Hey,
I live in Motorcycle Nirvana. I live and breathe motorcycles. Sure, I would like to do more, build more and write more books, but I’m coming face to face with my legacy.
I had a meeting with a close friend yesterday. He has three PHDs, one in psychology, one in finance, and one in Art. He warns me, “families are toxic.”
I went to see him about investments. I have a very meager stock portfolio, since putting your money in the bank is a waste of time. I’m 68 and Dr. Nuttboy is older. He said his mission is to amass wealth. I’m after some level of retirement security. I’m sharing these thoughts with you, because young or old we need to think about the future. The younger you are the better the chance you have to put something together for your retirement, unless you work for a union or the school district.
I will share various thoughts with you on the topic over the weeks ahead. Maybe you can remind me to stay focused from time to time.
Stocks, bonds, ETFs are virtually the easiest way to invest. You could paint paintings, build motorcycles, write books, or build houses. They are all investments. And you can do whatever works for you, but then it’s up to you to make them pay off and use the money wisely.
The good doctor made some initial suggestions. First he is frugal to a fault. He’s a rich cheap bastard and I don’t understand why he’s still trying to amass wealth. He’s old, he’s rich, he doesn’t have kids, etc. He needs wealth like he needs a hole in the head.
But that brings up another topic and one I challenge with my Buddhist teachings. Look around. If your brother has smoked all his life, is he going to quit, unlikely. Folks get very stuck in their ways. It takes hard work to change that.
Back to the doctor’s recommendations. He’s frugal. He said the following, “If you want a new motorcycle, buy it, but make some money available for investment.” So he wants you to be happy and still invest. He doesn’t want you to throw money away. If you want to take a trip do it, but don’t toss money down the drain on bullshit.
If being happy is working on motorcycles, go for it. If the ol’ lady bitches about spending on bikes, tell her each one is an investment. It’s true. If you build a shop in the back of your house, it’s an investment.
I’m working on buying dividend stocks so ultimately those dividends can augment my retirement income. Many bikers who don’t have union jobs may not have much of a retirement set aside. Social Security will help, but it won’t cover the nut. You need about three Social Security checks.
So, according to the Doctor open a stock account. I have one with Charles Schwab. Start putting any spare change into it, even if it’s just $100 a month. I will go into some stock buying philosophies next week.
Let’s hit the news:
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NEW FROM BARNETT– Barnett Scorpion Series Clear Derby Covers
1998 & Later HD Big Twins & 2015-16 FL’s with ‘narrow’ primary
The Barnett Scorpion Series clear derby covers are designed to fit OEM primary covers on 1998 & up Harley Davidson Big Twins and 2015-16 FL’s with the ‘narrow’ primary. Featuring a quarter inch thick clear polycarbonate window to your clutch, the scratch and discoloration resistant window is firmly secured and sealed with an O-ring gasket.
The outer cover area is CNC machined from billet aluminum and available in a brilliant chrome or black powder coat finish. The derby cover gasket is also included. For the ultimate in looks AND performance, install a Barnett lock-up clutch with your new cover! Made in the USA.
To order, please contact your dealer or order online at www.barnettclutches.com.
MSRP: $239 (Chrome) $195 (Black)
Contact:
Barnett Clutches & Cables
2238 Palma Dr.
Ventura, CA 93003
Phone- 805-642-9435
www.barnettclutches.com
BIKERNET WEATHER REPORT— TEXAS COLD FRONT.
Broke out the jacket for couple hours this morning. Knock the dust and spiders off.
–RFR
MAJOR SALES AT MOTORWORKS– $10-$15-$25
Huge clearance sale going on now in-store and online. Grab it fast!
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adjective
1. reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth.
Quotes
… he warn’t bad, so to say–only mischeevous. Only just giddy and harum-scarum, you know. He warn’t any more responsible than a colt.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
Origin of harum-scarum
Harum-scarum entered English in the late 1600s. The first element of this rhyming compound, harum, is based on the obsolete verb hare meaning “to harass” or on the the verb hare “to run like a hare”; the second element is based on the common verb scare.
SOTO SADDLEMEN TECH— Next week we will bring you a short tech on this new Saddlemen seat for the wild Jeremiah Soto.
Saddlemen has been the leader when it comes to seat technology. Out marked is changing and more guys need seats for action not just style or long distance comfort.
How about a seat line designed for straight- up wheelstands?
“Buster from Saddlemen here checking in and sharing our new “Step Up” seat , this is a slightly custom version with gripper on the lumbar. One of the best parts of my job is seeing the craftsmen and women build our beautiful Saddlemen seats by hand here in our Long Beach factory.
If anyone needs anything we can help with (production or custom) just give us a call at 800 397 7709 or connect with on our Facebook.
http://www.saddlemen.com/step-up/#step-up-fitment-chart
Link to our fitment chart
NEW TANKS FROM LOWBROW– We just finished up this video product review on WX Split Gas Tanks, which bolt-on Harley-Davidson Big Twins from 1936-1984, including some of the history and inspiration that led us to create this gas tank.
Just in, over 20 new parts from KustomTech of Italy. Lowbrow now stocks over 70 KustomTech parts, including their forged clutch levers, brake levers, throttles and master cylinders, as well as their vintage style brake calipers and other killer parts. We run KustomTech controls on all of our Lowbrow bikes, from choppers to purpose-built, world-record holding landspeed race bikes. See why and check out the quality, fit and finish of KustomTech motorcycle parts.
ROYAL ENFIELD AT THE PROGRESSIVE SHOWS THIS YEAR–
It’s that time again. Get ready for the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows tour, a moveable feast of bikes and gear, custom builds, vintage machines and related attractions. This year it’s a seven-city tour including Royal Enfield and our entire line. We’re polishing our gas tanks now. See you there!
Use code ROY17 for your discount code to IMS. http://www.motorcycleshows.com
DAN SUGRUE: PHOTOGRAPHER, MOTO MAN, NEW YORKER.
We’re thrilled to welcome a new official ambassador to the Royal Family. We’ve given Dan Sugrue a new Royal Enfield Continental GT on which to explore the hippest destinations in all five boroughs of New York City and to document his adventure in photographs for us as he goes.
In Dan’s words:
“I’m totally stoked to represent a 115-year-old motorcycle company in the most exciting city in the world and to share pictures with the entire world of what it’s like to ride in New York on this awesome cafe racer. Thank you, Royal Enfield!”
HAMSTER CHRONICLES— There are two major rules to becoming a member of the Hamsters, maybe three. You must pay your dues. You must have a custom motorcycle and you must make it to Sturgis almost every year.
The Hamsters have also created many of their own events around the country, which are very cool. So, there are plenty of opportunities to hang out with fellow rodents.
So, a brother Hamster called the other day in a panic. “Sold the Blue Chopper and paid off my Street Glide,” he said quivering. “What if the Hamster police find out I don’t have a custom motorcycle?”
“I suggest you sell everything you have and leave the country,” I said in a dead firm voice. “Just leave your cute wife with me and your new truck. I’ll try to hold off the Rodent Death Squad.” Are we a benevolent brotherhood or what?
But then he sent me these shots of a slightly modified Cross Bones, “So, this is my bar hopper now,” he said. “I’m a child of the ‘60s, what can I say.”
Fuck, he was off the hook, and I was already making plans for my new truck…
–Bandit
FACIAL RECOGNITION is a bigger privacy threat than anyone imagined–
This article, written by investigative researcher Dave Maass, was originally published on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website.
Before all of this ever went down
In another place, another town
You were just a face in the crowd
You were just a face in the crowd
Out in the street walking around
A face in the crowd
-Tom Petty
If we don’t speak up now, the days when we can walk around with our heads held high without fear of surveillance are numbered. Federal and local law enforcement across the country are adopting sophisticated facial recognition technologies to identify us on the streets and in social media by matching our faces to massive databases.
We knew the threat was looming. But a brand new report from the Georgetown Law Center for Privacy and Technology indicates the problem is far worse than we could’ve imagined. The researchers compare the use of facial recognition to a perpetual line-up, where everyday, law-abiding citizens are pulled into law enforcement investigations without their consent and, in many cases, without their knowledge.
The researchers sent more than 100 public records requests to police agencies. Among their findings:
· One in two Americans adults has their image in a facial recognition network, impacting more than 117 million people. Law enforcement in at least 26 states use facial recognition in combination with driver license and ID photos. Sixteen states grant the FBI access to their DMV databases.
· At least five large cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas, use or have considered using facial recognition to scan the faces of pedestrians in real time with surveillance cameras.
· Facial recognition is almost completely unregulated. No states have passed comprehensive laws limiting facial recognition, and only one of 52 agencies surveyed expressly forbids police from using facial recognition to surveil people engaged in political, religious, or other First Amendment protected activities. Very few have taken measures to ensure accuracy of facial recognition results or have audited their systems for abuse.
· Facial recognition systems have a disproportionate impact on Communities of Color. One study, which included an FBI researcher, found the technology is less reliable when analyzing African American faces. Because African Americans are already arrested at a disproportionate rate, their mugshots are overrepresented in facial recognition databases.
If the technology has a higher rate of misidentification for people of color, this will also increase the chance that they will be considered a suspect for a crime they didn’t commit. EFF raised many of these issues in our response to the FBI’s plan to exempt its Next Generation Identification biometric database.
In response to the report, EFF has joined a large coalition of privacy advocates to demand the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division take two major steps to keep facial recognition in check:
1. Expand ongoing investigations of police practices and include in future investigations an examination of whether the use of surveillance technologies, including face recognition technology, has had a disparate impact on communities of color; and
2. Consult with and advise the FBI to examine whether the use of face recognition has had a disparate impact on communities of color.
The problem isn’t just the police but also an aggressive push by biometric tech vendors who downplay the accuracy issues while marketing the systems as crucial to contemporary policing. The danger that facial recognition poses to our privacy and civil liberties is real and immediate. While we do give up a small amount of privacy when we walk around in public, we must preserve our ability to blend in as just a face in the crowd.
http://personalliberty.com/facial-recognition-bigger-privacy-threat-anyone-imagined/
–Rogue
LIFESTYLE STEAL OF THE WEEKEND– 2007 Harley Davidson Sportster Custom XL883C
$5,995
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INJURED WARRIOR APPRECIATION RUN Sunday,November 6, 2016. Starting at OC Harley-Davidson Dealership * 8677 Research Drive, Irvine CA 92618
Escorted ride from Irvine to Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport.
Ride includes pins, ribbons, lunch, museum entrance, t-shirts, lunch and presentation ceremony with Injured Warriors. 100% of proceeds from registration benefit combat wounded, ill and injured warriors at Camp Pendleton. Stage and registration from 7:30am – Departure 10:00am
Register: www.Injuredwarriorride.com
$35 single rider and $25 passenger. All Bikes Welcome!
–from the Editors of Quick Throttle Magazine
REPORT FROM BIKETOBERFEST–
I thought you might want this for Sunday’s Post as we usually do not use in normal articles.
–Rogue
LETTER TO THE MRF REGARDING RECENT LEGISLATIVE MEETING OF THE MINDS– I want to thank you for providing us with a great opportunity to network and learn so much during the recent Meeting Of The Minds!
At our recent Long Island ABATE Board meeting, we voted to donate
$1,000. to the MRF.
Thanks again!
Jim Barr
Long Island ABATE
Thank you for a well written and generous article. We hope you return next year to witness an even better event!
–Tony Dowell
tony@neworleansbikeweek.com
New Orleans, LA
THE KICKSTAND CHRONICLES— So, for the first time in 40 years of riding, I experienced something brand new! Now did she choose to teach me this lesson in the barn with doors closed, or possibly even on a long lonely deserted road, oh hell no!
She chose to remind me that you should always ensure the kickstand is locked in place, at the Harley Shop! In front the remaining crowd, from a car/bike show they had held earlier.
I stopped to pick up a cone the highway peg (adapted from the Shovelhead and don’t fold up) knocked over, trying to squeeze through. I kicked the stand down and got off and there she laid! Oh well, at least I know the shut off works when she’s sideways!
Ain’t too proud to admit it. However, think I’ll have an adult beverage and discuss her teaching schedule and time frames with her.
She sort of looked like this, except with without the brace. Well she was leaning on the engine guard.
–RFR
I had an accident because of a kickstand once. The spring was knocked off by a speed bump. The kickstand swung out, bounced against the pavement twice and locked, driving me into a parked car.
A week before I was scheduled to ride to Sturgis.–Bandit
THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY IS OPEN– I TOLD MY SON, “YOU WILL MARRY THE GIRL I CHOOSE.”
HE SAID, “NO.”
I TOLD HIM, “SHE IS BILL GATES DAUGHTER.”
HE SAID, “YES.”
I CALLED BILL GATES AND SAID, “I WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO MARRY MY SON,”
BILL GATES SAID, “NO”
I TOLD BILL GATES, “MY SON IS THE C.E.O. OF THE WORLD BANK.”
BILL GATES SAID, “OK”
I CALLED THE PRESIDENT OF WORLD BANK AND ASKED HIM TO MAKE MY SON THE C.E.O.
HE SAID, “NO”
I TOLD HIM, “MY SON IS BILL GATES SON-IN-LAW”
HE SAID, “OK”
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW POLITICS WORKS!
–Rik Savenko
BEHIND THE SCENES IN NEW ISSUE OF AMERICAN RIDER– After checking old emails– this one I thought Maida wanted you to write, waaaay back … it’s out, text by Eric Ellis. The transition from Maida to Lita must be to blame.
Anyhoo, I have the whole shoot.
–Amazing Markus Cuff
Supreme Bikernet Feature Photographer
Also feature photographer for American Iron
Cycle Source
Easyriders
HORSE
You name it…
Great touring custom. If you missed this in American Iron, you might see it featured on Bikernet Baggers.–Bandit
SOON TO BE FEATURED ON BIKERNET FROM LE PERA–
Both of these are for Dyna LK-021 is the Cherokee
LK-512TRKPT is the Daytona Sport with Track Pleats
–Christine
Le Pera family are the masters of classic seats. I’ll talk to Bob Le Pera next week.–Wrench
WEEKEND GUN NUT REPORT–
Hillary Clinton: “Reasonable” to Require Guns to be Unusable at Home—
Hillary Clinton is lying … again.
The candidate who claimed politicians “need both a public and a private position” on policy issues demonstrated that tendency Wednesday night in the final presidential debate in a desperate bid for damage control on a statement she made in a private meeting with wealthy donors.
That earlier statement was simple, uncomplicated, and utterly damning to anyone who believes in the Second Amendment. Hillary Clinton told the very people who she depends on to fund her political ambitions: “the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.”
As a Yale-educated attorney, Clinton knew exactly what she was saying when she made that remark. But it doesn’t take a lawyer to understand the contempt it demonstrates for the right to keep and bear arms.
At the time Clinton made that statement in September 2015, the Supreme Court had decided only two cases under Second Amendment during the 21st Century.
The first was District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008. That case concerned two aspects of D.C. law. One effectively banned the possession of handguns within private homes. The other effectively required all types of firearms to be kept in an unusable condition within a person’s own residence.
The Supreme Court held that both of the restrictions offended the Second Amendment. Along the way, it debunked the District’s argument that the Second Amendment protects only a “collective” right for states to maintain their own militias, rather than a right individuals can raise on their own behalf.
The very modest proposition to arise from Heller is that there is an individual right under the Second Amendment to keep handguns and other commonly-possessed firearms in their homes in a usable state for self-defense.
Two years later, the Supreme Court expanded upon the Heller decision in a case involving a handgun ban in Chicago. There, the court invalidated the Chicago ban and confirmed that the protection of the Second Amendment applies not only to federal restrictions, like the ones in D.C., but those passed by state and local governments as well.
Hillary Clinton was well aware of this when she declared the Supreme Court “wrong” on the Second Amendment. Her audience understood the significance of her remarks as well, cheering and applauding her promise to “take on the NRA.”
Later, Clinton doubled down on her rhetoric, describing Heller as a “terrible” decision. And as of June, she was still unable to bring herself to acknowledge the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
The bottom line – whether you consider her “private” or “public” position – is that Hillary Clinton’s own words clearly establish that she is no friend to gun owners and dismisses the Second Amendment as any obstacle to gun control.
HISTORIC QUOTE– “The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.”
–Cicero 55 B.C.
So, we’ve evidently learned nothing over the past 2,071 years.
–Jim Waggaman
CABBAGE PATCH Bar owner from Volusia Co. killed in head-on crash– A 71-year-old man from New Smyrna Beach was killed late Thursday night after Florida Highway Patrol says the man was traveling in the wrong lane on State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach. The other driver involved in the crash is in critical condition.
Florida Highway Patrol identified the man killed as Ronald Luznar, the owner of Sopotnick’s Cabbage Patch Bar on State Road 415 in New Smyrna Beach.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, Luznar was traveling in a 2002 Ford SUV south on S.R. 415 at about 11:40 p.m. Thursday, and “for an unknown reason, Luznar traveled eastbound in the westbound lanes of S.R. 44.”
According to the report, Luznar traveled about a quarter of a mile in the wrong direction before he was struck head on by a 2016 Ford pickup truck driven by Justin Richards, 28, also of New Smyrna Beach.
Richards is listed in critical condition and was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center, the report said.
The crash remains under investigation as this is a developing story and we will continue to update when more information becomes available.
Our hearts are broken today. It is with great regret that we inform you that Ronnie Luznar has been in a head on collision and did not survive.
We will post more as it develops. We ask you to please respect the family’s privacy and allow them to grieve. We will post more as it develops.
–By Casmira Harrison
news-journalonline.com
http://www.fox35orlando.com/home/212872923-story
Dee and I were sitting next to him in the bar during Biketoberfest.
–Rogue
Supreme Bikernet Baggers Editor
HUGE SAVINGS FROM BAKER DRIVETRAIN– We have to clear up some shelf space at BAKER Drivetrain. Below is a list of one-off specials that are marked tremendously below retail price while supply lasts!
These are one-off products we have on the shelf, ready to ship, only one of each exists. To buy one of these items online (while available), click the button above or visit MailFilterGateway has detected a possible fraud attempt from “news.bakerbackdoor.com” claiming to be http://bakerdrivetrain.com/collections/insider-specials
You can also call 517-339-3835 to speak with someone from our sales and tech staff. They’ll answer any questions you have and help you complete your purchase.
BIKERNET TRIKES KICKS OFF WEEKLY NEWS– Ujjwal ‘Wayfarer’ Dey has jumpstarted the Weekly News section in Trikes.bikernet.com
Send in your views, news, projects, photos and trivia to him at support@happymen.org and get featured on our Trikes website.
More to come this week is “Trikes of Elvis Presley” and a Review of the very expensive Campagna T-Rex Trike, which has a BMW 6-cylinder engine.
Our resident Hippie “Raymond Hamilton” comments, “There is no such thing as a damsel in distress. Girls are always trouble. But what’s a prettier reason to get in trouble?” We have a hard time whenever he comes to town leaving behind his sun, surf and sex. He starts watching TV news and reads the tabloids and freaks out. On President’s of various nations, he says, “Render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s; a knife in his back.”
–Ujjwal Dey
Emperial Editor of Bikernet Trikes
IT’S ALL A MYSTERY— I’m watching Marco Polo on Netflix. It’s an amazing story about a traveler who doesn’t travel. He’s stuck in the 1200s with the Kubla Kahn who just captured China. At one time the Kahn of Kahns, the son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Kahn controlled 1/5 of the earth. We would speak Chinese if it wasn’t for a bad weather pattern holding Mr. Kahn from storming into Europe.
If you think about it, most of the problems on this planet are caused by governments and treachery within them. Ah, but we can find Nirvana anywhere as long as we stay out of reach of the Man.
This coming week we will bring you tons of content from the Bikernet Horde of Warriors doing all they can to keep a slice of Freedom available in America for the Chopper Horde and craftsmen and women of the Chrome Empire. It’s tough but we will make it happen.
Ride free Forever,
–Bandit
Emperor of the Bikernet Temple
Kahn of the Rust Gardens
Ruler of the World of Metal-flake
