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Car manufacturers these days are in a race with each other to manufacture the most environment-friendly cars. Companies have been researching on many different fuels to see which one of them is the most-effective, cheap and reliable fuel. The focus these days is to extract as much energy as you can from a fuel and […]

It’s the tenth anniversary next week of the 2009 Climategate email dump that exposed top climate scientists’ chicanery and subversion of science – and did so in their own words and out of their own mouths, or keyboards. I’ll list a few emails-of-infamy shortly, but first some background. For the three years before Climategate, the

      This month marks the tenth anniversary of “Climategate” – the release of thousands of emails to and from climate scientists who had been (and still are) collaborating and colluding to create a manmade climate crisis that exists in their minds and computer models, but not in the real world. The scandal should

    It’s no secret that we Americans love our outlaws, from the legends and lore of rebellious (and illegal) acts by our Founding Fathers, to the bushwhacking and bank-robbing capers of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, to the “bad boy” music of Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and Dr. Dre. American culture and

  Would you consider preserving the tattoo of a loved one who has died? It’s becoming an increasingly common request from people in their final weeks.   Chris Wenzel’s lifelong love affair with tattooing began when he was just nine years old when his aunt asked him to design her a tattoo, one he ended

  The concept of driverless vehicles promises a future free of crashes, where passengers use their time in transit completing business-related tasks, engaging in conversation, keeping abreast of the latest social media posts or streaming videos, while the vehicles make all the decisions and deliver their human cargo safely to their destinations. Lane-keeping assistance, adaptive

    How good is your helmet? Will it actually protect your brain in your next crash? Will it prevent your next accident? I don’t think so, but it may cause your next accident–watch out.   These seem like easy questions, ones you probably think you can answer by reciting the lofty standards your helmet

    On February 19, 2019, the City of Milwaukee’s Neighborhood Services Department threatened to fine and continue fining the Outlaws Motorcycle Club based on the city’s graffiti ordinance. The club was given until March 18 to remove all graffiti on its building in the 2nd Aldermanic District of Milwaukee. If the club, which owns

The battle over politics in the financial marketplace continues to intensify. The combatants include anti-gun politicians who insist that banks have a social responsibility to sign onto the far left’s political agenda. Opposing them are patriotic Americans of all stripes who believe that federally chartered banks should serve the law-abiding public without ideological or political

  Today we complete the first full calendar quarter of reporting motorist-related activity that is passing through state and federal legislatures. The NMA Bill/Regulation Tracker (Bill Tracker) was introduced in the Winter 2019 issue of Driving Freedoms and went live on Motorists.org in early January when most states began new legislative sessions.   Only three

  Welcome to the War on Cars Watch, a weekly blog to bring together all the stories that affect motorists with regards to street planning such as road diets, and traffic calming as well as programs such as Vision Zero and Complete Streets.   Please read this blog and let us know what you think

  I do not write much about climate change here, mainly because it is such an easy target to bash. Every decade has its fears; people get rich allaying those fears, including by discussing them to death. In the 1980s, it was the Satanic Panic. Now it is climate change. In my view, climate change

Compare motorcycle shipping companies   Using an auto transporter to move your bike will help ensure it arrives safely and quickly to its destination. While there are many similarities between shipping a car and shipping a motorcycle, it’s best to work with companies that have specific experience shipping motorcycles. Our picks for best motorcycle shippers

Zero Motorcycles have exhibited at the past two IDTechEx events, and typically showcase their sporty S and off-road DS models, as well as their impressive 45kW electric motors (designed from scratch in California and produced at a factory in China). This year, at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara California, things were markedly different. Zero staged

    Motorcycling greatness is found on tracks, in shops and on roads and trails across America.   It’s born in the minds and hearts of riders who, at one point or many, put motorcycles above all else in their lives to accomplish amazing things, inspiring the rest of us to ride more.   The

  A Giant Leap Back in Time: Dangerous Streetcar Tracks Return to Milwaukee     Hupy and Abraham, S.C., a well-known law firm located in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, is representing the first motorcycle victim of a new streetcar system being constructed in Milwaukee. With all the technological advances in road design, there has been

Editor’s Note: I’m not posting these for entertainment, but you might find them interesting. They are just a couple of community projects, which may never go anywhere. On the other hand I designed them and worked with local artists to inspire something that could help. There’s a protective, selfish aspect here. By publishing these on

  A December 2016 traffic stop in Austin, Texas, is getting lots of views on social media lately. In a video posted on the Motorcycle Profiling Project’s Facebook page1 a motorcycle club member is detained after a police officer observed him neglecting to use a turn signal on his motorcycle. That traffic violation amounted to

A December 2016 traffic stop in Austin, Texas, is getting lots of views on social media lately. In a video posted on the Motorcycle Profiling Project’s Facebook page,1 a motorcycle club member is detained after a police officer observed him neglect to use a turn signal on his motorcycle. That traffic violation amounted to probable

When I first spoke with “Professor Blade” I noticed a subtle accent; “Former British Army” he informed me, though he now resides in the San Diego area. In addition to his accent, I noticed he was remarkably polite and articulate, which isn’t surprising given his career as a middle school teacher and college professor. What

In the beginning: Back in June of 1971, a new and exciting motorcycle publication was introduced – EASYRIDERS – a motorcycle magazine for the entertainment of adult bikers. This came into existence by the hard work of Lou Kimzey, the Editor, along with the owner of Paisano Publications. Along with Lou were Mil (Hog Expert)

GUERNSEY’S TO CONDUCT HOUSTON EVENT OCTOBER 12 Orange County Choppers, the most famous maker of extraordinary, one of a kind motorcycles – “choppers” – has just revealed a spectacular Texas Strong bike that will be sold at auction on October 12 in Houston. NYC-based Guernsey’s will be conducting the event with auction proceeds going to

Like some hulking artifacts from a lost civilization, you’re passing through canyons of steel shipping containers and rivers of railway tracks as you thread your way through an area of Los Angeles adjacent to Long Beach known as the Wilmington District. You could say buried under those artifacts is another “civilization,” one that was based

For ‘taller’ folks that own a Dyna Low Rider the Le Pera ‘Daddy Long Legs’ seat along with some other minor changes might be just what the doctor ordered.     If you’re a 6 foot old fart like me and have a bad knee you might also want to consider replacing the front foot