Holcomb who then issued a direct letter of apology to Mike and waived all fees in his case.
Through much aggravation and personal expense, Mike followed the DMV procedure to resolve a mistake, even though it wasn’t his. In the end, he exposed the problem much like a consumer protection reporter might do, and forced an executive response. Without taking the initiative that he did, Mike might still be fighting for justice, and begging friends for rides since the registration of his car would have been invalidated.
The remaining question is whether the DMV will take corrective action so that other vehicle owners won’t be subjected to the same recalcitrant bureaucratic process to solve a simple and obvious error. We aren’t taking bets.
–NMA
ANOTHER New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
Amazing Shrunken FXR–The Full Feature
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/Amazing_Shrunken_FXRThe_Full_Feature.aspx
First, I would like to make sure you know that I am not the Dave Dreen who owns Dave Green Custom Cycle in Aylmer, Ontario. I am Dave Green, the Bonneville Land Speed racer and custom chassis builder from Western Canada.
Several years ago, I had a 2004 Sportster basketcase (it was a wreck from an accident) “dropped into my lap.” I have been busy doing other stuff – specifically, building both other bikes and a hotrod truck.
I have thought long and hard about what to do with the ’04 Sportster over the past few years. I recalled seeing a custom bike on display at a show-n-shine about 10 years back that had a frame that strongly resembled a Softail frame – but the bike had a conventional rear swing arm and spring/shock arrangement.
Sadly, I never took any pictures of it and I cannot for the life of me sketch out a workable and aesthetically pleasing chassis. I was a bit under the weather for the last day or two so I went ‘net surfing for ideas. I came across this article – and I got a bit excited because this bike has the look that I am trying to create!
I figure that the dimensions given, the pictures for comparison will help a lot in building the chassis the way I want it!
Thanx greatly for making the article available online.
–David Green
dynaryder@gmail.com
Vernon, B.C., Canada
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGISH DEPARTMENT WORD OF THE DAY–
serry
[ser-ee]
verb
1.
Archaic. to crowd closely together.
QUOTES
“Serry your ranks, there,” said the Major amiably as they edged past.
— Edmund Crispin, The Glimpses of the Moon, 1977
ORIGIN
The uncommon verb serry has always had a military sense “to press close together in ranks.” Serry comes from French serré, the past participle of serrer “to press together, crowd.” French serrer comes from Italian serrare “to close ranks,” from Vulgar Latin serrare, from Latin serare, “to lock, bolt.” Serry entered English in the 16th century.
LET’S CALL IT BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
Q: What do you call a lesbian dinosaur
A: A lickalotopis
Q: Did you hear about the celebrity murderer?
A: He was shooting for the stars.
Q: What do girls and noodles have in common?
A: They both wiggle when you eat them.
Q: What’s the difference between roast beef and pea soup?
A: Anyone can roast beef.
If a firefighters business can go up in smoke, and a plumbers business can go down the drain, can a hooker get layed off?
Q: What do you call a 13 year old girl from Kentucky who can run faster than her six brothers?
A: A virgin.
–Rogue
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NEW FROM SCOTT JACOBS–Uh Ohhhh!
As some of you already know, our website was down for almost the entire day yesterday. (Face to palm)
Now, I’m sure that if you were participating in Black Friday, you were shopping at major box stores to get a TV for 70% off, but we had sales going on too!
Since our site was literally a blank page until 4pm, we are extending our discounts until Cyber Monday!
Check them out!
Take advantage of 20% OFF Alexa’s Unframed Art!
Expires 11/27/18.
–Olivia Jacobs
BACK TO BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
Q: What do you call a man who cries while he masturbates?
A: A tearjerker.
Q: What did the banana say to the vibrator?
A: Why are YOU shaking? She’s going to eat me!
Q: What’s the difference between the Florida State football team and a Florida State cheerleader?
A: They both suck for four quarters.
What’s the difference between a rabbi and a priest?
A rabbi cuts them off; A priest sucks them off
–from Rogue
POWERPLANT EXTENDED THEIR HOLIDAY SALE—
NEWS FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT–Scientists trash new federal climate report as ‘tripe’ – ’embarrassing’ – ‘400-page pile of crap’ – Report’s key claim based on ‘study funded by Tom Steyer
Climate expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The claim of economic damage from climate change is based on a 15 degree F temperature increase that is double the “most extreme value reported elsewhere in the report.”
“The “sole editor” of this claim in the report was an alumni of the Center for American Progress, which is also funded by Tom Styer.”
Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore: “The science must be addressed head-on. If POTUS has his reasons for letting this Obama-era committee continue to peddle tripe I wish he would tell us what they are.”
Dr. John Dunn: “Two years into the Trump administration it is sad to see this 400-page pile of crap.”
Climate Depot’s Morano: “It is a political report masquerading as science. We knew what it was going to say before it was issued. The media is hyping a rehash of frightening climate change claims by Obama administration holdover activist government scientists.
The new report is once again pre-determined science. The National Climate Assessment report reads like a press release from environmental pressure groups — because it is! Two key authors are longtime Union of Concerned Scientist activists, Donald Wuebbles and Katharine Hayhoe.
The new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide To Climate Change: MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen wrote of the National Academy of Sciences: “Regardless of evidence the answer is predetermined. If the government wants carbon control, that is the answer that the Academies will provide.”
–Marc Morano
Climate Depot
AMAZING—Life is so whacky. I don’t know what to make of it half the time. My contention is we could be dancing in the streets, but some aspects of government want to constantly fuck with us.
Maybe it’s a game. Keep us so busy scrambling to survive, we don’t notice the bullshit they throw at us. Of course there’s the government agency side. If you work for the government you want expanded budgets and grab more power.
I always seek balance and freedom, but life is tough on old outlaws like us. Somehow we will find our way.
And Ride Free Forever,
–Bandit
