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BOLT TO HELP WITH SEMA MOTORCYCLE COUNCIL–What can BOLT of California do to help with SEMA? I am a motorcycle helmet manufacturer. Would it be possible to join as a manufacturer?
What are the plans for SEMA in the future?
–Mark T.
Charter Member
BOLT of California
Anyone can join SEMA from individuals to the Harley-Davidson factory. Plus, it’s not expensive.–Bandit
CLARIFICATIONS FROM TOM ZIMMEROFF–Senator Pavley’s address is:
The Honorable Fran Pavley
State Senator 23rd District
The Capitol
Room N? 4035
Sacramento, California 95814
She represents the district surrounding Santa Monica. Writing her is good; phone calls to her staffers are more effective by an order of magnitude:
Capitol Office District Office Put me down as a “9” on your interest quotient for the committee. But what is this committee a part of? What is the organization? Tom Zimberoff West Coast Choppers Spring Blowout–We?re having a big ol? Spring Blowout Sale online. Visit www.shopwestcoastchoppers.com. Enter promo code: DEADMAN25 and pick up some of our supa fancy stuff! Do it now, fool! The offer is only good until May 31, 2009! LATE SPORTSTER? XL CAM COVER SEAL KIT– Running a late Sporty and need to pop the cam cover? One way to make certain it goes back together with a positive, no-leak seal is by using this model specific CAM GEAR COVER SEAL AND GASKET KIT from James Gaskets. Each of the Sporty gear cover kits include all of the gaskets and O-rings needed to provide the perfect, leak free seal when installing the cam cover on 2004-2009 XL model Sportster? engines. All gaskets include James? elastomeric bead and the O-rings are high-temperature Viton? rubber for a perfect seal, durability and long life. Suggested retail is just $15.62 for this must have kit for all hands on Sportster? enthusiasts. Call James direct at 775-246-2220 or catch them on line at www.jamesgaskets.com People Need to Contact the States Attorney and Insist Charges Be Filed– The Lake County State’s Attorney’s office says it’s looking into criminal charges against a woman who allegedly was painting her fingernails while driving and fatally struck a stopped motorcyclist over the weekend. Illinois – “We are looking into charges in the case,” Assistant State’s Atty. Patricia Fix said this morning. “But we are waiting for results of blood and urine tests and waiting for the results of an accident reconstruction, as well as any other technical evidence we can derive from the scene.” Authorities say Anita Zaffke, of the 1500 block of Eddy Lane in Lake Zurich, stopped at the intersection of Route 12 and Old McHenry Road at around 5:45 p.m. Saturday as the traffic light turned from green to yellow. The driver of a Chevrolet Impala behind Zaffke, Lora Hunt, 48, of Morris, told police “she was painting her nails as she drove and did not see [the motorcycle] until contact was already made,” according to a Lake County Sheriff’s Department incident report. Zaffke, who was wearing a helmet, was thrown a distance from her Honda motorcycle, according to Lake County Coroner Dr. Richard Keller. Her son, Greg, said this morning his mother was also wearing a bright yellow cycling jacket. “It appears to be a tragic accident and it appears [Zaffke] did nothing wrong,” Lake County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Scott Morrison said Sunday. “She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and she could not have done anything to avoid it.” Zaffke died about an hour after the crash at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Keller said. An autopsy was scheduled for this morning. Hunt was cited with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. She could not be reached for comment this morning. Source: Chicago Tribune –from Rogue
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TIME TO SPRUCE UP THAT GAME ROOM OR HARLEY ROOM?– Scott Jacobs is releasing part of his personal art collection for the benefit of our customers. These are limited edition, signed and numbered prints?some dating back to the early 1990?s. Each of these exceptional works comes with a certific
ate of authenticity verified by the artist?s studio. This is an opportunity of a lifetime to acquire some classic early Harley works by one of the most popular artists alive today. This offer is strictly while supplies last. Scott will personalize the back of your artwork with a special message of your choice so don?t miss this rare chance.
So here?s the deal?pick which pieces you?d like from the visuals below and they will be beautifully custom framed and your total cost is only $495 framed plus shipping. (values to $1200). All of the images including dimensions etc. are on our website. You can access by clicking this link. (Keep in mind dimensions listed are without the frame). CALL OR EMAIL RON 303-431-4453 http://www.scottjacobsstudio.com/ghd04.htmlTIP: click on site map at bottom of page and titles are alphabetic.
–Ron Copple
Scott Jacobs Studio
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North American Debut of Unique Alfa 8C Scheduled for Meadow Brook Concours — Troy, Mich., May 5, 2009 − A one-of-a-kind 1934 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 (serial no. 2311237) will make its North American Debut at the 30th Anniversary Meadow Brook Concours d?Elegance on August 2, 2009. This exciting performance car is a one-off alloy Boattail Speedster formerly owned by Angela Cherrett− noted authority and author on Alfa 8Cs, and will be presented in unrestored condition.
Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 (serial no. 2311237) began life as a factory show car in 1934 before being imported to Britain by London Bentley Dealer Jack Barclay in 1935. The new owner promptly ordered a new two-seat touring body designed and constructed for the race chassis. As was customary at the time, many of these automobiles were supplied to custom coachbuilders such as Pinninfarina, Zagato, Figoni, Castagna and Touring.
It remained in the U.K. where it was raced and then driven until its purchase last year by a noted American collector.
Tickets for the 2009 Meadow Brook Concours d?Elegance are now on sale by calling 248.643.8645. Online sales will be available soon at http://www.mbhconcours.org/tickets.htm.
Ticket prices
Adults (in advance): $25
Children 12 years and under: Free
Groups of 10 or more: $20 each
Crane Cams could reopen under new management–A business team led by Wisconsin-based S&S Cycles and former Crane Cams CEO Lance Harris scooped up the majority of Crane Cams? intellectual property at the company?s liquidation auction last week. The team spent $1.2 million to acquire 16 trademarks, three patents and the company name. According to reports from the Daytona Beach News-Journal, the goal is to get Crane Cams back up and running, though presumably at a new location.
“The goal is to get the whole thing up and running again under the name Crane Cams. We paid that much for the intellectual property because the name is good and consumers know the name,” said Anders Stubkjaer, S&S Cycles chief operating and financial officer.
Crane Cams closed its doors and laid off about 280 employees in mid-February about 56 years of business in Daytona Beach.
Despite a potential purchase by Fort Lauderdale-based Scorpion Performance, Crane Cams had hired LiquiTech Industries to auction off the assets to pay corporate debt.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that at the auction, Scorpion bid $1 million for all the assets, and an online bidder offered $1.1 million, before the team from S&S Cycle trumped them at $1.2 million.
The Harris/S&S Cycle team also spent $215,000 on bulk bids for all the camshafts, valve trains, motorcycle and electronic inventories.
–from Don Redmon
Thousands of Motorcyclists are heading to New Orleans for Bike Week New Orleans at the Broken Spoke–NEW ORLEANS- Jay Allen of the Broken Spoke Saloon will lead bike builders and other riders in a procession at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 7th to the Morial Convention Center for opening day of an Easyriders V-Twin Show that is a featured part of Bike Week New Orleans at the Broken Spoke. The one-mile procession will leave from the New Orleans’ Basin Street Welcome Station at 501
Basin Street will be the launch point for all processions, rides and parades. The cultural center is near the French Quarter in the historic Art & Warehouse District, and overlooks Cemetery 1 that was filmed in the movie ?Easy Rider.?The famous Budweiser Clydesdales pulling the Budweiser beer wagon will help to officially launch the ?authentic? New Orleans experience for motorcycle enthusiasts.
Women athletes on a long-haul motorcycle trip from Knoxville, Tennessee will be riding with the procession. The ?Champions For A Cause? riders are raising awareness, funds and volunteers to help fight breast cancer.
The short procession will also include Patriot Guard Riders and other biker clubs and organizations.
“This is a festival that celebrates New Orleans and motorcycling, and the whole Gulf Coast Region,” said Larry Oliphant, CEO of Bikeweek LLC/Bikeweek.com, one of the event?s founding partners. “Thousands of motorcyclists will be riding through Louisiana, bringing a much-needed boost to the state?s economy and helping to reclaim New Orleans as one of the best places to throw a party biker-style.?
The four-day party actually began yesterday, (Wednesday, May 6) when Jay Allen?s 26,000 sq. ft. Broken Spoke Entertainment Complex opens across the street from the convention center.The Broken Spoke will be at the hub of thrill shows, stunt shows, bike shows, two Harley-Davidson bike giveaways, ?authentic? New Orleans cuisine and headline performances by Edgar Winter and Blackfoot.
Ten of the Budweiser Clydesdale horses will be stabled in New Orleans for the entire event, May 6 to 10.
The 2009 Easyriders Bike Show has toured the country and concludes this year with a final show in New Orleans and a big after-show party at the New Orleans Broken Spoke (NOBS!)
Centerfold tour builders Erick Ackley and Dave Sekman – Tempest Cycles, Jerry Burrow – Road-Hawgs, Bruce Mullins – Skunkworx, John Dodson – Gangster Choppers and Shannon Davidson from the Chopp Shop will be at the New Orleans show.Unique to the New Orleans show, hundreds of custom bikes will fill the 160,000 sq. ft. Morial Convention Center, alongside a “Chrome Kitchen” spotlighting famous New Orleans cooking, and the Seminole Hard Rock Roadhouse.
The Roadhouse will feature custom bikes and bike builders Paul Yaffe ? Paul Yaffe Originals, Bill Dodge ? Blings Cycle, Athena ?Chickie? Ransom ? Vagabond Customs, and Paul Wideman ? Bare Knuckle Choppers. Also on exhibit will be photography by world-renowned Michael Lichter and a collection of Fender guitars customized by industry talents Ami James, Chickie Ransom, Bill Dodge, Christian Clayton, Dave Perewitz, Eddie Trotta, Keino Sasaki, Pat Patterson, Paul Cox, Paul Wideman, Russell Mitchell, Steve Broyles and Taber Nash.
Cycle Source is also sponsoring their first-ever hard-core, ride-in chopper show on Sunday.
One-day passes are $20/day that include all entertainment, plus the Easyriders show, Wall of Death, Bud Burnout Bike, Cycle Source show and more. Multi-day passes are $35. Rides can be purchased separately for $20 (per bike) each or as part of an all-access ticket for $69.
Bike Week New Orleans at the Broken Spoke is being presented in partnership by Bikeweek.com, The Broken Spoke Saloon and Easyriders Events. More information is available at www.bikeweekneworleans.com
LIFE AND TIMES CANTINA ARTICLE ON LAUGHLIN REVIEW–Just finished your Laughlin run piece. Good stuff as always. I have to agree with you on the getting older thing. I’m 58, had a couple rounds of cancer in the last 4 years but good now. It took a step off but I, like you, can still rock and roll with anyone who wants to.
I waited until I was 37 to get married and still am to the same woman. Everything you stated about the evolution of a relationship hits it dead on for me. My wife is not into me as she once was but still likes having me around. The brother/sister relationship is getting stale but … what to do?
I also totally agree with you on the legal Pro$ issue. I was a long-haul trucker before I was married and a customer since high school before that. Much easier than being a player for me…something I didn’t quite get the hang of unlike yourself.
Keep up the GOOD work you are doing for all of us in the life. I’ve been a fan since the E/R days and enjoy Bikernet everyday!
The SEMA stuff, the HOT girls(thank you Sin Wu), the tech, the girls,the links, the girls…you get it.
–Mike
BRASS BALL BOBBERS SMOKE OUT PARTY ? MONDAY, MAY 11– Okay all you speed-crazed kids living in a souped-up jungle of crazy thrills on your Bobbers, Choppers and led sleds? We have a party Monday night on May 11th in Oklahoma City at Brass Balls Bobbers. It?s where the Gearheads and the Betties will be stopping during their Long Road ride across country.
We have an outstanding line up of thrills and chills including the ?World?s Largest Burnout,? Jasmine Cain on Base Guitar and a selection of dancers showing off the latest Bikini and high heel fashion.
So burn the asphalt and hit the scene at the 1st Annual Brass Balls Party. The party starts at 6PM at World HQ – 401 S. Blackwelder Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73108, Phone: 405-270-0995 ? www.BrassBallsBobbers.com
–Jeff Najar
SPYKE AND COMPU-FIRE JOIN SEMA– Spyke and Compu-Fire recently joined sema and pre registered for booth space at the SEMA show in Las Vegas this coming November. Be There!
HORSE BACK STREET CHOPPERS MAGAZINE–Check out our donation for CP Kustoms War Machine Raffle Bike in the newest issue of Horse Backstreet Choppers Magazin No.88 May/June 2009 on Page 96.
If you`re interested in any stuff you can contact Mario personal by phone on: +41 79 395 49 98 or over our homepage www.mbleathers.com
–L&R Mario@MBleathers
EAGLES MC IN GERMANY FRIENDSHIP RIDE–Last Sunday there was a huge MC-ride-out in my area. 16 MCs, more than 250 bikes (!) with more than 300 bikers and friends went for a 100 mls ride through our area to show friendship, loyalty and respect to each other and the public.
A strong sign that the attitude and lifestyle still lives, free and proud.
It all was organized by the Freeway Riders MC Germany and the Free Eagles MC Germany.
Thanks to them, we had a blast.For a gallery of that ride visitwww.wikinger.com/westfrontwebgalleryThe two guys are Wolla (left) Free Eagles MC and Tom, Freeway Riders MC
Motorcyclists to Picket the Empire State Law Enforcement Traffic Safety Conference–+Following is the text of a 5/4/09 Press Release re the subject, with links. Please attend the picket if you’re able:
On Wednesday, May 6th, American Bikers Aimed Toward Education (ABATE of New York, Inc.) and other motorcyclists will picket the Empire State Law Enforcement Traffic Safety (ESLETS) Conference at the Double Tree Hotel and Conference Center at 6301 State Route 298, East Syracuse, NY where the New York State Police are anticipated to present their Motorcycle Safety Roadblock Scenario and other “Hot Motorcycle Topics” to a broad and diverse cross-section of New York?s law enforcement community.
For nearly two years now, the New York State Police (NYSP) have been conducting highway roadblocks diverting only motorcyclists from the state?s roadways to perform ?safety checks?. ?Operation 5060? was expanded in 2008 and continues to-date. Ironically, last year New York State raided $552,000 of dedicated motorcycle safety funds, created through mandated increased motorcycle registration costs. In fact, even though State Finance Law explicitly prohibits it, over the course of the eleven-year existence of the dedicated motorcycle safety fund, New York State has inappropriately diverted millions of dollars into the state’s general fund.
It remains ABATE of New York’s position that, since motorcycles operated in New York are already required to pass annual safety inspections, the current NYSP initiative continues to serve only to harass, intimidate and inconvenience motorcyclists traveling upon the state?s roadways. Further, motorcycle-only roadblocks of this nature are a discriminatory and unconstitutional infringement upon an individual?s right to travel without interference, and an abuse of discretionary power as acknowledged by the New York State Court of Appeals. ABATE of New York demands that NYS and the NYSP redirect their combined efforts toward overall driver education of the presence of motorcyclists on the state?s roadways.
It is also ABATE of New York’s position that New York State has inadequately administered its dedicated motorcycle safety fund designed specifically to instruct motorcyclists in proper operating techniques and safety initiatives. There remain insufficient sites statewide to provide motorcycle training and the cost remains prohibitive in nature. Motorcyclists suffer due to the underutilization and misapplication of their funds, and a more cost-effective approach should be implemented, subsidized by these raided funds. ABATE of New York decries New York State?s history of unlawfully diverting motorcyclists’ safety fund money to the general fund, and continues its support of legislative efforts prohibiting the transfer of dedicated fees into any other fund.
Motorcyclists demand that their dedicated safety funds be used for motorcycle safety TRAINING initiatives, not motorcycle safety ENFORCEMENT initiatives. The latter should clearly not precede the former.
ABATE of New York was established in 1974, and incorporated in 1991 as a 501c4 not-for-profit corporation representing the rights of all New York State motorcyclists.
For further information, contact:
ABATE of New York, Inc.
P.O. Box 300
Walker Valley, NY 12588
(888) 344-4400
www.abateny.org
For a copy of the Press Release, go here:(temporary public access)http://tinyurl.com/cnul8p
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