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CHRISTMAS IN JULY SALE – SAVE ON TORIAN LEATHER– On Special – ONLY All Leather Dickies? Style Work Jacket – ONLY $167 for a $328 jacket! Looks great on and off the bike… It is an old school design that is cool and never goes out of style.
It’s designed after the popular Dickies? work jacket with special features for added comfort & utility when riding.
Features:
– 2 hand warmer pockets
– 3 inside pockets
– Snap down collar
– Adjustable waist
All of our leather jackets are made from the finest naked cowhide for a supple feel and quality that will provide years of protection while maintaining it’s good looks. More details here.
WHAT’S UP WITH THE NEW EFFORT TO BUILD CROCKERS–Crocker had on their facebook that Accurate Engineering would no longer be doing their engines.Prior to reading that I had a conversation with Berry and he told me that Michael had not paid him.When I saw what Michael said, I thought I should clarify the reason for anyone who reads it.
–Rogue
Michael why not tell everyone one that you have Not Paid Berry Wardlaw of Accurate Engineering the money you owe him, and that is why he is no longer working on your engines?
I hope no one I know invests and gets burnt.There are some serious questions like about Michael?s first partner that we met in Cincy a few years ago and why he stopped being a partner.
Michael wants to drag this out through the courts just like Quantum did and make it look like some one else did wrong.
I do believe he is looking for money and hopes someone not familiar with the industry will come to bail him out.
I would be asking who is going to be putting his engines together if not Accurate? How dependable would they be? Scary to me.
–Rogue
RSD CUSTOM BUELL XB9– Roland’s first complete custom build since “No Regrets” won Biker Build Off in 2006, this project took over a year and a half to finish and the journey was hell, that’s why we named it the… “BuHell.”
RM Announces Exclusive Online Collector Car Auction– RM Classic Cars to conduct collector car sale completely via the Internet August 9, 2009 at www.rmauctions.com.
BLENHEIM, ON (June 24, 2009) RM Classic Cars is leading the way in the collector car hobby by offering buyers and sellers of vintage and special interest automobiles a convenient and credible means of conducting business over the Internet with the production of its exclusive online auction, Sunday, August 9, 2009.
?We?re thinking outside the auction block,? said Dan Spendick, Consignment Specialist, RM Classic Cars, Inc. ?RM?s 30 years of experience in the collector car hobby is being extended into the realm of e-commerce by offering our valued clients a cyberspace alternative to traditional auction venues.?
Benefits of RM Classic Car Online Auction:
RM?s expert Car Specialists, providing a third-party assessment of each vehicle?s condition with verification of proper titles and ownership, promote confident bidding and buyer satisfaction;
Detailed condition reports and extensive photography of each consignment are featured at www.rmauctions.com for consideration weeks in advance of the sale;
Transactions are conducted from the comfort of home or office, and without the expense and time commitment of travel to a traditional auction venue;
Consignors? transportation costs are eliminated; and,
RM offers successful bidders logistics assistance, including shipping and customs advice.
A varied collection of quality consignments from early brass-era cars up to the popular cars of the ?50s, ?60s and ?70s, and including a few late-model exotics, will be presented for sale. Clients will use RM?s proprietary online bidding interface to take part in the auction action.
Early highlights of the sale include a stunning 1953 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, a pristine 1976 Triumph TR6 with only 10,000 actual miles, a matching numbers 300-horsepower 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe, and a very rare and fully-restored 1941 Fargo Pickup.
For further information and full event details, please visit www.rmauctions.com or call 1-800-211-4371 (within North America) or +1 519 352 4575.
East Coast Prevails in Broken Spoke?s Laconia Bike Build-off–Paul Cox was the people?s choice winner of the 2009 Bike Build-off at the Broken Spoke Saloon?s Laconia location. Thousands voted over three days for their favorite custom build on display between Brooklyn?s Paul Cox and Southern California?s Chica. The margin was slim ? with Cox tipping the scales with only a 5% margin over Chica. Master builder Dave Perewitz was on hand to announce the winner and award the trophies.
The winning custom was a rigid frame, constructed in a style only Paul Cox could create. Both builders worked tirelessly to build the bikes in only two weeks in time for Laconia. Chica burned the midnight oil in order to have his bike shipped to Laconia in time for judging to begin, and both Cox & Chica had to work on Cox?s bike on Friday to get it up and running in time for Saturday?s Shakedown ride. Both bikes ran flawlessly on the Shakedown Ride ? the builder would have been deducted points if the bike broke down ? which was a rare opportunity for the public to ride side-by-side with the contenders.
The Spoke was packed wall-to-wall for the announcement of the winner ? all were clearly excited that bike build-offs are back at the Spoke. ?Look to see more unique competitions like this at the Spoke ? from the best in the business,? says owner Jay Allen ?The build-off is alive and well!?
The evening was capped off by an electrifying performance by Edgar Winter and his talented band playing old favorites ?Frankenstein? and ?Free Ride?. The free-admission show concluded the Broken Spoke?s successful, albeit rainy, celebration of the 86th annual bike week in Laconia, New Hampshire.
The fun doesn?t end after bike week is over ? the Broken Spoke Saloon & Museum is open until November 1st. The Broken Spoke will be serving a full menu, plus your favorite cold beverages, with flat screen TVs, a jukebox and impressive motorcycle memorabilia on display all summer long. The Broken Spoke is located on Route 3 in Laconia, next to Fun Spot.
Check out the website www.brokenspokesaloon.com for photos of the Laconia Bike Week, the bike build-off, upcoming Laconia summer events and much more.
The Broken Spoke Saloon has locations in Daytona, New Orleans, Myrtle Beach and two locations in Sturgis. The campground in Sturgis on Highway 79 North features camping for $99/person during the 2009 rally, a ride-through Broken Spoke Saloon and the world?s biggest biker pool. This year?s schedule includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall, a Sugar Bear/Michael Lichter Ride, .38 Special, Foghat and much more. More details at: www.BrokenSpokeCampground.com.
Keep the Shiny Side Up and the Rubber Side Down!
ROLLIN SIXES CUSTOM INTAKE MANIFOLD– Put some nostalgia on your ride with unique timeless 50’s style velocity stacks from Rollin Sixes Choppers n Rods. Rollin Sixes has been making custom hotrod stacks for V-twins for more years than many shops have been in business. Our first one was made in 1979.
Made of steel, fits late model S&S Super E or G carbs. MAY NEED CARB READJUSTMENT OR JETTINGS. MADE IN USA.
Get one now at our Ebay store.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK GUYS, WILL NOT FIT ALL BIKES.
Flange to inside of upward stacks are 3/4″
Flange to outside of upward stacks are 3 and 3/4″
Comes in a 19-1/2 inch height so you can cut to your specified needs
COMES IN PRIMER, READY TO PAINT, OR SATIN BLACK. YOUR CHOICE.
BANDIT’S BEDROLL ROAD TESTED ON CYCLE SOURCE MOUNTAIN RUN–We left Minnesota to Milwaukee last Tuesday with a friend of mine Dan on his ’66. No trailer no chase trucks just us. Made it to Milwaukee late, we thought either he was needing rings or sucked a head gasket, as she started smoking bad, half way there. Turns out the ’66 broke a valve guide and was smoking like crazy but made it to my parent?s farm 350 miles.
Wednesday morning we track down a set of heads for sale put new valves in them and get the bike ready to continue the trip to Indiana.
We left Milwaukee by 4 PM and rolled into our next stop in Indiana around 4:30 am Thursday mornin’ bikes ran good few minor breakdowns, beers, until 7am as everyone was waiting up for us 360 more miles. Slept for a few hours and then we rolled out of Indiana on our way to Reliance Tennessee.
On and off minor problems but nothing major roll into the campground around 3 in the morning, Friday after 400 miles. Friday we ride all around, Real cool roads out there.
Saturday head to the devils tail but on the way the ’66 loses his charging system. Get back and find out generator is dead, swap it out with a Cycle Electric off a broke down Pan, already out of commission and back on the road we go.
Leave Sunday 7:30 in the morning from TN and drive straight through to Milwaukee around 800 miles. Get to Milwuakee around 3 am. Leave Milwaukee Monday morning around 10 am get back to MN around 7 pm. What a great trip, the Big Mountain Run ruled and will be a must go to destination for me and my crew every year!
–Kevin “TEACH” Baas
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“When in doubt, burn out!”
Motorcycle Industry Council Develops New Roadside Sound Test So Cops can Easily Ticket Violators– SAE Standard Accurately Identifying Excessively Loud Exhausts.Irvine, Calif., June 24, 2009 – On-highway riders and their bikes don’t have to be victims of questionable sound-level checks anymore, thanks to a new procedure developed by the Motorcycle Industry Council in partnership with SAE International, and adopted by the global association, known for establishing a wide range of motor vehicle standards.
Now, law-enforcement authorities have a simple, quick, economical and science-based tool for accurately identifying motorcycles with excessively loud exhaust systems. The SAE document J2825, “Measurement of Exhaust Sound Pressure Levels of Stationary On-Highway Motorcycles,” meets the need for a practical, consistent roadside sound test.
Three years ago, the MIC initiated and began executing the $250,000 project, conducting field-testing, analyzing the data, and providing the initial draft standard. A representative sample of 25 motorcycles and more than 50 aftermarket exhaust systems were tested. Collaborating with the MIC throughout, the SAE Motorcycle Technical Steering Committee validated the scope of work and co-wrote the final standard.
SAE J2825 is similar to J1287, the procedure widely used for off-highway motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles since the 1980s. The J2825 roadside test is conducted by holding a sound meter 20 inches behind the exhaust outlet, at the same height, and 45 degrees from the line of travel of the motorcycle.
The procedure includes two tests: an Idle Test and a Set RPM Test. The Idle Test is the easiest to administer and can be used to screen various mufflers. But the Set RPM Test is the most effective in identifying excessively loud exhaust systems. A non-constant, Swept RPM Test Method also is included as an alternative to the Set RPM Test, for motorcycles that will not hold constant rpm.
The SAE recommends that the following lowest numerical limits be adopted:
* 92 dBA at idle for all motorcycles
* 96 dBA for motorcycles with fewer than three cylinders or more than four cylinders at 2000 rpm (or 75 percent of maximum engine speed, whichever is less)
* 100 dBA for motorcycles with three or four cylinders at 5,000 rpm (or 75 percent of maximum engine speed, whichever is less)
And, 2 dBA should be added to these sound limits for motorcycle exhaust systems that are clearly labeled as meeting the EPA sound limits and have not been obviously modified or tampered with.
The SAE J2825 standard can be downloaded on the SAE website for a list price of $61 at http://www.sae.org/technical/standards/J2825_200905. The SAE member price is $48.80.
EXERPT FROM THE MYSTICAL CODE OF THE WEST RESEARCH LIBRARY–
1. Make peace with your past, so it won’t screw up the present.
2. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
3. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
–from Shattuck
ABATE OF CALIFORNIA ALERT FROM MOTORCYCLE RIDERS FOUNDATION–Our out-of-state brothers and sisters may be our most effective resourcein fighting the motorcycle smog bill SB 435. As it stands as of thiswriting, SB 435 has been passed to the Assembly as a SMOG CHECK BILL onthe verbal promise to amend but has not yet been fulfilled. It wouldappear that it may go so far as to include all 3 (smog check, noise, andcatalytic converter with random pull over inspection thrown in for goodmeasure).
ABATE of CA is asking all out of state motorcyclists to contact theChairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee, Mike Eng at phone916-319-2049 fax 916-319-2149
email Assemblymember.Eng@asm.ca.gov andGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger at phone 916-445-2841 fax 916-558-3160 email gov.ca.gov and let them know that if you aregoing to be at risk of being singled out and pulled over for exhaustsystem inspections when you come to this state then you will chooseanother location to spend your vacation dollars, That you urge their novote on SB 435.
This must be completed before June 29th.
Unfortunately many laws of this type start in California and spread toother states, the place to stop it is here and now, then hopefully youwon’t have to deal with anything like this in your state.
Thank you for your support,
Tim Tennimon
Executive Director
ABATE of California
ADVICE FROM BIKERNET TRAINING GURU, A Flat Stomach– A little boy walks into his parents’ room to see his mom on top of his dad bouncing up and down.
The mom sees her son and quickly dismounts, worried about what her son has seen. She dresses quickly and goes to find him… The son sees his mom and asks, ‘What were you and Dad doing?’
The mother replies, ‘Well, you know your dad has a big tummy and sometimes I have to get on top of it and help flatten it..’
‘You are wasting your time,’ said the boy.
‘Why is that?’ the mom asked puzzled.
‘Well when you go shopping the lady next door comes over and gets on her knees and blows it right back up again!!
–from Jim Waggaman
Quail LodgeExceptional Motorcars and Memorabilia featuring the Sidney H. Craig Collection —
Friday August 14, 2009
Carmel, California
Location:
Quail Lodge Resort & Golf Club (Map)
8205 Valley Greens Drive
Carmel CA 93923
The ex- Georges Grignard, Ecurie Belgique 1948 Talbot-Lago T26C will cross the block without reserve at Quail Lodge on August 14th. The bespoke French race car, chassis number 11006, was delivered new to Georges Grignard who campaigned it for two years ? even winning the 1950 Grand Prix de Paris, before selling it to Roger Laurent, Jacques Swaters and Charles de Tornaco, three amateur Belgian drivers who dreamed of an all-Belgian racing team.
Fresh from an extensive restoration and a complete and thorough engine rebuild, this historic Talbot-Lago is estimated to sell for between $1m to $1.3m and will appear alongside other rare competition cars such as the famously important 1939 Auto Union D-Type Grand Prix car and the ex-works 1952 Siata 208CS Berlinetta, not to mention a 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC and 1955 Mercedes-Benz Gullwing. Additionally, cars such as Dean Martin?s 1962 Ghia 6.4L coupe, Frank Sinatra?s 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham and a 1933 Duesenberg Model J Torpedo Victoria convertible formerly owned by Hopalong Cassidy, will also be offered, to name just a few.
Additional pictures and information on the 1948 Talbot-Lago Type 26C Grand Prix Single Seater is available here.
UNCLE MONKEY ASKS, “WHAT’S THAT SMELL?”–“What’s that smell?” Lynyrd Skynyrd asked us smoke tainted years ago. As we speed across this great nation, these great cities our noses are inundated with a variety of scents and smells. While we all know what the answer was to Skynyrd?s question back then; it still is question we ask today as we ride. Riding a motorcycle is the best way of experiencing the scented world that is around us.
We’ve all be caught off-guard passing a livestock feed lot or sewage treatment plant as the smell burning our nostrils, choking in the back of our throats. Often we look accusingly at our riding partner, ridicule them, and push on. But along with the foul we also pass groves of cherry blossoms, cloves of garlic. We smell the sweet ears of corn, the fields of freshly mowed grass.
As we ride we smell the rain in the air telling us we should don our rain gear before it is too late. We can smell the lightening in the air; smell the ice of falling hailstones. They warn us of upcoming danger and excitement.
The smells are driven deep within our souls as we ride. They become a part of us, permeating our clothes, our skin, our very beings. An intoxicating blend of smoke, road grime and hydrocarbons. The smell of leather, dead bugs and gasoline. The scent of strippers, stale beer and staler cigarette smoke. The lingering skunk around the back doors of seedy nightclubs and boutique dealerships.
Sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet, but always welcomed.
Wayne ?Uncle Monkey? Wuschke
SHASTA SALUTES AMERICA RALLY–Rally 800# has been ringing off the hook! SS2AMCR website had over 1000 hits yesterday! Weather up here turned summer on Monday ? it was 85 degree! 15 day forecast says that?s how it?ll be. From Hwy 139 (the route to the Rally) bikers see Mount Shasta to the south. After the longest rainy season in 50 years, she?s plastered with snow. The Rally grounds looks like how Oz would carpet his city ? emerald green & luxuriously thick. The local rock station (99.5) had me in yesterday morning for a live read. So did their affiliate country station. Folks on their way to work in the Klamath Basin got a taste of how the Rally is shaping up straight from yours truly, EzJ.
After the radio stations, I hustled to a meeting with the Klamath County Commissioners. They listened attentively as SGM Ron Ballard, the Commander of the Klamath Falls VFW, & I spent 45 minutes going over the patriotic theme of the Rally & Thursday, July 2nd?s Escort of the ?Traveling Wall? & ?Cost of Freedom? from Home Depot to the fairgrounds led by the founders of Operation Gratitude (www.operationgratitude.com. The Commissioners? enthusiasm for the SS2AMCR in the Klamath Basin & Siskiyou County is pretty damn refreshing (for a bunch of politicians).
Father?s Day was spent with 11 of us assembling the bar Debbie designed for her 12,000 sq ft Wings2Fly Saloon. The bar is made out of 7, 4? oak display case sections that used to be in a State of Jefferson MC mechanic? shop (Thanks Don!) My girl is so smart she even had poles built right into the bar?s countertop so every wild biker woman who comes to party in her amazing Wings2Fly Saloon can march right up to the bar, climb the steps our bud Sluggo built, & shake their ?money-makers? right on the spot.
That kind of behavior is endorsed at the SS2AMCR! Pat Travers & Charlie Brechtel will be treated with good ol fashioned ?LOVE & RESPECT.? I feel the excitement from every inbound phone caller ? they all want to know when Pat & Charlie are performing. I can?t wait for Pat & Charlie to get here so Wings2Fly Saloon Manager, Dirty Di?s husband, ?Lee the Heretic,? can present each of them with the coolest guitar stands ?ya ever saw. (Lee?s stands are just what bike rally guitar gods need?we?re talkin badass metal ! ? photos coming soon!)
–EZJ
OPEN Letter from the Publisher OF QUICK THROTTLE MAGAZINE–SHASTA SALUTE TO AMERICA: I am sure many of you are wondering why we are shamelessly promoting an out of area event even so far as to give them our May cover.
Speaking as plainly as I can for our entire family of magazines we simply want this event which is just over the Oregon-California border to be as successful as we can help make it. Quick Throttle believes its time that we as riders send as strong a message as we an to the City of Hollister and its feeble minded city and county government that when you cancel as great an event as the Hollister Freedom Rally and in so doing kick us and 100,000 other riders to the curb we won?t be back!
Instead we will go where we are made to feel welcome and spend our hard earned money there. Such an event is the Shasta Salute to America Rally.
Please help us send a signal to the Hollisters, the Snohomishes and others who think they can continue to inflice absurd ?security costs? on us despite the events mentioned having impeccable safety and behavior records. Your attendance at this landmark event that honors our country and our military will send that message loud and clear. Join us over the 4th of July weekend and watch as rally history is made!
Northwest Publisher
–Mike Dalgaard
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