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NEWS FROM THE AIM CONNECTION, OR GUNNY SACK–TOKYO, JAPAN: Government is stickin’ it’s paws where they shouldn’t be again, this timein Vietnam, and it’s about motorcycles. In September, their government put a cap on howmany bikes and bike parts they would allow Yamaha build in their Vietnam plants. I guessthey wanted to give a leg up to their locally-owned motorcycle businesses there. Niceidea, but it sorta backfired. Yamaha just said “screw it,” and shut down their Vietnamplant, at least for now.
EARTH ORBIT: A biker’s wife is the pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis, at this writing. The crew is headed up to the international space station. Pilot-astronaut Pamela Melroyis the third woman to fly as a space shuttle pilot. Seems she hesitated about herhusband getting a scoot. But listen to what she said:
“I thought to myself, the guy’s an airline pilot flying international and I’m a shuttlepilot. Who am I to tell him it’s not safe enough? To hold either of us back from doingsomething that we’re really excited about, because the other person would be worriedabout you, would just be wrong. We just don’t do it.” Now THERE’S a “top-flight” womanwith the right attitude!
–from the Gunny Sac
BMW Z4 ROADSTER–
Performance – In the Z4, BMW engineers set new standards forroadster performance. An evolved version of BMW’s acclaimed multi-link rearsuspension mated to an extraordinarily rigid chassis results innear-telepathic handling.
Now what’s this got to do with a motorcycle website? Nothin’ exceptthat BMW produced a series of short films for some of their new cars, andbecause of the Z4, Bikernet staffer, Layla made a little moola. Last August a location scoutwanting to look at her house for this BMW promotion, approached her. He tookpictures of the old California Bungalow style home and left. She didn’tgive it any more thought cause this sort of thing happened to her all thetime. The next day however she was bombarded with set decorators,directors, producers, and informed that they were going to use her house, ifshe agreed. Hell yes!
Go to www.bmwfilms.com and click on the USA part of the map. The movie iscalled “Hostage”, and it’s a little trouble downloading the clip, but wellworth it. John Woo was the director and he did a hell of job. Here’s acouple of shots Layla and her kids took with their digital camera.
Layla’s kids & John Woo
Bikernet Caribbean Report–This is going to be pretty short, since we are not back yet, and the wholeBiketobermess story is going to take some time. As always, we had a greattime . We ended up meeting most of the people we intended to, and thensome. There’s so much good news and stuff going on, that you would notbelieve it. Let’s start by congratulating Billy Lane on his Camel Roadhousenomination, and Jesse James who tied the noose. Jesse and Jim Nassi willnot be with Camel next year. We spent some time with our friends from TheHorse, and their chopper show at Will’s pretty cool, around 80 bikesparticipated on the show. And way more than that showed up to the event andthen partied on later into the night.
It’s was weird to see people wearing our Chopper Freak shirts and walkingaround, which is great for us. We got to visit Choppers Inc and see what’sgoing on, but that will be something I’ll save for later. Seems like Billyis way too busy right now…and a lot of good things are happening to him…Another cool thing was that it seemed to be less people crowding thestreets, but still the Biff and Buffy crap went on, badder than bad, andmanners out the door…I guess some people need to learn that a $40,000piece of crap does not give you the right to be rude, that’s cool though,I’ll still be riding when Biff’s stocks plummet and he becomes a man whore.
Man there’s so much going on…let me see, Aha ! Frank Kaisler, we had agreat time trading sarcasms and looking at bikes, I tell ya’ the cat iscool, and if I say so….Sorry HRB and HB your loss….I could make a list of the people we ended up hanging out with, but I don’twant to sound ….Hell what do I care !! No one likes us anyway, they hangout with us because we bring Puertorican rum with us….Anyway, I’ll do theextensive Biketobermess report next week with photos and all. Way beforeCrazy Horse does hers…..Oh well…I know this report looks like a clusterfuck, but hey ! Gotta go, The Stones play in a couple hours and we gottaget there…
Later
Jose, still at large in the State of Florida…Bikernet report
ANSWERING MACHINE AT MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY–Answering Machine at Mental Health Hospital “Hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline……” If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on theline so we can trace your call. If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to themother ship.?? If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell youwhich number to press. If you are manic-depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press, noone will answer.
If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.?? If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound key until arepresentative comes on the line. If you have amnesia, press 8 and state your name, address, telephonenumber, date of birth, social security number, and your mother’s maiden name. If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, s-l-o-w-l-y andc-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y press 0 0 0. If you have bi-polar disorder, please leave a message after the beep orbefore the beep or during the beep. Please wait for the beep. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memoryloss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. All operators are too busy totalk to you. If you are menopausal, hang up, turn on the fan, lay down & cry. You won’tbe crazy forever.
If you are blonde don’t press any buttons, you’ll just mess it up!
–from Bob T.
HA LEATHER IN THE GULCH–With winter approaching it’s time topull out those leathers and shake out the moths. Maybe you’ve gained a fewpounds over the summer or maybe you’re just tired of the style you’ve beenwearing. If this is the case, take a look inside the Gulch at HA Leathers.Little Joe makes some of the finest leather jackets, vests and Lambskin shirtsin the USA, for men and women. That’s all I’m gonna say about it, see foryourself.
Not the girl, the vest!
TURN THE “CLOSED” SIGN ON–Let’s hit it to the garage, the bar, something happening or to her pad. With all the terrorism bullshit lingering about, we’ve decided to enhance the Bikernet Headquarters security system. Bob T. from the desert recommended the following:
We’re considering his private security team. Hell, they eat rodents and we have an abundance in the dungeon, I mean basement.
Back to the subject at hand. Well not exactly in hand just yet, but the touch of a woman is generally just a quick throttle-snap away or closer. I don’t know about you, but I love women, their tenderness, their touch, the curve of a soft neck or the jiggle of a breast pushing against the smooth texture of a sweater. Motorcycles and romance is where it’s at. Sometimes the action is hot and heavy and sometimes it mellows to a dull roar. That’s when I get edgy and need to ride fast or find the passion once more. Let’s see what happens next week. Ride Forever,
–Bandit
