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Hey,
This is an interesting weekend with Cinco De Mayo just behind us and Buddha’s Birthday in front. It’s a beautiful day and I hope everyone gets to celebrate something, maybe even a warm day and a well-running motorcycle.
Celebrate something today, even a short ride to some place special or someone special.
Let’s hit the news.
STOPTIX RETURNS TO BIKERNET–
Doc Robinson sent you a short write-up on our Stoptix automatic brake lamp. I think you guys also did a new product announcement in 2016 before we had it in inventory.
The lamps are now in stock at Amazon with free 2-day Prime shipping. The g-force trigger setting is now user-programmable without a cable, computer, or wireless connection. We have part numbers to replace the 1157 tail-brake-turn lamp or the 1156 tail lamp.
Our lamps are slightly larger than the original incandescent bulb so they will not fit into light housings where the bulb is rear-loading.
Please check out the product at www.AutoBrakeLight.com
— Jeff Hammock
CEO & Founder
MechOptix, Inc.
256.542.1711 office
256.509.1822 cell
4440 Evangel Cir NW, Huntsville, AL 35816
Jeff@MechOptix.com
THE SOCIAL MEDIA BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for May 4, 2017
South Dakotas vertical plate bill passed and will become law July 1st. You will be able to mount the plate on your scoot any way but upside down.
It was a good team effort by all the members of ABATE of South Dakota.
–Jiggs Cressy
Jac98fxd@aol.com
Rapid City, SD
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QUICK, OPEN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY– A young man and his date were parked on a back road some distance from town. They were about to have sex when the girl stopped.
“I really should have mentioned this earlier, but I’m actually a prostitute and I charge $20 for sex.”
The man reluctantly paid her, and they did their thing. After a cigarette, the man just sat in the driver’s seat looking out the window.
“Why aren’t we going anywhere?” asked the girl.
“Well, I should have mentioned this before, but I’m actually a taxi driver, and the fare back to town is $25…”
–from Rogue
Esteemed Bikernet Baggers Editor
BAD DAY for Trikes industry in USA–
Elio Motors latest filing with the SEC shows that the company is in dire straights. According to the financial report, the company has a little more than $120 thousand in the bank and is roughly 376 million dollars away from being able to start production.
Read More: Elio Motors’ Financial Future Does Not Look Good
http://710keel.com/elio-motors-financial-future-does-not-look-good/?trackback=tsmclip
–Ujjwal Dey
Most Magnificent
Bikernet Trikes Editor
wayfarer@bikernet.com
MICHAEL LICHTER WORLD CLASS EXHIBIT IN STURGIS 2017 AT THE CHIP–
We’re proud to once again present another genuinely historic Motorcycles As Art Exhibit curated by Michael Lichter. It’s bigger and younger than ever. It will exist for only one week in all of eternity, only at the Buffalo Chip, and you have this one opportunity to experience it with Michael himself and the past, present and future leaders of this wonderful industry.
Ride Free, Take Risks and we look forward to seeing your smiling faces on August 6th.
Click through the image below or this text to find out more about this year’s Motorcycles as Art exhibit.
THE SOCIAL MEDIA BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for May 4, 2017
I read with interest the comment from Gary, and I agree wholeheartedly. The right’s community not participating in the Sturgis Museum’s Hall of Fame breakfast will hardly have any impact at all.
I have personally cancelled plans to attend on three separate occasions, due to who “was” being inducted into the freedom fighter section. This year, I will not attend because “nobody” is being considered (at least at this time).
A boycott of the proceedings is not going to be as beneficial as calling the Sturgis Board out as being out of touch with who is insuring the continuance of our way of life. They should be ashamed to admit that they don’t know anything about the rights movement or who is who as far as fighting for all of our rights.
Bob Illingsworth’s dream of recognizing true freedom fighters is slowly blowing away in the dust. I hope the board considers the complaints and concerns being brought forward and does whatever it can to rectify the situation.
Asking the rights community to pay for the production of a video bio of nominees is disgraceful. If induction becomes a “pay to play” affair, it will totally diminish the value and prestige associated with such an honor.
–Tony Pan Sanfelipo
pan@hupy.com
Milwaukee, WI
First Freedom Fighter inducted into the Hall of Fame, 2002.
So well said. It’s interesting and Woody at the Chip could help with this issue. There is a small segment of our industry trying to make a buck and feed their families. They do a masterful job with PR and marketing.
There is another side of our industry, much larger, intelligent and very active, the motorcycle rights community, who don’t do a bang-up marketing job. But to say they don’t have an impact is wrong. We wouldn’t have an industry without them.–Bandit
IS DISTRACTED DRIVING THE NEW DRUNK DRIVING?– Part 2:
Part 1 dealt with how distracted driving enforcement campaigns, fueled by federal highway money, are also dragnets for other offenses. Part 2 examines new law enforcement tools to check on texting while driving.
Currently, law enforcement has great difficulty in determining if a driver was using electronic devices before a crash (and more importantly whether that activity had anything to do with the accident). Few state laws lay out such protocol and even if they did, the only definitive logical means available is through a confession or a corroborating witness. A driver can be tested for driving drunk – not always reliably, we might add – but a driver cannot be tested for the effects of texting while driving.
That might be about to change. The New York state legislature is currently working on a bill called Evan’s law named after Evan Lieberman, a 19-year-old college student killed by a texting driver in 2011. His father, Ben Lieberman has become a tireless advocate against texting while driving.
Lieberman says, “Distracted driving is developing into a nameless and faceless crime. It’s creating a huge void in any negative social stigma for the people causing damage and implementing other deterrents. We need to get to the same place where DUI is.”
Currently the bipartisan bill going through both New York state houses (S2306 and A3955) contains language that calls for amending the state’s traffic laws for the field testing of phones and other devices after an accident involving personal injury or property damage. Bill sponsors want law enforcement to use a device such as the “Textalyzer” which is a technology currently in development by the digital forensics specialist company called Cellibrite.
CEO Jim Grady says his company’s working prototype can secure information about whether texting happened in 90 seconds, without a device leaving the offending driver’s possession. He claims that the textalyzer device would enable police to only access actions that had taken place on the phone immediately before the crash and not the content that is on the device.
If Evan’s law goes into effect, police will then have free rein to download phone data which contains a lot more than just call records. These bills sidestep the Fourth Amendment by allowing for warrantless dumping of driver personal data.
Similar legislation was considered this session in Tennessee (SB0324 and HB0854) and has been deferred to 2018. Recently, Chicago area lawmakers are making noise about soon introducing similar legislation in Illinois.
A more familiar law enforcement device, the handheld radar gun, may soon see an addition to its detection. An unnamed Virginia company is developing a radar gun that can also detect cell phone radio frequencies. Texting a message emits a different frequency than making a call and this new-fangled radar gun supposedly can detect the difference. But what this radar gun won’t be able to detect is who in the car is actually texting—the driver or a passenger.
There are many levels of distracted driving. The police – well, the thought police maybe – cannot stop someone from daydreaming or interacting with their children in their own car. Responsible drivers should understand their own distracted driving tolerances and make decisions about their own behavior.
Safety advocates say they see distracted driving as the new drunk driving. State and local municipalities see another avenue for making money with taxation by citation. If distracted driving laws have similar one-size-fits-all limits as drunk driving, it won’t matter if you drive safely while using your phone because you will be penalized the same as someone who is driving dangerously distracted.
Use this link to share this NMA E-Newsletter with others:
https://www.motorists.org/alerts/distracted-driving-new-drunk-driving-part-2-nma-e-newsletter-434/
It’s interesting. We live in a punishment era. Everyone who even thinks of doing something wrong should be punished. There’s a couple of philosophies at play. One is that we can punish thousands to save a life. So, how many can we punish or torture for a life? What makes sense? That’s why we started a free society and fought for it—to find a balance.
I’ll bet there’s another approach.
–Bandit
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CYCLE SOURCE MAGAZINE CREW ON THE ROAD— Cycle Source magazine still rolling around Texas!!!
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–Chris Callen
Hardworking Editor in Chief
Founder
CEO
Cycle Source Magazine
GUN NUT REPORT– Writer Sticks to Her Guns: Take This Job and…
The liberal media’s absolute intolerance to everything firearm-related has struck again – the latest victim? Stacy Washington, conservative radio host, writer and avid Second Amendment defender who lost her column simply because she supports the U.S. Constitution and the opinions of fellow conservatives.
Ms. Washington’s “offense” was her most recent piece in The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Guns and the media. Written in defense of the NRA and denouncing the ignorant comparison of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization to the terrorist enterprise ISIS, the column hit a nerve with the Missouri paper and caused a near instant denouncement.
According to a statement from a Post-Dispatch editor, the paper cites an undisclosed conflict of interest and Ms. Washington’s “professional association with the National Rifle Association” as reasons for her suspension, which ultimately led to her decision to terminate her contract with the paper. The editor went on to say that his claims against Ms. Washington went beyond acceptable journalistic standards. Even though she refuted ever being paid, no apology was given and nothing more than a discussion of her suspension was promised.
Contrary to the Post-Dispatch’s claims, Ms. Washington’s appearances on NRATV were not only unpaid but also clearly disclosed on her personal website. Further, the paper ran an article on her involvement in an NRA documentary mere months before she began working for them on a freelance basis. The paper’s claim that her unpaid, voluntary connection to the NRA was unknown is factually improbable and an empty excuse to force out the conservative contributor who dared to contradict their liberal bias.
Interestingly enough, the column in question went through the proper editorial process and was approved for publication. In fact, according to Ms. Washington, the editor who reviewed and approved the column was not punished.
So why was she targeted? As she tweeted, Ms. Washington’s views did not match those of the paper. She was not the model contributor, and when she stood up to the clear bias in the editorial office, the paper stood by those pushing the anti-gun narrative and failed to defend her.
But terminating the column wasn’t enough, and they have now resorted to attacking Ms. Washington personally. Just one day before announcing cancellation of her column, the paper ran a letter to the editor labeling Ms. Washington as an NRA “shill” and condemning her opinion as shameful. We should note that among the inaccurate claims was the citation of a crowd sourced, slang dictionary. So much for journalistic integrity.
Here at the NRA, we have come to accept a certain level of bias and dismissal from the media. But what happened to Ms. Washington is shameful and shows the absolute disarray that represents today’s media. The fact that an independent conservative contributor to a prominent paper was cut, due to her well established and publicized support of a pro-firearm organization, further highlights the media’s zero-tolerance of the Second Amendment and our fundamental, constitutionally protected rights.
RETURNING TO THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY– At a nursing home in Florida a group of senior citizens were sitting around talking about their aches and pains.
“My arms are so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee,” said one.
“I know what you mean. My cataracts are so bad I can’t even see my coffee,” replied another.
“I can’t turn my head because of the arthritis in my neck,” said a third.
“My blood pressure pills make me dizzy,” another contributed.
“I guess that’s the price we pay for getting old,” winced an old man.
Then there was a short moment of silence.“Thank God we can all still drive,” said one woman cheerfully.
I didn’t make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row.
–from Rogue and Sidehack Jerry
DR. FENG TESTING SADDLEMEN PRODUCT— The super-cool sissybar bag from SADDLEMEN mounted sorta strange, since he doesn’t have a sissybar, but it’s working like a champ.
We will bring you a full review in the very near future.
Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill Introduced Addressing Motorcycle Profiling–
Representatives Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), Michael Burgess (R-Texas) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) along with Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hamp.) jointly introduced a bipartisan and bicameral resolution concerning the profiling of motorcyclists.
The bill defines the practice of motorcycle profiling and expresses the sentiments of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on the issue of motorcycle profiling. Additionally, the bill promotes increased public awareness on the issue and encourages collaboration, education and training for the motorcycle and law enforcement communities in order to end instances of profiling.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF), which has been advocating for a national solution to address motorcycle profiling with the support of the Motorcycle Profiling Project, will work over the coming months with states’ motorcyclists’ rights organizations as well as motorcycle clubs and individual riders to advance the measure.
President of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation, Kirk ‘Hardtail’ Willard, stated this with the bill’s release: “For too long motorcyclists have felt the effects of discrimination from law enforcement. Riding a motorcycle doesn’t make me suspect. We hope that, with this bill’s introduction, we can shine a national spotlight on this issue that affects every rider in every state, and helps put an end to this unconstitutional practice.”
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Halley’s comet was visible here early to-day in the southeastern horizon. Its light was brilliant and coruscant.
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5-Ball racing SPECIAL OPPS VEST IN TEXAS– Surely you didn’t think I was gonna send a “Cell Phone Selfie”
Plus I had have the girls in the image too! It’s a little tight, but I expected that, as my denim vest is an XL and is the same, but trying to eat right or better and finally getting off my butt to exercise. I’d rather shrink back into them, then fill out a larger size!
–RFR
As soon as the MRF has a bill number for the Motorcycle Profiling Bill I have numerous supporters.
— Rogue
rogue@bikernet.com
Palm Bay, FL
ANOTHER GUN NUT REPORT– U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Delists Wyoming Grey Wolves and Returns Management to the State
For years, the NRA has been working to ensure that sound wildlife management practices implemented by the states, and not federal politics, govern the control of wolf populations in the United States.
Anti-hunting groups, including the Humane Society of the United States, have been on the other side of this issue. They know that excessive wolf predation of elk, deer and moose reduces hunting opportunities in the American Northwest. Fewer opportunities to hunt mean fewer hunters, which is key to their long-term goal of eradicating America’s outdoor sporting traditions.
During the mid-1990s, dozens of wolves from Canada were released into Yellowstone Park and Idaho under the auspices of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which had included grey wolves on the list of Endangered and Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The FWS’s Wolf Recovery Plan sought to establish minimum breeding pairs in three different zones, at which point the wolves would be delisted from the ESA and managed by the states.
The wolves quickly exceeded established population targets, but anti-hunting groups challenged their delisting in court. The NRA, Safari Club International, and other pro-hunting organizations gained intervenor status in these suits to help vindicate the scientific management of the wolves through state fish and wildlife agencies. While Idaho and Montana regained authority to manage wolves within their borders, Wyoming was blocked from doing so by a 2014 federal district court decision.
In March, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the earlier decision that rejected the delisting of the Wyoming grey wolf. The decision in that case, Defenders of Wildlife v. Zinke, vindicated the states’ ability to properly manage their wolf populations. In Wyoming, this includes authorization for relatively unconstrained hunting in a designated “predator area” that does not constitute a significant portion of the wolves’ range in order to reduce the wolves’ conflicts with humans, including livestock predation. The court also noted that two years after wolves were delisted in Idaho and Montana, their populations remained many times larger than the states’ designated minimums.
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead hailed the Circuit court’s decision in a statement posted to Wyoming Game & Fish Department website. “I am delighted that the Circuit Court recognized Wyoming’s commitment to manage a recovered wolf population,” Governor Mead stated.
On Monday, the FWS acted on the court’s decision by publishing a final rule that delists the grey wolf in Wyoming from the ESA and returns their management to the state.
The NRA is pleased to see this long-running controversy resolved favorably and is proud to have played a role in ensuring that radical attempts to eliminate hunting and diminish state authority over wildlife management were defeated.
MRF AFTERMARKET AWARD FROM 2016– I received the Aftermarket Award yesterday. I was beginning to believe I had misread the notice and that I was supposed to pick a winner not be a winner.
Anyway, thank you, to Kirk and the board.
As always, I do what I can for the MRF and our industry.
–Bandit
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NEWS FROM SAN DIEGO HARLEY– Events & Promotions
We have so much planned this summer as we enter into our 25th year as a family-owned and ran H-D dealership of proud Veterans.
We have our annual Blessing of the Bikes event this Saturday which is always a special ride…my dad, New York Myke, and Pastor Z among others will be speaking at the cross. The following Sat, May 13th, is a Bikini Bike Wash by day and UFC fights by night. There’s a special event happening on Thurs, May 18th, more to come on that soon!! And Memorial Day weekend is really where the action is – we are setting up an American Gladiator Ring inside the Morena store for an all-day party on Sat, May 27th.
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to find out more about our SDHD events and exclusive promotions like our Keep the Same Payment program happening right now!
— Jen Miller, SDHD Owner & Operator
NEWS FROM SEATTLE DUCATI–
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Rumor has it the Ducati company is for sale again.—Bandit
Answer: Life sucks, job sucks and the wife doesn’t.
–from Rogue and Sidehack Jerry
ANOTHER GUN NUT REPORT–We’ll Drink to That: Bloomberg Spends (and Loses) Big in the Land of Enchantment
Hobbies are usually a good thing.
One notable exception, however, is when your hobby is spending huge sums of cash in places you have no connection to in order to force the local residents to conform to your worldview.
This is not a common hobby and is confined to a few megalomaniacal billionaires who – rather than spend their money to enjoy life – spend it to make others’ lives less enjoyable.
Case in point: Michael Bloomberg. We all know the former New York City mayor wants to bring New York City style gun control to America at large (think gun bans, discretionary licensing, prohibitively expensive fees, cronyism, and public corruption). But he doesn’t stop at that.
Another Bloomberg obsession is soda. Not drinking it, mind you, but controlling access others have to it.
As mayor, Bloomberg infamously tried to ban large sodas throughout the Big Apple by executive action. And not just sodas, but any “sugary beverage” in a cup larger than 16 ounces.
The ban was to be enforced by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), with violators subject to fines and possible adverse health grades.
The groups that challenged the rule in court pointed out that it came directly from the mayor’s office and not from the supposed subject matter experts on the DHMH’s board. Bloomberg’s justification for this bizarre intrusion into lawful commerce and personal choice was that some people are overweight, a circumstance he described as a “public health” crisis. The city also cited “studies” it claimed showed that sugary drinks are associated with weight gain. (Both tactics should sound familiar to gun owners.)
Yet that was all too much even for New York’s judiciary, which rejected Bloomberg’s contention that the DHMH has inherent legislative authority and that the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches did not apply to its actions.
The decision by the state’s intermediate appellate court noted, “To accept the [city’s] interpretation of the authority granted to the Board by the New York City Charter would leave its authority to define, create, mandate and enforce limited only by its own imagination.”
This was an outcome the court found “more troubling than sugar sweetened beverages.” Two years later, New York’s highest court affirmed that decision, holding that the DHMH “exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority” and upholding the permanent injunction against the ban’s enforcement.
Unfortunately, Bloomberg continues to have an unusually active imagination when it comes to infringing upon the rights and choices of other people in far-flung places.
Bloomberg trained his sights all the way out to New Mexico this year, financing a full-on effort to pass “universal” background check legislation for firearm transfers. That effort failed on the strength of opposition led by the NRA. Other opponents of the bill included the New Mexico Sheriff’s Association, which issued a statement emphasizing the proposal would “make it harder for law-abiding New Mexicans to exercise their Second Amendment rights” and “do nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”
But Bloomberg wasn’t finished with the Land of Enchantment and poured additional cash into another pet project, an initiative campaign to impose a “sin tax” on sugary beverages sold in Santa Fe. By late April, according to a local media report, the New York billionaire had dumped $1.13 million into the effort.
On Tuesday, however, Santa Fe voters rejected the measure by a 16-point margin. Underscoring the elitist nature of the campaign, the Albuquerque Journal reported, “Voters in the city’s middle- and lower-income neighborhoods went against the tax in huge numbers, while the vote in Santa Fe’s affluent north and east sides split almost precisely 50-50.”
While Bloomberg’s New Mexico efforts may have failed, don’t expect him to cut his losses and run.
Inflamed by the failure of his New York City beverage scheme, Bloomberg has sought vengeance the only way he knows how: by seeking to spend his opposition into oblivion. His recent expenditures to pass soda taxes in three other cities, according to Fortune, amounted to $20 million.
While unimaginable sums to most ordinary people, this is all chump change to the New York media mogul. With billions of dollars at his disposal – and more pouring in endlessly from his empire – his ability to stick his nose into other peoples’ freedoms is for all practical purposes unlimited. He is the embodiment of a plutocrat, and his pathological need to control the people he considers his inferiors is completely unmoored by political or geographic boundaries.
And make no mistake: he’s just as focused on coming for your guns as he is on coming for your Dr. Pepper.
The good news is that you already have all that is necessary to defeat his schemes: your awareness, your love of liberty, and your vote. This combination worked in New Mexico, and it can work anywhere else where a free people refuse to bow to high-minded elites with an inexhaustible interest in ruling every detail of their lives.
Rest assured, your NRA looks forward to handing similar defeats to America’s richest nanny. And we’ll happily join the residents of Santa Fe in toasting liberty with the soft drink of their choice, whatever its sugar content might be.
Incredible. Just like the war on drugs. Now folks are going after the opiate addiction problem by enhancing the war on drugs. I’m not saying opiate addiction isn’t a problem, but the war didn’t work. But freedom and education always works. Take a different slant. There is a way.–Bandit
Great job of keeping us informed on the many issues affecting our sport and industry. However, Fox, CNN, MSNBC give more than enough free publicity to the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave (and Mar-A-Lago). If you need to fill column space put more brunettes and redheads in.
— Mike
slamon@sbcglobal.net
Windsor, CT
CUT A DUST TRAIL— It’s been almost 90 degrees in LA recently and today the high will be 63. What the hell? It must be global warming and it’s all our fault. Quick, punish anyone who drives a car.
Fortunately, I ride a motorcycle. I started to build another motorcycle. I can’t resist and Brat Style inspired me along with the guys at Kraft Tech. That’s all it took and I started digging for parts and having fun.
The other day I had an amazing experience with the grandson Frankie. We hit several places in one afternoon and every spot was open and ready for business. Hell, tomorrow we can pick up his Powder and jet hot coated pipes. As of tomorrow, with part orders from Zippers, Harley, Aeromach, Brass Balls and Custom Cycle Engineering we can start to put his bike back together.
Hang on for the first report.
