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Did I say life is nuts? I’m signing a book contract with MotorBooks today. The brother I’m writing a book about is going to prison next week. Talk about a photo finish. I need to spend a couple of days with him before he leaves.
On top of that I’m waiting for my new Bikernet Hearse to roll into town, so I have some wheels. There’s another hitch regarding the factory and the Bikernet 2003 King. Still waiting for an answer. We are rebuilding the carb on the VL, and I’m trying to find a remote master cylinder or remote reservoir for the Assalt Weapan. Oh, and I have a notion of what’s wrong with the Sturgis Shovelhead. Need to find some time to tear into that puppy.
Then a brother called a couple of days ago and wants to buy a bike from me. I can’t sell the Shovelhead until it’s running tip-top. I had another notion, I could sell the Salt Shaker, but I’m waiting to hear back from him. Let’s hit the news, and I’ll keep my fingers crossed for good news.
LUCKY DEVIL METALWORKS 2010 PROJECT—I have the hydro bike all apart finishing up the fab work so we can make it operational, Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get any shots of it at Rick’s Custom Bike show but this is a shot of it at an offshore conference a little while back. It’s been a fun project so far, and I am sure it will be even better to get it out for a ride!
She has a Kohler in-line 4 cylinder diesel with a hydraulic drive system from Hydradyne Hydraulic’s. It’s a project Ron, the boss, used to showcase some industrial equipment they use. The closer I get to finishing the project the more I like it. . . there’s nothing like an odd girl in the stable to shake things up hehehe!!
— Mr.Devil
Campus Carry Regains Momentum in Colorado–On Thursday, April 15th, the Colorado Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision from last spring that upheld the University of Colorado’s (CU) prohibition against concealed carry on its campus. The ban imposed on students, employees and visitors also extended to storage or transportation of guns in vehicle trunks across campus property.
The CU Board of Regents adopted the gun ban in 1994, but Students for Concealed Carry and three CU students sued, arguing their rights were being violated under the Colorado Constitution’s right to bear arms. The plaintiffs also argued that the Colorado Concealed Carry Statute was being violated by the university’s prohibition. This latest decision means that the issue will be sent back to the lower courts; however CU may opt to appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court.
In a new development, on Friday, the local chapter of Students for Concealed Carry filed suit against Colorado State University (CSU), the state’s other major public university. CSU’s Board of Governors banned concealed carry in February despite an overwhelming majority vote of support for gun rights by the CSU Student Senate and support from local Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden. CSU had allowed carry for several years before the change in policy earlier this year.
I DIDN’T THINK I WAS OLD UNTIL–Didn’t think I was old when AARP sent an invite to join.
Didn’t think I was old when kids insurance dropped because of their age.
Didn’t think i was old when grand nephew got a hunting license.
Know I’m old saw an Evo with an Antique tag.
–BAMA
RUSH RACING PRODUCTS THANKS BIKERNET–Spring is finally here, and business is picking up. Thank you for helping us through a tough winter by running our press releases!Your website is on top of the heap!
–Nick
Marketing Manager
Rush Racing Products
nick@rushracingproducts.com
949-302-3985
GARAGE MAGAZINE ON HOLD, STAFF LOOKING FOR WORK– Wanted to let you know that the upcoming issue of Garage magazine has been put on indefinite hold. Please let me know if you hear of anyone looking for a sales rep for their website or magazine?
–Darrin
BIZARRE BIKERNET BOOK REVIEW–Tinker Tales Untold:This book falls into The Most Weird Books I Have Ever Read Category. Not that it is a bad list to be on. I read a lot of books and would place it in its own genre of mystical biker lore. Tinker is the main character throughout Tinker Tales Untold from author Allan Lowson. Tinker is a well rounded character. He rides antique bikes like the Devil is after him with Death close behind, because they are.
He has a house ghost that cleans up after him. He can trick an officer of the law into letting him off Scot free while riding under the influence. He smokes da herb with the herb Mary-Jane herself and parties in the netherworld when he wants.
Tinker judges a bike show and falls in with the furies and has a run in with the Knights Templar. And you thought you had it rough.
All in all this collection of tales is entertaining and well worth a read. You can contact the author directly for a copy at lowson@dccnet.com , $17 each including postage or $32 for both Tinker Tales and Tinker Tales Untold. The author will include a personalized message on the flyleaf.
Copyright 2009 by Allan Lowson
Illustrations by Bradley Coffey
ISBN: 978-1-4415-8446-5
New Down – N – Dirty Shop Shirt from Licks–Thanks to our loyal customers, Licks has been kicking ass and raising hell since 2002!!! To celebrate, we have come out with this very cool “Down & Dirty” Short Sleeve Garage Shirt.
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The Motorcycle Riders Foundation, Inc., Washington D.C. CURRENT LEGISLATIVE AGENDA– Lobbying in support of House Resolution 1587 to not include 12 and under youth motorcycles in the Consumer Product Safety Commission Lead in children’s toy ban.
Active in the U.S. House Motorcycle Safety Caucus
Championed House Resolution 268 Supporting the Goals of a Motorcycle Safety Month, will be kicked off again this year during our national motorcyclist lobbying event and national motorcycle awareness event in D.C. May 20th known as Bikers Inside the Beltway
Working to repair the loophole in the HIPAA Health Insurance loophole where a motorcyclist cannot be denied insurance if he/she rides a motorcycle but they can be denied coverage if injured, Championed House Resolution 1253 known as the Health Insurance Restrictions and Limitations Clarification Act of 2009 which know requires insurance companies to inform you up front if they intend to deny health benefits due to mechanism of injury (motorcycle riding)
Supporting House Resolution 2057 Right to Repair Bill which would require OEM manufacturers to make diagnostic tools, training, and software available to the general public
MRF observing and weighing in on Senate Bill 1938 on distracted driving (wary of federal blackmail provisions so not supporting at this time)
Working with the Federal Department of Transportation to define two and three wheeled motorcycles
Major emphasis on the Highway Bill ( known as ISTEA and TEALU in previous versions), lobbying to maintain the 25 million dollar motorcycle safety grant program over 5 years to states with qualifying motorcycle safety programs (all 50 were successful), maintain the Motorcycle Advisory Council within the Federal Highway Administration (MRF has a seat), extend the ban on NHTSA lobbying states directly, maintain HOV lane access on al federally funded roads
Working with all committees and subcommittees in the Senate to avoid federal helmet usage mandates
Monitoring the Crash Causation study, do not support the NHTSA study, supporting the MIC/MSF Naturalistic study
Carefully monitoring statistics published by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Insurance Loss Data Institute who recently made the following comments regarding motorcycles, Horsepower is bad enough, cheap horsepower is even worse.
Meeting regularly with Officials from the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), the DOT (Department of Transportation), and the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board), and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Hold two seats on the Transportation Research Board in Washington D.C.
Monitoring the 2010 Census data
Working with State Motorcycle Rights Organizations daily on issues in their states such as New York City’s Silent Night proposal 416-a, NH motorcycle Sound bills
The MRF is a member of the International Motorcycle Cooperation Group with a presence in the United Nations and the European Union, seat held by the President of the MRF to remain vigilant and to influence these bodies
It’s ?SPONSOR TIME” again for SFV’s Hells Angel Bike Show and SWAP Meet — Sunday June 6th.Your sponsorship is greatly appreciated, in return, your company’s logo will be placed on the backside of the event t-shirt, and your generous donation is rewarded with a complimentary event shirt.
Sponsorship dollar amounts are as follows:
$100 sponsorship: regular logo size
$200 sponsorship: double the regular logo size
$300 sponsorship: triple the regular logo size
$500 sponsorship: large prominent placement on event shirt
$1000 sponsorship: VERY large prominent placement on event shirt
BOTH SLEEVES are available— 1st come, first serve: $350.
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Musicians, fly your bands logo on this shirt, get more fan support!
M/C’s put your club’s logo here and support your local Hells Angels SFV!
AFT Customs to premier newest Bonneville racer custom “Kemosabe” at the 2010 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show July 18th– Custom Honda Bobber Built and to be Piloted by the ATF Models for Bonneville World Record Attempt
Long Beach, CA, May 1st 2010 – Reigning LA Calendar Bike Building Champions, AFT Customs of Martel, CA, with owner designer Jim Guiffra and his AFT Motorsports Model Agency spokesmodels (AFTcustoms.com), will again use this year’s 2010 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show on Sunday July 18th at the Queen Mary Event Park, Long Beach, CA to premier their latest custom built motorcycle “Kemosabe”. Also helping with the bike build and attending the events are models Cyndi, Sara, Malanie and Katy.
The AFT crew are no strangers to premiering new bikes at the Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend having garnered the coveted “Best of Show” award in 2008 with their Yamaha Royal Star based custom “Er Head.” Last year they returned with “LoLA” a 2009 Honda VXT1300 Pro Street custom to take 1st place in the Metric Custom class. After the Show their winning bikes were photographed by Calendar Show producer Jim Gianatsis for the FastDates.com Iron & Lace Custom Motorcycle PinUp Calendar, the new 2011 edition of which premiers at this year’s Show.
“Kemosabe means faithful friend in Comanche, explains Guiffra. “It’s the nickname Indian sidekick Tonto used for his partner “The Lone Ranger” in the classic old TV series from the 1960s.
The AFT Agency models again went all out for this year’s build which is a “Bobber” style custom based on a Honda VT750 V-twin streetbike. Miller Welding came on board as a sponsor and sent an instructor to help the girls improve their TIG welding. Guiffra’s aim with the AFT Model Agency is to supply the Motorsports Industry with attractive spokesmodels for trade shows and consumer event, models who are knowledgeable in talking to customers about the products and companies they represent. Being involved in building some of the word’s winning-est custom bikes featured in Calendars, magazines and on TV.
The 19th annual Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend presented by Brown & Koro Motorcycle Attorneys, America’s premier custom, cruiser, performance and sportbike weekend returns to the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach on Sunday July 18, 2010.
For additional LA Calendar Motorcycle Show & Calendar Girl Music Festival weekend details including the show schedules, hotels and parking information visit http://www.FastDates.com.
UNCLE MONKEY DEFENDS MOTORCYCLING–A friend of mine stopped in at work today and inevitably the conversation came around to motorcycles. He lamented that he wanted to buy a motorcycle but his wife has forbid it. The argument revolved around the ever-common themes of being dangerous, rolling death traps, that she was to young, too good looking to be a widow. When would he ride it? How would they pay for it? How could he be so selfish to even consider spending several thousands of dollars on something that was “only” for him? He asked why I was nodding.
The truth is that every loved one has the same argument for why not to buy a motorcycle. Some points are valid. Yes, motorcycles are dangerous in untrained hands. A motorcycle is primarily a solo thing; even with a passenger there is isolation. Living in the Snow Belt riding is more of a luxury.
A properly trained rider on a motorcycle is just as safe as any other mode of transportation. Before you spill your drink scrambling to the keyboard to inundate me with emails – a trained rider looks and expects danger. They look for that skiff of sand in a curve, that person talking on their cell phone. We can’t eliminate all dangers but we are prepared for them.
I suggested he borrow a bike for a week and see if he liked it. He confided that he had already done that for a week last fall. He then admitted that his wife liked sitting on the bike. She liked riding to the mall on it. She even let him take her to do a trip up and down the main drag and a few miles on the highway. No jabs to the ribs, no death grip bear hug as she hung on for dear life. Her point of motorcycles being dangerous was mute. She liked riding, maybe even enjoyed it. When I asked if she changed her mind he said no. But now I knew what the real reason was.
Motorcycles are expensive. There is no way around it. Between plates and insurance, riding gear and maintenance a motorcycle is beyond what some people could afford. As a young family there is never a shortage of things that need to be paid for. When I asked if he could afford a bike he confessed yes. It would mean giving up $6 Latte Coffees, renting a couple fewer movies a month but it could be done.
He still hadn’t won her over but a crack in her armor had appeared. I asked him WHY he wanted a motorcycle. He smiled. There was something about the openness, about being free. He spoke of the smell of the freshly mowed field; the smell of the bakery that he never knew was down the block from his work. How the grass swayed and stroked the sky as he rode by. He voice trailed off as his eyes stared off across an open prairie with an asphalt ribbon stretching out beyond the horizon. I knew where he was. All of us that ride know where he was. He didn’t need to explain something that can’t be.
Will he buy a motorcycle? We all know what the answer is.
-bad Uncle Monkey
WOMAN STEALS COPY OF BANDIT’S BOOK, HARBOR TOWN SEDUCTION– Just wanted you to know that I saw your book on Mike’s coffee table last week while I waited for him to come home. I started reading and kept reading and when he came home I told him I was borrowing his book. Of course, I was read the riot act — don’t bend the pages, don’t spill anything on it – this book was signed by Bandit.
I finished it tonight and I must say it was very good. Except the ending … I am assuming that the story will be continued???? Hope so. I really enjoyed it..
–Vicki
The New Bikernet Quote Engine Revvin for the riding season without credit-scoring!– Most insurance companies use your credit score within their rating formulas to help them calculate the risk of taking you on as a customer. The theory, insurance scoring is a proven factor in predicting future claims. The lower the score, the less likely one is to file a claim they reason.
Even for states that don allow insurance companies to use credit scores directly, it appears that some companies use a credit-type factor within their rating programs to develop your insurance score. Each motorcycle insurance company has its own custom, top-secret proprietary rating method and this is why for the same exact motorcycle risk, one underwriter hates it while another seems to love it.
Good or bad we are not exactly sure. The latest prolonged recession has fueled the fire around this credit scoring issue as many people have seen their credit scores go into the tank. As you are beginning to find out, we at the Bikernet Insurance Center are on a mission to save bikers money on their motorcycle insurance. To this end, we have come up with a solution that is so easy, even a biker with a bad credit score can use it.
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BIKERNET SEX ADVICE SPONSORED BY EXPRESSIVE STICKER MANUFACTURER- Two Bikers chicks were talking —
Chick 1: Did you have good sex last night?
Chick 2: No, it was a disaster… the bastard came home, ate his dinner in 3 minutes, got on top of me, finished having sex in 4 minutes, rolled over and fell asleep in 2 minutes. How about you?
Chick 1: Oh it was amazing! My husband came home. He took me out to a romantic dinner. We walked. When we came home he lit the candles around the house and we had an hour of foreplay. After foreplay we had an hour long session of fantastic sex and then we talked for an hour. It was like in a fairytale!
At the same time, the Bikers were talking at the clubhouse
Biker 1: Did you have good sex last night?
Biker 2: Yes, it was great! I came home, dinner was on the table, I ate, screwed the ol lady and fell asleep. What about you?
Biker 1: It was horrible. I came home, there’s no dinner because they cut the electricity because I didn’t pay the bill. So I had to take the ol lady out to dinner, the fucking bike wouldn’t start and we had to walk, plus the dinner was expensive – and when we got home, there was no electricity, so I had to light fucking candles all over the house! I was so angry that I couldn’t get it up for an hour and then I couldn’t cum for another hour. After I finally did, I was so mad and aggravated that I couldn’t fall asleep and the ol lady was jabbering away for another hour!
–from Rogue
BDL BALL BEARING LOCK-UP CLUTCH– Belt Drives LTD has made living with today’s high horsepower, big torque engines a lot less stressful. The company’s ability to stay on the edge of current technology and address rider demands is evident in their, patented BALL BEARING LOCK UP CLUTCH. This unique clutch mechanism significantly lightens clutch pull at the lever while providing slip free lock up.
Each unit incorporates a designated number of steel ball bearings set in a model specific diaphragm assembly. Replacing the factory pressure plate, springs, stock applications use the factory diaphragm spring, and associated hardware, the new ball bearing, diaphragm design provides feather light lever control, smoother operation and more positive lock up.
For racing applications BDL offers heavier carbide bearings that can be used to fine tune the clutch. The new BDL BALL BEARING LOCK UP CLUTCH is standard equipment with new 2 BDL belt drives and is available for retro fit to most early BDL units, stock HD models from 1998 through 2007 and 1990 to 2007 Primo Pro-Clutch belt drives. AS shown the kit sells for $200.00. Installation is straight forward bolt on and benefits to comfort and performance are immediate.
For complete details contact BDL at 714-685-3333 or visit them on line at www.beltdrives.com www.beltdrives.com
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