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NOTORIOUS SOCAL BIKER HANGOUT LOSES OWNER– Don Himes passed away from naturalcauses in his sleep Sat. nite, Jan. 20 2001. He diedas he lived, peacefully. He was the liquor licenseholder and use permit holder for the last 15 years ofLavida. For all the things, that a lot of us criticizedhim for, he kept it open for 15 years. How manybar/restaurant/clubs can say the same. Very few. Hehad his own way to do things and kept the place open.The place catered to the “Biker” crowd, way before theHarley thing came into vogue.
–Gypsy
LITTLE JOHNNY, THE SMART ASS– A traveling salesman rings the doorbell and 10 year old Little Johnny answers, holding a beer and smoking a fat cigar. The salesman says, Little boy, is your mother home?
Little Johnny taps his ash on the carpet and says, What the hell do you think?
–This is Stan Sheppard of South San Francisco – one heck of a nice guy. He runs two classes – ET and PG. Won the ET class at Las Vegas 2000.–Helen Wolfe
BUELL REPORT–Our salesman just gave me the new “Fuell” magazine. This was formerlythe BRAG news letter called “The Road Ahead”.It has some really good articles. One is on Erik Buell and his earlyracing and goes over the birth of his early RW750 and the RR1000. How hegot started with it all. Lot’s of great pictures here.
There is a cool section, “Buell Racing”. This kinda highlights all Buell racing. This issue covered records set at Bonneville. Also some ink on the “Buell Lightning Series Championship”. Had also the race schedules for the AMA Superbike/Pro Thunder Series and Pace Schedule for 2001.
Another great story was on a 8000 mile cross country road trip taken on a ’95 S2 Thunderbolt. Kevin Smith’s “My Longest Ride” tells how he starts from Calif. rides to the “Brag Homecoming” in Wisconsin, rides to North Carolina and back to Calif. Great story and some really cool pictures.
One thing that any Buell rider should take note of is the “Deals Gap National BRAG Adventure. This will be September 21-23 2001. I have riddenthe “Dragon” on my S2 and it’s a experience all Buell riders need to do.300 curves in 11 miles!!! The North Carolina scenery is truly a rush.Following Deal’s Gap on the 28th of September in Danville, Virginia is the AMA Superbike Race at Virginia International Raceway. There will be the Superbike race and Pro Thunder race. Also Brag will have an exclusiveriding school for the Buell “Knee-Draggers”.
The “Fuell” magazine can be picked up at your local Harley Davidson/Buell dealer.That’s it for now. Hope the M2 is coming along. Worked on my forks on myS2 today so I got something done on my day off finally!!
–Later, Paul
Attached find a couple Buell shots taken with my son’s Xmas camera:
1.) My 2000 M2 with the earlier 1997 tailsection and slim seat. Note the Ventura luggage rack, quality piece.
2.) My son and I doubling up, my 6 year old daughter handled photography duties.
3.) Posing in front of the Buell factory in East Troy, WI. It was Sunday and the kids and I were passing through town on our way to the grandparents. —Agent M2
SUPERBOWL STATS–What’s more important to men, the BALTIMORE RAVENS or a date with CINDYCRAWFORD? E-Bay polled online surfers asking them to choose which they’d rather doand guess what, 72% chose the Super Bowl.
Editor’s note: Well, at least at a Super Bowl there’s a chance for ascore.
E-Bay also asked what would make them miss the Super Bowl if they had to:
–Birth of a first-born child: 44%
–Would have to be in a coma or on their deathbed: 14%
–Nothing in my life would make me miss the Super Bowl: 10%
PANHEAD DESK UNDERWAY–Remember the Panhead desk we built for my office at Easyriders? I built another one for Dan Stern at Custom Chrome now the owner of Hollister Harley-Davidson, and another one for Jim at Jim’s Machine. Now we’re building a new an improved Evolution Desk for the talented machining genius of John Buttera of Lil’ John’s Customs. If we can squeeze the digital camera away from Layla who is taking shots of Sin for the Ultimate Tech, we’ll post one for you to see.
JAY LENO JOINS BIKERNET STAFF AS CONTRIBUTOR–Seems Jesse Jackson had an extra marital affair with a staff member and fathered a child that is now 20 months old. The below are Jay Leno Jokes in his Jan 8th monologue.
“Jesse Jackson Counciled President Clinton concerning his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Turns out it was Clinton who was counciling Jesse Jackson. This week, Jesse Jackson is spending some time alone with his spiritual advisor….Frank Gifford.”
“The child is now 20 months old and Jesse Jackson paid the child’s mother $40.000.00 to move to L.A. California, Bought her a $380.000.00 house and is paying her $10.000.00 per month…Seems as if SOMEONE found a POT OF GOLD at the end of the RAINBOW COALITION!”
INTERNET HEADQUARTERS TRIVIA–This is a early Digital Camera, very early!! One of my prized dustcollectors. It’s a pretty rare Speedgraphic camera. It’s a militaryversion that’s why it’s black and green. Has a really good sharplens.Kodak Ektar’s were coated. Everything works on it and it also has afocal plane shutter with speeds up to 1/1000 of a sec!! Format is upto 4×5.
The other dust collector I’ve been working on and off for over 20years is a 8×10 Burke & Jerk (Burke and James) view camera. The bodyis made of wood and the uprights and monorail are made from alum.Don’t have any pic. of it. Needs new bellows and lots of cash forsome new lenses.Thought maybe you might find these cool. Hope the pic. from the showmay be of use to you.
–Later, Paul
CUSTOM ENGRAVING–These are some pic. of some forks made up by one of our customers. Nicework and he does engraving also. Can also do the engraving on a radiusedsurface–Paul.
Engraving is a lost art with the advent of laser machining and 8-axis CNC machines, but there are still a couple of diehards still out there. We here at Bikernet appreciate and honor the talent that put custom motorcycles on the map years ago. Next week we will post an article on one of the finest engraves still left on the planet. He’s a long-time biker and custom motorcycle builder C.J. Allen. Watch for it and check his site when you have a chance.
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