RIDING-IN BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for August 3, 2023
By Bandit |
My boss, Lou Kimzey once said, “The truth is stranger than fiction.” In other words, if folks in publishing actually wrote about what happened, no one would believe them. It’s not that you wouldn’t believe ‘em, but you would think WTF? That can’t be real…
Never mind, it’s too strange to fathom.
Okay, so brothers and sisters all over the world are riding into the black hills for the 83rd Sturgis Rally. Sturgis is packed with tents, rigs, vendors, and they’re ready for non-stop action. It’s going to be a good one, and as of tomorrow I have two events, sometimes three to attend daily.
Let’s hit the news:
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It turns out Trask Performance’s latest Tornado Turbo System for the Low Rider ST is a straight-up fun-having machine. We’re still grinning ear to ear after our trip to Phoenix to test the Tornado on our ’22 ST. In just a few hours we added substantial performance gains. Learn more about this new setup now!
BRAND NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT—The Iron Order “Code”
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=11782
I cannot understand why Police would want to emulate 3-piece patch wearing outlaw bikers. Surely, they are the antithesis of everything they stand for?
All bikers I know, outlaw or not pour scorn on these wannabes.
There’s also the Blue Knights and the Peelers, but I think they fly a LE patch, although still going down the 3-piece route. I just can’t understand why you’d happily wear a version of your enemies’ uniform.
Bet their parties are crap too.
–Tim Ranachan
The NEW ETIAS requirements, explained–Starting next year, if you’re a U.S. passport holder traveling to an EU country, you will need electronic authorization called ETIAS, the European Travel Information and Authorization System. It includes an online application, and it’s for everyone — no age exceptions.
While it’s not exactly a full-blown visa, it’s going to be linked to your passport. So, without it, airport security won’t let you board. Here’s all you need to know about the cost and how to apply once it kicks in.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190453405/europe-travel-visa-etias-how-to-apply
–Udey Way
Chief Investigator
Bikernet International News Desk
Mumbai, India
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Aluminum Dual Linkert Intake Manifold O-ring Style These are made in house by CD
–Competition Distributing
BUCK LOVELL, COMMITS SUICIDE—Former Editor of Hot Bike Magazine, 1948-2023 passed this week of a shotgun wound.
Here’s what his Boulder Canyon Neighbor, Greg Robley said: My family really loved Buck. He would always bring my son hot wheels and other toys and my son Casen would watch for him to drive by so he could go wave to him. I really thought Buck was doing better and getting through his mess. I called him Wednesday and talked. He sounded like he was making progress.
I appreciate the many great conversations with him over the last six years. He was one of my favorite people to talk to.
–Greg Robles
Custom Painter
Sturgis, SD
ONLY THREE STYLES IN MARTIAL ARTS–Have you ever wondered or debated with friends on which martial art is better or best?
Well, personally, it’s best to evaluate your own physical and mental strengths so that you pick a martial arts form that helps you develop those strengths and overcome your weaknesses.
Another interesting way to look at martial arts forms or styles is the fighting style. Martial art form is a formal, organized system with its unique movements and traditions. A fighting style is the expression of those forms in combat.
So, this perspective says there are only three universal fighting styles that work:
* Striking: punching, kicking, elbowing, kneeing
* Wrestling: clinching, throwing,
* Grappling: joint-locking, pinning, submitting
All the martial art forms in the world practice these three fighting styles to some extent or to the exclusion of the other two or one–or a combination of them at varying capacities.
Therefore, there is no particular martial arts form that will be offering a completely brand new style of fighting. Even Krav Maga with its involvement of using anything from a book or a pen or a piece of cloth in a fight includes one or all three of the aforementioned fighting styles.
So probably, whatever you practice regularly, you will become good at it and be a better martial artist. Alternatively, you might just do mixed martial arts or adapt from the training in different forms to use the combination of martial arts that works for you.
https://www.taijutsu.art/2023/07/only-three-styles-in-martial-arts.html
–Wayfarer
Editor
Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
All martial arts are terrific for self-esteem, balance and self-defense. Try some out and see for yourself, as I did. It’s all about the master and his mantra. I found a couple of very good ones including Sifu who trained with Bruce Lee. And I also trained in close-quarters combat with Mark Lonsdale, who wrote books about it and coached Keanu Reeves.
–Bandit
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NEW TECH READER QUESTION—360-Brake
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=1860
Great article, it was many years ago,
I am wondering if you could lead me in a direction to find a way to switch out my rear 360 brake to a disk brake. I see the company is no longer around and can’t find parts or anything about them except that they went under.
I can’t find anything on this and would love to know if you know of someone that made the switch back and or if you can tell me about a forum that might be out there regarding the modifying and or use of 360 brakes.
Any help would be greatly and highly appreciated,
–Scott Barnhill
Deland, Florida
You may need to replace the wheel. Many wheel manufactures, like Metal Sports offer matching rotors and even calipers and brackets to fit your bike.
–Bandit
SUMMER HEAT CURES–Beat exhaustion with these tips
Physical or mental fatigue is common in sports and general life. Sometimes, this exhaustion can become chronic and you feel without the energy and power needed for everyday routine.
So how can you recharge this body-battery?
1. Prioritize your sleep
It’s not just the quantity but also quality of sleep. Sometimes, you might also want to take a nap.
2. Share problems
We all share our successes and joys. Don’t stop yourself from confiding in a friend or family-member about your problems. You may also keeep it confidential by talking to a professional therapist instead.
3. Exercise regularly
How is exercise a solution for fatigue? Sounds like a paradox! Well, just getting out of bed and walking, even indoors if not out in the sun, will often change your mood — give you the momentum to be motivated. It also gives you the feeling of accomplishment, thus encouraging more activity (physical or mental).
4. Healthy food and enough water
Just changing what you consume and how you consume it can change your body and mind drastically. Get the right calories and nutrients and stay hydrated. Food is medicine!
5. Meditation or mindfulness
Whatever works for you — try either simple breathing exercises or meditation or living in the moment. Mindfulness is basically being aware of the present and not thinking of past or future. Control of breath changes how your body and mind react and respond to external stimulus and internal thoughts.
from:
https://www.taijutsu.art/2023/07/beat-exhaustion-with-these-tips.html
–Dr. Way
Bikernet Medical Center
Westwood, CA
QUICK NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT—
e “Code Of The West” vs The Code Of DC_
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=15312
Someone should buggy whip all these crooked politicians. Starting with this California government in Sacramento. Although those ones there should be keel hauled instead.
The one code that we forgot is a man or woman never gives up their weapon without a fight. That is what protects the family, home and property. Nuff said.
–Gearhead
DREAM ON, DREAM ON—It’s
Not limited to teenage queens
from Ujjwal Dey’s SubStack — “Hot Air Cold Love”
https://hotaircoldlove.substack.com/p/dream-on-dream-on
Surely most youth (including our past selves), truly get obsessed with daydreaming (and I don’t mean s#+) — just the castles in the air with no brick and no basis (foundation?), etc.
Can this actually be helpful? No one to play a board game with when bored? “Dream a little dream of” anyone, anything. Children unattended often do play make-belief — is that a natural instinct or latent potential for creative expression? Can you think aloud and solve a problem or plan a course of action? (well, talking to Google Maps or asking Siri/Alexa doesn’t count!).
You could probably “pray” or “wish” for the habit of daydreaming to go away, but if it’s there, it is probably serving some purpose or some void.
Some of the top sales guys practice their pitch all alone in front of a mirror or job-applicants prepare for interviews by simply visualizing and imagining an interview taking place beforehand.
BTW: daydreaming is not the same as ambition. For example, you could be “dreaming in the USA” or you could actually have a plan about getting there and what to do once you are over there. (That album by Sting itself has over a dozen ideas to write home about —(get the Deluxe Edition)).
Daydreaming’s Dark Side: The Disorder That Dominates Some People’s Daily Lives
Maladaptive daydreaming affects about 2.5% of people. Despite what we’re often taught to believe, daydreaming can be immensely useful.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/daydreaming-s-dark-side-the-compulsive-complex-fantasy-disorder-that-dominates-some-people-s-daily
Sting and Shaggy singing “Dreaming In The U.S.A.”from their album titled “44/876”
https://youtu.be/wQ_t8z0onXc
–Ujjwal Dey
NEWS FROM THE DIME BAG EMPIRE–Wanted to share a couple of custom pieces in the works.
Tank bag is for a custom Shovelhead that I already made a seat for a couple years ago. He sent me dimensions he wanted and I added some Von Dutch pinstriping. Gotta replace my airbrush, tried repairing it but seems clogged or a seal needs replaced to actually feed the oil dye into a clean and clear chamber. Need to get a hypersonic cleaner anyway.
Ray at Copper Top Garage has a new custom build in progress. Ray requested the Goddess of Speed on a polished aluminum seat pan that he spent hours working on. It’s in the mail, in the meantime got the artwork started.
I read a full book on Michelangelo’s work, so it was great he shared the idea of drawing eyes on leather much like he made in his marble sculptures. So, this was the first, that they were comic book eyes, so it was great to add another style of eye art.
Also, going to start buying used Harley seats to restore with fresh leather and have available for sale in Route 66 store.
–Adam Croft
President/Founder
Dime Bag leathers
MOTORCYCLE HISTORY FROM THE NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM—Long story short; this motorcycle went from Milwaukee to Australia, then back to Iowa, yet it’s had just three owners in over 100 years!
Noting the “A” in its serial number, the bike is a military model that shipped to Australia to support Allied troops’ efforts there in World War I. After the War, it was sold as surplus, and an Australian man bought it. He rode it a bit and parked it in his back yard for years, and then it fell over. After seeing the bike on its side for a long time, a neighbor asked about it, offered to pick it up.
That guy wound up buying it and restoring it, repainting it this green. Though the tank that was laying against the ground rusted through, all the other parts are original. The current owner got it from the guy who restored it about 20 years ago, as it sits. He says he was told the green was correct for typical civilian Model Js shipped to Australia, though his bike was olive drab when manufactured for the military.
The Model J Harley-Davidson was originally produced for military service around 1915. After World War I Harley-Davidson converted their production to serve typical civilian customers. The Model J became Harley’s top of the line model. Originally produced in Olive Drab for the military, Harley-Davidson reworked the machine mainly by changing the paint color, offering a now familiar shiny olive green color with delicate striping they used until 1932.
As big engineering steps were made, driven somewhat by war time technology advancements, with battery ignition becoming the norm, and electric lights standard along with a 3-speed transmission, the Model J came into being. It was offered in various 61 and 74 cubic inch (1921) versions and served riders well until the arrival of the “flathead” Model D around 1929. The J was notable in that in about 15 years of manufacture it had been proven on streets, race tracks and even served couriers in World War I. But response to military needs had caused extreme ups and downs in production: Harley-Davidson production is noted at a record 27,000 machines in 1920, but with military surplus available it dropped to 11,460 for 1921!
With annual engineering improvements the J was an even better bet than its predecessors for sidecar use. The frame and fork were stronger and more pulling power was available from the J engine which was eventually up to 18 horsepower, up over 50% from its early versions.
This machine is one of several Model Js and Model JDs in the National Motorcycle Museum including the machine on which John Parham sponsored Matt Olsen for the 2012 Cannonball Endurance Run. And several J engines are mounted on the “Motor Wall” for you to study.
This fine 1919 Harley-Davidson Model J will be among hundreds of motorcycles and thousands of pieces of memorabilia offered in the John Parham Estate Collection Mecum Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa, September 6 – 9, 2023. Watch for information on the Mecum Auctions website, Mecum.com For schedule information or to register as a bidder for this and all Mecum events, visit Mecum.com, or call (262) 275-5050 for more information.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK–
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
–ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NEWS FROM GERMANY–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZ_4653_A4
The above link is a four or so minute “news” update from something called DW which is the German government, basically, now in the news business, since it’s State run, and it opens with grave man whose life matters sitting in front of a backdrop of a burnt series of aligned shrubs that apparently, I guess you are supposed to assume, is our future, and he introduces a slovenly, listless head of the UN who gives a brief announcement of doom, proclaiming the situation as “terrifying” although he seems kind of dull and grave and which terror has not hurt his appetite any, and he announce that global warming is now global boiling.
The globe is now at the boiling point: which, I understand is STILL 212 degrees F. Not to this asshole. The man whose life matters then interviews some “ya know”-saying female who sports some UN meteorological title and is in her house that is not on fire, and while she says “ya know” underneath her appears the announcement that global warming fuels wildfires.
So, we have three major themes going, global warming is terrifying, the globe is now boiling, and climate is fueling wildfires. Meanwhile backround films show scads of people just going about their business, not on fire or even daubing their brows, interspersed with fire engines surrounded by flames being fueled by oxygen and ACTUAL fuel – which would be plant life….. not being “fueled” by air temperature or global climate.
In four minutes there is a relentless barrage of whoppers which they assume, FOR SOME REASON that you will believe. Probably because they know who they’re dealing with: people who will put up with anything and forever.
–J.J. Solari
STURGIS MUSEUM NEWS—Cabana Dan is on his way back from Texas with the Indian Company version of Burt Munro’s historic streamliner.
ANOTHER NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT—75TH Panhead Renunion
Love my Pan and reading anything I can about them.
–Mike Hanson
Fargo, ND
CLIMATE SCIENTIST BANNED–Nobel Laureate John Clauser:
“I Can Confidently Say There is No Real Climate Crisis”
Dr. John F. Clauser, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, was elected to serve on the board of directors of the CO2 Coalition earlier this year.
During a speech to the 2023 Quantum Korea conference, he stated categorically: “I can confidently say there is no real climate crisis.”
During a recent interview with the Epoch Times, Dr. Clauser stated, “We are totally awash in pseudoscience.” Further, he identified the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as “one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation.”
Despite his views being completely contrary to the “consensus” opinion on climate, he was invited to present a seminar on climate models to the IMF on July 27th. Just before the date, the event was summarily cancelled by the Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Pablo Moreno.
Coalition Statement on the IMF Postponing Dr. Clauser
The postponement of Dr. John Clauser’s presentation to the International Monetary Fund concerning climate models and their use is troubling but not surprising. Any scientific information that differs from the “consensus” opinion of man-made catastrophic warming continues to be systematically suppressed.
Had the event not been postponed, Dr. Clauser was prepared to argue that the science on global warming is far from settled and that extreme caution must be warranted when setting economic policy on oversimplified views of the Earth’s climate system.
–CO2 Coalition
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BABE OF THE WEEK—Dedy Ambarita.
Oh my god…
–Sam Burns
Official Talent Scout
Bikernet.com™
QUICK NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT–Review: Chopper Hobo by Shovelhead Dave
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/Chopper_Hobo_by_Shovelhead_Dave.aspx
This is just a really fun read. Having lived in Alaska, Oregon, and now Washington, I can relate to the roads this man has traveled. His writing and stories are entertaining and brings this old man (I’m 67) great recollections of traveling these areas on my Shovelhead “back in the day” before the bikes started to become obese, overpriced and underpowered.
Brought back a lot of great memories! (I like the BWA_HA_HA’S. Guess you had to be there…)
–Lee
Olympia, Washington
LOWBROW’S CUSTOM OF THE WEEK—ALEX Pi’s Rational Sportster Chopper
I’ve always wanted to build a chopper by myself, not a show bike, but a motorcycle I could ride…
“So, I followed the path of simplicity, without exceeding trying to walk between psychedelia and efficiency.
But being Italian, I couldn’t resist and had to contaminate the recipe: I grew up in Venice where glass is a timeless art…”
Check the whole tamale on their web site.
–Bandit
LEGENDS AT BLACK HILLS HARLEY– 2 Lane Life
2 Lane Life will be at Black Hills Harley-Davidson under the Legend Suspensions tent for a meet and greet! We are excited to welcome them and have them hang out with us.
August 5th, 2023
11AM – 1PM
For more information and location details please visit:
https://www.legendsuspensions.com/sturgis-rally/
FROM THE 100TH ISSUE OF DICE– Bubblegum Trash
Demon Drome wall of death for dice magazine at the malle mile
Ricky Reyes Pink Swinger as seen in Issue 100 of DicE Magazine.
Check it out on the DicE Blog.
FEATURE BIKE OF THE WEEK—Dean Woodruff
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
MOTORCYCLE ATTORNEY–
Mike is doing good work in Arizona and DC.
–Rogue
Senior Editor
Bikernet.com™
BIKERNET BOOK OF THE WEEK REPORT– Finally! The Truth About Global Warming. . .
Get Your FREE Copy Before They’re All Gone.
It seems like the media won’t let global warming go.
Once you see where the billions of tax payer dollars are going. . . you’ll know why
In fact, the progressives are looking for more of your money!
Armed with the truth, I’m hopeful we can stop them.
That’s why I want to send you a copy of Hot Talk, Cold Science.
In it you’ll discover:
Why there is NO climate crisis arising from human acitivies now. . . nor on the horizon over the upcoming years (p. 103)
How the ice mass in Antarctica has actually been increasing since 1979 and NOT decreasing like we’ve been led to believe (p. 64)
The carbon dioxide disconnect. And why there is ZERO evidence linking carbon dioxide to climate change (p. 66)
And much more. . .
It’s time for us to hold the politicians accountable and stop the spending before it gets worse.
To discover the facts CLICK HERE to get your copy of Hot Tak, Cold Science today.
–Tom Luongo
Editor, Ultimate Wealth Report
GREASY KULTURE NEW ISSUE– New issue 94: even Todd Asin’s ‘daily’ is perfect!
This man can’t do ‘ordinary’; he’s just won ‘Best in Show’ at Born Free with a beautiful Knucklehead chopper, but this – his daily rider Panhead – is, in our humble opinion, equally nice. Every bike that rolls out of his Small City Cycles shop is feature-worthy, but as soon as we saw this ’56 we knew it was bound for the cover…
Here’s a little preview of the new issue – where you can see the other great bikes joining Todd’s in #94.
Subscribe and save!
Subscribe today and get a magazine on your doormat every two months – no more grrrr when we sell out – and you’ll pay less too! Just £25 (plus postage to you, wherever in the world you are) for FOUR top quality issues.
OILY BIKERNET READER COMMENT—The Blessings of Petroleum Products
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=15307
Having been in oil and gas or petrochemicals for over 20 years. I really laugh at the people who regularly complain about petroleum and yet use parts of it every day.
This is one of the best articles I’ve ever read on the subject.
–Johnny Humble
Somewhere in Texas
REPORT FROM THE OTHER SIDE–
This is what we are up against. Many in the GOP want us to go down this path.
Sen. Mitt Romney urges GOP to adopt “a climate-sensitive policy”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/30/politics/republicans-climate-solutions-heat-wave/index.html
Believe in a ‘climate emergency’ ?!
GOP LEADER McCarthy wants to plant trees to solve it!
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was asked how he would solve the climate crisis. He suggested planting a trillion trees… a bill House Republicans introduced in 2020.
–Marc Morano
Climate Depot
WTF? Over. We had a meeting with Senator Round’s office on Monday about our resolution for the truth. Let’s see if they are bullied by activists, money or are out of touch with reality.
–Bandit
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID–
This morning I went out to tend my birds and found my little chicken Dumplin’ dead in the yard. I ain’t fucked up about nature… I just figured my cat probably was the culprit and seein’ as how I was finishing off a scrambled egg sandwich made with her unborn children, I didn’t reckon I could judge Lizzy Cat too harshly.
Well, I went on about my day… Smoke shop and pot shop and Walmart and the gas station… and had just plopped down with a big ol’ doobie when my dogs sounded off that someone was at the door.
It was my neighbor Boogie. He looked just terrible and my heart jumped a little that something had happened to Miz Josie or Miz Oleta across the road… he was holding a white cardboard box with holes in it. I asked him what it was, and he said, ‘It’s something for you.’
Then he went back down my steps and turned looking up at me in the porch with his hat in his hand and tears in his eyes and said, ‘I’ve come to make restitution ma’am, on account of my dog killed yore lil’ chicken…’
He has this little yapper terrier Chihuahua looking dog that barks at my house all day… And my first thought was, Oh Jesus he shot the dog over my chicken.
And he is telling me how she had six puppies and how he reckoned she just went crazy with them post motherly behaviors… and I was reassuring him it was fine, I wasn’t mad… and he told me he didn’t even go to work today he was so upset. then he held up the box and said, ‘ SO I BROUGHT YOU SIX SURPRISES!’
..And I thought, oh fuck, it’s them puppies….It wasn’t.
–Amy Irene White
Bruno Zammit, craftsman. Creator engraver. Bruzz Metal Work concept.
BRUZZENGRAVER.COM
Art Curator
Bikernet.com™
THE TORPEDO REPORT—We ran into a glitch. A tilt meter is required to actuate the parachute in the event of a roll-over. The search gears engaged and we spoke to officials and ultimately the top dog in the streamliner world, Dennis Manning.
I spoke to the company below
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Okay, then we had to figure out how to deploy the the chute and ended up with a Solenoid from Summit racing. We are on the case.
2-LANE LIFE IS COMING TO STURGIS AND DEADWOOD—In one of their recent episodes they discuss past rides, lunch, Sturgis Plans and riding etiquette.
These famous riding influencers are digging in across the street from where the famous Frank Ball tattoo crew are hanging in Deadwood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur96nwYglfI
–Bandit
BABES RIDE OUT COMING–LEVEL UP
GOT has great programs designed for first time riders, beginners, intermediate and advanced riders. They start on wide open, flat spaces and build confidence through fun exercises designed to teach and instill real technique. For advanced riders, they choose locations and trails that require mastery of specific skill sets. They have the bike, gear, and more for those who are needing the good at NO extra cost! Tap below and sign up for a class during Babes in the Dirt 8!
18+ ladies only
The event always sells out
Food & coffee trucks on site
Nightly entertainment
2 private tracks!!!
Hundreds of miles of clearly marked trails to explore
Husqvarna motorcycle demos with lead / follow
Epic raffle
Red or green sicker bikes are okay!
Spark arrestor required
ANOTHER BIKERNET READER TECH QUESTION–SCREAMIN’ EAGLE PRO STREET TUNER and AUTOMATIC TUNING MODULE
Do you know what will happen, if you’re using the old orange Screamin’ Eagle Pro Street Tuner and modify the AFR? Will the Smart Tune PRO Automatic Tuning Module reset the AFR to their own values?
–Jens
Hamburg, Germany
I thought someone would know…
–Bandit
A FINAL BIKERNET READERS COMMENT—THE BIKERS CODE
Help that little old lady cross the street. You might need a hand yourself someday.
–Jeff
Red Deer, AB, Canada
IT’S NEVER DULL IN THE BLACK HILLS—My grandson is riding in through Oregon and Zion into Colorado.
Arlin and Donna set up shop in downtown Sturgis, and he turned me onto a couple of these massive Mudflap girls. I turned one over to the master of the Monday night Hamster auction to support the kid’s hospital in Rapid City. The girls said the guys would love it…
Cabana Dan was busy one morning at a photo shoot. He built that super-sharp classic peashooter. Where the hell did that girl come from?
Damn, just as I worked out my VL,XA,FL taillight Charlie Rust send me this image of the taillight lens stash he found.
Tim from Flat Earth Art came over to handle some Salt Torpedo Pinstriping. He did a magnificent job.
Sugarbear called this morning about his property out here and his plans for the rally. He brought Tree’s long-tall chopper out and it’s for sale. Tree was a monster of a guy and I featured his first chop back in the early ’70s. The bike is set-up for a big guy, faux Evo powered, runs great and a big guy classic with a Sugarbear springer front end. If you’re seriously interested for $35,000 it’s yours. Drop me a line to Bandit@bikernet.com.
Our billboard went up in Deadwood, and I’m already getting calls.
Hang on for rally reports. Feel the freedom.
–Bandit
RALLY ACTION BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for August 10, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
I’ve spoken to any number of riders, industry members, locals, you name it about their take on the rally this year. All answers are different, but I believe this one was happening, jammed, exciting and alive.
I started out asking brothers if they attended the 120th anniversary of Harley-Davidson to see if the celebration was going to impact Sturgis, but I don’t think it did. My other major take-away from this rally was the custom and performance side. I studied packs of bikes, bikes in parking lots, rows of bikes waiting to roll into Deadwood and I didn’t see a lot of bone stock scooters. Even baggers were modified with performance upgrades, sound systems, travel accessories or custom components.
Choppers, bobbers, antiques, FXRs, baggers and custom bikes filled shows. And aftermarket vendors were here in Sturgis, at the Chip and packed around Black Hills Harley. The custom world was here to see, touch and feel. It was happening even in the rain.
The next question includes demographics. There are way more women riders with new, improved, more reliable, more creature comfort laden motorcycles. But what about age groups. My grandson rode out for the second or third time. His buddies are in their late 20s, but the demographic study research continues.
Ever since I turned 50, 25 years ago, journalists wrote about the aging biker population, as if the whole outlaw biker would dry up and disappear. But then my son started riding, and then my grandson and at least one of my granddaughters. The study continues.
Let’s hit the news:
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.
HOT NEWS FROM AMERICAN PRIME–APM’s Repro Springer is a work of Art!
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ANOTHER NEW PRINT MAGAZINE HITS THE CHOPPER WORLD—
Ron Harris of Chop Docs recently launched Traditional Chopper Magazine, Nothing but Excellent Choppers!
It’s gritty, rough and fulla heart and Chopper soul. Check it out!
–Bandit
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BABES RIDE OUT REPORT–On the Coast of California
Endless sweeping roads, great food, entertainment at night, and a community of riders celebrating 10 years of Babes Ride Out
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BOULDER CANYON RANCH FOR SALE—
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK–
“It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus
from Epoch Times
OMG, I was at the DMV and it cost me almost $500 but I heard a huge crash and this car drove into the building in the office next-door. Look at the irony of the place it crashed into.
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CO2 COALITION NEW UPDATE—
Virginia: Life Is Good and Getting Better Regional and State Report Series
The CO2 Coalition is embarking on a bold review of how climate change and increasing carbon dioxide are impacting states and regions across the United States. We have completed reports on Pennsylvania, Virginia, as well as the Midwest and are in the process of researching data for Arkansas and Montana. We will likely expand this to regions across the globe.
Temperature Source: U.S. Historical Climate Network
Atmospheric concentration of CO2 – European Environment Agency
The Virginia data is representative of what we are finding in each area:
- There is no unusual or unprecedented warming.
- Heat waves have been declining.
- Severe weather is not increasing.
- Crop and forest growth is increasing.
- Droughts are in decline.
- There is no increase in hurricanes.
- Remarkable trend in crop yield
Corn Yield Source: USDA Data and Statistics
Atmospheric concentration of CO2 – European Environment Agency
OUTLAW JUSTICE RETURNS—
My second book is coming alive again. I sold out shortly after Outlaw Justice was published about 1997, 10,000 books. As you know, the publishing industry changed and I ran the book on Bikernet, in Bandit’s Cantina but never printed anymore until now. This has been a long trek, but I felt it was necessary. This is an important book for any rider who is considering joining an outlaw club. It’s packed with lessons.
Brief description:
The Night Hawks MC were well-established in the Los Angeles outlaw biker scene, but the rugged one-percenters all dreamed of becoming members of the legendary national club known as The Devils Own. But how far would the club go to become heavy hitters? Danny Lonsdale and his bros discovered too late that flying a Devil’s patch meant selling your soul into a depraved world of drug-dealing, murder and betrayal. Framed for a murder he didn’t commit and double-crossed at every turn, Danny’s only hope for survival lied in the power of his fists, a hot rod Harley and a smoking gun.
Every page of OUTLAW JUSTICE brings you face-to-face with the raw and gritty double-barreled world of the outlaw biker, where treachery and deceit are the only markers on the road to hell.
BILL BISH PASSES—
And he just received a Silver Spoke Award. What a great guy, family man, biker, freedom fighter and publisher. He will be missed by thousands of riders and freedom fighters worldwide.
BIKERNET GUN NUT REPORT–IN-DEPTH:
States Stop Credit Card Companies From Tracking Gun Purchases, It May Not Last
Credit card companies were preparing to track the purchase of firearms and ammunition of every American citizen. While a flurry of bills lobbed by state legislators caused all of them to reconsider those plans, it may only be a temporary victory.
Almost one year ago, an effort was launched to create a new Merchant Category Code (MCC) to track the purchases of firearms and ammunition. However, inspired by the uproar of Second Amendment constituents, Republicans in the United States Senate, as well as lawmakers in several states, have launched legislative efforts that have successfully shut them down—for now.
On March 21, United States Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) introduced SB 898. This bill prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from auditing a taxpayer based on the MCCs.
So far, seven states have joined the resistance.
On March 29, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice approved House Bill 2004. In summary, the measure will “prevent the use of payment card processing systems for surveillance of Second Amendment activity and discriminatory conduct.” The bill would also preclude financial institutions that violate this law from qualification in bidding on state contracts.
On April 6, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 295 into law, also prohibiting financial institutions from using MCCs to identify or track firearms purchases.
On April 16, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves approved HB1110. In addition to prohibiting the use of MCCs to identify or track firearms purchases in Mississippi, the measure prohibits state governmental agencies as well as public or private individuals from keeping any record or list of privately owned firearms or their owners. The legislation also warns that data collected from this MCC would almost inevitably end up in some federal government databases.
On April 29, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum signed HB1487 (pdf).
On May 12, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approved CS/SB 214.
On May 19, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed SB359 into law.
On June 10, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed HB2837, which will become effective on Sept. 1. The measure will prohibit financial institutions operating in Texas from requiring or assigning a firearms code, defined as “any merchant category code approved by the International Organization for Standardization for a firearms retailer, including Merchant Category Code 5723.”
On July 13, California’s legislators introduced a gutted and amended version of Assembly Bill 1587, originally introduced on Feb. 17 as a measure about the state’s Health and Safety Code regarding multifamily housing, which now requires credit card issuers to use the MCC unique to retailers of firearms and ammunition.
‘They’re Not Finished’
West Virginia Delegate Chris Phillips (R) called the legislative effort in his state “a caucus priority.”
–Epoch times
HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES SEMA-Supported Bills to Protect Vehicle Technology Choice
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed H.R. 1435, the Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act, and H.R. 4468, the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act. These SEMA-supported bills seek to preserve vehicle choice for consumers and prevent the federal government and the State of California from choosing only one form of technology (such as electric vehicles) (EVs) over the many others to achieve their emission reduction goals.
SEMA has strongly supported H.R. 1435, the “Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act,” a bill prohibiting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing a waiver to California for regulations that would ban the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE) in the state by 2035.
SADDLEMEN BUILDING IN THE BLACK HILLS—Saddlemen seats are creeping into the Black Hills in a magnificent way. Dave, the boss built headquarters and refurbished a beautiful home between Rapid City and Sturge overlooking the Piedmont Valley.
We attended their industry party for fantastic food, industry insights and magnificent views. I can’t wait to see what happens at the Saddlemen headquarters next.
Many buyers of Lamborghini in Indian Diaspora: CEO Stephan Winkelmann
“There are more (Indian) owners than we sell cars in India. What is a bit of a challenge today for the Indian market, for sure, is the high taxation we have for our type of products, and then, the infrastructure,” Stephan Winkelmann told ET.
Wayfarer
Editor: Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
BOB T. AND TANYA O’CALLAGHAN MAKING A VETERAN BIKER’S MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO—
I rode with Bob T. in 1971, he’s been a friend ever since. He lives in 12 Palms California in the desert and over the last couple of years faced major life-changing upheaval.
His life smoothed out with a new love and a new vibrant young neighbor Tanya who is well connected and working with Bob to improve his diet, his meditation skills and his overall outlook on life. She is also working with doctors and experts and five other Vietnam veteran bikers to improve their lives and produce a documentary on the process.
Hang on for more reports.
–Bandit
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THE EV FILES ARE OPEN—
Unsold Electric Cars May Be Signaling A Death Spiral For The Auto Industry.
Published August 1, 2023, at Heartland Institute
Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.”
With new EV inventories beginning to increase on dealer lots, the auto industry has many challenges such as locating the buyers that may have serious concerns about a wide range of issues related to EVs including:
- Driving range
- Vehicle reliability
- Price
- The availability of electricity for the buildout of the charging infrastructure,
- charging time
- The cost and lifespan of batteries and their environmental impact
- The actual impact EVs will have on reducing carbon emissions
The growing statistics about uncontrollable fires of lithium batteries in EV’s, problems with battery recycling and end-of-life management
Concerns that the EV free ride of usage of highways and not paying fuel taxes is about to end with the Vehicle Mileage Tax (VMT), i.e., more costs for the EV owners of the future
Concerns that home chargers are destined to follow the UK and be on separate meters so that EV charging will be at higher rates to help stabilize the electrical grid, again more costs for the EV owners of the future.
Another problem for the automobile industry is convincing the buyers that its ethical, moral, and socially responsible to buy an EV, especially since most of the exotic mineral and metal supplies to build the batteries are being mined in developing countries with limited environmental regulation nor labor regulations.
Interestingly, the 2021 Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations – Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy does an excellent job of discussing the lack of transparency to the world of the green movement’s impact upon humanity exploitations in the developing countries that are mining for the exotic minerals and metals required to create the batteries needed to store “green electricity”.
Complimentary to the book is a 2-minute clip from Michael Moore’s 2020 documentary film, Planet of the Humans, that’s been viewed by more than 14 million, that illustrates how so-called green electricity is made.
As the future is fast approaching, virtually all the automobile manufacturers, through government mandates to reduce the emissions of their fleet of vehicles, are going all-in to only manufacture EV’s in the coming years. To meet low emissions for their fleet of vehicles, we’re most likely going to see fewer and fewer hybrids as the auto industry manufacturers need to eliminate the gasoline engines in hybrids to meet those lower emission targets.
The problem is that manufacturers are loading up the “supply chain” with EV’s on dealer lots, but they’re not seeing the “demand” for EV’s coming from the public. The current EV ownership profiles of the elite owners are that they are:
- Highly educated.
- Highly compensated.
- Multi-car families.
- Low mileage requirements for the families’ second car, i.e., the EV.
Current EV owners are dramatically different from most of the vehicle owners. Unlike the profile of current EV owners, many are single-car owners, and most of the potential car buyers are not as highly educated, nor as highly compensated as the elite EV owners. Mandating a change to EV ownership and forced austerity may face a rebellion from those that need affordable vehicle transportation.
Historically, internal combustion engine (ICE) car sales in America are upwards of 55 million annually with about 15 million or 27 percent being new and 40 million or 73 percent being used car sales.
New vehicle sales: In 2022, the auto industry in the United States sold approximately 13.75 million light vehicle units. This figure includes retail sales of about 2.9 million passenger cars and just under 10.9 million light trucks.
Used sales: Sales of used light vehicles in the United States came to around 38.6 million units in 2022.
With a total of 50 to 55 million ICE vehicles being sold annually for new and used, it’s obvious that the auto industry and the economy has been benefiting and prospering in the used ICE car market.
To date, the EV industry has virtually no used car market! In addition to the constant EV charging challenges, who wants a used EV that may soon need an expensive battery replacement?
With about 73 percent of all car sales being that of used combustion engine cars, the lack of a resale market for EV’s may be a major problem for the auto industry.
Since most states lack the year-round temperate climate that Californians enjoy, the distribution of EV ownership throughout the nation should be a concern to the auto industry. With 40 percent of the EV’s in America being in California, that leaves the other 60 percent being among the other 49 States, or approximately 1+ percent per State.
To support the State’s EV growth, California imports more electricity than any other US state, more than twice the amount of Virginia, the second largest importer of electricity. California typically receives between one-fifth and one-third of its electricity supply from outside of the state.
The other 49 states have virtually non-existent EV charging infrastructures, and a few of them may be exporting their electricity to California!
With the supply of electricity not keeping abreast of the growing demand, the UK is ahead of most of the world, protecting its grid with Smart Chargers, and setting up Separate Meters for the EV charging users to pay for a new grid!
As of May 30, 2022, in the UK, new home and workplace chargers being installed must be “smart” chargers” connected to the internet and able to employ pre-sets limiting their ability to function from 8 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 10 pm.
In addition to the nine hours a day of downtime, authorities will be able to impose a “randomized delay” of 30 minutes on individual chargers in certain areas to prevent grid spikes at other times.
The UK Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021 came into force on June 30, 2022. All home installed electric vehicle chargers are required to be separately metered and send information to the Smart meter data communications network. Potentially this legislation allows the electricity used for charging EVs to be charged and taxed at a higher rate than domestic electricity. The technology enacted also enables the rationing of electricity for EV charging because the government can decide when and if an EV can be charged, plus it also allows the EV battery to be drained into the grid if required.
As new EV inventories on dealer lots continue to rise, there are bumpy roads ahead for EV penetration into the lifestyles of the common folks.
Ronald Stein, P.E.
Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure
Energy Literacy website
ANOTHER QUOTE OF THE WEEK–
“You must train your intuition—you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.” — Ingrid Bergman
from Epoch times
Salt Torpedo Chapter 27
I should write about Salt torpedo progress, but the 83rd Sturgis rally hit today, yikes. We have less than three weeks to prepare and roll to the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials is Wendover, Utah on the 25th.
Scrutineering has been the obstacle to our progress. Or should that be reworded. We’ve missed a couple of items or misread the rules, or… Anyway, we are scrambling to fix the fixes.
Watch for the report, episode 27 next week. And if you have any desire to sponsor a hard-fought Bonneville effort, reach out to Bandit@Bikernet.com quick.
–Bandit
FEATURE BIKE OF THE WEEK–
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HANG ON—The rally isn’t over. The final Hamster Ride takes place this afternoon. I’m supposed to meet with SugarBear out past the Full throttle this afternoon on his Chopper Flats property for a dire meeting in the hills.
Michael Lichter is still on the case shooting everything from the Ugly MC party in Sturgis to the Buffalo Chip, I believe for Dennis Kirk web site. He’s still in a lawsuit with the Easyriders Magazine effort that I believe failed again.
The Ugly party had the best food of all the events so far, magnificent. Today, SugarBear’s wife Fuji make some magnificent pizzas.
We hit the Hall of Fame breakfast and it was impressive. Flash the MC did a helluva job and you would be impressed by each and every inductee’s accomplishments in the motorcycle world. Amazing group of guys and girls.
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Dr. Hamsters flew out, so while he rode my ’14 Indian, I checked the oil in my ’69 Panhead and rode it and my ’46 Knucklehead to various events.
My grandson made it out and we attended the Buffalo Chip’s Industry Party in the building designed for Michael Lichter’s Motorcycles as Art Exhibit. After 22 years Mike stepped aside and the Chip staff took over, but they kept the exhibit in Michael’s stellar style.
I was very fortunate to have Tim Peterson of Flat Earth Art pinstripe the Salt Torpedo and our new SUV. Progress.
Watching for a sidecar setup for George Christie in Ventura. Let me know if you have anything.
I gotta ride, so it’s short this week, but freedom is in the air. See you next week.
–Bandit
THE CHECKLIST BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for August 17th, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
The next couple of weeks will be damn interesting. First, my major focus will be all about Bonneville. We will peel out next Wednesday and be on the Salt for a week, which will impact the news hopefully in a positive way.
The Bikernet News will be short and to the point. The next two weeks will be significant in more ways than one. You’ll see the Montana report below, but over the next two weeks you may see a response. I hope.
Let’s hit the news:
NEW ENFIELD BULLET 350 — All-New Royal Enfield Bullet 350 Price Reveal on Sep 1, 2023
The homegrown two-wheeler manufacturer Royal Enfield has been grabbing all the headlines over the past few months, all thanks to the company’s upcoming Bullet 350. A lot of details have been revealed as the bike has been spotted multiple times during the testing phase.
Now, it has been reported that the brand is all set to announce the official price details on September 1.
Bullet 350 will be based on J-platform, and will feature a 349cc engine option, which will be smoother as compared to the existing model. It is the same unit that has been used in Classic, Meteor, and Hunter 350. The bike will produce a max power of 19 bhp and 27 Nm of peak torque.
Full story at:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/autos/news/all-new-royal-enfield-bullet-350-price-reveal-on-sep-1-2023/ar-AA1fg0Uq
Wayfarer’s note:
From the news reports, it seems the new Enfield Bullet 350 will be unrecognizable. It will be a completely different look and riding experience. It’s just unfair to still call it a Bullet because it has nothing left from it. The whole thing is a new model entirely from news reports gathered over the weeks and those who spied it testing on public roads.
–Wayfarer
Chief International Investigator
Bikernet.com™
REPORT FROM SPEED WEEK—
We didn’t set a record. Track was exceedingly rough. We managed one pass with Dennis driving and one with me at the wheel. On the return road I hit a huge pot hole going 96 mph and cracked the water tank. It took 45 minutes to get from the end of the road to our pits.
Every day the SCTA officials escorted us to the staging lane because it was so rough. We drug the bottom of the car daily. Time to get started for next year.
–Gary Maur
SAYING GOODBYE TO BILL BISH–
To all who knew him, the family wished to share this as Bill’s last NCOM Newsbytes column. You can use or share it as you wish. Ride Free. Love & Respect to all, the Bish Family
Bill’s last NCOM Column…
OBITUARY
William H Bish
September 29, 1957 – August 4, 2023
IN THE CARE OF
Corrigan Craciun Funeral Home
Family will receive friends to celebrate Bill’s life Thursday, August 17, 2023, from 4 PM – 8 PM at Corrigan Craciun Funeral Home, 20820 Lorain Rd, Fairview Park OH 44126. Funeral Services 10 AM on Friday, August 18, 2023 at the Funeral Home with a procession following to the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery, 10175 Rawiga Rd, Seville, OH 44273 where he will be interred with full military honors.
William H. “Bill” Bish, age 65, of Westlake, Ohio passed away with his loving wife by his side on Friday, August 4, 2023 due to medical procedural complications. Bill was born in Des Moines, Iowa to Clarence “Rusty” Bish and Margaret “Mitzi” Bish (nee Sorter), both deceased.
Dearly beloved husband of 27 years to Darlene R. Bish (nee Griggs), loving father of Rachelle Bish (Joey Zika), dearest brother of Beverly (Dave) Booker, dearest brother-in-law of Mickey (Bill, deceased) Griggs, dearest nephew of Aunt Jo McGlynn and Aunt Norma Morgan (deceased), dear uncle, cousin and friend of so very many.
Bill and Darlene were a team in everything they did together in life, truly adored one another, and had a deep, special love that comes only once in a lifetime. Within the family, the term ‘Beep-Beep’ became synonymous with the words ‘I Love You’. Bill’s family was his world.
Bill enhanced this world on September 29, 1957 at Still (Mercy) Hospital and was the charismatic, mischievous boy who could out-draw Marshall Dillon of Gunsmoke on TV with his BB gun, which was a sign of things to come.
Living his entire youth on 2nd Ave in Des Moines, he graduated from North High School in 1975 and joined the Marine Corps thereafter. That took him to San Diego CA, Memphis TN, Korea and Japan. Bill received many commendations, was a marksman on the shooting team, part of the Press Corps and reached the rank of E-5 Sargent during his tour. He was a proud Marine. He returned home in 1979 to go to Drake University, majoring in Journalism and Public Relations, where he graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in 3 years. He also bought a brand-new Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Upon his college graduation, Bill was recruited to work for the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Washington DC where he ran celebrity shooting competitions and even wrote quotes for President Ronald Reagan, among other writing and promotional duties. He then headed for the sunshine of Los Angeles, CA where he really got involved in the world of motorcycling. He worked for various motorcycle attorneys, including over two decades with the Law Offices of Richard Lester in California and the Law Offices of Ralph C. Buss in Ohio, and even multiple years with the infamous Easyriders Magazine, the superlative biker’s lifestyle guide of the time.
Bill found his passion in legislation and politics affecting the industry, working to protect motorcycling and individual freedom through his paid positions and various volunteer organizations. Along with many others, his efforts helped grow a grassroots movement that changed a notorious federal law in four short years, which was unheard of. He helped make bikers a political force to be reckoned with.
Bill was a true biker, putting hundreds of thousands of miles riding around almost every state in this country; a nation he loved, that he would fight for, and that he thought had the most beautiful landscape to see, especially from the seat of a motorcycle. He traversed the country many times, usually with Darlene on her bike and Rachelle in the sidecar, speaking at various biker rallies and seminars. He was a very inspiring, captivating speaker, bigger than life. That’s how he and Darlene met, at a Freedom Rally in Tennessee fighting for their rights. The two of them had an instant deep connection that was inexplicable, they were truly soulmates who found a love that was glorious. Their daughter Rachelle made his life complete and was the apple of his eye and he was so very proud of her.
Bill Bish was the former Executive Coordinator and current Public Relations Liaison of the National Coalition of Motorcyclists and Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (NCOM and AIM), former State Director of ABATE of California and Concerned Motorcycle Riders of Ohio (CMRO), member of ABATE of Ohio, Kentucky Motorcycle Association (KMA/KBA) and the American Motorcyclists Association (AMA), was on the original Steering Committee for the formation of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) in the 80s, among other positions, and had been politically active for over 40 years in bikers’ rights issues. He had four Silver Spoke Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame in South Dakota, home of the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally.
After moving to Ohio in 2001 to be by Darlene’s family, the two of them got into the magazine business and eventually became owners/publishers of Ridin’ On Motorcycle Magazine in 2007. It quickly became the #1 regional publication of its type and they were very proud of it and a summer-long program Bill created in 2008 called the Ride ‘N’ Roll, both of which still continue today. He was such a prolific wordsmith and has had a news column that went out to a half a million people for over two decades. He wrote for various magazines, lawyers, doctors, politicians and even a President. But more so, Bill was a GOOD man, a great man. He touched so, so many people with his kindness, his motivating speeches, his resolute spirit and his amazing sense of humor. Bill was a man of the utmost integrity and a generous caring soul that thought of everyone else first before himself. He was larger than life and his presence will be felt forever. Please remember his big smile and zest for life to live each day to its fullest, as he did.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at http://www.CorriganCraciun.com for the Bish family. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Bill Bish’s name/honor to the National Coalition of Motorcyclists or any Motorcycle Rights Organization.
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MAJOR CLIMATE CASE–Montana Republicans lost Held v Montana
On August 14, 2023, Montana Republicans lost the Held v Montana (HvM) climate lawsuit, as I wrote they would since June 2022, based upon how AG Knudsen was failing to prepare to defeat HvM.
The judge did not make a biased decision, as AG Knudsen now claims. The judge properly used the evidence presented in the trial. The Supreme Court will agree with the judge.
Montana lost because Knudsen did not defend against the plaintiffs’ climate claims.
Worse, before the trial began on June 12, 2023, Assistant AG Michael Russell stipulated,
“for the purposes of trial, there is a scientific consensus that earth is warming as a direct result of human GHG emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels.”
Knudsen gave away the farm. He caved on climate and gave the Democrats control of Montana’s mining, energy, economy, and education.
Knudsen’s stipulation reduced the trial to the issue of whether the Montana Constitution prevails over the legislature. But he presented no evidence that the legislature prevails over the Constitution. He could have asked a constitution expert to argue that point.
Knudsen used two witnesses from the State to describe how they processed applications for mining and energy production. But “how” Montana processes these applications does not prove the Constitution authorizes the process.
HvM makes unconstitutional the 2023 Republican bills SB 557 and HB 971 that the legislature intended to assure the legislature had power over the Constitution.
In 2011, my attorney Quentin Rhoades and I won this exact same lawsuit in 10 days on climate alone in Montana’s Supreme Court. The court’s decision set a Montana precedent that “climate science is not settled” enough to support the plaintiffs’ claims.
Knudsen did not reference this 2011 Montana Supreme Court decision and precedent to dismiss or defeat HvM as he should have.
Quentin and I won because we made logical arguments. Judges follow logic. Our 2011 win saved Montana billions of dollars per year. AG Knudsen reversed these savings.
HvM was on AG Knudsen’s desk when he took office in January 2021. All Knudsen had to do to defeat HvM was to contract with Quentin Rhoades since he already won the same lawsuit. Such a contract would have cost Montana less than Montana now will pay the plaintiffs for their attorney fees. And Montana would have won the attorney fees.
Quentin and I would have organized a dozen true climate experts who would have destroyed the plaintiffs’ pseudoscience, and saved Montana and America from the climate fraud.
As an example, the plaintiffs assume human CO2 emissions cause all the CO2 increase.
To justify that assumption, they claim the half-life for human CO2 in the atmosphere is hundreds or thousands of years while the half-life for natural CO2 is 2.4 years.
So, we ask the plaintiffs’ experts, “How is this possible when human and natural CO2 molecules are identical?”
Duh? Both human and natural CO2 have a half-life of 2.4 years according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And IPCC’s carbon cycle says human CO2 is only 8% of today’s atmosphere, not 33% as the plaintiffs’ experts assume.
Carbon-14 data show the percent of human CO2 in the atmosphere is about zero.
The COVID pandemic reduced human CO2 emissions by about 20% for a year. But the CO2 level continued to increase undisturbed by the dramatic decrease in human CO2 emissions, showing human CO2 does not control the CO2 level.
The bottom line is IPCC’s own data show nature, not human CO2, causes the CO2 increase. This negates all the plaintiffs damage claims. Checkmate.
There is much more evidence that the plaintiffs’ climate beliefs are delusions. This illustrates my point that HvM was easy to defeat on the science alone.
Knudsen should lose his law license because he did not ethically represent the defendants who are the people who voted for him.
HvM will go down in history as the trial where Montana Republicans censored climate truth and gave Democrats control of Montana’s mining, energy, economy, and education.
–Ed Berry, PhD, Theoretical Physics
Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM)
Author: Climate Miracle (Amazon)
Author, Speaker, Teacher, Expert Witness
100%-win record as expert witness.
Win your climate lawsuit with my Climate Team Six.
Oops, also included in my assignment list was a check list. Check the check list:
SALT TORPEDO CHECK LIST
- Check front end, and steering fasteners
- Check front wheels
- Check Tire pressure
- Check for fuel leaks
- Check fuel level
- Check oil level.
- Check rear chain, tire and axle
- Safety wire rear axle
- Check all pilot controls for lose fasteners and adjustments
That’s a start. We accomplished most of the above items and I’m hoping the Rieker’s Tilt switch will arrive today, it better. I’m still checking and tightening fasteners. About the time we check one challenging item off the list, we add three more.
Tomorrow afternoon, we will test load the Torpedo in the new trailer. Luke and I started loading the 5-Ball van yesterday. We will need lots of straps and bungie cords. I may need to modify a couple of wheel chocks for the front wheels.
The list goes on. We’re getting close. I received the tilt switch today. Maybe wire tomorrow.
–Bandit
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PANHEAD OF THE WEEK—SIKSIKA by CRO CUSTOMS’
1956 HARLEY PANHEAD
–from Bike EXIF
THE RING OF RINGS–From Bruno Zammit. These rings are available.
“You want a stainless steel or silver ring? Rhe price 200 usd in stainless steel and 350 usd in silver”
–Bruno
“I was inspired to reach out to Alex Epstein and suggest an, “I love Fossil Fuels,” ring.”
–Bandit
NEWS FROM THE BMW EMPIRE-–
BMW filed patents for a W3 engine in 2014. Their design used a separate crankshaft journal for each cylinder, and a balance shaft.
–from Jim Waggaman
QUOTE OF THE WEEK–
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
— Ayn Rand
(paraphrased)
MEETING OF THE MINDS 2023 is Coming–
Listening, Making a Difference, and Moving Forward to Protect the Future of Motorcycling and Motorcyclists’ Rights!
The Meeting of the Minds conference is where it all began and it’s where motorcyclists’ rights advocates come to experience tailormade workshops addressing issues facing motorcyclists today. It’s where motorcyclists’ rights advocates can get up-to-date information on issues relating to the attacks against motorcycling and motorcyclists’ rights.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation’s annual Meeting of the Minds conference reflects that the MRF listens to our members, partner state motorcyclists’ rights organizations, and motorcycle clubs. MRF members and the motorcycling world know that the MRF is making a difference and moving forward – on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures — to protect the future of motorcycling and motorcyclists’ rights.
The success of this year’s Bikers Inside the Beltway was the result of what the MRF shared at the Meeting of the Minds conferences. Keeping our members, partner SMROs, and motorcycle clubs informed and on point is what makes the Motorcycle Riders Foundation the foremost motorcyclists’ rights advocacy group in the nation.
Listening, making a difference, and moving forward to protect the future of motorcycling, this year’s Meeting of the Minds features sixteen workshops and ten new presenters, plus a host of new topics added to the mix!
The Meeting of the Minds – presenters who live and breathe motorcyclists’ rights, topical workshops that have real-world applications for protecting the future of motorcycling– The Motorcycle Riders Foundation.
The burden of keeping the voice of motorcycling heard before Congress, regulatory agencies, and state legislatures is shouldered by the Motorcycle Riders Foundation and the five hundred activists who attend the Meeting of the Minds.
The Meeting of the Minds conference has always been about “bridging the gap,” whether the “gap” is miles or just differences of opinion. Recently inducted into the Sturgis Museum & Freedom Fighter Hall of Fame, moving forward to keep minds open and the gap narrow is what MRF “Club Dude” Russell Radke does. Guided by his faith and his years of experience in the motorcycle club world, Russell’s Meeting of the Minds presentations are not to be missed. This year he’ll be joined by Chris “Clutch” Ward for a double-team presentation at the MRF Sustaining Clubs Meeting and the workshop on Keeping the Bridges open between SMROs & Clubs.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation — Bikers Inside the Beltway, Meeting of the Minds –listening, making a difference, and moving forward to protect the future of motorcycling & motorcyclists’ rights!
The Meeting of the Minds – September 21-24, Red Lion Hotel, 4751 Lindie Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111. Use the QR codes below to register and make reservations or call 717-939-7841 and mention Motorcycle Riders Foundation 2023 Meeting of the Minds.
Thank you for your support of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation. We look forward to seeing you in Harrisburg at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Minds, Sept. 21-24, 2023.
Yours in Freedom,
–Fredric Harrell
MRF Director of Conferences & Events
P.S. Hotel rooms are available and going fast, confirm your plans now, register with the MRF, and use the QR codes to make hotel reservations early for the Meeting of the Minds 2023. Thank you.
THE WEED INVESTIGATION—
AG Jackley released draft explanation for initiated measure to legalize recreational marijuana
On Friday, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley released a draft ballot explanation for a proposed amendment that would legalize recreational marijuana in South Dakota.(MGN)
By Dakota News Now staff
Last Friday, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley released a draft ballot explanation for a proposed amendment that would legalize recreational marijuana in South Dakota.
The proposed measure would allow individuals 21 years or older to possess, grow, sell, ingest and distribute marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia. The measure would not affect laws dealing with hemp or the state’s medical marijuana program.
If approved, the measure would need to get 17,509 signatures to appear on the 2024 ballot.
The Attorney General does not take a position on the proposal, and the draft explanation is meant to educate voters on the purpose and effect of the proposed measure.
The public has until August 21 to provide comments on the draft explanation, with the final explanation being due to the Secretary of State by August 31.
Comments may be emailed to ATGballotcomments@state.sd.us or submitted via mail to the Attorney General’s Office at:
–Office of the Attorney General
ESPORTS RECOGNIZED– as multi-sports event by Indian government.
The esports industry will be governed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
In a major boost for online gaming in India, the Indian government has officially recognized esports as a part of multi-sports events.
Droupadi Murmu, the President of India, amended the rules and ordered India’s Department of Sports, which falls under the ambit of India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, to act as the nodal agency for esports in the country.
https://hotaircoldlove.substack.com/p/giant-leap-for-couch-potatoes
–Wayfarer
Editor: Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
PRISM GANG STURGIS REPORT—
We just got home from what may be the wettest Sturgis, ever! Although it rained on our Choppical Pool Party with Harley-Davidson, we still had an amazing time with everyone.
We embraced the weather on Saturday by turning the pool into a cold plunge. By Sunday, the sun decided to join us for Choppers Magazine’s Tiki Party where we had a great time watching Danger Dan on the mic for a kickstart competition!
SAN FRANSIKO EXPANDS ROBOTAXIS–
California regulators have voted to allow self-driving car companies Waymo and Cruise to launch 24/7 paid driverless services in San Francisco. The decision removes most limits on operating and charging for rides for the two companies and marks a step forward for the autonomous vehicle industry.
More than 40 companies, including Waymo and Cruise, have received permits to test their autonomous car services in San Francisco. Waymo, owned by Alphabet (Google), currently operates 250 autonomous vehicles, while Cruise, owned by General Motors, operates 100 during the day and 300 at night.
Officials in San Francisco have argued self-driving cars disrupt traffic, bus routes, and emergency scenes. Cruise said it recorded 177 incidents in which it had to retrieve a stalled robotaxi during roughly the first six months of this year, while Waymo said it recorded 58 such incidents during a similar timeframe.
–1440 Daily Digest
JOIN US AT THE SMOKEOUT RALLY–by Dennis Kirk
Burnouts, bikes, builders, bands, brews, and buds. The SmokeOut Rally in Salisbury, NC has it all and more.
For over two decades, the SmokeOut Rally has been bringing together likeminded riders in a celebration of custom motorcycle culture. Last year Dennis Kirk signed on as the Title Sponsor for the Rally and we enjoyed it so much that are back on for the ’23 Rally.
The ’23 SmokeOut Rally takes place from September 7th to September 10th for four days of events and shows. Each day of the rally features different events and shows to keep the party going.
Custom bike shows include a feature bike gallery, Perewitz Custom Paint Show, Dream Rides FXR Show, Ride In Custom bike show, and Led Sled Sportster Showdown. Racing action includes Mini Bike races with and without costumes and Old Time Dirt Drags.
Great music acts are featured every night of the rally. Other events include the popular Hammer’s Strongest Biker, Shadetree Biker Games, Wet T-Shirt contest, drive-in movies & bonfire, and bike blessings.
Sign Up for the SmokeOut Rally
The SmokeOut Rally has also set out to give back to the community. Last year, Paughco donated unfinished gas tanks that were then sent out to custom painters. Those tanks were then auctioned off at the rally and all the proceeds went to Meals on Wheels benefitting seniors in the Salidbury, NC and Spearfish, SD areas. The auction was a success and will once again be happening at this year’s rally. Be sure to check out these true pieces of motorcycle art and bid for a chance to take one home.
There are plenty of accommodations available for all styles of rally goers. For the pure rally experience, camping is available on site at the fairgrounds. Both tent and RV/camper sites are available. There are also plenty of hotels and other campgrounds around the area as well.
To see what the SmokeOut Rally is all about, check out the recap video from last year’s rally. You won’t want to miss this year’s event, so be sure to head over to their page to get your tickets and camp sites reserved.
KAWASAKI CELEBRATES 70 YEARS–
Even Kawasaki will have events for their anniversary soon.
And Burt Munro gets into the STURGIS Hall of Fame, finally.
Kawasaki Celebrates 70 Years Of Making Motorcycles
In September of 2023, Kawasaki Motors celebrates its 70th anniversary of making motorcycles, first making its forays into the motorcycle business in 1953.
There will be a series of events to commemorate this special anniversary.
Burt Munro Inducted Into Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall Of Fame
Landspeed Racing Icon & Record-holder Immortalized for Lifetime Achievements.
An innovator, daredevil, and one of motorcycling’s greatest legends, Burt Munro is getting his respects from the Sturgis Museum Hall of Fame.
And of course, Chris Callen of Cycle Source media empire got inducted this year as well.
Read more at
https://blog.bikernet.com/burt-munro-inducted-into-sturgis-motorcycle-museum-hall-of-fame/
–Wayfarer
Editor: Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
QUOTE OF THE WEEK–
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
NEWS FROM NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM— OPEN DAILY: 9am – 5pm
Until LAST DAY OPEN
Closed Permanently End of Day (5pm),
September 4, 2023
1929 Morgan Aero
An 1908 English engineer Harry Morgan began developing his first three-wheeler, aimed at trials competition for the 1909 season in Malvern, Worcestershire England. The core of his three-wheeled “cycle car” design, the Morgan Runabout, was a central steel tube running the length of the car, its power plant, a V-Twin sitting up front driving the rear wheel.
The “sliding pillar” suspension was noted as the earliest independent suspension used on a car. A swingarm mounted the chain driven rear wheel. As Morgan’s designs developed, some machines ran a pair of chains to the rear, each transferring a different final drive ratio providing a two-speed drive.
Clearly Morgan took some innovative approaches to developing his two passenger vehicle. Morgan’s home country, England, also levied lower road taxes on three-wheeled vehicles, and operator licensing was easier, a sales advantage many British manufacturers took advantage of.
Drum front brakes are used on the Aero now on display at the National Motorcycle Museum, but earliest Morgans had only a band type brake on the rear wheel. As for power-plants, since Morgan sourced other makers’ engines, he could offer range of performance. Engines available during the nearly five decades of manufacture include Matchless, Anzani, Blackburne, Blumfield, M.A.G, Precision, J.A.P. or J.A. Prestwich.
In the 1920s the Morgan continued to have success in racing and was so fast that at Brooklands it was required to start a lap behind four wheeled cars in the same class. Likewise, Morgans were dominant on the trials hills, where they won more medals and trophies than any other comparable machine. The rugged strength of the Morgan and its excellent traction meant that it always performed well on muddy tracks when taking part in British reliability trials.
About 30,000 machines were manufactured at Morgan’s plant in Malvern, England between 1909 and 1953, with a number of others being produced under license by Darmont Morgan in France. Four wheel Morgans came about in 1936 but production and updates of the classic three-wheeler continued. The three-wheeler was revived as a design around 2011 using S&S engines similar to Harley-Davidson’s design. Weight of the new machine was about 1200 pounds.
In most states in America the modern three-wheeler was classed as a motorcycle, and Polaris joined the market with a similar concept soon after, the Slingshot powered by a General Motors in-line four. The Morgan company, still operating in its early 20th Century factory complex is successfully manufacturing a range of four-wheeled cars but has announced development of a new three-wheeler powered by a 1.5 liter Ford “Dragon” engine sending power to the rear wheel via a Mazda five-speed transmission and a carbon-fiber reinforced belt. It’s said that engineers planned for this design to be easily adapted to electric motor power.
This fine 1929 Morgan Aero will be among hundreds of motorcycles and thousands of pieces of memorabilia offered in the John Parham Estate Collection Mecum Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa, September 6 – 9, 2023. Watch for information on the Mecum Auctions website, Mecum.com For schedule information or to register as a bidder for this and all Mecum events, visit Mecum.com, or call (262) 275-5050 for more information.
NEWS FROM THE NASH KINGDOM—
CHECK OUT NASH MOTORCYCLE T’S & CAPS, TODAY!
NEW DESIGNS AVAILABLE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
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STORY COMING TO BIKERNET—
These two guys on this 45 flathead Servicar have a story to tell and it’s coming to Bikernet shortly from Panhead John.
–Bandit
ANOTHER QUOTE OF THE WEEK—
“It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones.”
~ George Washington
BIKERNET GUN NUT REPORT—
New Details Leaked on Biden Administration’s Upcoming Background Check Power Grab
Last week, we reported on the Biden Administration’s treacherous move to defund scholastic archery, hunting, and marksmanship programs under an obscure provision of the Orwellian Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA).
The BSCA has proven to be the gift that keeps on giving for extreme and persecutory gun control, to the mortification of some of its more moderate supporters who thought they were voting for provisions aimed at reducing crime and increasing access to mental healthcare.
Now, details are emerging of Biden’s latest plans to leverage the sprawling, sinister act in his continued pursuit of civilian disarmament. This time the target is eliminating the age-old practice of noncommercial, private firearm sales.
–NRA
STORY COMING TO BIKERNET—
A little sneaky peek at a scoop I got outta Texas just now. Already asked permission to write it. Will keep you updated
–Amy Irene White
THE CENSORSHIP INVESTIGATION—
Facebook Censors Accurate Information Linking Wind Energy To Whale Deaths
Facebook also spreads misinformation by “FactCheck.com”, which relies entirely on debunked U.S. government sources
For the last 20 years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that his social media company is the “digital equivalent of a town square,” committed to factual accuracy, and protecting the natural environment.
But now, Facebook is censoring accurate information about the relationship between industrial wind energy development and the increase in whale deaths off the East Coast.
Yesterday, Facebook and Instagram censored my post linking whale deaths to wind energy off the East Coast of the United States. The censorship came in the form of a “FactCheck.org” article from March 31, 2023, which relied entirely on U.S. government sources.
The censorship came on the exact same day that Public and Environmental Progress released a new documentary, “Thrown To The Wind,” which proves that the FactCheck.org article is false.
“Thrown To The Wind” presents powerful new scientific evidence that the wind industry is responsible for the increase in whale deaths and that U.S. government agencies are either covering up the evidence or have failed to do the research that is described in the film.
Facebook last year defended its censorship by saying its “fact-checks” are just “opinion” and thus immune from defamation lawsuits, like the one brought by former ABC News correspondent John Stossel.
–MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER
Public Substack
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SPORTSTER OF THE WEEK—From the Gas Box crew.
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
THE NEXT EVENT IN VENICE, CA— 3rd Sunday – Ride north to Agoura Hills
Hey everyone, it’s perfect riding weather! Come join us, as we ride north!
Tavern 101
28434 Roadside Dr.
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
*Tavern 101 has asked us to park in the large furniture store parking lot next door.
9AM – Meet
10AM – Kick stands up!
All years, makes, and models are welcome!
Please remember…..
– We leave at 10am sharp!
– Be gassed up and ready to go.
– Please do not pass our Road Captains. They are there to lead and keep everyone together as a group.
– Keep this a safe and fun ride by staying aware of your fellow riders.
Make sure to follow us on Facebook & Instagram, or go to venicevintage.com for the latest updates on our events calendar.
See you there!
-VVMC
JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING FROM THE VETERANS AFFAIRS— NFL, NCAA Ticket Discounts
Veterans can access discounted NFL & NCAA tickets on ShopVCS.com. Not a member? Sign up for ShopVCS.com to verify your Veteran status and unlock deals on live sports. Plus, enjoy savings on theme parks, hotels, rental cars and more. Don’t book travel or entertainment without checking ShopVCS.com first!
HONDA CHOPPER OF THE WEEK—
Custom-built motorcycles by Venice Chopper. Chris Tragert – all original
Contact venicechoppers@gmail.com for inquiries.
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT—
Heat Pumps Not Good Enough for Chris Stark!
The head of the climate watchdog behind the planned boiler ban has admitted that he still has gas heating in his own home.
More than four years after claiming he was “keen” to convert to electric heating in his flat, Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, said he still has a gas boiler.
“I wish I didn’t,” added Mr Stark.
The Committee on Climate Change lobbied the Government to bring in a ban on the installation of gas boilers in new homes from 2025, with the sale of new gas boilers banned altogether from 2035 as a result of the committee’s recommendations.
The committee and Government hope that electric heat pumps can be installed instead in many homes.
Questioned by MPs about how the 2035 target could be met when heat pumps remain unaffordable for most people, Mr Stark admitted that he still had a gas boiler in his Glasgow flat.
He warned that the cost of heat pumps remained too high and said it was “very difficult” to install heat pumps in existing flats like his.
Appearing before the House of Commons environmental audit committee last month, Mr Stark said: “The capital cost of it is too high at the moment.
“It can be brought down, but that will not happen unless there is scale installation and scale production. That is one of the biggest barriers. There is not an installer community for heat pumps at the moment.”
He went on: “I have a gas boiler. I wish I didn’t, but I live in a flat and heat pumps are a very difficult thing to put in there.”
Mr Stark said his own boiler engineer was sceptical about the application of heat pumps.
“The gas boiler guy who comes round and fixes my gas boiler – it breaks very often – tells me they will never work,” he said.
“That is a problem – and he knows what I do. If we do not have an installer community out there selling the benefits of this, and if we do not have support for it to bring down the capital cost so that we see the benefits in their use – there are widespread benefits, there is a huge system benefit to using them as well – then it won’t work.”
Mr Stark also suggested that the Government should consider tax incentives to make running heat pumps more affordable.
“The one policy that would make this really sing is to have cheaper electricity,” he said.
–By Paul Homewood
WUWT
NEW FROM BDL-–
Better than ever, 2 of BDL’s most popular clutch upgrades. Both the Competitor Clutch model number CC-120-E shown at left and CC-120-BB with ball bearing pressure design provide serious riders with exceptional performance and long term reliability when compared to OEM and other conversions on the market.
The 2 kits are designed to fit directly into OEM clutch baskets on 1990-1997 Big Twins. Additionally the CC-120-BB and CC-120-E replace the factory clutch hub, clutch plates and pressure plate.
As with all BDL products they are proudly 100% made in the USA. You’ll find additional details at www.beltdrives.com. BDL drives, clutches and other premium components can be purchased through our site or from dealers worldwide.
BIKE FEATURE OF THE WEEK—Demi Liu
–Sam Burns
Bike Feature Editor
Bikernet.com™
NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON–
The Night Hawks Motorcycle Club was well established in the Los Angeles outlaw biker scene, but the rugged one-percenters all dreamed of becoming members of the legendary national club known as The Devils Own. Yet, how far would club members go to become heavy hitters? Danny Lonsdale and his bros discovered too late that flying a Devil’s patch meant selling their souls to a depraved world of drug-dealing, murder and betrayal. Framed for a murder he didn’t commit and double-crossed at every turn, Danny’s only hope for survival lay in the power of his fists, a hot rod Harley and a smoking gun.
Every page of OUTLAW JUSTICE brings you face-to-face with the raw and gritty double-barreled world of the outlaw biker, where treachery and deceit are the only markers on the road to hell.
–Bandit
EXCERPT OF THE WEEK—
I’m going to try to share an excerpt from the CO2 Coalition pamphlet each week. If you would like to inform your group, send me a note and I will ship a few out. Or check out the CO2 Coalition website and ask for some.
–Bandit
Bandit@Bikernet.com
Is Sea life Safe?
Except for some coastal areas where pollution is a problem, the world’s oceans are healthy environments for seal life. The biggest threat to sea life is over-fishing.
Some people are concerned about “ocean acidification” as CO2 levels rise. This is misleading because there is no possible scenario that would result in oceans becoming “acidic.” Reliable evidence shows that more CO2 will increase the productivity of marine life, just as it is improving the growth of plants on land.
–CO2 Coalition
THIS IS GOING TO BE GOOD—This week is a scramble for Bonneville preparations. I asked around and ended up at Taylord’s new, one-man shop in Spearfish. Luke mounted my new Mickey Thompson tires, but we didn’t know what the hell the speed ratings were. Mick Thompson tires are now owned and manufactured by Goodyear. They said we could go as fast as we want.
After riding my funky ’69 Panhead it was a blast to work on it, to take my mind off the Torpedo for a minute.
Rain is a major issue in Bonneville and it rained in the Badlands the other day and we experienced a double rainbow behind our new flagpole. We are keeping our fingers and toes crossed regarding Bonneville.
We snuck out to the Full Throttle Saloon, the world’s largest biker bar the other day to check the action. Rode past it on my way to SugarBear’s Chopper Flats a handful of miles beyond.
Everyone needs to see the Full Throttle Saloon. It’s amazing, the massive equipment, the bikes the whiskey, you name it. This joint is outrageous.
We had a pow-wow with the famous Mr. Bear, at 83 he has a burning desire to build a tribute to the history of the chopper. We will bring you reports about his efforts and progress.
Jeremiah reached out. He’s looking at vacation time. I told him to come to Bonneville.
In the meantime, think and ride free. It works.
–Bandit
THE SPRING HAS SPRUNG BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for June 15, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
Shit’s happening everywhere. Action is happening all over the country from the Black Hills to Born Free in Califa.
Here’s my recent breakfast with fresh fruit available. It’s amazing with my second cup of coffee. Gotta wrap it up quick, shit to do.
Bros are rolling into the Black Hills like crazy, maybe they will stay or move onto Milwaukee for the anniversary.
Hell, even Willie is planning for Biketoberfest already.
Let’s hit the news.
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.
MOTORCYCLE RIDERS FOUNDATION ALERT–
“It’s very dangerous for motorcycles to be around Teslas”
Over the weekend a Washington Post story on Tesla’s Autopilot system made national news. The story included this quote from former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) senior safety adviser, Missy Cummings, “It’s very dangerous for motorcycles to be around Teslas.”
According to the Post’s research, since 2021, there have 17 fatal crashes involving Teslas operating in Autopilot mode. Motorcycles were involved in four of the 17.
You may remember that NHTSA recently opened investigations into fatal crashes involving Tesla vehicles and motorcycles. One occurred in Utah, when a motorcyclist on Interstate 15 outside Salt Lake City, was struck from behind by a Tesla in Autopilot. “The driver of the Tesla did not see the motorcyclist and collided with the back of the motorcycle, which threw the rider from the bike,” the Utah Department of Public Safety said.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in May that Autopilot is not an appropriate name “When the fine print says you need to have your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road at all times.”
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) has been raising this issue with federal officials for years. Just last month, MRF President Kirk “Hardtail” Willard and Vice President Jay Jackson, met with safety officials at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on this very topic. The two MRF leaders stressed the concerns of bikers about the deployment of this new technology. Additionally, in the coming weeks, MRF senior officials will meet with leaders at NHTSA to seek answers on this troubling report.
These meetings with Biden Administration officials come on the heels of the MRF’s Bikers Inside the Beltway (BITB) annual event. During BITB, riders from across the country met with Members of Congress seeking action on self-driving cars as they relate to motorcyclists.
The MRF has been, and will remain, vigilant on this subject that effects ALL motorcyclists. Increased media scrutiny, along with the thousands of voices demanding action, is turning the heat up. Let’s keep the pressure up and protect bikers on our nation’s roadways.
–MRF
NEW PRODUCT RELEASE FROM KLOCKWERKS–Flare Wings
We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest innovation, the Flare Wings for Indian Challenger and Pursuit. Designed with precision and aerodynamic excellence, these wings provide improved wind deflection and a sleek, aggressive look.
Engineered to optimize your riding experience, the Flare Wings are a game-changer, combining style and functionality.
BUFFALO CHIP BIKE SHOW ACTION—
Thought I’d share this show info with you. The big deal at the Chopper Show is $2500 cash to best of show, plus $500 cash to other 1st place winners. Also, Xavier Muriel and Hot Bike.
The big deal for the Evo Show: A complete S&S engine, Paughco Frame and Baker $1000 certificate to best in show. Plus, free Mint Speed Shop flannels to the first 100 registered! Also, Paul Wideman and Rusty Coones will be on hand!
And don’t forget the Builder’s Breakfast for Charity.
–Marilyn Stemp
marilyn@buffalochip.com
828-205-8482
NAMZ New Product Drops just in time for the summer season!
So here is our follow up to our hugely successful Sharktooth headlight, we introduce our EXCLUSIVE Quad Beam LED headlight for 2015-Up Road Glide models, except 2023 CVO.
We dropped this new addition yesterday on social media and they are available on our website as a pre-sale as we plan on beginning to ship mid-July, right it time for Sturgis!
Part #: LLC-QB-FH
UPC #: 810088722868
Description: Quad-Beam Full-Halo Road Glide Headlamp complete with integrated FULL-HALO DRL/Driving Light for 2015-Up Road Glide models. A mixture of black & chrome accents, housing is built with plastic, aluminum and a poly-carbonate lens, DOT, SAE and E-Mark compliant and 100% plug-n-play.
And how can you make the Sharktooth headlight any better, simply make another one that will fit the skinny-tire Road Glide® models! That is exactly what we have done, this Sharktooth will fit 1996 through 2013 Road Glide models. We also dropped this new addition yesterday on social media and they are available on our website as a pre-sale as we plan on beginning to ship mid-July, right it time for Sturgis!
Part #: LLC-3ERA-TS
UPC #: 810088722851
Description: Sharktooth LED Road Glide Headlamp with integrated SWITCHBACKS turn signals for 1996-2013 Road Glide models. A mixture of black & chrome accents, housing is built with plastic, aluminum and a poly-carbonate lens, DOT, SAE and E-Mark compliant and 100% plug-n-play.
Could possibly be one of the coolest bikes the factory has come out with in a long time, the Sportster S. This new headlight is one of the few upgrades that can make the 2021-Up Sportster S even cooler! Features integrated DRL/driving lights and white-to-amber SWITCHBACK turn signals to take LED lighting to a whole new level. We also dropped this new addition yesterday on social media and they are available on our website as a pre-sale as we plan on beginning to ship mid-July, right it time for Sturgis!
Part #: LLC-LH-SS
UPC #: 810088722875
Description: Sportster S Black Premium LED Headlamp with integrated white driving lights (DRL) and amber turn signals, 100% Plug-n-Play. (Fits Sportster S Models 2021-2023 only)
“Where the BRIGHTEST ideas come from!”
DICE SUPPORTS BORN FREE— To celebrate the greatest show on earth, we are doing our iconic Born Free 10 books at half price.
Hardback with 270 glorious pages featuring some of the most radical motorcycles in history.
$24.95
LIMITED TIME: READ THE ALL-NEW HOT BIKE DIGITAL MAGAZINE FOR FREE TODAY!
The all-new Hot Bike: Issue 1 2023 DIGITAL EDITION is out now! For a limited time, we’re allowing you to read the all-new Hot Bike Digital Magazine for free! Same articles, same photos, same look and feel, now easy to access. This is the first issue to print since 2018 and we had to make sure it was special and worthy of your time.
We take a closer look at Team Saddlemen’s Cory West and Patricia Fernandez-West. The teammates, competitors race professionally in the Mission King of the Baggers and Mission RSD SuperHooligans series. Did we mention they’re also married? Learn more about the Wests’s wild ride in the new issue of Hot Bike
An Arch motorcycle is unique. So much so, that each is aesthetically tailored to its owners preferences. We take a detailed look into Arch Motorcycle’s 1s from the Arch owner’s perspective as we sit with co-founder Gard Hollinger and one of his customers/friends to understand the process of designing and building a truly one-of-a-kind motorcycle.
If you want a tangible magazine in your hands, you can still get a copy of the new issue or subscribe to get all four print issues for 2023 today!
BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
5-BALL ATTACK ON THE TEXAS HILLS CYCLE SHOW
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/5BALL_ATTACK_ON_THE_TEXAS_HILLS_CYCLE_SHOW.aspx
Kool wrap-up. Well written in the Bikernet family style. So, the legacy will continue as the 5-ball keeps rolling.
–El Waggs
airstreamstudio@live.com
Oceanside, CA
100-WORD FICTION CONTEST—New Florida Submission
The Bad Deal All Around
Woke up on a warm sunny day for early spring. Prepared for a shop run to check on my ‘49 Pan project: Rigid frame with performance gussets and a Coffin tank mounted high, with brown ribbons over metalflake paint. A girder front end was on order. A wild departure from my first bike, an old rat Triumph Tiger with an Indian blanket for a seat.
The phone rang, bad news. Break-in at the shop, everything down to the paint compressor taken. The builder feared for his life, fled to the west coast. I guessed it was a deal gone bad, perhaps drugs.
The comforting, warm, spring day suddenly turned cloudy and dark.
–Rhys
“We are about to pick the May Winner, hang on!” –Bandit
HISTORY LESSON FROM THE NATION MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM—
In 1938 Edward Turner unleashed his 500cc Speed Twin, followed by the higher performance T100 Tiger in 1939. Triumph’s first parallel twin was a nimble high performance machine 20 pounds, or more, lighter than typical twin and four cylinder machines made in America. This marked the beginning of a great run for Triumph; the parallel twin design served in a wide range street and competition applications.
The Speed Twin and higher performance Tiger both received telescopic forks after World War II. By comparison the stock Tiger had 34 horsepower, about seven more than the WLDR, Harley’s flat head 750cc race bike.
Up until the “oil in frame” design of 1971, the parallel twin design Edward Turner brought to Triumph was the mainstay through its entire 75+ years at Meriden and remained so in John Bloor’s resurrection of the marque in 1995. The styling and general form of the sheet metal and the engine have lived on in today’s machines. In road racing, dirt track, enduro, drag racing and land speed record, hundreds of racers rode to fame on Edward Turner’s design, and countless racing records were set on its sound engineering.
This fine Triumph will be among hundreds of motorcycles and thousands of pieces of memorabilia offered in the John Parham Estate Collection Mecum Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa, September 6 – 9, 2023.
Watch for information on the Mecum Auctions website, Mecum.com For schedule information, to consign a vehicle or to register as a bidder for this and all Mecum events, visit Mecum.com, or call (262) 275-5050 for more information.
ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE TAX CREDITS: Two Senators Try To Expand Program In US
The Electric Motorcycle Parity Act of 2023 would subject bikes to the same rules as the EV credits in the Inflation Reduction Act.
On June 1, 2023, United States senators Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania announced that they would introduce the Electric Motorcycle Parity Act in the Senate. If enacted, this legislation would expand available tax credits to riders who purchase qualifying electric motorcycles in the US, with the same qualifications required for four-wheeled electric vehicles that passed into law as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
BIKERNET INSPIRATIONAL SEMINAR–
“Behind the light in every little bulb is a great dynamic current; beneath every little wave is the vast ocean, which has become the many waves. So, it is with human beings.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda,
Author of Autobiography of a Yogi
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THE CLIMATE DOOM DEPARTMENT–
Clintel publication: “The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC”
Thorough analysis by Clintel shows serious errors in latest IPCC report
Amsterdam, 9 May 2023
* IPCC hides good news about disaster losses and climate-related deaths
* IPCC wrongly claimed the estimate of climate sensitivity is above 2.5°C
* IPCC misleads policy makers by focusing on an implausible worst-case emissions scenario
The IPCC ignored crucial peer-reviewed literature showing that normalized disaster losses have decreased since 1990 and that human mortality due to extreme weather has decreased by more than 95% since 1920.
The IPCC drew the opposite conclusions, claiming increases in damage and mortality due to anthropogenic climate change. These are two important conclusions of the report The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC, published by the Clintel Foundation.
The 180-page report is the first serious international ‘assessment’ of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report.
With the recently published Synthesis Report, the IPCC finished its sixth assessment cycle. An international team of scientists from the Clintel network has analyzed several claims from the reports.
This has now led to The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC. This Clintel report documents biases and errors in the IPCC assessment.
For instance: given the political relevance of what is known as “Loss and Damage”, one would expect a thorough review of the relevant literature. However, Clintel shows that the IPCC has totally failed in this respect. A review article on the subject, published in 2020, showed that 52 out of 53 peer-reviewed papers dealing with “normalized disaster losses” saw no increase in harms that could be attributed to climate change.
But the IPCC only mentioned the single paper that claimed an increase in losses.
Climate-related deaths
“We are on a highway to climate hell”, said UN-boss Guterres recently. But an in-depth look at the mortality data shows that climate-related deaths are at an all-time low. Well-known economist Bjorn Lomborg published that important information in a 2020 peer-reviewed paper, but the IPCC, again, chose to ignore it. The strategy of the IPCC seems to be to hide any good news about climate change and hype anything bad.
The IPCC has also tried to rewrite climate history by erasing the existence of the Holocene Thermal Maximum, a warm period between 10,000 and 6000 years ago. It has introduced a new hockey stick graph, which is the result of cherry-picked proxies. And it has ignored temperature reconstructions that show more variability in the past, such as the well-documented Little Ice Age.
Furthermore, the IPCC claims there is an acceleration in the rate of sea-level rise in recent decades. Clintel has shown this claim is flawed, because the IPCC ignores decadal variability.
Climate sensitivity
A ’spectacular’ result of the IPCC AR6 report was the rise of the lower bound for the climate sensitivity likely range from 1.5°C to 2.5°C, therefore claiming that low values for climate sensitivity are now unlikely. But the Clintel report states that observed warming and other evidence indicate that the true figure is more likely to be below 2°C than above 2.5°C.
This also means that the best estimate for climate sensitivity, which the IPCC says is 3°C, is not justified.
On top of that, the IPCC is ‘addicted’ to its highest emissions scenario. In recent years, several papers have demonstrated that this scenario is implausible. Deep inside the IPCC report, the IPCC acknowledges that this scenario has a ‘low likelihood’ but this very important remark was not highlighted in the Summary for Policymakers, so important audiences are unaware of the issue.
Reform
We are sorry to conclude that the IPCC has done a poor job of assessing the scientific literature. In our view the IPCC should be reformed and should include a broader range of views.
Our own conclusions about climate – based on the same underlying literature – are far less bleak. Due to increasing wealth and advancing technology, humanity is largely immune to climate change.
A longer version of this press release including a link to download the report can be found here.
https://clintel.org/thorough-analysis-by-clintel-shows-serious-errors-in-latest-ipcc-report/
ABOUT CLINTEL — The Climate Intelligence foundation (Clintel) was founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok. Clintel’s main objective is to generate knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of climate change, as well as the effects of climate policy. Clintel published the World Climate Declaration, which has now been signed by more than 1500 scientists and experts. Its central message is “there is no climate emergency”.
FORGERT EVERYTHING— You Think You Know About the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Start from ZERO
Over the years, there’s been a lot of professing about what Sturgis is or isn’t, and who it is or isn’t for. “It’s just a bunch of big wheel baggers.” “It’s not my scene.” “There’s nothing there for me.” Insert any number of other zero fun or legit excuses.
The Sturgis Buffalo Chip asked themselves, if you’re with the largest gathering of moto enthusiasts and music festival fans in the world and you can’t make a new scene or your own scene, whose fault is that, really?
If you want to do your thing, just start by getting your friends together and doing your thing. Don’t worry about who’s soiling their pants from flexing too hard down the street. So, that’s exactly what the Chip did… they soiled their pants with dirt at Camp Zero instead.
Camp Zero is where you can find hell raisers, wiener jokes and miles and miles of smiles.
Grab your favorite Coleman minibike and your best friend because the memory making parties are happening at Camp Zero, located in the northeast part of the Sturgis Buffalo Chip property. The iconic Zero Bar, an 80-year-old barn with a bar built inside and hosts your favorite bartender slinging the coldest bevs, is the epicenter for shenanigans and zero fun.
It’s the raddest place to set up home base.
Ride in and tent camp, rent one of our no-frills tipis or tents or bring your RV.
Camp Zero was built by a group of folks who wanted to ditch the preconceived notion of what the Sturgis Rally was and party like 1980s animals who love rad bikes and wild parties.
OGs like @DaymonWoodruff the Unsung Zero, Brady McClean from @GoFastDontDie, Big Joe Mielke from @SnapFabrications, Jason Lightner from the @TheGambler500, @pgarvin from J&P Cycles, @KellyYazdi from Ride Wild, @MotoLady Alicia Elfving and others all contributed to creating a space to push back against the perception that a motorcycle rally is filled with old men and big baggers who think that there is no room for riding anything else. This truly is the launch site for raising hell and rallying like the old days.
–By Ashley Eriksen
LADY RIDER OF THE WEEK—Biker Bethany
–Sam Burns
Associate Editor
Bikernet.com™
NORTHERN TOOL+ Equipment Announces First-Of-Its-Kind Rat Rod Kart Build-off with Release of New Engine
Two Minnesota high schools will spend a year building rat rod go-karts with the new NorthStar engine under the watchful eye of celebrity mentors Richard Petty and Billy Lane
Northern Tool + Equipment will celebrate the upcoming release of its all new NorthStar line of engines by announcing an exciting build-off in front of thousands of people at the Minnesota Street Rod Association Back to the 50’s event on June 23rd. Two Minnesota high schools will spend the next year constructing rat rod go-karts using 740cc NorthStar EFI engines under the watchful eye of mentors Richard Petty, a NASCAR legend, and celebrity motorcycle builder Billy Lane. The build-off is part of Northern Tool + Equipment’s Tools for the Trades™ program.
“Tools for the Trades™ is a great program, and it’s important for kids to know they have career options. This country will always need tradespeople to make and manufacture things,” said Petty. “The team at Petty’s Garage and I are excited to meet the students and help them with this build-off.”
The schools will each receive a new, cutting-edge NorthStar EFI engine. Later this year, multiple sizes of the engine, from 180cc to 825cc, including two new engines at 300cc and 420cc, will be used in NorthStar products and available for purchase at Northern Tool. Each school’s career and technical education program will also receive a donation of professional-grade tools and equipment, including air compressors and air-powered tools donated by Ingersoll Rand.
“Ingersoll Rand is excited to support these students with the opportunity to learn valuable skills by providing access to the same quality equipment used by professionals across the skilled trades,” added Kate Hartman, marketing leader at Ingersoll Rand.
The schools selected for this build-off, Minneapolis North and Lakeville North, will be able to provide students with invaluable hands-on experience through the project. The finished carts will also be custom pinstriped by renowned pinstriper Cliff Anderson, Jr, and the eight-month process will be featured on social media with progress narration by celebrity YouTuber Dylan McCool.
Finished carts will then be unveiled at the 50th Anniversary of Back to the ‘50s in 2024 and will be raced at Lane’s Sons of Speed® classic motorcycle racing series.
“It’s a thrill and an honor to be involved in teaching students these skills,” said Lane. “There are a lot of good ways to make a living, and this effort by Northern Tool + Equipment to expose students to the trades at a young age is critical.”
BIKERNET BIKE FEATURE OF THE WEEK–Owner: Zach Boxx
Fabrication: Zach Boxx
Motor: 89 883 Sportster
Frame: Paughco 4” stretch 40 degree rake
Front End: 12” Over Narrow Glide
Gas Tank: Throttle Addiction Frisco Wassell
Oil Tank: Paughco
Fender: Throttle Addiction Wassell
Wheel set up: 16” / 21” /Avon SM Tires
Bars: Throttle Addiction Rabbits
Exhaust: Custom Built – MCM exhaust tips
Paint: Zombie Shaun – Ohio
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
BRINGING BACK MEMORIES—
It’s been well, maybe not 16 years but pretty damn close, but I finally did get divorced and sold my house and go figure met an amazing woman and found another house in Minnesota.
I was told that the banner needed to be put up, so now it’s in my garage above my girlfriend’s bike. Hoping things are going well you!
Respectfully
–David Florence
“Your new girl definitely has class!” –Bandit
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BILL INTRODUCED TO STOP CALIFORNIA’S CAR BAN
–DON’T DELAY! Please contact lawmakers to request their support for this proposal:
Overview: U.S. Rep. John Joyce (R-PA) introduced a SAN-supported bill (H.R. 1435) to protect Americans’ right to choose the technology that powers their motor vehicles. The “Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act” was introduced in response to California’s plans to ban the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered cars and trucks in 2035 unless certain conditions are met.
If approved, H.R 1435 would prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from allowing California’s Zero Emissions Vehicle regulations that would ban the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines from taking effect.
–SEMA
BUILDER OF THE WEEK—Jeff Cochran of Speed Kings
–Sam Burns
Builder editor
Bikernet.com
Today, the Senate Public Safety Committee will hear Assembly Bill 1483, which expands California’s one-gun-per-month rationing scheme to also include private party transfers.
Please contact committee members and ask them to OPPOSE AB 1483.
Visit website and Take Action!
Thank you for taking action!
Yours in Freedom,
–Ken Lan
Communications Coordinator
NRA-ILA
THE HORSE RETURNS–
One of my favorite covers. Jesse’s shooter sent the 4×5’s and the cover shots all had guns? I called Jesse and said hey man what’s with the guns? Walmart don’t dig guns.
He said ya schmo we are The James Gang we gotta show guns hmmm
Ahhh Ok F it.
Let’s do it.
One of our best sellers.
–Geno
LIFESTYLE CYCLES DEAL OF THE WEEK–2017 Harley-Davidson FLTRXS Road Glide
Stock# 13873
URL: https://www.lifestylecycles.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=13952647
Special Touring with only 6473 Miles!
Every day at Lifestyle Cycles we come across more and more bikes that you would never think someone would ever part with but today we have a particular bike that cannot be found anywhere else but here! the 2017 FLTRXS Road Glide Special Touring in Hard Candy Red is one of the most sought out bikes and we have one in our inventory!
* This Paintjob is a very rare find, Hard Candy Red!
* LED Front Headlight and Turn Signals
* Chrome Engine Guard
* Polished Chrome Front End
* Powdercoated Black Front and Rear Rims
* Vance and Hines Oversized Raider 450 Slip-ons
* Rider Backrest
* Luggage rack
* 8 1/2-Inch Dark Smoke Windshield
* LOw, low, low miles that you will not find on another bike!
This bike is only $21,995
Plus license, $85.00 documentation fee, and local sales tax. NO HIDDEN FEES like some dealers. And we have no reconditioning or prep fees.
This bike has passed Lifestyle Cycles rigorous 92-point safety/mechanical/structural inspection.
This motorcycle has not been refurbished and does not come with any warranty expressed or implied! EXTENDED WARRANTIES are available!
Fill out an online application today. We have EZ FINANCING
Lifestyle Cycles is located at 1510 State College Blvd,Anaheim,CA,92806. Open 7 days a week.
NOT LOCAL? WE HAVE SHIPPING AVAILABLE! Call today (714) 490-0155.
Huge selection of Street Glides, Road Glides, Road Kings, Ultras, Sportsters, Softails, Dynas, and much more!
We are California’s pre-owned Harley Mega-Store with over 200 Pre-Owned Harley-Davidsons in stock! To view our current inventory,
Please visit www.LifestyleCycles.com or www.facebook.com/LifestyleCyclesUsedHarleys/
–Richard Allstun
Marketing Director
Lifestyle Cycles
714.490.0155
FREEDOM RINGS–Wisconsin Legislature Passes Bill Supporting Internal Combustion Engines
Wisconsin passed SAN-supported legislation (A.B. 142) which would prevent any state or local government unit from restricting the use or sale of motor vehicles based on the energy source used to power the motor vehicle, including internal combustion engines. A.B. 142 has passed both chambers and is now pending before Governor Tony Evers for final approval.
–SEMA
HERE’S A BLAST FROM THE PAST—
Buck created this magazine awhile back and he still has one. He’s still a master behind the lens in the Black Hills, shooting for Cycle Source, with a display of his works in the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.
–Buck Lovell
Lovell Photography & Design
B.L.A.B.B. (Buck Lovell’s American Biker Blog)
bucklovell@gmail.com / bucklovellsblog@gmail.com
Is there a Strange duality of X440 Engine ?
Hero MotoCorp working on Xtreme 440R; launch next year
Hero MotoCorp is going quite aggressively with its premium bike plans. The company is working on a new 440cc motorcycle planned for a 2024 launch.
Xtreme 440R and powered by the same engine seen on the soon-to-be-launched Harley Davidson X440. This new motorcycle will help the company take on brands like KTM, Royal Enfield and Husqvarna.
Premium segment growth has been consistently increasing, and with Hero’s strong foothold in the 100cc-110cc segments, it now wants to go aggressive in 200cc plus segments.
— Wayfarer
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THE GLORIA STRUCK CONTROVERSY–
There are some major issues going on now because Gloria Struck is not being allowed to attend this year’s Motor Maids convention.
Seems she missed the dues deadline.
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We want to take time to recognize the importance of Gloria’s accomplishments over the years, which occurred organically because of her love for motorcycling and her love of people.
Midwest Women Riders has been honored numerous times to have Gloria and her daughter Lori (who is fighting cancer and forgot to pay the dues) as special guest at Midwest Women Riders NFP GYGO and will ALWAYS be welcomed as she is part of our MWR family.
Icon•trailblazer•author•Sturgis Hall of Fame Inductee •Sturgis Lifetime Achievement Award•member of Motor Maids•AMA Hall of Fame Inductee•Living Legend•speaker•matriarch•gal pal & friend• Gloria Tramontin Struck will be turning 98 in July••a true inspiration to all.
WeLoveGloria
–Midwest Women Riders NFP
–from Rogue
Motorcycle Hall Of Fame Member 2005
Senior Editor
Bikernet.com™
“Two Hamsters volunteered to pay her dues.” –Bandit
BIKERNET.COM REVENUE CHALLENGE—
Almost every week Bikernet.com gets hit with requests to publish articles supporting various products unrelated to motorcycling and motorcyclists. Some examples would be cannabis goods, or online gambling entities. They even offer to pay us a sum of $100 for publishing their articles on Bikernet.com and leaving it there forever with links to their businesses.
Of course, we could use additional income, but we don’t like the notion of offering up space on Bikernet.com for products or services that have nothing to do with motorcycling lifestyle. We would much rather have our industry be represented for the very same fee.
So, we want you all to know that we will be happy to make that same offer to the chopper world. We will publish your tech or new product or service related articles on Bikernet.com with your photos, links and banner for a flat fee of $100. This article will be promoted on our award-winning Blog, and our growing social-media empire, and it will be ultimately archived on Bikernet forever, always working for you.
We are online for people and businesses such as you since 1996 and we will make it worth your while. Additionally, we throw in our editorial expertise and clipart gallery for your articles for free.
There you have it. We would much rather cover your products than a suspicious gambling cartel phishing on our turf.
— Bandit & the Bikernet Crew
TATTOO OF THE WEEK—This is the latest masterpiece from my Frank Ball Jr. in Venice, California.
He is truly a master, but what do I know. I’m just his gramps
–Bandit
TEXAS WEATHER REPORT–Life in south Texas!
Do you remember these catalogs? Now I understand why no one really remembers, they ended in ‘81, but had a 10 year run. My roommate and I had 3 of the posters in our room and I have No pictures of any of them! Smoke accessories, posters, etc. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers stuff, Zippy the Pinhead.
Two of the posters had secondary pictures painted into the main picture. I discovered what the style was called before the internet. Haven’t worded my searches right yet since, but the book I found seems the artist shared one thing, vitamin A, tripping, Are you experienced?
–RFR
RIDER SETS DISTANCE RECORD
Spanish Enduro Champion Iván Cervantes has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance ridden by one person on a motorcycle, by riding 4,012km (2,493 miles) in 24 hours on April 30, 2023 aboard his Triumph Tiger 1200 GT Explorer.
The previous record, set at 3,406km (2,116 miles), was achieved by American rider Carl Reese on February 26, 2017, recording an average speed over 24 hours of 141.9kph (88.2mph). Cervantes’ record therefore extends the record by 606km (377 miles), and with an average speed of 167.8kph (104.3mph).
There was a total of 18 pitstops, around every 1.5hours, with 520-litres of fuel used.
When asked if he slept during the event, the five-time Enduro World Champion and Triumph Global Ambassador admitted: “Believe me I tried, but after 10 minutes I couldn’t sleep because of all the adrenaline inside my body.”
–Bill Bish
Read Bill’s complete legislative report for June on Bikernet in the next couple of days.
–Bandit
SPORTSTER HISTORY FROM THE LOWBROW LIBRARY–66 years and counting…
Stock, race bike, custom chopper… Sportsters have a long history of helping people go fast and have a good time.
“In 1957, Elvis Presley released the hit song “All Shook Up”, the first Frisbee was produced, and the Harley-Davidson Sportster was introduced.
Known as the XL series, the Sportster is still being produced today, and it retains its status of being…”
See the whole tamale on the Lowbrow website.
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DIME BAG EMPIRE EXPANDS—
I’m prepping our new shop with fresh black paint around 3/4 of the upper section of walls. We got a lot of great ideas to commemorate route 66. Spending hours restoring the original door, so much history on route 66.
Got to use the gorilla wood filler kit to give the door a fresh look. Can you believe this building was a watchmakers shop in the ‘50s? Also, I’m looking to get an old school entertainment rack system with dual cassette and records.
Also started a new handmade chopper seat for a Panhead customer. These seats are all handmade with original art. They start at $350 for all leather seat, and $850 with custom art. Plus shipping. Call/text 309-262-9345 to order. Fits most custom hardtails and vintage Harley rigid frames.
–Adam Croft
President and Founder
Dime Bag leathers
NEW FROM SUPPORT GOOD TIMES—
SGT Til I Die Tshirt by artist @rotten.donut
— available in black or white with choice of front or back print.
Available worldwide at
SUPPORTGOODTIMES.COM
SUPPORT THE DAV–
It’s the middle of June — and that means we have just 15 days left in the Member Drive to 445! Can you help us reach our goal of 445 new members this month by joining our ranks today?
As a special thank-you gift, you’ll receive a FREE Bluetooth speaker when you become one of the first 445 new members to join!
DAV is a community of veterans helping veterans, and we rely on member support to keep us strong for the veterans of today and tomorrow. This FREE gift is to show our appreciation for helping ensure we can continue to be there for all veterans. And when you join today, you’ll also unlock the many amazing benefits and perks available to all DAV members.
Become a member of DAV today to start receiving the benefits you’ve earned through your service and add your voice to a community of more than 1 million veterans.
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“If you are a veteran, you need to join the DAV and stay engaged. I can’t tell you how much the DAV has done for me. It’s beyond incredible.” –Bandit
NEW FROM ROYAL ENFIELD–
E20-compliant Royal Enfield Classic 350 starts arriving at dealerships
This motorcycle is now E20 fuel-ready, which is a blend of 20 percent ethanol. Notably, the power and torque outputs remain unchanged, and the latest iteration of the Royal Enfield Classic 350 retains the 349cc, single-cylinder, air-cooled engine that makes 20.2bhp at 6,100rpm and 27Nm at 4,000rpm.
Royal Enfield has revised the prices of the motorcycle, and it is now available from Rs.193,080 as against the Rs.190,092 previously.
Full story at:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/autos/news/e20-compliant-royal-enfield-classic-350-starts-arriving-at-dealerships/ar-AA1ch9PG
Harley Davidson X440 could be the most affordable HD ever, launching in July 2023
News has been trickling through around the new Harley Davidson X440 which has been developed in conjunction with Hero MotoCorp. After a slew of spy shots, the company has released these images, giving us a clear view of the new motorcycle.
The X440 will take on the retro cruiser segment dominated by the Royal Enfield Classic 350 and the Royal Enfield Meteor 350. More than the Classic, it is the Meteor that is at threat from this new Harley. The X440 features a classic Harley Roadster design.
Wayfarer’s Note: If you recall, Hero MotoCorp is the exclusive dealer and service provider for Harley-Davidson motorcycles in India since the American company shut offices and left India overnight in 2020 strategy change. As regards, X440, will anyone accept this “poor man’s Harley-Davidson” is anybody’s guess. Meanwhile Triumph is chasing deadlines with Bajaj India to launch a “poor man’s Triumph”.
High volume sales are mostly for commuter segment motorcycles and scooters of 100cc, 125cc and 150cc engines. Hero MotoCorp is the market leader in commuter class and hoping to capture the middleweight segment as well through Harley-Davidson partnership.
India sells more two-wheelers than China making it the number one consumer and market for motorcycles and scooters. Many car manufacturers are launching larger sedans and SUVs to profit from the robust economy of the Asian nation. Demand for Electric two-wheelers and four-wheelers has sustained despite limited infrastructure for the same. Public transport in some cities are soliciting electric bus tenders.
–Wayfarer
Editor
Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
MRF REP HITS THE ROAD—
I’m riding to Alaska starting this Friday morning. We’ll be back in Colorado around the 12th of July. We’re looking at about an 8,000 mile ride, going up through Wyoming, Montana, and Alberta to catch the Alcan Highway (Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska) and coming back on the Cassiar Highway southbound through BC. Got a new set of tires and did an oil change on my Indian Challenger today. It’s gonna be one for the books!
I’ll be checking email / texts periodically. We’ll be riding across a lot of wide-open spaces in Canada and Alaska, so I might not be able to answer quickly but I will when I can.
Hope all of you have a great summer doing what we all love best.
Gas ‘em up and eat bugs!
–Mark Buckner
MRF Rep
Colorado
STRANGE DAYS—It’s sunny and almost in the 80s one day and cool and rainy the next. I asked someone recently about the season’s emotional impact. She just shook her head in terror. Even today, the mercurial madness is blossoming in the Black Hills. I’ll check my weapons and whiskey supply.
A friend passed a couple of months ago and his wife is trying to hold the fort down. Irish Rich and I are trying to get Mike’s bike back on the road, so at least Vickie can go for a ride.
It’s the last year of the Shovelhead. I fixed the clutch hub and Rich is going to switch it back from a jockey to a stock foot-shift. We hauled the Shovel over to Rich’s shop in Sturgis. I need to find some parts. I will work on that today.
I received elements for a 1913 H-D twin from Billy Lane this week. I took the shit to Lonnie Isam, who is a mover and Sturgis Shaker since the mid ‘90s. He’s also a master of early Harleys and has some of the elements I need to make the engine complete.
I built a plank from one of our moving crates. You know, when someone needs to walk the plank… It should lead to a shallow grave.
I’m tinkering with my UL, prepping it for a photo shoot for Choppers Mag. I adjusted the rear fender, shortened the drive chain and adjusted the brake. It’s just about ready.
We are working on scrutineering issues with the Salt Torpedo. I ordered a battery shut-off switch, jumper connections, etc.
Atomic Bob handled my VL, XA, FL Knuck project concept illustration. I had it framed at the Scott Jacobs Gallery. It found its place in my office. I’m getting close to final welding.
Picking up our Bonneville Torpedo trailer tomorrow, E-brakes connected. Rock and roll.
The guys at the antique bike shop faced leaking Knucklehead petcocks from Tedd’s cycle. I pointed out this solid brass one from McMasters Carr. I’m having good luck with it.
Paul Cox said my primary drive is shipping out this week. Can’t wait.
Stay in the wind and stay free!
–Bandit
THERE’S HOPE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for June 22, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
In today’s harried world, of projects and priorities, requirements and finances, most of us can only focus on this week’s list of to-dos and obligations. But there are brothers all over the world who are raising families, building bikes, making runs and supporting our freedoms to ride. I know a few.
But we can never stop trying to stay focused and alert. So, what happened today? I’ve sent my dream resolution far and wide, and today Mike Rounds the Senator from South Dakota responded. See below. Keep your fingers crossed.
Bandit,
I wanted to let you know that your message regarding a proposed resolution from the Motorcycle Riders Foundation has been received and reviewed. Senator Rounds appreciates your concerns and values your input.
You raise important points, and I would like the opportunity to discuss your concerns in more depth if you are interested. Please feel free to call me at our Washington, D.C. office. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Lucas
Office of Senator Mike Rounds
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.
BUFFALO CHIP EVO ENTANGLEMENT SHOW SPONSORED BY BIKERNET.COM— Raised the Stakes:
- Best-of-Show won over $15,000.00 in prizes
- Presented by S&S Cycle with Show Hero Bill Dodge of Bling’s Cycles
As custom bike owners know, a few minutes of glory and bragging rights can be very gratifying. But what’s even better than that? Hardware, that’s what!
This show offers major hardware – in the form of an S&S complete engine, Paughco frame and Baker transmission – that Ryan Gore of Paper Street Customs took home as best-of-show winner at the 2nd annual Buffalo Chip Evo Entanglement Show, presented by S&S Cycle on Wednesday, August 10th. $15,000 worth of hardware.
That record-setting prize package included a complete S&S Cycle V-111 engine, a Paughco frame with tank and triple trees, and a Baker Drivetrain OD6 transmission. As if that’s not enough, a complete Cometic Gasket V-Twin kit and a Klotz Synthetic oil change were included.
“Prize packages of this magnitude are not common,” said Buffalo Chip owner Rod “Woody” Woodruff. “These are the major components for a builder’s next custom motorcycle!”
Sure, there’s only one best-of-show, but other classes and places weren’t left out of the bounty at the Evo Entanglement. All the big names of the V-Twin aftermarket opted in with high-value gift certificates and swag for the judges to award, including Saddlemen, Performance Machine, Progressive Suspension, Burly Brand, Wedge Fairing, GMA, BDL, NAMZ, Chop Docs, Drag Specialties and so many more.
Such as? Lowbrow Customs, Biltwell, Twin Power, Fat Baggers, Avon Grips and Avon Tyre – totaling almost $34,000.00 in prizes!
Name another bike show that can say that!
To manage the bounty, renowned builder Bill Dodge of Bling’s Cycles, with reps from S&S Cycle and Baker Drivetrain, assembled a panel of judges who know the ropes.
Winners were determined on merit and awarded their share appropriately.
The Evo Entanglement isn’t a typical bike show. As proof, new at the show in ’22 was an invitational showcase, the Evo Pro Show, comprised of bikes on display from legacy builders including Paul Yaffe, Bill Dodge, Taber Nash and S&S Marketing maven Jon Montgomery.
“For decades, these builders have appreciated the versatility, reliability and affordability of the Evo engine,” said show manager Marilyn Stemp. “The variety of builds provided inspiration and showed the possibilities of the Evo platform as a foundation for distinctive customs that are also reliable riders.
All this happened at the 2nd Annual Evo Entanglement Show at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip free access CrossRoads. It was free to enter the show and free to spectate.
Still need convincing to be there in 2023?
The first 100 to pre-register in 2022 received a FREE limited edition Mint Speed Shop flannel – a classy buffalo check yellow and black shirt with pearl snaps and distinctive logos. If you missed it this year, don’t let that happen next year.
GAS STOVE WARS–House passes bill to protect gas stoves
After months-long controversy sparked by the Biden administration’s proposed option to ban it, House Republicans passed a bill Tuesday to protect gas-powered stoves.
The Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act, introduced in March by North Dakota Congressman Kelly Armstrong, “prohibit[s] the use of Federal funds to ban gas stoves.” It passed the House early Tuesday evening by a 248-180 vote.
Now, it goes to the Senate. Good luck with that. Why doesn’t anyone have the balls to go after the core issue—Climate doom.
–Bandit
BILLY LANE SCORES A 1912 TWIN—
“Check out this 1929 JD with 1938 Crocker heads,” Billy said. “Stuart is building me a 2-cam bottom end for the Crocker top, then I plan to put my Rudge 8-valve top end on this ’29 bottom.”
SPEAKING OF ANTIQUE BIKES—
Mike Kane or the Fucking Asshole from Arizona and Sturgis, SD just bought this handmade 6-cylinder Excelsior-Henderson. It was for sale at the Dixon, CA swap meet.
–Charlie Rust
QUICK SEMA ALERT–Send a Letter to EPA Opposing Multipollutant Standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued proposed federal emissions standards for new motor vehicles model-years ’27 to ’32, which are intended to dramatically increase sales of electric vehicles (EVs).
The EPA estimates that 67% of new passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. would be EVs by 2032 under its proposed standards. SEMA has serious concerns with this proposal, which aggressively seeks to lower carbon emissions under timelines that effectively make electric vehicles the only option for automakers to meet its requirements. It ignores all of the other low and zero-emissions technologies under development and creates a damaging impact to small businesses.
We need your help! Please sign a letter opposing the EPA’s proposal. Feel free to personalize the letter and explain how the agency’s push to an all-electric future will impact your business.
This is what I wrote:
I write in opposition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed multipollutant standards for light-and medium-duty vehicles (Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2022–0829). I have serious concerns with all three of the options included in the draft rulemaking, as the EPA seeks to lower carbon emissions under strict timelines. I’m sorry, but CO2 is not a pollutant. There is no climate emergency, and so the premise for all your rule-making is unjustified.
–Bandit
DIRECT FROM THE BIKERNET INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUREAU—
This is so f**up . The BEST is the popular public transport for the city of Mumbai second only to the local trains. Now this.
I am thinking of buying a petrol car before they start getting heavily taxed so as to promote e-cars
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Electric bus of BEST catches fire in depot; working to identify cause, says Tata Motors
An electric air-conditioned bus of the civic-run Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) caught fire while parked in a depot in suburban Mumbai at Malvani on Friday afternoon, an official said. Nobody was injured in the incident.
The bus, hired from a private contractor, had completed a 53 km run since Friday morning on route no 359 and arrived at the depot around 1 pm, the spokesperson said. ” Officials are investigating the cause of the fire,” he added. A civic official said the fire started in the AC unit installed on the roof of the bus around 2.55 pm.
Read full story at:
https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/electric-bus-of-best-catches-fire-in-depot-working-to-identify-cause-says-tata-motors/101057622
–International Correspondent
Bikernet.com™
SONNY HISTORY FOR SALE–
Way back in 1992 as the Editor of Hot Bike Magazine (Socal) I sent various magazine titles to Sonny when he was in prison (Arizona). Eventually the prison restricted certain titles such as Survival Guide and others because of their content.
Sonny wrote to me twice thanking me for the magazine he was able to receive. I have these letters in pristine condition from 1992.
I’m working on framing them with Sonny’s image and selling them.
Please feel free to google the name Buck Lovell….. my motorcycle photography is known worldwide for the last 45 years!!
–Buck Lovell
Former Editor of Hot Bike Magazine (early 1990s)
Lovell Photography & Design
B.L.A.B.B. (Buck Lovell’s American Biker Blog)
bucklovell@gmail.com / bucklovellsblog@gmail.com
(605) 490 2991
TEXAS WEATHER REPORT–
Saw the 4-Generations post on IG pretty cool!
Back in it again, this time fix the engine seal leak which I thought was going to be in backwards not telling the lower-end checker of the belt drive I didn’t think? I believe that is correct, so it just leaks.
I saw Irish Rich took a jockey set up off a customer or friends Shovelhead with electric. Was a Fab Kevin unit modified I’d guess? As I believe his site stated for rigid frame only? I did try to reach FK pre-covid but never heard back, as I don’t think he had any for the cow pie at the time.
I remember when this bike came out a buddy at Fort Hood had one, the black pull back risers was all I could afford! They are/were on the ‘76 Shovelhead rigid.
Ingenuity, when your impact still had power but needs the trigger rebuilt, and my Dayroll needs its 100,000 mile oil change & detailing. It’s melted on the other side from the Little Red Rigid headlight
–RFR
“Hot headlight?” –Bandit
TRIKE OF THE WEEK—1980 Stallion Custom Trikes
–Sam Burns
Trike Editor
Bikernet.com™
BORN-FREE SHOW THIS WEEKEND–
BAKER Drivetrain is a proud sponsor of the Born-Free Motorcycle Show. This year’s event will take place June 24-25 in Silverado, California.
Born-Free Motorcycle Show is the largest motorcycle event on the west coast. This two-day event welcomes anyone and everyone with a love for all motorcycles but focuses on vintage builds and custom performance bikes.
This show also raffles off two customized bikes every year. This year, the event will give away a fully customized 1991 FXR built by San Diego Customs on Saturday and a custom 1957 Panhead on Sunday. Don’t miss out on your chance to win one of these two bikes!
PAINTER OF THE WEEK—Len Scarola
–Sam Burns
Art Curator
Bikernet.com ™
MONTANA BANS CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS– for Major Projects
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a new law barring state agencies from considering climate impacts in their analyses of large infrastructure projects and industrial developments such as mines, oil and gas leases, and power plants, when undertaking environmental impact analysis and permitting decisions.
The law, which originated as House Bill 971, “bars state regulators like the Montana Department of Environmental Quality from including analyses of greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts, both within and outside Montana’s borders, when conducting comprehensive reviews of large projects,” the Montana Free Press reports.
Rep. Josh Kassmier (R-Fort Benton), who sponsored the legislation, said it is intended to rein in the judiciary, which had recently revoked a permit granted by the state to the NorthWestern Energy gas plant because of its alleged effect on climate change. Kassmier said the law reinforces the fact that it is the legislature, not the judiciary, that is authorized to make laws and set policies in the state.
Gianforte spokesperson Kaitlin Price issued a statement to the Montana Free Press explaining the governor’s support for the bill:
“House Bill 971 re-established the longstanding, bipartisan policy that analysis conducted pursuant to the Montana Environmental Policy Act does not include analysis of greenhouse gas emissions,” Price said. “The bill would allow evaluation of GHGs if it is required under federal law or if Congress amends the Clean Air Act to include carbon dioxide as a regulated pollutant.”
In the case of the Northwestern Energy gas power plant, the law seems to be having its intended effect. On June 8 the judge in the case reversed his order and reinstated the construction permit, citing a “changing legal landscape.”
Sources: Montana Free Press; Associated Press
CLASSIC FROM THE NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM—
John Parham’s 1955 Harley-Davidson FL Panhead
The year is 1979. At an Indiana swap meet a man and his wife find the Harley-Davidson of their dreams, a yellow 1955 FL Hydra-Glide. Putting together about all the money they had, including their IRS refund, they buy it a week later for more than they felt they bargained for. It’s restored once.
Five years later the Panhead burns in a fire at J&P Cycles. It gets restored again. In 1991 expenses at J&P Cycles get way out of control. A 1939 Harley and the yellow Pan are hocked to cover payroll and a delinquent bank loan payment.
Two years later, the Pan is bought back. This time for good, and it gets restored yet again to its original yellow. Some years back the late John Parham told the story. “The bike sort of tells the story of J&P Cycles. We started our swap meet and catalog business small, began to grow, got successful, then went out of control. The bike suffered ups and downs similar to those of our lives and our business, even kept us in business when money was tight.”
Those are the high points of John and Jill Parham’s lives with John’s favorite Harley-Davidson, and he owned many. Most know John and Jill as the founders of J&P Cycles.
Back in the 2010s, when asked how many Harleys he then owned, Parham said probably about 65, with some really great bikes including a 1908 “Strap Tank” Harley. In raw dollar value the yellow Panhead is well down the list in Parham’s collection of over 250 motorcycles, but Parham then offered, “While I have been lucky enough to gather many great, rarer and much more valuable bikes in my collection, the ’55 Pan has the greatest sentimental value to me; it ties to my life experiences with my wife Jill and also to the development of J&P Cycles.
Jill’s happy we got it restored back to its original yellow. I’m just happy to still own a bike that went through so many trials and tribulations with me, a bike that means so much to me.” The 1955 Harley-Davidson FL will remain in the family, going to John and Jill’s son Zach and then to the grandkids.
A new OHV big twin engine was first offered in 1948 in 61 and 74 cubic inch versions. Though the bottom end was little changed, for the first time in many years, the heads were cast from aluminum. In addition, the valve lifters were switched to hydraulic and lubrication as well as induction and combustion were improved. The distinctive valve covers are what led enthusiasts to refer to this engine as the “Panhead.”
The forks, headlight nacelle, dashboard, distinctive fenders, tombstone taillight and chrome speed stripes were among those components that received a re-design. In 1952, foot shifting became an option, in 1958 rear suspension became standard with the introduction of the Duo-Glide, and in 1965 electric starting came along with the Electra-Glide, the last model Panhead.
In 1966 a new OHV engine design came on line, the one we now refer to as the Shovelhead.
Though this fine yellow 55 Panhead will stay in the Parham family, hundreds of other motorcycles and thousands of pieces of memorabilia will be offered in the John Parham Estate Collection Mecum Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa, September 6 – 9, 2023.
Watch for information on the Mecum Auctions website, Mecum.com For schedule information, to consign a vehicle or to register as a bidder for this and all Mecum events, visit Mecum.com, or call (262) 275-5050 for more information.
MEETING OF THE MINDS 2023–THE MRF LISTENS & MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation listens. Culminating 18 months of planning and fulfilment, the MRF ended Meeting of the Minds 2022 by reviewing input from over three hundred attendees.
Meeting of the Minds 2023 will reflect that the MRF listens and what we heard will make a difference in building the MRF and strong partner state motorcyclists’ rights organizations.
Bikers inside the Beltway 2023 was a total success because of the work the MRF does at the Meeting of the Minds addressing the needs of members and our partner SMROs. The feedback we received from MOTM 2022 put us on track with new workshops, more workshops, and new presenters with topical presentations.
This year, we added four workshops for a total of sixteen! Although some workshops are updates of annual presentations, we’ve added ten new presenters and a slew of new topics.
If you or your SMRO is social media challenged, meet Joy Mack. She’s a Twenty-First Century wizard who understands the challenges individuals and SMROs face when delving into social media. Her workshop — The Power of Social Media: A Catalyst for Recruitment — is tailored to putting the “social media challenged” into a comfort zone – and because we know her workshop will have high demand; we’re offering it twice!
Wondering why the MRF and our partner SMROs have such a high success rate on Capitol Hill and state legislatures? Meet Steve Panten, he and Dave Dwyer will provide attendees a few hundred ways on Building Effective Legislative Lobbying Efforts, another key to positive advocacy for motorcyclists’ rights.
Bikers inside the Beltway, Meeting of the Minds – the Motorcycle Riders Foundation –listening and making a difference.
The Meeting of the Minds – September 21-24, Red Lion Hotel, 4751 Lindie Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111. Use the QR codes below to register and make reservations or call 717-939-0720 and mention Motorcycle Riders Foundation 2023 Meeting of the Minds.
Thank you for your support of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation. We look forward to seeing you in Harrisburg at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Minds, Sept. 21-24, 2023.
Yours in Freedom,
–Fredric Harrell
MRF Director of Conferences & Events
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LEATHER WORKER OF THE WEEK— Didier Legrand of Lusanger, Pays De La Loire, France
–Sam Burns
Art Curator
Bikernet.com
LIFESTYLE CYCLES DEAL OF THE WEEK—2017 HARLEY DAVIDSON FLSTC HERITAGE SOFTAIL CRUISER 103 CI
URL; https://www.lifestylecycles.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=13923433
Stock# 13890
ONLY 4426 MILES!
Once every so often Lifestyle Cycles has a customer who will bring us something we have never seen before and this is one of those times where a FLSTC Heritage Softail blows us away on how well maintained and upgraded it has been! From the Paintjob to the Modifications this bike has it all and you best be first in line to own it today before it’s gone!
* A whopping 22-Inch Chrome Meathook Ape Hanger Handlebar setup!
* This bike is Throttle By Wire so no need for cable extensions
* Polished Steel Braided Clutch and Brake Cables
* Freedom Performance Dual Fishtail Exhaust
* Chrome ENgine Guard with Highway Pegs
* Chrome Saddlebag Guard
* 4 Point Docking Hardware
* LED Headlight and Turn Signals
* Harley Floorboards
* Dual Chrome Gear Shifters
* Immaculate Black Quartz factory Paintjob
* Harley Davidson Logo Brake Lever
* 21-Inch Chrome Spoke Front Rim and 18-Inch Chrome Spoke Rear Rim
* Harley Davidson 2 Seater with rider Backrest
* JL Audio SPeakers mounted to the Windshield
* 14.5-Inch Windshield
* Rockford Fosgate Speakers with AMP
* Absolutely clean and polished, no streaks, no scratches, just spotless!
* Avon Cobra White Wall Tires!
This bike has more than what we expected in modifications and we hope it will impress and stun you as much as it has us!
This bike is only $18,995
Plus license, $85.00 documentation fee, and local sales tax. NO HIDDEN FEES like some dealers. And we have no reconditioning or prep fees.
This bike has passed Lifestyle Cycles rigorous 92-point safety/mechanical/structural inspection.
This motorcycle has not been refurbished and does not come with any warranty expressed or implied! EXTENDED WARRANTIES are available!
Fill out an online application today. We have EZ FINANCING
Lifestyle Cycles is located at 1510 State College Blvd,Anaheim,CA,92806. Open 7 days a week.
NOT LOCAL? WE HAVE SHIPPING AVAILABLE! Call today (714) 490-0155.
Huge selection of Street Glides, Road Glides, Road Kings, Ultras, Sportsters, Softails, Dynas, and much more!
We are California’s pre-owned Harley Mega-Store with over 200 Pre-Owned Harley-Davidsons in stock! To view our current inventory,
Please visit www.LifestyleCycles.com or www.facebook.com/LifestyleCyclesUsedHarleys/
–Richard Allstun
Marketing Director
Lifestyle Cycles
714.490.0155
NEW FROM WHEELS THROUGH TIME RESTORATION SHOP–The Time is Coming up fast!
One lucky winner will be riding home on this incredibly Historic 1937 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead Bobber. This year’s Raffle Bike is finished in H-D custom Silver, striped in Black, and edged in Gold. This 61c.i. Knucklehead powerhouse sports a 4-speed transmission, bobbed fenders, and Flanders accessory risers and bars, flaunting its authentic period-modified look and feel.
Don’t Miss your chance to own one of the best bikes to come out of the Wheels Through Time Restorations Shop!
Air-conditioned Cabins for Truck Drivers to Become Mandatory by 2025
Note: This is long overdue. Their critical role in logistics infrastructure was especially noted during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing free distribution of rations and medical aid by the government — deliveries definitely enabled by trucks which are secondary only to the rail cargo transport.
Indian government mandates AC cabins for truck drivers from 2025, revolutionizing the industry. Improved comfort and safety for drivers on long journeys.
Truck drivers encounter many difficulties due to the long hours spent on the road, such as harsh weather conditions and a lack of appropriate rest areas. Recognizing these problems, the government has made this crucial move to give these committed workers a more comfortable workplace.
Aimed at reducing drivers’ exposure to extreme heat and cold weather conditions during their journeys it will also contribute to the drivers’ overall well-being and health. It aligns with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways’ commitment to improving road safety across the country.
Read full story:
https://www.news18.com/auto/ac-cabins-for-truck-drivers-to-become-mandatory-by-2025-details-inside-8124109.html
International News Desk
Bikernet.com™
THE BIKERNET WEEKLY GUN NUT REPORT—
This week, two policy committees in the senate will hear anti-gun bills, including the gun tax bill
Please use the “Take Action” button below to contact committee members and ask them to OPPOSE these bills.
Take Action!
Senate Governance and Finance Committee on June 21st starting at 9:00AM
Assembly Bill 28 places an excise tax of 11% on the sales price of all firearms, firearm precursor parts, and ammunition.
Senate Public Safety Committee on June 20th starting at 8:30AM
Assembly Bill 725 expands California’s one-size-fits-all reporting mandate for lost or stolen firearms to also include precursor parts.
Thank you for taking action!
Yours in Freedom,
Ken Lan
Communications Coordinator
NRA-ILA
http://www.nrailafrontlines.com/
HARLEY-DAVIDSON LAUNCHES H-D MEMBERSHIP—
A NEW INDUSTRY-LEADING COMMUNITY PLATFORM AND MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
The new program enables all motorcycle riders and moto-culture fans to connect, engage and ride with one another, while enjoying personalized benefits, rewards and experiences.
Building on the 40-year history and success of its Harley Owners Group, the largest factory-sponsored motorcycle club in the world with over 500,000 members, Harley-Davidson (NYSE:HOG) today launched its new H-D Membership program. H-D Membership is an industry-leading community platform and membership program that will bring together riders and moto-culture fans under the United We Ride banner to connect, engage and ride with one another.
H-D Membership will allow riders and fans to enjoy a personalized experience of in-app social features, riding benefits and access to the Harley-Davidson brand like never before. H-D Membership is a new and positive hub for moto-culture – serving as inspiration to riders and non-riders alike.
H-D Membership will offer riders and non-riders new benefits to further unlock the benefits of the unique moto-culture community:
New app experience – The revamped H-D® app, now exclusive for members, has been designed to connect and engage with the wider community. Members can now explore new digital and social tools that enable sharing of experiences, and for members to learn and be inspired by each other. With the help of member profiles, member groups, ride planning and sharing and numerous other tools, members can engage both on and off the road, making these new offerings exciting additions to maximize the H-D experience.
Expanded benefits – H-D Membership provides high-value benefits both on and off the bike such as roadside assistance, motorcycle service, unique member products and more. Additionally, members gain access to exclusive benefits and special offers through collaborations with Hilton®, SiriusXM, AT&T, EagleRider Rentals, the Fuel Rewards program at Shell and Tentrr (two-wheel friendly camping).
Introduction of loyalty rewards – With the new H-D Membership program, members will earn points for purchases of H-D products at participating Harley-Davidson dealerships and online at H-D.com. Members will also earn rewards for engaging with the community by sharing great content, riding together, attending events and completing challenges. Members who also hold the Harley-Davidson® Visa® card can earn even more points and enjoy extra redemption options and benefits.
H-D Membership is free for all participants, offering multiple ways for members to tailor their experiences, engage with the H-D community and earn rewards. Members who look to further enhance their H-D experience and benefit package may elect to add the Access Pass, for riders and non-riders, with exclusive access to key brand events and content as well as benefits such as enhanced rewards and partner benefits. Another option is the Rider Pass which includes tools, content, and benefits such as roadside assistance, motorcycle service benefits and partner benefits to enhance the riding experience.
To learn more about H-D Membership, please visit h-d.com/membership.
ROAD REPORT—A brother sent me this report on his run:
Rode through Banff and Jasper yesterday. Beautiful Country but some stretches with cold rain. Left Hinton, Alberta this morning in steady rain headed for Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Got caught is a freak snowstorm, so bad we had to stop on the side of the road. Way too dangerous to ride.
Back on track in Dawson. Ben and Sheila broke off and headed back to Colorado. Mike and I steered north to Alaska along the Laird River, B.C.
“You got me, but a great shot”.–Bandit
BUFFALO CHIP ANNUAL RIDE–
Ride and rub elbows with some of the biggest names in the biz during the 16th annual Legends Ride presented by Progressive!
The Buffalo Chip’s Legends Ride is the heart of the motorcycle community in one big ride, raising charity funds for several area charities. The Ride that Rocks™ has hosted bikers from all over the world, including some of the biggest names in social media, television and streaming broadcasts, movies, music, motorcycling, and political leadership.
This 50-mile ride defines beauty as you travel alongside celebrities and builders through the scenic Black Hills from Historic Deadwood to the gates of the Sturgis Buffalo Chip. Learn more at legendsride.com!
FLYING PISTON BENEFIT BREAKFAST Sponsored by BIKERNET.COM—And Auction!
The Flying Piston breakfast was builder oriented at one time, but it’s morphed into a serious fantastic Auction Breakfast raising funds for Kids Ride Programs and Veterans through Motorcycle Missions. We will cover various builds every week and the builders who dedicated their resources and time.
Two groups of customized Strider bikes will offer up six bikes apiece. Strider supplies the bikes and six schools will put their teams and visions to work. Another six bikes are customized by leading bike builders all over the country.
Check this week’s school effort out:
We have an amazing teacher who really embraces authentic projects. Please know this build is not done. Kenny Marshall and his students have put in well over 150 hours from the design through fabrication process.
Students’ used the equipment in the Pine Bush High School Gene Haas Innovation Center which included: Haas Mills, Waterjet, 3D printers, laser cutter, wood CNC, and other tools.
The finished product is going to be even more impressive.
–Aaron Hopmayer
Pine Bush Schools
SIDECAR BIKE OF THE WEEK–
–Sam Burns
Sidecar Curator
BIKERNET READER COMMENT—SPRING HAS SPRUNG BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for June 15th, 2023. (click here to read it)
We received a complaint on Rogue’s Gloria Struck story from a close friend of hers and mine… “Miss gloria has never not paid her dues in 77 years. Her daughter was getting chemo and missed the deadline to sign up for their convention.”
–Anonymous Contributor
DIME BAG EMPIRE SETTING UP NEW SHOP—
Been working inside and out at the shop on Route 66 in Atlanta. Started working on front windows and getting more done.
Got my 1968 Toro aluminum cast lawnmower, the original Tecumseh motor was the first to be started in this 50s watchmakers shop. So got the tree trimmed down to take out stump and cleaned the backyard to mow. Getting a new post installed to fix the fence as well.
Started this handmade leather seat for a JD Harley custom build. Going with oil dye and Angelus paint. Got brass eyelets and more leather ordered to finish this handmade seat.
Got a ton of fresh ideas for custom leather saddles that will be available to purchase starting at $350 for all leather, and $850 for hand-tooled art and plus shipping. These fit early hardtail Harleys, aftermarket custom frames.
Call/text 309-262-9345 to order, Thanks!
–Adam Croft
THE MAGNIFICENT BIKERNET.COM 100-WORD FICTION CONTEST–
We decided to get our readers engaged in fiction focused on motorcycling lifestyle. The contest is completely free for anyone to participate. All you have to do is subscribe to Bikernet weekly newsletter and email us your fiction. Can you weave a tale in 100 words or less?
We are glad to announce the winner for May 2023 is Steven Sanner for his 100 words adventure “Been There Done That.”
In 100 words, Steven shares a deja vu experience that is the stuff of urban legends among bikers who ride long distances regularly.
You can read all the entries at:
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/100_Word_Fiction_Contest.aspx
Steven wins a fantastic goodie bag full of Bikernet gifts, signed Bandit books and swag. Don’t miss your chance. The June winner will be announced in a couple of weeks.
Don’t ever stop riding or writing…
–Wayfarer
Bikernet Competition Director
CUSTOM BIKE OF THE WEEK—CB1100
–Sam Burns
Feature Biker Editor
Bikernet.com™
ATTENTION ALL GOLD RUSHERS–
Gold Rush reservations are now available to purchase for the Fowlerville, MI and Bloomville, OH Rodeos.
Get yours today!
Attention All Vendors
The 2023 Easyriders Rodeos are just around the corner, and you don’t want to miss the opportunity to showcase your products at the original Easyriders Motorcycle Rodeo! This event will attract thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts for a weekend of camping, dirt track motorcycle rodeo competition, live concerts, and more. As a part of the biker rally, we are seeking the best motorcycle-lifestyle related vendors from all over the country, and with limited vendor space, it’s important to sign up today!
If you have any used motorcycle parts lying around, you can also take advantage of our special pricing in the “Used Parts Corral” and turn those unused parts into cash instead of collecting dust in your shop.
If you have any questions shoot us an email at info@easyridersevents.com
Complete vendor and event information can be found at EasyridersEvents.com
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA–and Patriot Guard Riders Inc. Enter Partnership
Nonprofits agree to work together to help support common missions for veterans and their families.
Today, national nonprofit Wreaths Across America (WAA) is proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Patriot Guard Riders (PGR) in an effort to build a stronger awareness for each group’s common missions while supporting events throughout the nation.
Founded in 2007, and headquartered in Columbia Falls, Maine, WAA is best known for its annual wreath-laying ceremonies each December. The organization’s yearlong mission is to Remember the fallen, Honor those who serve, and Teach the next generation the value of freedom. Now in nearly 4,000 communities across the country, WAA volunteers are committed to sharing the mission through education and stories of service and success.
Founded as a national nonprofit in 2005 to shield families of fallen heroes from those that would disrupt the services of their loved ones, the Patriot Guard Riders has grown to include thousands of members across all 50 states. As the organization’s membership has grown, so has the scope of its mission. PGR also honors first responders as well as military veterans.
Additionally, the organization has an active Help on The Homefront (HOTH) program, which aids our veterans and their families.
The signed MOU between the two groups focuses on engagement with PGR members and WAA volunteers to create opportunities for joint community service activities that bring awareness to both groups’ missions.
PGR will expand its participation in the WAA Group Sponsorship Program – there are already more than 120 PGR groups participating nationwide – which raises awareness and sponsorships to place wreaths and support programming while offering PGR an option for fundraising for the important work they do in their communities year-round.
“Since WAA was founded, Patriot Guard Riders have been involved in the mission and its members play an important part in ensuring respect for our veterans and their families,” said Karen Worcester, executive director of WAA. “Our combined efforts will no doubt help to shape and inform the next generation of patriots.”
National President of PGR, Bob Dorey said, “Our membership is very supportive of the families of the fallen, as is Wreaths Across America! We are looking forward to working more collaboratively as we support these families and remember and honor their loved ones.”
This year, National Wreaths Across America Day will take place on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at over 3,700 participating locations nationwide. “The experience of placing a wreath at the final resting place of one of our nation’s veterans and understanding the healing that this simple gesture has for so many families and the opportunity it provides to share the stories of these heroes, makes this an important partnership,” Bob concluded.
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STURGIS MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM CONTROVERSY–
The world’s first documented & verified million mile motorcycle, with its exhibit was put into storage during the last week in March2023 at the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame, in Sturgis South Dakota.
This was apparently done ironically, but hopefully unintended during the Vietnam Veteran Appreciation Week. This officially celebrated the 50th Anniversary, which officially ended America’s combat operations in Vietnam on March 29, 2023.
The Vietnam War was not officially ended until April 30, 1975. For many surviving Vietnam Veterans & loved ones who still survive – these next 2 years are rough times. We feel deeply for the Afghanistan, Iraq Veterans & their families.
The Veteran, patriotic & motorcycle community is well represented at this exhibit. The general public deserves to appreciate the mystique, heritage & nostalgia represented in this Million-Mile Motorcycle exhibit.
This whole situation can indeed be a blessing in disguise for us all!!
AMAZING FACTS & FEATS
Since 2009 when this exhibit was created, Sturgis Museum staff often said they were more requests to see this individual motorcycle than all the other motorcycles combined!
Apache Tear stones with personally signed business cards are offered free. Also signed bundled US flags with Hupy & Abraham. News briefs celebrating world Million Mile record event, April 4, 2009 (in saddlebags). on the 5,000 to 8,000 business cards distributed yearly, depicted in the Charitable Causes with Charisma section is Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame, also Crazy Horse stone monument.
We will cover more accolades for Dave Zien and his historic motorcycle in the near future.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum is located in one of the original Sturgis Post Office buildings, which is very small and forced the staff to move motorcycles around to create new exhibits. Dave’s Million-Mile Motorcycle and his accomplishments will be back, but this brings up an ongoing Museum effort, expansion.
With the needed funds, the board of directors could buy additional buildings on the block and expand the museum’s foot print and exhibits.
Please contact the museum if you can help.
–Dave Zien 715-829-9436
davezien@gmail.com
Eau Claire, Wi 54703
COMMON GOALS & MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING —
MOTORCYCLISTS’ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MEET
Phoenix, Arizona – Eleven motorcyclists’ rights activists representing the National Coalition of Motorcyclists, the Motorcycle Riders Foundation, and four motorcycle clubs took time away from the NCOM annual convention to meet in a closed-door session to discuss differences and focus on common goals.
With a joint willingness to acknowledge a tumultuous past but not allow the past to detract from the need to work toward the commonalities of mutually recognized issues effecting the future of motorcycling, the goals were quickly acknowledged and unanimously agreed upon: Profiling, Right to Repair, Renewable Fuels, Autonomous Vehicles, Emission Regulations, Definition of a Motorcycle, Crash Avoidance, support of SB 202 Internal Combustion Bill of Rights were accepted from the MRF’s 2023 top legislative goals.
The issues that have historically divided NCOM and the MRF took more time to address. Once introductions were made, meeting moderator Kansas Tim, was clear with the direction the meeting needed to take during and after it adjourned.
The pace of the closed-door, limited attendance meeting was motivated by a newly elected NCOM board of directors, plus organizational leadership’s willingness to meet. Ground rules were quickly established when the moderator outlined a list of issues that suppressed trust and even prevented working together. Overcoming distrust was reviewed and addressed with mutual assurance that both MRF and NCOM would “pick up the phone” regularly instead of relying on emails and third-party communications.
An agreement to encourage organization liaisons to attend meetings of respective leadership boards was also agreed upon. Welcome invitations to the respective board meetings would be forthcoming.
Acknowledgement and attribution for an organization’s accomplishments provoked the most heated discussions. In a spirit of fostering a positive relationship between NCOM and the MRF, acknowledgement and attribution will continue to be a high-priority item for both NCOM and the MRF.
Ending the meeting between the National Coalition of Motorcyclists and the Motorcycle Riders Foundation with a photo op and a mutual commitment to work together, words taken from the NCOM event program summed up that commitment: “forging relationships and fostering communications to present a united front against our common enemies and in support of common ground.”
–Fred Harrel
MRF
The Angry American Nation Podcast Premieres Wednesday, June 21st
Chris Weatherman, also known as ANGERY AMERICAN, is the popular author of twenty-two published works, including USA Today Best Sellers Forsaking Home and Resurrecting Home. His books include the Survivalist Series, a sensational hit that began with the first book in the series, Going Home, and has sold more than one million copies worldwide.
His latest work, Charlie’s Requiem: Contagion, co-authored with Walt Browning is the 5th installment in the “Charlie” series and launched on June 6th, 2023. Contagion is an intense, high-stakes, action-packed fiction tale that follows protagonist Charlie, as she and her confidants strive to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Premiering today, The Angery American Nation Podcast is hosted and led by Weatherman, aka Angery American. Some panelists include Bob “T” Toombs of Mountain Readiness, Seaux Larreau (former Green Beret), and Imri Morgenstern of Prime Combat Training.
In this weekly podcast, Weatherman and his dynamic selection of guests address the issues affecting America, with a unique blend of humor, insight, and unabashed honesty. The podcast delves into a wide range of topics including politics, social issues, current events, survival, and self-reliance.
The panelists engage in lively discussions, challenging conventional wisdom, and encouraging listeners to question the status quo. By fostering a platform for open dialogue and diverse perspectives, the Angery American Nation Podcast aims to spark critical thinking, inspire action, and contribute to a more informed and engaged citizenry.
Listeners can find the podcast on the following platforms:
Watch LIVE:
Livestreams – Wednesdays at 8 PM Eastern: youtube.com/@angery-american
Listen to the Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/angery-american-nation-podcast/id1692972936
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0z0iCh8P608cDfddXmwuls
Amazon Music/ Audible: music.amazon.com/podcasts/572b0482-803c-4a76-ac29-2810032add2c
ANOTHER FLYING PISTON AUCTION TINY BIKES REVEALED–Jessi Combs Tiny Strider Build
This is the Jessi Combs Tiny Strider Build tribute bike that is created by the Jessi Combs Foundation (JCF) team. This tribute Tiny Custom Strider build includes many distinguished “Jessi” elements.
Jessi Combs Tiny Strider Build for 2023 Flying Pistons Benefit – kicks off Sunday Aug. 6th, 8:30-11AM @ Buffalo Chip
The build incorporates her signature polka dots, the blue streak in her hair, and feathers which she often wore. They extracted the “J” of Jessi’s authentic signature to form the lower bar bends and inlaid her iconic initials as a gold seal. The overall aesthetic is a nod to the design of Jessi’s original tiny Strider built for the Flying Piston Benefit. This includes flipping the frame to laced leather accents.
We are proud of the skills the JCF scholarship women showcased and included:
- Welding
- Fabrication
- Custom paint
- Leather work
A big thank you all for the opportunity to participate in such a meaningful way, and we hope the bike will bring in high bidders to support All Kids Bike!” said Kayce Smith, Jessi Combs Foundation.
JCF Scholarship Team build participants:
@theoriginalhannah – Hannah Stout (Class of 2020)
@ladylandzoe – Zoe Carmichael (Class of 2021)
@21_bogues – Kaygen Bogle (Class of 2022)
NEW FROM THE PRISM GANG—
Winner gets 1000! Who can install every H-D Pan America part first? Watch Jake and Mitch try to read directions as they race to install a bunch of OEM H-D parts and accessories on the Pan Americas.
See who wins the install race & let us know what you think about the parts we installed!
MAYBE A JAM AND VIBE SEQUEL–
Meanwhile — read Jam and Vibe on Bikernet at:
Black Cocaine — modified drug to avoid detection
What is black cocaine and how does it evade detection?
–Wayfarer
Deliveries of Keeway’s rival to Hunter 350 commences on 17 June
To create hype, the brand is executing the deliveries in an interesting format. It has announced a lucky draw for the first 500 deliveries of the motorcycle, amongst which five lucky buyers will get 100 percent cashback on the ex-showroom price!
Moreover, Keeway is also launching a new ‘My SR My Way’ online platform through which new buyers will be able to customise their motorcycles with different colours.
Refer: https://keeway-india.com/
Read more at:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/autos/news/deliveries-of-keeway-s-hunter-350-rival-to-commence-on-17-june/ar-AA1cCGkt
Wayfarer’s Note: Keeway — a formerly Hungarian motorcycle & scooter company now owned by Chinese giant Qianjiang Motors, launches competition for Royal Enfield Hunter 350. Will they survive this highly competitive market which is getting crowded and currently dominated by Enfield? BTW: Enfield was the first company in India to offer customization of motorcycle and accessories including apparel through their “Make It Yours” program.
Qianjiang of course is the company that sells the 353 cc Harley-Davidson motorcycle in China and the formerly Italian brand Benelli is also owned by this Chinese automotive major.
Editor Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
STURGIS MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME FREEDOM FIGHTER ANNOUNCEMENT–
Motorcycle Riders Foundation board member Russell Radke is set to be inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame this August.
Russell is the International Vice President of Soldiers for Jesus Motorcycle Club. He was also an active supporter of the Southern Nevada Confederation of Clubs and a committed member of the Nevada Association of Concerned Motorcyclists lobbying team and he has worked diligently with the National Council of Clubs.
Russell’s commitment to motorcyclists’ rights has not wavered, he relentlessly encourages all motorcyclists to join the endeavor to protect their rights. Russell’s commitment, plus calm, and persistent way of encouraging involvement, has a way of bringing out commitment within others.
In 2014, Russell’s dedication to motorcyclists’ rights was recognized when he was elected to the Motorcycle Riders Foundation’s board of directors as the Representative for Motorcycle Clubs (“Club Dude”). With his persistent “encouragement” he has met with members of Congress and has repeatedly encouraged them to sign onto legislation that those with less determination would have given up on. Russell is a tenacious Freedom Fighter.
Through Russell Radke’s dedication to motorcyclists’ rights, the threat against something we love is lessened. Motorcycle clubs are more united with the goals of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation and through it all, Russell remains a strong and respected member of his club and the motorcycling community. All along remaining true to his conscience and his family.
Congratulations Russell!
INDIA CITY LAW--Chandigarh city to stop registering non-EV two-wheelers from July, cars from December
As per the policy, the number of non-electric two-wheelers that can be registered in the Union Territory this fiscal year is fixed at 6,202, while the limit for non-electric four-wheelers stands at 22,626.
(Fiscal year in India is from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024.)
Read full story at:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/auto/news/chandigarh-to-stop-registering-non-ev-two-wheelers-from-july-cars-from-december-heres-why/articleshow/100891109.cms
–International Correspondent
Bikernet.com
BAKER DRIVETRAIN—Dealer of the Week. Motorcycle Clinic – Celebrating 50 Years!
Kissimmee, Florida-based Motorcycle Clinic celebrates its 50th anniversary! As industry veterans with 50 years behind them, they have a few tips for other shops. They’ve done everything from contributing to the Fatboy manufacturing for the Terminator 2 3-D ride at Universal Studios to helping with motorcycle testing in court cases. Discover more about this accomplished shop by clicking on the link below.
INDIAN MOTORCYCLE RACING WINS BIG AT DUQUOIN MILE WITH THRILLING PERFORMANCE BY JARED MEES
Reigning SuperTwins Champion Continues Gaining Momentum as he Hunts for Ninth-Career Grand National Championship
In a thrilling Father’s Day weekend at the DuQuoin Mile in DuQuoin, Illinois, Indian Motorcycle Racing and reigning SuperTwins Champion Jared Mees secured their third-consecutive win of the 2023 American Flat Track (AFT) season. The win marks Mees’ fifth of the season and 26th-career Mile victory.
In the night’s Main event, it was Mees and rival, Dallas Daniels, along with Briar Bauman and Indian Motorcycle privateer Brandon Robinson, who gave fans a thrilling four-man showdown. While the pack endured a bar-to-bar battle throughout the race, frequently exchanging passes, it was Mees who crossed the checkered flag first, just .033 seconds ahead of Robinson.
“Jared and team have done an incredible job setting up the FTR750 for Mile races this season, as displayed through the team’s three consecutive Mile victories,” said Gary Gray, Vice President Racing, Service & Technology for Indian Motorcycle. “Now halfway through the season, just nine points back from the top of the leaderboard, Mees is primed to carry this momentum and make a strong push at securing a record-tying ninth-career championship.”
Marking his 26th-career Mile victory, the win broke a three-way tie between Mees and former racing icons Bubba Shobert and Bryan Smith, giving Mees the third most Mile wins of all time.
Now with 189 points, Mees continues to chip away and close the gap behind SuperTwins points leader Daniels, who has three wins and 198 points on the year. The 2023 American Flat Track season continues June 24 for the Lima Half-Mile at the Allen County Fairgrounds in Lima, OH.
For more information on Indian Motorcycle Racing, visit IndianMotorcycle.com and follow along on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
THIS JUST IN– FYI- Yesterday a group of Republican Senators introduced a bill that mirrors the House bill, protecting the internal combustion engine.
The Preserving Choice in Vehicles Act will limit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing Clean Air Act (CAA) waivers for state policies seeking to ban or otherwise limit the sale of internal combustion engines. This legislation would preserve consumer choice and maintain competition in the automotive markets by ensuring Americans have access to reliable and affordable vehicles.
Clearly something we should reach out to Sen. Rounds on.
9 Senators on it now.
Mullin (OK)
Marshall (KS)
Ricketts (NE)
Barrasso (WY)
Cruz (TX)
Cramer (ND)
Sullivan (AK)
Wicker (MS)
Hoeven (ND)
Bill doesn’t even have a number yet, but certainty something the MRF will be pushing with Senators. After our event in May we saw a dozen House members join the House version of the bill.
–Rocky
THE AMERICAN PRIME REPORT–Inexpensive Performance!! Great Quality.
The CV (constant velocity) carburetor was standard equipment on many Harley’s from the late ‘80’s to the late ‘90’s. It was also available as a performance upgrade with a larger venturi. These CV carbs were easy to tune and also adaptable to changes in altitude.
Inexpensive Performance!!
Great Quality.
FEELING A TAD OVERWHELMED—I’m fighting a bad tooth issue and my Dentist is out of town. Still trying to fly through shit without spending too many precious greenbacks.
Remember Mike and Vickie. Mike passed with their house torn up. Vickie was left trying to hold it together. Irish Rich is putting Mike’s bike back together. I came up with the shifter. I’m working with Laban to fix the electric issues in their Sturgis home and Wolf plumbing to hook up the kitchen faucets. Vickie is installing cabinets and the kitchen counter. It’s coming…
She’s doing a helluva job!
My Salt Torpedo list is daunting. I ordered a spare front tire from Mickey Thompson Racing at $200 to take to Bonneville. I need to work on a report about the Torpedo and VL, XA, FL project build.
I’m going to see Scott Jacobs Monday to see if he wants to sell my books and maybe my new spirit bells in his gallery.
Here’s the new 5-Ball racing trailer. And of course, I had to mess with it. I coated the bare plywood with Thompson’s clear weather seal and screwed in some strap hangers.
Quick signs changed out our logos from So Cal to South Dakota. Thinking about adding some to the trailer. The trailer came with a flat plate under the jack, so I added a wheel and a made a tool for turning it. With four wheels, it doesn’t like to turn by hand.
Paul Cox reached out with a tracking number for the Knucklehead primary drive. It’s on its way. That will cement the next report.
There you have it. There’s always hope, leadership and inspiration, just gotta look for it.
Ride Fast and Free Forever!
–Bandit
THE TRUTH BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for June 29, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
This is easy, if only we had some leaders with balls. You’ll be blown away. Let’s hit the news:
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NEWS FROM THE PRISM GANG—
Going to Sturgis? Join us, along with Harley-Davidson, for our Choppical Pool Party! The Choppical Pool Party is exactly as it sounds, a tropical themed pool party & chopper show that will feature the most unique and custom builds.
CALIFORNIA GUN NUT REPORT–California: Ask Public Safety Committees to Oppose Anti-Gun Bills
On June 27th, the Public Safety Committees will each hear anti-gun bills that have crossed over from the opposite chamber, including Senate Bill 2, to attempt to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Bruen case, which affirmed the right-to-carry. Please contact committee members and ask them to OPPOSE the anti-gun bills before them.
Assembly Public Safety Committee on June 27th, starting at 9:00AM
Senate Bill 2, among other things, creates new subjective criteria for the issuance of carry permits to allow authorities to arbitrarily deny applicants, restricts permit holders to carry only handguns registered to themselves, increases the requirements to apply for a permit, and increases “gun-free zones” where law-abiding citizens are left defenseless.
Senate Bill 368 mandates that licensed firearm dealers offer the service of storing firearms for safekeeping, prohibits firearm dealers from offering items in games of chance (such as by raffles), and expands prohibited persons categories for certain misdemeanor crimes.
Senate Bill 452 prohibits firearm dealers from selling or transferring any semi-automatic handgun after January 1st, 2027, unless the state certifies that it has microstamping.
In addition, it also prohibits replacing a microstamping component on such a handgun unless it is replaced with another “valid” microstamping component. In recent weeks, a federal court struck down the microstamping requirement, as well as other required features for handgun models to be placed on the California handgun roster.
While the attorney general has appealed the decision, he did not appeal the microstamping requirement. To read more about California’s microstamping law, please click here.?
Assembly Bill 732 goes above and beyond federal law in its requirement for individuals to relinquish their firearms upon conviction of a prohibiting offense. In addition, it creates a verification and enforcement procedure that can potentially violate the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Senate Public Safety Committee on June 27th starting at 8:30AM
Assembly Bill 733 prohibits state and local government entities from selling off surplus firearms, ammunition, and body armor. This prevents them from being good stewards of taxpayer money and prevents the public from buying these taxpayer funded items, which are lawful to own.
Assembly Bill 1089 expands California’s ban on private citizens and non-professional users making firearms with CNC milling machines, or possessing CNC milling machines that have the “primary” or “intended” function of manufacturing firearms, to also include 3D printers. This is simply another scheme to harass law-abiding hobbyists by preventing them from using modern manufacturing techniques for otherwise lawful purposes.
Assembly Bill 1420 broadens the grounds for firearm dealer inspections and punitive measures for technical violations. In addition, it requires that prospective firearm purchasers and recipients list their email address on the DROS forms.
–NRA
WILLIE’S BOOK LAUNCH PARTY–
Please mark your calendar for Monday, August 7 in Deadwood SD, where, from 6pm to 10pm, we’ll hold the Ride Free Book Launch Party in Outlaw Square.
There will be music and appearances by Karen and Bill Davidson, along with some special features about Willie G and his lifetime with Harley-Davidson. There will be hospitality for media offered in conjunction with the new Hard Rock Rocksino in Deadwood as well.
–Steve Piehl
TWO MORE REASONS TO PARTY AT THE CHIP— Announcing Two More Bands a Good Party Wouldn’t be Complete Without Below
(Plus When to Expect the Complete Lineup Announcement and the Limited-Edition Festival Poster and How to Stream the Event Free)
BUFFALO CHIP HOUSE BAND
BUCKCHERRY
Friday, Aug. 11, 2023
PUDDLE OF MUDD
Friday, Aug. 11, 2023
See These Sturgis Rally Bands & Entertainment Listed Below FREE with your Campground Admission Pass!
THE MAGNIFICENT INTERNAL COMBUSTION BILL OF RIGHTS–
Senate Bill 202 by Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is not really called the Internal Combustion Bill of Rights, but with so much federal and state legislation carrying the “bill of rights” label, it seems like maybe it ought to be.
SB 202, which passed the House on Tuesday and was sent back to the Senate to sign off on a relatively minor amendment, essentially guarantees the right of Oklahomans to use internal combustion engines and gas-fueled stoves — as long as the federal government doesn’t say otherwise.
Specifically, the bill says state and local governments cannot prohibit the use of such devices.
Such legislation might seem unnecessary, but House sponsor Jon Echols, R-Oklahoma City, said it is because “nationally, we have lost our ever-loving mind.”
Specific to SB 202, Echols was referring to efforts in some cities to ban or restrict internal combustion engines and the installation of new natural gas stoves, as well as furnaces and hot water tanks.
Fredric Harrell
Director, Conferences & Events
Motorcycle Riders Foundation
P.O. Box 9090
Peoria, Illinois 61612
HAPPINESS EXPLAINED
“Your mind will always believe everything that you tell it. Feed it joy, feed it truth, feed it love.”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too” ~ Anne Frank
“Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but from what’s happening inside you.”
–Wayfarer
Editor: Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
GIVE ME PIZZA OR GIVE ME DEATH–
NYC Pizzerias versus Climate Change
Charles Rotter
There is a storm brewing in the New York City food scene, a storm born out of seemingly well-intentioned climate change regulations. Yet, the key question remains, is it a storm we need to weather?
According to a recent article from The Post, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has proposed new rules targeting decades-old baking methods in pizzerias. Specifically, the department is cracking down on coal-and-wood-fired ovens, demanding a 75% reduction in carbon emissions. DEP spokesman Ted Timbers explains,
“All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality.”
While the desire for cleaner air is something we can all get behind, the overall impact of these regulations is questionable at best. A city official admitted that less than 100 restaurants would be affected by the mandate, leading us to ask, is it worth it?
How many pizza ovens will it take to make up on of Al Gore’s private jet rides?
–WUWT
SPEAKING OF SCIENCE, THIS JUST IN FROM A MICHAEL CRICHTON LECTURE–
I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.
I say it is hugely relevant. Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible. In one context, maybe you will get some mobilization against nuclear war. But in another context, you get Lysenkoism. In another, you get Nazi euthanasia. The danger is always there, if you subvert science to political ends.
That is why it is so important for the future of science that the line between what science can say with certainty, and what it cannot, be drawn clearly—and defended.
In 1993, the EPA announced that second-hand smoke was “responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths each year in nonsmoking adults,” and that it “impairs the respiratory health of hundreds of thousands of people.” In a 1994 pamphlet the EPA said that the eleven studies it based its decision on were not by themselves conclusive, and that they collectively assigned second-hand smoke a risk factor of 1.19. (For reference, a risk factor below 3.0 is too small for action by the EPA. or for publication in the New England Journal of Medicine, for example.) Furthermore, since there was no statistical association at the 95% confidence limits, the EPA lowered the limit to 90%. They then classified second-hand smoke as a Group-A Carcinogen.
This was openly fraudulent science, but it formed the basis for bans on smoking in restaurants, offices, and airports. California banned public smoking in 1995. Soon, no claim was too extreme. By 1998, the Christian Science Monitor was saying that “Second-hand smoke is the nation’s third-leading preventable cause of death.” The American Cancer Society announced that 53,000 people died each year of second-hand smoke. The evidence for this claim is nonexistent.
In 1998, a Federal judge held that the EPA had acted improperly, had “committed to a conclusion before research had begun,” and had “disregarded information and made findings on selective information.” The reaction of Carol Browner, head of the EPA was: “We stand by our science; there’s wide agreement. The American people certainly recognize that exposure to second hand smoke brings a whole host of health problems.” Again, note how the claim of consensus trumps science. In this case, it isn’t even a consensus of scientists that Browner evokes! It’s the consensus of the American people.
Meanwhile, ever-larger studies failed to confirm any association. A large, seven-country WHO study in 1998 found no association. Nor have well-controlled subsequent studies, to my knowledge. Yet we now read, for example, that second-hand smoke is a cause of breast cancer. At this point you can say pretty much anything you want about second-hand smoke.
–Michael Crichton
BUILDER OF THE WEEK–
Eugene Rousse, cycle builder at River Side Cycle located at 708 Mongrue Street – Luling, LA 70070 – (985)785-8474 – gene@riversidecycle.net
In the late ’90s, Harley made “Street Stalker” custom kits for ’96-’99 Fatboys. They came in 3 stages with Stage 3 including larger gas tanks, everything custom painted with all hardware to change your stock bike. H-D dealerships could install them without voiding the warranty.
Here’s Eugene’s sample above and Bandit’s by Bartels’ H-D.
–Sam Burns
Associate Editor
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RIDER DOWN–
The rider that was killed was a good friend and co- worker / he and I made the Sturgis trek in 2015. This report is just preliminary police report, we don’t have all the details, so let’s not jump to conclusions about the 17 year old driver.
Needless to say, our little group of riders is beyond heartbroken. The responding officers were from the Porter County Sheriff ‘s dept. I’m told the details are much more gruesome than what we read. This has been a rough week – we’ll talk again after this shock wears off. Take care –
–Doug White
dmw18613@gmail.com
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THERE’S HOPE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for June 22, 2023 (click to view)
Bandit,
To turn a two axle trailer easier by hand crank the dolly down to raise the front axle off the ground and it should spin easier.
Good luck.
–Poppy
Windsor, CT
“Thanks much, I’ve also heard of a rolling platform for the nose of trailers.” –Bandit
NEWS FROM THE BIKERNET INTERNATIONAL NEWS DESK—
Powertrain technologies will keep evolving, but ICEs are here to stay
With certain technologies and government regulations in place, the powertrains will continue to evolve, experts said at the recently-concluded 4th Edition of ETAuto Tech Summit 2023.
New Delhi: With all the talk around electric vehicles (EVs), internal combustion engines (ICEs) are not going anywhere so soon. With certain technologies and government regulations in place, they continue to evolve, suggest experts at the recently concluded 4th Edition of ETAuto Tech Summit 2023.
Rajendra Petkar, President & CTO, Tata Motors said that the EVs will make a significant penetration in the upcoming years but ICEs have also come a long way and sit at the pinnacle of technology today. In terms of energy efficiency ICEs are one of the finest energy converters from pure energy to mechanical power.
“In the next decade, ICEs will continue to evolve till we reach net zero at the national level. This is owing to the government’s investment in alternative fuels, biofuels, and CNG. Going forward, the focus will be on creating a fuel agnostic engine. Till the net zero technologies become completely commercially affordable with respect to the charging infrastructure, the ICEs will continue even though they will taper down from where we are today,” he said.
Dr N Saravanan, CTO, Ashok Leyland, agreed. Further, talking about the alternative fuel technology, he said that unlike the diesel engines, one of the challenges from an OEM perspective is not just to get the technology ready, but the infrastructure.
According to him, hydrogen ICE provides potential opportunity and seems to make a viable option for large commercial vehicles. Even though critics have talked about the efficiency of hydrogen ICE being lower than fuel cells, I believe it makes sense considering the ecosystem of hydrogen ICE. There are challenges including storage, safety but they can be sought. Maybe in the next 3-4 years, the industry will have hydrogen ICE vehicles on the road. The first applications can be expected in areas where there’s limited vehicle movement going on, for example, large ports, or with customers who have a captive fleet.
Analysts suggest that even by 2030, industry will have a significant share of the ICE vehicles.
Sumeet Dhar, COO & CTO Electra EV, said, “The ease of converting ICE vehicles to an alternative fuel vehicle is a low hanging fuel; the ICE technology is not going away so easily. But the pace at which the development of EVs is happening will be much faster than what happened for ICEs.”
Dhar said that the mass adoption of EVs is not going to be easy owing to the current pace of technology, cost and infrastructure. The advances in EVs are going to happen in multiple ways.
About the changing dynamics of the OEM-supplier relationship, Praveen Mysore, Technical Director, Dassault Systemes India said that the spirit of collaboration between suppliers and OEMs is on the rise with new technologies. The component suppliers are now changing into integrated system suppliers.
“The partnership model is evolving because there is a heavy reliance on the supplier ecosystem. The suppliers come with deep expertise in their domains and OEMs always rely on that kind of expertise to contribute into the vehicle development process.”
Read full story: Economic Times (click here)
–Wayfarer
Editor: Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
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BORN FREE ACTION– Weather was perfect! Not scorching hot as in past events. Location hasn’t changed, which put you on winding Canyon roads to enjoy.
Coming from any direction you run in the groups of riders heading to the party.
Vendors represented top notch shops and parts manufacturers. Cold beer, and T-shirts. Live music on stage. Beautiful ladies. Motorcycle builders and riders!
Event run like a well-oiled machine. Staff has it down. Invited builders bike. Show with awesome bikes. And a chance to win a dynamite Panhead in the raffle.
–Zack
Undercover agent
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE ALERT—They will ultimately ban everything. Letters Needed Now to Keep Competition OHVs on California Public Lands
The Motorcycle Industry Council is calling on all powersports companies to add their names, on their letterhead, to an MIC-drafted letter in support of legislation to allow continued use of competition-model OHVs on public lands in California.
“Without the passage of California Senate Bill 708 in the state assembly, the use of competition OHVs on public land in the state will be in jeopardy,” said Scott Schloegel, senior vice president at the MIC Government Relations Office. “We’re facing this threat because the state’s Red Sticker Program for competition OHVs was terminated by the California Air Resources Board in 2021.
A solution, SB-708, has passed the Senate but it’s currently being held up in the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee. So we need immediate assistance from across the powersports industry to advance this important legislation and keep access open for these popular competition machines.”
Authored by State Senator Brian Jones, a longtime motorcycle advocate and rider himself, SB-708 would create “sanctioned event permits” – starting on January 1, 2025 – that would allow California residents to operate competition OHVs at sanctioned events.
The new event permit will help facility staff and law enforcement to quickly identify such vehicles at these sanctioned events held on public lands. SB-708 would also restore funds historically slated for important conservation and law enforcement efforts that were lost with the termination of the Red Sticker Program.
–MIC
CHOPPER HISTORY– Sonny barton Galloping Goose Prez 1966 bike
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TRUTH SUCCESS–CO2 Coalition Assists in Rolling Back Carbon Taxation Scheme in Virginia
Last year, the CO2 Coalition published a comprehensive report on the effects of climate change in Virginia. The report was to provides the science to supporting initiatives in the state to terminate harmful regulations.
In 2022, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a repeal of the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), but it failed narrowly in the Senate. In advance of the votes, we hand-delivered copies of the report to every delegate and senator.
In 2021, the newly elected governor, Glenn Youngkin, had pledged to remove the state from the economically crippling Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Unable to withdraw the state with an executive order, Gov. Youngkin is poised to fulfill his pledge by way of the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board that recently voted to remove the Commonwealth of Virginia from RGGI, which is essentially a carbon tax.
The action will likely face legal challenges, but rest assured that the CO2 Coalition will be helping to kill RGGI, whether it be filing a court document, testifying in Richmond or initiating some other means of support.
–CO2 Coalition
BIKERNET READER COMMENT—
Spring has Sprung Bikernet Weekly News for June 15th, 2023 (click to view)
I read the article about Gloria Struck twice to fully digest it. So, Meter Maids kicked her out ‘cause she didn’t pay her dues? What kind of foolish administrative assistant who doesn’t know who Gloria is gets to make that call?
Gloria has to be one of, if not the only surviving Charter Member. I mean, when does a person earn Lifetime membership?
She’s been paying dues for over 70 years. I’ll pay her membership for a year. If every biker who knew Gloria offered that, she wouldn’t ever have to worry about dues again. Hey Meter Maids, REALLY?
–Mike Rapp
MIC Prevents New Motorcycle Catalytic Converter Requirement in California–
The MIC Government Relations Office worked with California state legislators to have motorcycles excluded in a new bill requiring engraving or etching on catalytic converters, among other anti-theft measures.
Drafted to clamp down on an epidemic of automotive catalytic converter thefts, Senate Bill 55 would have created a number of expensive problems for motorcycle manufacturers, dealers, and customers.
Writing to the bill’s sponsor, California State Senator Thomas Umberg, the MIC GRO stated that requiring motorcycle manufacturers to engrave or etch the vehicle identification number onto each catalytic converter would be a costly and burdensome task, and such theft is not a widespread problem for motorcycle owners.
Further, the letter stated that there was no safe harbor provision for vehicles already awaiting sale at dealerships, and the bill would have forced dealerships to purge their inventories. As written, the legislation was overly broad and would have captured new and used vehicles. It would have required catalytic converters from used vehicles to be removed and sent back to manufacturers for engraving.
Without the amendment secured through MIC efforts, SB-55 would have harmed California dealerships and cost the state revenue and jobs by encouraging customers to buy from nearby states.
–MIC
STUDENTS GEAR UP— for the 2023 Tiny Strider Chop-Off Competition at the Flying Piston Benefit Auction and Breakfast
During this year’s highly anticipated 83rd annual Sturgis Rally, six schools, including Pine Bush High School, are showcasing their industrial arts skills. They’re participating in the Tiny Strider Chop-Off Competition at Flying Piston Benefit Breakfast and Auction. The breakfast shindig is located in the Big Engine Bar at the Buffalo Chip.
The Flying Piston Benefit’s Tiny Strider Chop-Off Competition is an exciting opportunity for these creative students to explore their passion for fabrication, machining and design by customizing a tiny balance bike. Similar to renowned Harley customizers, these young enthusiasts will unleash their creativity on a stock Strider bike to transform it into a one-of-a-kind custom, showcasing their ingenuity and craftsmanship.
“Instructor Kenny Marshall and his students have put in well over 150 hours from the design through fabrication process,” explained Aaron Hopmayer, Pine Bush Principal. “Students used the equipment in the Pine Bush High School Gene Haas Innovation Center which includes Haas mills, waterjet, 3D printers, laser cutter, wood CNC, and other tools.”
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The Flying Piston Benefit has teamed up with Pine Bush High School and five additional institutions to compete in the Tiny Bike Chop Off. The other schools and tech programs are Lakeville North High School in Minnesota, Helping with Horsepower in Ethan, SD, WyoTech in Laramie, WY, Mitchell Tech in Mitchell, SD and the Jessi Combs Foundation.
This competition provides an immersive experience for the students,” explained Marilyn Stemp, co-producer of the Flying Piston. “But really, in this competition, there are no losers, only winners!”
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Once the custom bikes are completed, they will take center stage at the 9th Annual Flying Piston Benefit where they will be unveiled and auctioned online. Proceeds support All Kids Bike, teaching kids to ride bikes in kindergarten P.E. nationwide, and Motorcycle Missions, supporting vets with PTSD.
Enthusiasts can register for the auction at https://qtego.us/qlink/piston to bid online from anywhere. To buy tickets for the Builders Breakfast, held at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip Crossroads on Sunday, August 6th and presented by Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys, go to https://www.tixr.com/groups/sturgisbuffalochip/events/sturgis-buffalo-chip-2023-60458.
Strider is changing the paradigm of how kids learn to ride through AllKidsBike, which seeks to teach every kid how to ride a bike in kindergarten P.E. class. www.AllKidsBike.org, www.Striderbikes.com
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KELLERMANN Launches New Jetstream and Dayron Motorcycle Lighting Products
Kellermann, the worldwide leader in premium motorcycle lighting products, today announced the launch of its latest innovations – the Dayron and Jetstream lines.
On the heels of the company’s recent announcement of its exclusive distribution agreement with Tucker Powersports, these two products are the newest additions to Kellermann’s popular LED lighting products for motorcycles.
Building on the success of its super bright and compact Atto indicator, which established the Kellermann brand in the US market, the Jetstream and Dayron lines will be well received by motorcycle riders concerned about style and visibility.
Jetstream is a line of sequential lighting indicators that uses Kellermann’s innovative brake and turn signal technology. This allows for a smoother transition between turn signals, making it easier for riders to communicate their intentions to other drivers on the road. Styled after the wing of a jet fighter aircraft, the look is clean and streamlined.
The 16 high-power LED’s deliver tremendous visibility with a striking look. With fitments for almost every motorcycle, Jetstream products are available as a turn indicator or a 3-in-1 model that operates as a turn indicator, brake light and running light. Jetstream’s looks, fitment and adaptability will make it a must-have lighting accessory for any serious rider.
The Dayron is a ground-breaking daytime running light that provides a unique look and unparalleled safety on the road. With its cutting-edge design, the Dayron is the perfect addition for riders who want to be noticed. The unique design operates as a white daytime running light, ensuring the motorcycle’s visibility to surrounding vehicles, and, when activated, becomes an amber turn signal. The light uses an airflow-optimized casing and is available for several BMW models and Harley-Davidson’s Pan America.
The Dayron® daytime running light system is installed with the support of motorcycle-specific plug & play solutions. The integration into the onboard electronics of the motorcycle is done by the DRL device (Daytime Running Light Module). This intelligent DRL device controls the perfect coordination and communication of all components with the motorcycle’s onboard electronics..Additional fitments are continually being added.
Kellermann products are available at Tucker dealers across the United States. Style and fitment information is available at kellermann-online.com.
NUMBER ONE CROCKER BIG-TWIN– A restoration by Chuck Vernon
Wedge style cylinder heads mean this restoration is not correct. Chuck Vernon replaced the OE hemi style heads with the later generation wedge units produced by the Crocker aluminum foundry in Los Angeles. Contemporary aluminum alloys of 1936 were fragile to a fault and cracked easily under the heat and stress of a big-twin installation. At any rate you’re looking a very expensive murdercycle.
— Mr. Buck Lovell…. no longer a nice guy!
“Chuck asked Buck to test ride this classic and wouldn’t take no for an answer.” –Bandit
URGENT: Send a Letter to EPA Opposing Proposed Vehicle Emissions Standards
Encourage opposition from officials on these proposals:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued proposed federal emissions standards for new motor vehicles model-years ’27 to ’32, which are intended to dramatically increase sales of electric vehicles (EVs) and will stifle fuel technology innovation.
The EPA estimates that 67% of new passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. would be EVs by 2032 under its proposed standards. SEMA has serious concerns with this proposal, which aggressively seeks to lower carbon emissions under timelines that effectively make electric vehicles the only option for automakers to meet its requirements.
The proposal will reduce consumer choice for Americans looking to purchase new vehicles, and it will increase the cost of purchasing a new vehicle given the rising prices of EVs.
Officials Must Hear from You Right Away!
We need your help! Please sign a letter opposing the EPA’s proposal. Feel free to personalize the letter and explain how the agency’s push to an all-electric future will impact your interests.
–SEMA
INDIAN INVITES YOU TO THE NEXT BAGGER COMPETITION—
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BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT NEWS–Supporting Recreation, Opposition Mounts Against Bureau of Land Management Rule
A controversial proposed Public Lands Rule would prioritize rangeland conservation over other uses, including recreation, across the nearly 250 million acres that the Bureau of Land Management oversees. The proposed rule has a new July 5 deadline for public comment, according to the agency.
“Unfortunately, the rule would create a new definition of conservation,” said Duane Taylor, director of safe and responsible use programs for the MIC, the Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association, and the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America. “It’s impossible to understand how a brand-new conservation leasing program will work, especially with a new definition that places conservation on par with other uses for the first time in history. These are foundational changes not envisioned by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and they warrant Congressional review and input.”
Many recreation groups have expressed significant concern about the proposed BLM rule and the MIC, ROHVA, and the SVIA submitted a joint letter in opposition.
Arkansas Congressman Bruce Westerman, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, has vowed to block BLM efforts, recently moving six related bills through committee, including H.R. 3397, which received an MIC letter of support and would require the BLM director to withdraw the rule.
Westerman also indicated he would work with members of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations to block the rule through a spending bill if H.R. 3397 does not become law. On the other side of Congress, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso introduced a companion bill, S.1435, now referred to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Those who wish to provide comments about the proposed rule should visit the rule page on Regulations.gov.
–MIC
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TRIKE OF THE WEEK—Outlaw 120
–Sam Burns
EVs ARE GOING BACKWARD–Smaller and greener is the future
When you send a rocket into space, you run into a paradox: Around 90% of the weight of the rocket is the fuel that it needs to lift away from Earth. As the rocket accelerates, three things happen: The speed increases, the rocket gets farther away from Earth (and from the gravitational pull of the planet) and as the fuel burns off, the rocket weighs less and so can accelerate faster.
We face a similar problem in the world of EVs, with an obvious exception. Technically, car batteries get heavier as they are charged, but the difference is so small that you couldn’t measure it even with the most precise car scale. However, that doesn’t matter, because when you add more batteries to a car, it must always carry all those batteries. That’s a problem that’s growing bigger as cars themselves get bigger and heavier.
It turns out that batteries are quite heavy. The battery pack on a Tesla Model 3 weighs more than 450 kg (1,000 lbs). The Rivian truck’s battery weighs 800 kg (1,755 lbs). And if you buy an EV Hummer, the battery you’re dragging around weighs more than a 2009 Volkswagen Rabbit at 1,300 kg (2,800 lbs).
Read full story at:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/why-are-they-getting-bigger/
“So, are we all gonna ride around on a tiny electric lawnmower and the rich neighbor on an electric golf cart ?” –Wayfarer
HISTORY FROM THE NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM—
1913 Sears DeLuxe Dreadnought Twin
The Sears DeLuxe Dreadnought was built to specifications and featured top quality components. Power came from a 9 horsepower inlet-over-exhaust V-Twin engine sourced from F.W. Spacke Machine Company of Indianapolis. This 70 cubic inch DeLuxe engine, shared by other manufacturers such as Dayton, Eagle, Minneapolis and Crawford carries Fred W. Spacke’s brand name, DeLuxe, cast into the crankcase. It had a reputation for power such that it was also fan-cooled and used in cycle-cars; very lightweight, narrow automobiles popular for a short time in the early 20th Century.
Chain final drive was to a single speed or optional two speed rear hub. It is said that Sears had their motorcycles made to price, and that they used known racing performance proven components instead of funding factory racing programs as their competitors did.
The name Dreadnought was adopted from the name of cutting edge battleships of the early 20th Century.
Sears, Roebuck, the once giant Chicago based chain of department stores, and mail order cataloger, first added a motorcycle to its offerings in 1912. Given that their catalog sales were the lifeline to remote, sparsely populated areas of America, their product had to be simple, tough and easily maintained, possibly by novices. The Sears DeLuxe Dreadnought Twin and its companion single were all of that.
Production of the Dreadnought lasted until 1916 when Sears stopped sales for unknown reasons. Post WWII, Sears, under their widely used Allstate brand, brought in mostly Gilera motorcycles and Vespa scooters from Italy, and Puch motorcycles, scooters and mopeds from Austria.
Powerfully marketed up to date product offerings from Japan are probably what made Sears give up motorcycle and scooter sales altogether in the late sixties. But around that time many of us spent our early years on Allstates of every shape and color.
The early Sears twins and singles are interesting and very rare. If Sears had morphed into an online marketing giant like Amazon, aside from trade laws, might we still be buying our motorcycles via catalogs, but of the online variety?
When you visit the National Motorcycle Museum you’ll find this Sears in the Hagerty Best of the Best Gallery. Nearby is a Curtiss, a Reading-Standard, a Thor, an early Husqvarna twin road bike and the rare original condition 1911 Flying Merkel racer.
Note: In the 1910s there were two Excelsior motorcycle manufacturers, and both were in Chicago. The maker of this Sears motorcycle is not the Ignatz Schwinn “Excelsior” that is bicycle and motorcycle associated, not the one called Excelsior Motor Manufacturing and Supply Company, but rather Excelsior Cycle Company of North Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Although this fine and rare Sears is not currently on display in the Museum, as it is touring with Mecum Auctions, it will be among hundreds of motorcycles and thousands of pieces of memorabilia offered in the John Parham Estate Collection Mecum Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa, September 6 – 9, 2023.
Watch for information on the Mecum Auctions website, Mecum.com For schedule information, to consign a vehicle or to register as a bidder for this and all Mecum events, visit Mecum.com, or call (262) 275-5050 for more information.
SEMA-Supported Bill to Protect Vehicle Choice Heard in U.S. House Committee; Introduced in U.S. Senate
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Environment, Manufacturing and Critical Minerals Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 1435, the “Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act,” a bill designed to protect Americans’ right to choose the technology that powers their motor vehicles.
Meantime, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), the Co-Chair of the Congressional Automotive Performance and Motorsports Caucus, introduced S. 2090, a Senate companion bill to H.R. 1435. SEMA strongly supports both bills, which prohibit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing a waiver for regulations that would ban the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035. The bills are important to stopping California’s plan to ban new ICE vehicles, which requires the EPA to waive provisions in the Clean Air Act in order for the mandate to go into effect.
“SEMA believes that vehicle owners should not be directed toward a specific technology, but rather be allowed to choose the type of vehicle that best serves them,” said SEMA President and CEO Mike Spagnola.
–SEMA
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ANOTHER RESTRICTION ALERT–
EPA emissions proposal aren’t a fit for West Virginians–As the owner of Howell Automotive, I have seen firsthand the obstacles to business growth created by misguided government rules. I try to use my knowledge as a business owner to make changes that grow our state’s economy, and I have serious concerns about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to further restrict emissions standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles, particularly their possible implications for West Virginia.
The EPA’s proposed emissions standards for model years 2027-2032 would effectively ban gasoline and diesel vehicles, forcing consumers to go all electric. These rules will have far-reaching impacts for West Virginia consumers, as well as the decades old industry built around the internal combustion engine. This proposal, as drafted, will decisively, and unfairly, tilt the U.S. car and truck market toward electric vehicles over the next decade.
I have long been an advocate for legislation that prevents big government from interfering with the individual right to express oneself through your vehicle and the ability to choose the vehicle that is best suited to you, your family and your business. If these rules go into effect as drafted, EVs could soon be the only option for new car buyers.
The U.S. market and West Virginians, specifically, remain skeptical of new EV technology and the infrastructure ready to support it. In 2022, just 817 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles were sold in our state. Similarly, according to a recent report by J.D. Power, concerns about charging issues and pricing, as well as confusion around federal tax credits, are prompting more shoppers to avoid purchasing EVs. These policies would severely reduce consumer choice and adversely impact the largely rural vehicle owners of our state.
It’s important for West Virginians to get involved. Let your federal legislators know how important vehicle choice and supporting innovation are to you. It’s not enough for them to say “they are with us.” They need to demonstrate legislative action for West Virginians to truly believe they are on our side.
Gary Howell, a Republican from Keyser, West Virginia, represents the 87th House of Delegates district.
–Times News Cumberland
BIG FIREWORKS ACTION–
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CLIMATE ALERT FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT–Today We Died–Greta Thunberg
Five years ago a week ago.
Even the most generous interpretation, that by not ending fossil fuel use by this date we are locked into a destructive future, past the tipping points, and our inevitable doom, is as absurd as the non-generous interpretation of the above tweet, which is now deleted:
RECESSION ALERT– Says … Janet Yellen?
That’s Awkward: The Department of Commerce’s recent report on the economy showed that gross domestic income (GDI) shrank in the past six months. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen might finally have to confess that the country is in a recession, explains Heritage research fellow EJ Antoni.
“According to … Yellen’s own words from last year, the economy is back in recession,” writes Antoni.
“That’s no surprise to half of Americans who believe we’re currently in a recession, but the data refute President Joe Biden’s claim that the economy is ‘strong as hell,’” he says.
Oops.
Hard sell or Bad bargain ?
Investment and vehicle registrations dip in electric two-wheeler segment
INDIA: The overall round of funding deals in the industry also reduced year-on-year from January to June, with 26 in 2022 and only 13 in 2023 during the same period
With subsidy norms getting more stringent and a reduction in subsidies starting June 1, the electric two-wheeler sector witnessed a year-on-year dip in investments and a reduction in registrations of E-two-wheelers.
According to data sourced by businessline from Tracxn, a market intelligence and analytics platform, the electric two-wheeler industry received an investment of $427 million so far in 2023, compared to $796 million in investments during the same period in 2022.
Wayfarer’s Note: Does this mean, no customer actually wants this piece of crap technology unless it’s made dirt cheap through tax subsidies? If so, why? What was the attraction for the end-user except cheap subsidized vehicles? Does an Electric Vehicle have any utility at all ?
Keep in mind, India is the world’s largest two-wheeler market! Bigger than China!
–Wayfarer
Editor:Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
HOLY SHIT—Stuff is scrambling in every direction.
My Paul Cox, Cycle Tech single chain primary drive arrived. May start assembly this weekend.
Buck Lovell, the master, shot my ’48 UL for a Choppers mag feature. Choppers mag is the only sheetfed Choppers mag on the market. It’s a bigger format than most mags and thicker paper. Check it out online. You won’t find one at 7-11.
I’m scrambling with work on the liner. With the help of Jared and Terry Components, I installed a jumper system and an ignition/battery cut-off switch.
Back at the Knuckle I need to test my oil bag with gasoline. I measured the straps for the oil bag and sent the seat pan and strap dimensions to Howard Knight for leather work.
I need to reach out to the crew at BMST to check on my registration.
In the meantime, ride fast and free forever, goddammit!
–Bandit
The INTERESTING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for July 6, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
This is an interesting one as you will see. The motorcycle rights world is waking up and getting together to fight for our rights to ride against the Alarmists untruths.
Life is a game of words. From the time when we were kids and bullies called other kids names from fat to whatever. We remember as young bikers being called biker trash and worse. Now, it has to do with environment. Either you’re a die-hard environmentalist or you’re destroying the planet, a denier. Bullshit.
Unfortunately, the Doomsday proponents are wrong on every account and that forces them to be even more ardent and terrified. The rest of the public sat around drinking beer, while suspecting the radicals were wrong but not knowing for sure. Well, now it’s time to get educated and involved. Let’s hit the news.
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum..
INTERVIEW WITH KEN DEGRAAF BY CLINTEL—
What would climate policy ideally look like in your view?
It would be decoupled from CO2. Climate is an existential threat—it threatens our very existence. We live our lives protecting ourselves from the elements. It takes energy to do anything, especially to stay alive.
–Clintel
Ken is a representative in the Colorado General Assembly. “In the 2023 General Assembly, I presented a bill to revoke CO2 as a pollutant.”
I wrote to Ken regarding our resolution. — Bandit
Hey Ken,
I just read your interview with Clintel, amazing. What happened to your revoke CO2 as a pollutant bill?
I’ve been trying to put a resolution before congress to force the truth. I’m just an old biker who escaped California to Sturgis, SD three years ago. I’ve always been a freedom fighter for motorcyclists.
Here’s my resolution. I felt if Climate doom could be smashed, perhaps freedom and truth would shine again.
Here’s his response:
Thanks Keith! I’ve spent some time up in Sturgis. My wife did an internship there and my FIL helped with starting a new church.
The bill was expectedly, unfortunately quashed in the ideological filter they call “committee,” but I was able to put the verbiage into some proposed amendments for other bills that at least made the Dems squirm a bit.
I agree with your resolution, but I was generous in my assessment of science literacy in the political arena. The main issue is that they don’t want to know the truth because the truth doesn’t give them the moral authority to confront an existential threat. An “existential threat” is one that threatens your very existence, so their “solutions” can encompass the totality of your existence.
I stand by my assertion that “there is no problem the government cannot make worse with a “solution.”” Because if the “problem” they’re solving isn’t real, the “solution”’for it will be a real problem.
One issue with your resolution, although I agree with the sentiment, is that laws based on untruths are inherently unjust, but not meaningless. Laws based on untruths are the foundation of tyrannies and invariably create great misery whether they’re meant to or not.
Per our Declaration of Independence, “governments are instituted among men (to secure these Rights) deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.” It’s a very tightly prescribed box within which government can govern without lapsing into tyranny.
Getting people to get on board is the crucial part of your resolution. Maybe you need a booth at the bike rally for “Bikers against climate B$.” You know the greeniacs & carbonistas hate Hogs (I’ve not driven one, but in a prior life I flew them). We need the populous to understand that they are coming after every aspect of our lives to be put under their control, and the virtue-preening Care’ns (“I care more than you do”) will justify their tyranny by baseless compassion.
–Ken
BRAND NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT—
Redhead Action in Deadwood
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/REDHEAD_ACTION_IN_DEADWOOD.aspx
You always continue to amaze me, when I read one of your stories. You hit the nail on the head in the storylines. I guess it always help when you live the true biker lifestyle. Great read. I hope I can write like you guys and gals eventually. Take care brother.
–Gearhead
Los Angeles
Thanks brother. –Bandit
EPA Proposal a De Facto Ban on Gasoline–Powered Cars and Trucks
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2023 — The American Petroleum Institute (API) today urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse course on its proposal for new tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles, which amount to a de facto ban on vehicles using gasoline and other liquid fuels that would drastically reduce American families’ freedom to choose a car or truck that best fits their needs and budget.
“We share the goal of reducing emissions across the transportation sector while ensuring continued reliability and affordability options for millions of Americans,” API President and CEO Mike Sommers said. “We support technology-neutral federal policies that drive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in the transportation sector, but this proposal seriously misses the mark. While not an explicit ban on internal combustion engines, this proposal is a de facto ban that will eliminate competition, distort the market, and restrict consumer choice, while being potentially more costly to taxpayers. API will keep all options on the table to protect American families and businesses if the agency moves forward with this ban.”
In comments submitted to the EPA, API outlined major concerns with several aspects of the proposed rule, including its heavy reliance on electric vehicles to achieve compliance.
While battery technology has improved in recent years, the proposed rule ignores the significant infrastructure, consumer acceptance, and supply chain challenges that remain. In addition, EPA’s narrow focus on a singular technology risks undermining U.S. energy security by forcing a greater reliance on foreign sources for raw materials and critical minerals.
API highlighted better ways to accomplish the agency’s goal of reducing emissions while preserving consumer choice in accessing affordable and reliable transportation options.
“EPA has largely ignored fuel and vehicle-based options that could better accomplish the agency’s objectives to expeditiously achieve greater transportation sector-related emission reductions from the entire vehicle fleet (both new and in-use) at lower cost,” Sommers said. “Meaningful carbon emission reductions are achievable sooner, and potentially at lower cost, via the use of proven and available technology in liquid fuels.”
–American Petroleum Institute
HERO-HARLEY LAUNCH–
Incredible Pricing. HeroMotoCorp announces launch of the first bike X440 under the Hero-Harley tie-up.
India and Hero MotoCorp celebrated 4th of July with the launch of Harley-Davidson X440. Freedom on the road becomes reachable to the masses with an incredible ex-showroom price.
This incredibly competitive price was a big surprise for many. The H-D X440 co-developed & co-designed by Hero MotoCorp through technical support by Harley-Davidson is priced at INR 229,000 ex-showroom (approximately USD 2,790 only, before taxes, insurance, etc)
The top variant is priced at INR 269,000 (approx. USD 3,280). Yup, those are the numbers.
The bike will be sold across 25 Harley-India showrooms and 300 select Hero showrooms in India.
This is gonna tempt many people because of the brand name and pricing. There are Royal Enfields everywhere you look and one might want this ride to look distinct on the road and make a statement.
Visit Harley-DavidsonX440.com the official website of the motorcycle, where you can see all the bike details.
‘Book Now’ page will allow you to get into the detailed booking process. Here, you must select your state and city, followed by the variant and colour you would like to buy. Choose the nearest dealer and pay INR 5000 to book the bike. This amount is fully refundable in case there’s any cancellation. Once this process is finished, you will get a booking number. The deliveries are going to commence in October.
Triumph’s joint development with Bajaj would have to price competitively with this if it wants to challenge Harley-Davidson which remains the top overseas manufacturer in two-wheeler segment in terms of number of units sold annually. This is the first time a Harley-Davidson branded two-wheeler has been manufactured in India.
Meanwhile, I don’t believe it would affect the sales of the various, globally released models of Harley-Davidson which are also sold in India through Hero MotoCorp partnership. A person who desires a Fat Boy or Nightster, won’t suddenly settle for an X440. Big V-Twin remains a separate identity on and off the road.
PINSTRIPER OF THE WEEK–Chiko’s Pinstriping.
–Sam Burns
Senior Art Curator
Bikernet.com™
QUOTE OF THE WEEK–
“Remember, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is certain, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is solid, fixed – its nature cannot be changed; everything alive is moving, changing – a flow, a liquid thing, flexible, able to move in any direction. The more you become certain, the more you will miss life. And those who know, know life is God. If you miss life, you miss God “
– Osho
Wait, hold it right there, Mr. Osho. If you believe in God, dead is not fixed, right?
Even in death we never stop. Even after our carbon molecules form another planet billions of years from now, we’re still on the move.
–Ming Ball
Director of Philosophy
Pillar Peak, SD
Bajaj Auto-Triumph launch Speed 400 bike at ex-showroom price of INR 233,000
Bajaj Auto on July 5 launched the Speed 400 in collaboration with British motorcycle giant Triumph for the Indian market at an ex-showroom price of INR 233K. The introductory price will be applicable for the first 10,000 customers, Bajaj Auto-Triumph announced at the launch event.
Bajaj-Triumph Targets Sales of Nearly 50K Mid-Sized Bikes in Global Markets This Year
The online pre-booking for the Speed 400 started last month after its premiere in London. The online pre-booking had a fully refundable payment window of INR 2,000.
The bike was unveiled after Hero Motocorp launched X 440 in partnership with Harley Davidson and the deliveries are likely to begin this month.
The motorcycle designed and manufactured in United Kingdom’s Hinckley comes with a two-year unlimited mileage warranty and a 16,000 km service interval.
It features a new TR-series engine that has a fuel-injected, liquid-cooled single-cylinder unit with a cubic capacity of 398.15.
The engine has the capacity to churn out 39.5 bhp of power at 8,000 rpm, along with a peak torque output of 37.5 Npm at 6,500 rpm. It will have a 6-speed gearbox with a slip-and-assist clutch.
It will come in three distinct colours – Carnival Red with Phantom Black, Capsian Blue with Storm Grey, and Phantom Black with Storm Grey.
CALIFA ALERT–Help Stop Speed Ticketing Cameras in California
Sign the petition to stop speed cameras in California. Assembly Bill 645 by Assemblymember Laura Friedman (Glendale/Los Angeles) would allow the use of speed ticketing cameras in LA and five other cities.
If this bill becomes law, eventually the entire state will be overrun with ticketing cameras issuing hundreds of millions of dollars in tickets to unsuspecting motorists. This is the fifth or sixth iteration of this bill which we have previously scrapped.
Unfortunately, this year it has a much better chance of passing. It already passed the Assembly and is currently being heard in the Senate. Just a few more votes will be taken before it goes to the Governor.
We need your voice to tell California legislators – NO speed cameras in California!
SIGN THE PETITION
AB-645 would authorize up to 125 ticketing cameras in LA for a “pilot program.” Under LA’s reviled red light camera program, the city deployed cameras at 60 locations and issued over 60,000 tickets per year. With 125 speed cameras, the number of tickets that will be issued in LA alone would number in the hundreds of thousands, and fines would total in the millions.
How bad could it be? In the city of Baltimore, residents were issued 432,836 speed camera tickets from 144 cameras in 2021. In the city of Chicago, which deploys about 160-speed cameras, residents were issued 2.81 million citations in 2021. That’s one ticket every 12 seconds and more automated tickets in one year than there are residents in the entire city, costing residents $89 million.
In addition to the fines and add-on penalties, drivers are often subjected to an average 21% increase in insurance rates when these tickets are issued.
The bill allows the cities to keep 100% of the revenue as long as they use the money to install the government’s desired roadway obstacles to driving, like road diets and bike lanes.
AB-645 makes the vehicle owner responsible for the ticket and only provides a photo of the vehicle license plate. The ticket will be heard in an “administrative hearing,” much like parking tickets, with no due process and little to no ability to fight the ticket.
The ticket would be prima facie evidence of the violation, meaning you are assumed to be guilty and must prove your innocence. The burden of proof would fall on the defendant, not the city, to prove their case.
Most all legal rights afforded to defendants in traffic court would be eliminated including your right to face your accuser, right to discovery, right to subpoena witnesses, etc. The standard of proof would be “preponderance of the evidence” (more likely than not) rather than the higher standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” which is currently used in traffic court.
California’s speed trap law protections are eliminated with camera-issued tickets.
AB-645 specifically authorizes the cameras to be used on roadways designated as a “safety corridor” where previous legislation now allows cities to reduce the speed limit by up to 12 mph below the operating speed of the roadway as measured by the 85th percentile of vehicle speeds.
AB-645 allows ticketing starting at 11 mph over the speed limit, so drivers traveling below the operational speed of the road based on how it was designed will be subject to ticketing. This alone will result in up to 90% of drivers passing the cameras being cited, resulting in hundreds of thousands of tickets and millions of dollars in fines issued.
AB-645 allows the use of speed cameras for millions of dollars in fines to times when children are going to and leaving school. The cameras would be allowed to run 24/7 including weekends and late nights, ticketing drivers when no one is around.
The bill is opposed by law enforcement groups (PORAC), union groups (Teamsters), motorist groups, motorcycle groups, independent truckers, and many social justice groups (ACLU, etc.). The fact that so many different groups that are barely on speaking terms with each other oppose this bill should tell you how toxic it is.
–NMA
QUICK, NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT–THE TRUTH BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for June 29, 2023
The Born Free photos/news flash was MAGNIFICENT !!!! what a photographic genius! What great use of written language! ha! ha!
I AM A ROBOT!!!
–Zack
Long Beach, Califa
Masterful work…–Bandit
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LE PERA SEAT OF THE WEEK—Bare Bones, Diamond White
Overview
Low and aggressive solo.
Simplistic design will change the entire look of your ride.
It is the perfect seat to take advantage of Biker Gel.
Shown with Diamond Stitch in white stitching.
Specs
Driver Seating: 10.5″ Wide
Passenger Seating: N/A
MSRP: $387.00
Options:
Biker Gel: MSRP + $ 87.00
Leather Seating: MSRP + $ 88.00
Full Leather: MSRP + $149.00
Part Number:
LYR-007DMWTP [’18-UP]
A-TYPICAL NCOM CONVENTION–
It wasn’t a typical NCOM Convention.
Held over Father’s Day weekend June 16-18, 2023 in Phoenix-Tempe, the 38th annual started off as per normal, with an NCOM Board of Directors Meeting that instilled new board member Dale Peterson of ABATE of Minnesota for Region IV (IL IN MI MN OH WI), as well as confirming Jad SOS MC as Confederation of Clubs Liaison.
Like in the past, following the Opening Ceremonies and an orientation was the AIM Attorney Conference spotlighting legal issues faced by riders, and then the NCOM Legislative Task Force Meeting focused on political efforts relevant to legislation nationwide.
As done for decades, attendees then broke into several Special Meetings according to an array of outreach sectors, such as Women in Motorcycling, Clean and Sober Roundtable, Veterans Affairs and Christian Unity, but importantly included another unlisted pow-wow session amongst leadership of the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) and the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) among others determined to put past differences aside and embark on a new beginning of cooperation and mutual support for the Betterment of Biking.
“Seeing all the motorcycle rights groups, clubs and individual bikers coming together to learn and fight for their lifestyles is inspirational. But the understanding and commitment by leaders of NCOM and MRF and some members of the NCOC to communicate and work together is monumental,” observed NCOM Executive Director Joseph “Joey” Lester, son of AIM/NCOM Founder attorney Richard M. Lester.
Later that Friday, when the agreement was announced during the Confederation of Clubs patch holders meeting, the news was welcomed by a rousing round of applause.
Kirk “Hardtail” Willard, longtime President and Chairman of the Board of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) had this to say. “During the inception of the national motorcyclists rights movement, the MRF and NCOM frequently worked together, and while various board members and liaisons from the two organizations have maintained solid working relationships the organizations had not.
Fast forward, the MRF accepted the invitation from Joey Lester and Charlie Boone to attend this year’s NCOM Convention in Tempe, AZ.
With the profiling of motorcyclists continuing to be an issue, our lifestyle under threat from multiple entities, and frankly motorcycling as we know it today under the real possibility of extinction, there is not a more important time for our organizations to forge a working relationship once again.
I am encouraged by this initial meeting and NCOM Leadership has our commitment we will look forward and find ways to work more closely together into the future.”
Although the remainder of the NCOM Convention’s agenda was informative but predictable, with regional meetings, educational seminars and presentations catering to bikers rights activists engaged in legal and/or legislative battles back home, spirits were high throughout the rest of the weekend as plans were laid for mutual support of our common goals and interests.
“We wanted to make it perfectly clear to all of the attendees this weekend that NCOM and MRF will be working hand in hand to show strength and unity in the ongoing fight for motorcyclists rights,” pledged NCOM Chairman Charlie Boone, adding that several NCOM board members will reciprocate by attending the MRF’s upcoming Meeting of the Minds, September 20-24 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (more info at www.MRF.org) to further the alliance.
Wrapping up the predictably productive conference, ending things on an even higher note, NCOM presented ABATE of Ohio with the Silver Spoke Award for Government, recognizing their successful legislative agenda to protect rider training, and awarded the Silver Spoke Award for Media to Bill Bish, NCOM Public Relations Liaison, for producing the NCOM Biker Newsbytes monthly news column. NCOM’s highest honor, the Ron Roloff Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Bob Tibor of ABATE and COC of North Dakota / Glen Ullin MC.
Next year, the NCOM Convention returns to Mother’s Day Weekend, May 10-11, 2024 at a location TBD (info coming to www.ON-A-BIKE.com), with a whole new perspective!
BABES IN THE DIRT 8–
Our annual Babes in the Dirt 8 is back and better than ever. If you have always wanted to learn how to ride a dirt bike or if you’ve been sending it for years, this event is for you!
It’s the best place to meet like-minded riders, try out brand new gear, and the entire 2024 Husqvarna line up of off-road machines with their dedicated lead & follow trail rides! For those new, there are free “new to moto” classes by Husqvarna as well with bike included!
So much more for this now 18+ ladies private event in our favorite OHV, Hungry Valley that hosts thousands of miles of trails all clearly marked.
“Z900RS – The legend is back!”
The T-shirt for the riders and fans of the Kawasaki retro bike
The Kawasaki Z1 is undoubtedly one of the motorcycles that made history. Today, more than 50 years after its debut, the Japanese big bike from 1972 is one of the most sought-after classics and fetches many times its new price in top condition. On the Z900RS, Kawasaki employed numerous styling elements of the epochal motorbike and created a new global bestseller.
The Z900.us online shop usually specializes in exclusive accessories for the riders of the classic Z models. In response to frequent customer requests, there is also an extravagant T-shirt for the current generation: “Z900RS – THE LEGEND IS BACK!“ is the motto of the extra-large white print on the front, complemented by a stylized illustration of the current model. By the way, the illustration is not based on an everyday bike, but on a customized Z900RS version with a four-in-four exhaust and spoke wheels which comes even closer to the original from the Seventies.
The high-quality shirt is available from 27.50 euros in various colors and in sizes S to 3XL. They are available exclusively online at www.Z900.us.
BILTWELL RIDES COLORADO—
On Friday, September 1, we’ll be hosting the official kick-off party at the La Plata County Fairgrounds: bike show, tire toss, tug-o-war, arm wrestling, and live music by Paige Overton and The Rhyolite Sound!
The Flat Track Races are always a good time and SOLD OUT last year, so be sure to get your tickets soon! Interested in racing? Register.
Just down the road, Sky Ute Casino Resort in Ignacio is bringing the action! The Casino will host The Brawl stunt competition, Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg Freestyle MX Jump Shows, live music, vendors, demo trucks, AND they’ll be giving away TWO Harley-Davidson motorcycles!
DA JUDGE’S RULING–Judge Delivers Major Blow to Biden Admin in Social Media Censorship Case
A federal judge has made a historic ruling by partially granting an injunction that blocks various Biden administration officials and government agencies like the Justice Department and the FBI from working with big tech firms to censor posts on social media.
The injunction came in response to a censorship-by-proxy lawsuit brought by attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who have accused Biden administration officials and various government agencies of pressuring social media companies to suspend accounts or take down posts.
The judge, Terry A. Doughty, wrote in the July 4 judgment (pdf) that various government agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are prohibited from taking a range of actions with regards to social media companies.
Specifically, the agencies and their staff members are prohibited from meeting or contacting by phone, email, text message or “engaging in any communication of any kind with social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech,” per the injunction.
–See the whole tamale on Epoch Times
IMPORTANT, NEW BIKERNET READER COMMENT–AN UNINTENTIONAL PILGRIMAGE
What an amazing Journey!!! Yes I would love to do it again every Year!! I was around some of the most beautiful people I have ever met. It was my first time in that part of the south, I fell in love!!???? Thank You Rogue hope to see You on our next journey!!!
–Tena Cunningham
Fulton, NY
CELEBRATE DICE MAGAZINE’S 100TH—
Dark Arts Coffee x DicE. We had a blast yesterday in London celebrating Issue 100 of the magazine.
Ford recalling certain 2019-20 Fusion PHEVs, warns drivers not to charge vehicles
The cars are being recalled for loss of power and fire risks.
Source:
https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safety/ford-motor-recalling-certain-2019-20-fusion-phevs
Porsche said to rethink plan to ditch Macan ICE sales in U.S. by mid-decade
Porsche told dealers it expects U.S. sales to hit 80,000 next year. Porsche is rethinking a plan to ditch combustion engine Macan sales in its second-largest market.
Source:
https://www.autonews.com/future-product/porsche-macan-may-not-go-all-ev-us-mid-decade-after-all
Wayfarer’s Note:
The EV believer generation is going to be divided into two categories: a generation of scoundrels (who lied to their fellow citizens) and a generation of fools (who believe whatever anyone in a position of authority dictates to them). Electric Vehicles and the infrastructure, energy source, parts and recycling they need are all clearly in their nascent stage.
Maybe they should all just ride bicycles — they would be better off physically, mentally and financially.
The whole EV mania is just another Wall Street scam, based on all we understand of economics, politics and modern research institutes.
I think Bill Gates made the right bet with his TerraPower company implementing the latest nuclear tech based on the research he sponsored.
https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/natriumpower/
–Wayfarer
Editor
Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
WISDOM QUOTES–
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.” ~ Aristotle
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~ George Addair
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” ~ Andre Gide
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” — John Cage
“If a man knows more than others he becomes lonely.” ~ Carl Jung
“Everyone wants the key to happiness, but no one questions who locked up happiness.”
“To fly to new heights, you need to give up the ground you stand on.” ~ Ujjwal Dey
“Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.”
— Wayfarer
BIKERNET BUILDER OF THE WEEK—
Max Lam is the sales manager and product development consultant at Pro-stretch Trims International. He lives in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong and is from Beijing, China.
Pierre Guy is From Himeji, Hyogo
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
IS IT HOT TODAY?– Hotter Than the Fourth of July!
It was widely reported recently that July 4th, 2023 was the hottest day in Earth’s recorded history.
Paulo Ceppi, a climate scientist at London’s Grantham Institute stated: “It hasn’t been this warm since at least 125,000 years ago, which was the previous interglacial.” And, of course, it was reported that it was our fault due to our “sins of emission.”
This didn’t meet the smell test for the scientists at the CO2 Coalition. We know that previous warm periods were warmer than our modern temperatures. For example, during the Roman Warm Period there was citrus being grown in the north of England and barley was grown by Vikings on Greenland 1,000 years ago. Why aren’t they grown there now? It’s quite simple: Lower modern temperatures.
So, here at the CO2 Coalition, we did what scientists are trained to do:
We looked at the available data. Our Science and Research Associate Byron Soepyan reviewed temperature data from the US Historical Climatology Network and found that both the number of weather stations reporting temperature over 100 degrees F and the Maximum Average Temperature for July 4th were slightly declining since the record began in 1895 – not increasing – as Ceppi claimed.
A QUICK NOTE—We are all in this together, whether we like it or not. Hundreds of companies make money off us grubby bikers, but are they giving back or supporting the industry?
Ask the guys at S&S, Lowbrow, Biltwell, you name it, if they are doing anything to keep us riding free.
The movement to stop the ban on internal combustion engines is growing but needs industry support.
Join the MRF
BIKERNET MOVIE OF THE WEEK–RUSSIAN MAFIA Vs ONE NOBODY
I got to watch “Nobody” (2021) about an ex-military special forces guy trying to live a regular life as a family man, working as an accountant of all things.
The movie is made by the guys who made John Wick but is really a lot better than John Wick because of the actors and storyline. There is a basic entertaining pulp fiction plot here unlike the Wick sequels.
It stars the actor from Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad — Bob Odenkirk and the really old & wild Cristopher Lloyd (the Doc who invents time-travelling DeLorean in Back To The Future).
Bob plays the role of a pacifist suburban office-nerd like a pro…. until rich Russian baddies come across him at a bad time when he is in a bad place. It’s a lot more than an action movie.
Have a peek on YouTube : https://youtu.be/wZti8QKBWPo
Meanwhile, the “future” wasn’t too bright for DeLorean. At present, apparently, it’s an Electric Vehicle car company based out of Texas. Visit: https://delorean.com/
Wayfarer
Editor:Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
Freddie Cuba is building a magnificent shop and was able to bring his classic truck over. He’s headed to Sturgis Rally shortly. It will be his 51st year.
I tested my copper oil bag the other day with gasoline and it held tight. I need to clean it thoroughly. Howard Knight has my seat pan, and I’ll bet I will be at powder coating when the rally rolls around.
I received notice of the rally Saddlemen party. Need to make a list. The food is fine in the Black Hills. Above is dinner from the Redhead the other night. Magnificent.
I just received Willie’s new book about his history with the family, factory, industry and bikerdom. Can’t wait, and I will write a review shortly.
HOMECOMING BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for July 13th, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
Today suddenly turned significant. The Prism gang reminded me that today marks the first day of the Harley 120th Homecoming.
Then I heard that we might have a meeting with Senator Mike Rounds regarding our resolution with the Motorcycle Riders Foundation regarding Scientific Transparency.
Let’s see how the day rolls out. Let’s hit the news.
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.
NEWS FROM THE PRISM GANG—
Our latest My Garage episode brings us to the Sunshine State where we visit Jim Root. Jim needs no introduction as a guitarist. With a legendary career with Slipknot and a best-selling signature guitar bearing his name, he’s solidified his place in music history.
Off Stage, he’s developed an affinity for high-horsepower vehicles. Alongside racks and racks of guitars, his garage is adorned with period-correct Mopars and a different Harley-Davidson for nearly every occasion.
Like his eclectic motorcycle collection, Jim’s guitars are set up in a way that suits his style and upsets purists. But, with a Grammy and multiple Platinum records on his shelf, it’s clear that Jim doesn’t need to follow convention.
Watch for the Prism Gang at the Homecoming this weekend.
BIKERNET RESEARCH TEAM FINDS ALBUM COVERS CONTAINING MOTORCYCLES
Brigitte Bardot
Janis Joplin
More to come:
John Fogerty
Meatloaf
SailCat
Grateful Dead
Diana Ross
James Brown
Judas Priest
Canned Heat
Bad Company
John Hammond
We will bring you the whole story in the very near future.
–Wayfarer
Editor, Bikernet Blog
HEARTLAND FREEDOM DINNER–Don’t Delay! Early Bird Discount
ENDS August 1, 2023
America needs John Stossel’s tireless voice for liberty now more than ever. The government has assumed vast new powers, spending is out of control, and individual liberty is in retreat.
John Stossel has exposed these excesses for decades on his way to winning 19 Emmy awards, five awards from the National Press Club, and a Peabody award.
You won’t want to miss John Stossel’s latest analysis and inside stories about the mainstream media at Heartland’s Benefit Dinner.
To purchase tickets, reserve tables, or learn more, go to Heartland’s benefit dinner webpage, call (312) 377-4000, or email think@heartland.org.
Show your support for Heartland and liberty by reserving your seat today.
“Sure, this isn’t motorcycle, but if you’re in the neighborhood, it could be very interesting. Heartland supports freedom, the truth, liberty and scientific transparency.” –Bandit
LEGENDS SUSPENSION IS READY–Hometown Rally 120th Anniversary
We are excited to see you, talk suspension, and have a good time! We will be located at House of Harley-Davidson during the Hometown Rally 120th Anniversary.
July 12th – 16th
For more information and location details please visit:
https://www.legendsuspensions.com/events/
OR
https://houseofharleydavidson.com/event/19817/harley-davidson-homecoming-rally
KNUCKLEHEAD OF THE WEEK—1942 FL
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
CALIFA GUN NUT REPORT—
Before the Legislature recesses on July 14th, policy committees in the Senate will hold more hearings on anti-gun bills, including Assembly Bill 28 for a gun tax and Assembly Bill 1587 for credit card companies to surveil gun owners.
Please go to the NRA website to read more about these anti-gun bills and to ask the committee members to OPPOSE them.
Take Action!
Yours in Freedom,
Ken Lan
Communications Coordinator
NRA-ILA
ANOTHER CALIFORNIA UPDATE–U.S. Senate Companion Bill Introduced to Stop California’s Car Ban
Encourage support from lawmakers on these proposals:
U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) introduced a SAN-supported bill, the “Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act” (S. 2090), to protect Americans’ right to choose the technology that powers their motor vehicles. S. 2090 includes the same text as the House bill (H.R. 1435) that U.S. Rep. John Joyce (R-PA) introduced in March. H.R. 1435 and S. 2090 respond to California’s plans to ban the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered cars and trucks in 2035 unless certain conditions are met. If passed into law, the legislation would prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from allowing California’s Zero Emissions Vehicle regulations that would ban the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines from taking effect.
Lawmakers Must Hear from You Right Away!
Use the following website link for an overview and lawmaker contact.
NEWS FROM COMPETITION DISTRIBUTING—Historic Fuel Tanks Now In Stock!
Fuel Tank J & JD Harley Davidson 1918-1924
Harley Davidson Fuel Tanks 1918-1924 J & JD model Fuel Tanks
Fuel Tank J & JD Harley Davidson 1925-1929
Harley Davidson Fuel Tanks 1925-1929 J & JD model Fuel Tanks
Fuel Tank Peashooter Harley Davidson 1927-1930
Harley Davidson Fuel Tanks 1927-1930 Peashooter Fuel Tanks
–Competition Distributing
DIRECT FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT—
“First, they came for your energy, then your meat, gas cars, dishwashers, gas stoves and furnaces, flights, pizzas & now…YOUR ICE CUBES!
Stop the climate madness. Stop Net Zero goals. Stop food, ice, and meat restrictions. Stop gas-powered car bans. Stop pizza oven restrictions. The climate change agenda targets every aspect of your life and will take no prisoners in a relentless effort to Sovietize every aspect of American life.
The USA was an aberration in human history when it came to individual rights and economic freedom. But the climate agenda is set to revert the USA back to the norms of history — submission to our overlords.
–Climate Depot’s Marc Morano
See Economist Milton Friedman in 1999: “Free societies of the kind we’ve been lucky enough to experience for the last 100, 150 years — are a very rare exception in human history. Most people, most of history…have lived in tyranny and misery.”
I watched a documentary series about life on earth 10-15 thousand years ago, when man first started building pyramids on Malta and South America. The narrator focused on how old and how well-built they were. He’s trying to rewrite history, but he missed one item.
Pyramids weren’t built by union workers. They were built by slaves.
–Bandit
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY–
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
— Wayfarer
New NASH Product– The “Straight Up” Handlebars
The Straight Up bars designed with a similar feel and look to the Smart Gimps but with one slight but important tweak, no inward curve towards the bottom of the bar. From the bottom bend the Straight Ups, do just that, go straight up, all the way to the top grip bends.
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GRAB A PAIR TODAY
NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM HISTORY LESSON—1951 SUN BEAM S7.
During its development the Sunbeam S7 was plagued with vibration and misguided engineering approaches. Yet today the Sunbeam S7 seems a handsome heavyweight machine distinguished by shaft drive, an overhead camshaft engine, “balloon tires,” rounded fenders and its Mist Green, silver or black paint.
In the course of being a manufacturer of high quality bicycles, Sunbeam’s founder, John Marston was also a Japanner, one skilled at applying black lacquer to bicycle or motorcycle parts, baking them for a hard and shiny finish such as was used on Henry Ford’s Model T. At the age of 76 he branched out into motorcycle manufacture. Most of his early Sunbeams used engines sourced from MAG or J.A.P. and some big-bore Sunbeams were prime for sidecar use. With the Sunbeam name being sold to BSA in 1943, the end of the original Marston/Sunbeam line came about.
The S7 design was the work of independent designer Erling Poppe who based it around the BMW R75 since BMW manufacturing rights were given to BSA as part of the War Reparations. The double-cradle frame with plunger rear suspension and a telescopic fork resemble the BMW, but the engine unit was completely new. At 487cc, the engine was a parallel twin turned around so that the crankshaft ran in line with the frame.
The first S7’s were produced just after World War II, 1949 and incorporated some 30 patented design features. But the worm gear final drive was fragile, and the fix was to lessen stress by decreasing engine output! The in-line twin vibrated calling for rubber engine mounting, which called for a flexible exhaust pipe connection. Shifts in focus of the mother company, BSA, sidelined the Sunbeam brand for good in 1956. In concept the S7 and the later S8 were good designs you could see working today. But they needed further engineering work. When you visit the National Motorcycle Museum before it closes September 4, you can study the Sunbeam, and also several BMWs for comparison.
This fine Sunbeam will be among hundreds of motorcycles and thousands of pieces of memorabilia offered in the John Parham Estate Collection Mecum Auction at the National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa, September 6 – 9, 2023. Watch for information on the Mecum Auctions website, Mecum.com For schedule information or to register as a bidder for this and all Mecum events, visit Mecum.com, or call (262) 275-5050 for more information.
US Utilities Lobby Congress to Keep Gas Stoves Legal—
American gas utilities are lobbying support for bills to keep gas stoves operational, as the Biden administration recommends their elimination for climate change purposes.
Natural gas companies are gathering their political allies in Congress to ward off any attempts that gas stove use be curtailed, according to federal records.
Gas utility companies fear that gas stove bans are the start of a broader phaseout of natural gas, as climate change activists aim to electrify more of the energy system.
Leftist climate change activists are now going after natural gas consumption after destroying the U.S. coal industry under the Biden administration.
Biden Admin Ponders Ban On Gas Stoves
About 69 percent of Americans said they are against a government ban on gas stoves, according to a June poll conducted by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies and Harris.
The controversy exploded in January after the White House said it was mulling a nationwide ban on gas stoves, citing a report linking its use to asthma and other health risks.
A top official at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) suggested that a national ban on gas stoves could curb air pollution, but that statement was denied by the agency’s head.
It was also later revealed that the agency had been considering a ban on gas stoves for months.
The backlash grew even further after the Department of Energy introduced new regulations in February that would impose harsher energy efficiency standards on new gas stove models by 2027.
However, the Energy Department insisted that it had no plans to ban gas stoves, calling the accusations “absurd.”
Gas stoves account for less than 1 percent of natural gas consumption in the United States, and more than 47 million, or 38 percent of households, cook with gas, according to the Energy Information Administration.
–Brian Jung
Epoch Times
TRIKES OF THE WEEK—From Kotaka Kiyotaka
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
LIFESTYLE CYCLES DEAL OF THE WEEK–2017 Harley-Davidson FLSTC – Heritage Softail Classic
Comfort as modern as this morning’s news and the power from our High Output Twin Cam 103B™ engine, but the look still blazes straight from this machine’s authentic dresser past.
This is too good to consign to history.
The Heritage Softail® Classic is rich with the nostalgia of days gone by, but the hidden suspension gives you the authentic look of a hardtail without the bone-shaking ride. You get the comfort of standard cruise control and a low center of gravity, plus standard ABS, and a High Output Twin Cam 103B™ engine. We maintained the classic look and re-invented the ride.
Location: Anaheim, California
Condition: Pre-Owned
Stock Number: 13892
Year: 2017
Make: Harley-Davidson®
Model: FLSTC – Heritage Softail® Classic
Family: Softail®
VIN: 1HD1BWV18HB022927
Color: RED
Engine: Air-cooled, High Output Twin Cam 103B™
Mileage:19,172
EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK–
Over the past half decade, there has been a growing trend signaling a shift in the perceived and accepted role of science. It is not uncommon to see slogans and mottos such as “the science is settled” and “believe in science.”
Statements like this present two major problems: first, science is determined to be final and indisputable; second, it is accompanied by a value or moral judgment. For example, scientific studies indicate that wearing a helmet can reduce head injury by 48%, serious head injury by 60%, traumatic brain injury by 53%, [and] face injury by 23%.”
While it takes little effort to align with science on such a matter, I intend to demonstrate that an application of the first behavior is contradictory to the foundation of science and the second lies entirely outside its purview.
To establish common ground, we begin by reviewing the merits and fundamentals of the scientific method. First, an observation is made, followed by a question regarding the observation. A hypothesis is then formed that could potentially answer the question. A prediction about future results based on the hypothesis is then tested via experiments.
Analysis of the results of the experiments are utilized to confirm or reject the hypothesis. If the results seem to demonstrate that the hypothesis is correct, then confidence begins to build in the predictive power of the hypothesis and its ability to describe the real world.
If the results seem to demonstrate that the hypothesis is incorrect, then the scientific method loops back on itself and the hypothesis is challenged, refined, modified, or discarded. The process is rigorous, thorough, and exacting. It is also deeply empirical, meaning it relies on information from the real world; it can only extract data from things that have already happened. In its most basic form, this process is what constitutes “science” as commonly referred to in media and conversation.
With common ground established, the first major problem can be addressed. It is, ironically, anti-science to ever declare that science is settled. There are a few characteristics of the scientific method that substantiate this claim. Since the scientific method is based on empirical data in relation to a hypothesis, it is reliant on the senses and perceived experiences. This means it is wholly dependent on the past. Science cannot properly predict the future; it can only model what has happened and make a reasonable projection about what could happen. Scientific law hangs on statistical probability.
In addition, since man is not omniscient, the future will forever remain unknown. As man continues to explore the physical world, there always exists the possibility that enough data will accumulate to falsify, or at least cast into doubt, a well-established scientific conclusion.
Because of these conditions, statements declaring the science to be settled are altogether unscientific: they reject the core principles and practices of the scientific method and the nature of human experience.
Such conditions expose the ridiculousness of any insinuation that science is settled. Strictly speaking, science is unable to ever be settled. Imagine the carnage if scientists around the world had retired their lab coats and accepted the alleged “clinical proof” that certain cigarettes were not actually harmful or medically superior to other brands. Fortunately, continued use of the scientific method has built a compelling counterargument that cigarettes are in fact very detrimental to the body.
The second major problem may have more perilous implications when thoroughly examined. In the preceding discussion, it is clearly shown that science is only able to approach statistical truth based on empirical evidence. Science is, however, utterly unable to tell us what is right or wrong.
There is nothing naturally occurring within the scientific method that empowers it to make value judgments or moral decisions. It cannot tell us what is good, bad, better, or worse. In essence, science is never able to say “should” or “must.”
To return to our previous example, science may conclude that wearing a helmet prevents head injuries in motorbike accidents, but it is powerless to dictate that motorists should wear helmets. To do so is to make a value judgment that can only be made by individuals.
Wearing a helmet is only prescriptive if the individual motorist values the possibility of preventing a cracked skull more than riding freely in the wind. Knowing the risks and being informed by science, most motorists would likely choose to wear a helmet, but science is unable to tell them that is the choice of highest value, since individuals have different, and differing, value systems. In regards to science, what is right is dependent on the precise ends desired by individual actors and their values.
As Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises stated, “There is no use in arguing about the adequacy of ethical precepts…. Ultimate ends are chosen by the individual’s judgments of value. They cannot be determined by scientific inquiry and logical reasoning.”
Allowing science to make universal value judgments also enables it to define morality. An example of this can be found in the debates surrounding abortion law. Science can tell us when a heartbeat begins, how developed a baby is in the first, second, and third trimester, and even the sex of the baby. But again, it is absolutely powerless to tell us whether it is or is not moral to abort the baby. Such an evaluation would rest on the value judgments and moral code of the individual.
The issue, then, with slogans like “believe in science” is the tendency to conflate science with morality and value. When science is wielded to make laws, it is most often done with a moral code attached. It has been shown that science is not able to do this, so the only way science can be used to make law is for someone, some real person or persons somewhere, to draw a moral conclusion based on the science. This personal, individual moral conclusion is then applied wholesale upon all that the law will reach. It is for this reason that science should never be used as a justification in any government action to enforce moral systems.
Doing so results in the morals and values of the few being imposed upon the many. But it is only individuals who can make decisions about what they will do in regard to any scientific consensus. F.A. Hayek put this neatly when he said that “individuals should be allowed … to follow their own values and preferences rather than somebody else’s.”
The results of any scientific study require interpretation, and any interpretation is necessarily subjective. The interpretation of results may go on to inform value judgments and moral codes. But if science moves into a space where its conclusions can never be challenged and it also determines morality, then it suddenly ceases to exhibit characteristics of science and has assumed characteristics of religion.
When conveniently married to power, an exaltation of science to this status can have disastrous effects, as evidenced by the acts committed by the Third Reich and other totalitarian regimes.
“Science cannot lie, for it’s always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true,” Hitler famously asserted.
The further scientists drift from the scientific method to tell people what they should do, the more they undermine science and increase the potential to restrict choice, destroy human liberty, and harm real people.
It should always be remembered that while science can tell us that a phone will carry our voices through the air, it will never be able to tell us what should be said.
–Mike Roberts
Mike Roberts is a process engineer at Intel with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a life-long advocate of free markets and free ideas.
CHOPPER OF THE WEEK FOR SALE–
I spoke with Carlton (Marina owner). He said the seller spent about $80,000 assembling this bike. He said the tires and wheels alone were $10,000 apiece. This is more or less a collector’s piece or eye candy as you have suggested.
$29,000 OBO
CALL: 703-494-6611 LOCATED at Prince William Marina 12849 Gordon Blvd, Woodbridge, VA. This is a SPECIALTY ASSEMBLED CHOPPER that has been award winning in bike shows. It has a Softail frame with Dakota Digital gauges. The shocks are located underneath the bike. It has a S&S show polished diamond cut 124 cu. in. motor. It has a 6-speed Baker transmission. Priced to sell!
Teresa Allen
Prince William Marine Sales, Inc.
12849 Gordon Blvd.
Woodbridge, VA 22192
703-494-6611
www.pwmarina.com
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover — H. Jackson Brown Jr
STURGIS BUFFALO CHIP— Evo Entanglement Bike Show Sponsored by Bikernet.com
Three years in a row of the best prize package at the Rally!
Long known as Harley-Davidson’s most reliable and approachable power plant, many moto-historians also say the Evo engine saved the MoCo. Its 16-year+ run followed the company’s buy-out by the “gang of 14” and it ushered in stability in those post-AMF days.
The years of the Evo engine dovetailed with massive production numbers, too, so there are plenty of Evo powerplants still around. When the industry boomed in the late ‘90s and early 2000’s, Evo-style engines ran thousands more “American other” machines made by companies such as S&S Cycle to power Big Dogs, American Iron Horses, and many more.
So where are all the Evos now? That’s what we want to know! Bring yours – factory or aftermarket – to enter the 3rd Annual Evo Entanglement Show, presented by S&S Cycle, at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip on Wednesday, August 9th. Besides an opportunity for awesome profiling, you could win an S&S V-111 engine, Paughco frame, tank & front end, and $1000 Baker certificate. And that’s just one of the prizes!
Want to meet Sons of Anarchy actor Rusty Coones? Enter the show FREE (online in advance or day of show) to be eligible for the first-ever Rusty Coones Illusion Cycles Award, selected and presented by Rusty himself. The award includes a custom-made, one-off trophy crafted by Paul Wideman at Bare Knuckle Performance PLUS a super slick Whiteknuckler knife compliments of Lowbrow Customs
Also meet Show Hero Paul Wideman of Bare Knuckle Performance and Artist Darren McKeag as they arrive on their Bare Knuckle Evo Custom Chops – the bikes they rode in from Missouri, bugs and all.
Not enough? How about this:
The first 100 people to register for the show – and it’s free to register – get a FREE, Limited Edition Mint Speed Shop Flannel! Mark your size in your registration and pick it up at the show when you register at the QR code or https://www.buffalochip.com/bike_shows/evo-entanglement-bike-show-presented-by-ss-cycle/
This show gets a ton of support from major aftermarket companies. Prizes like $500 gift certificates are provided by: Drag Specialties, Saddlemen, Performance Machine, Burly Brand, Progressive Suspension, GMA, BDL, Fat Baggers, Avon Grips, Klotz, Cometic, Paul Yaffe’s Bagger Nation, NAMZ, Twin Power, Nelson Rigg, Memphis Shades, Chop Docs, Lowbrow, Biltwell, Blackout Industries, Twisted Tea and more. If it’s still more glory you seek, the Best in Show winner moves on to compete for top honors on the Buffalo Chip’s main stage Friday night in the Custom Series King (or Queen!) finals.
Classes include: Best in Show, Best Paint, Inaugural Rusty Coones Illusion Cycles Award, Chopper, Dyna/FXR, Custom Cruiser, Bagger, Survivor, Sportster. See you there.
VINTAGE INDIANS OF THE WEEK—
–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
Bikernet.com™
NEWS FROM HEMMINGS AUCTION–2008 Blendzilla #2 With Electric Start
Looking to rev up your next party to nearly 10,000 rpm? The seller is offering—at no reserve—the perfect “vehicle” for the job, a little screaming machine known as Blendzilla #2. (Blendzilla #4 recently sold on this platform.) The seller bought this unique party machine from its builder, Howard Laramy of Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Apparently, Howard has been building these fun magnets for a few decades, modifying a blender to work with a two-stroke engine normally found powering a pocket bike. The seller then modified it to use electric start with a 12v battery.
The metal container holds 64 ounces of your favorite concoction. Mounted on an aluminum table that measures 13 inches square, this mega funster stands just 13.75-in. tall, or 20.75-in with the legs extended.
The seller refers to the hyper drink maker as “the Formula One of all party blenders.” (The Schumacher SC1343 battery tender for the electric starter has no connection to seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, but it’s a fun and functional touch.) Perhaps he meant Grand Prix motorcycle racing since, to operate the machine, you grab a motorcycle handlebar and twist Blendzilla’s throttle as you would open up a bike.
“It starts easily, runs well, and is easy to maintain,” the seller states. He includes a video showing operation. As he does not use the hyper-blender anymore, it’s ready for its next party animal.
POWERTRAIN
The 49-cc engine was made in China and uses a 25:1 fuel-oil mix that’s no longer allowed for emissions reasons. “Since the majority of available fuel mixes are 50:1, I always add a bit of castor oil to the fuel I purchase from a retailer,” the seller explains. “It’s better for the engine, and the castor oil smoke smells absolutely delicious!” He reports recent work including new fuel lines, the new battery tender, and a general clean-up.
Starting requires pushing a small primer bubble, sliding a choke lever, and pushing the starter button. “Twist the right handlebar to throttle it up and it will start promptly,” the seller says. “Let it warm up before cranking it up. It idles at about 2,500-3,000 rpm.” The seller affirms there are no leaks or weeps, just the sighs of disappointed party guests if you run out of fuel.
The centrifugal clutch engages the blender drive. The seller strongly suggests holding the blender lid down. “Otherwise at high rpm, it will fly off and spray everyone with what’s inside. It’s funny when it does that, but only for about a second.”
He also suggests draining residual fuel when finished then throttling it up to let it run dry. “The carburetor does better when you let the engine run dry before putting it away.”
EXTERIOR
The seller reports storing the Blendzilla indoors when not in use. He reports some wear on the metal surfaces, some scratches on the tabletop, and minor rust on the legs. Should car show judges get nitpicky, try bribing them with a drink.
https://www.hemmings.com/auction/2008-other-other-fl-682070
RETURN FROM ALASKA—
All ya’ll – the attached pic is from Glacier National Park on Going to the Sun road. If you’ve never done that ride, it is highly recommended! This was my second time, and I already want to go back.
My wife, Sherry, my buddy Mike and I are in Buffalo, Wyoming tonight. Tomorrow evening we’ll be home. It has been an AWESOME trip riding to Alaska and back. One for the books!
8000 miles, unbelievable scenery, challenging riding… and great memories. I LOVE RIDING MOTORCYCLES!!!
–Mark Buckner
MRF
KIPLING QUOTES–
“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“He who faces no calamity gains no courage.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“Believe the best of everybody.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
OKAY—So, life is nuts. Just ran into a new book ‘The Grip of Culture’, subtitled ‘The social psychology of climate change catastrophism’, is now published by Andy West. The topic seems to be heating up, but I fail to see any action or leadership supporting the truth. Don’t ever give in, I can’t.
In the meantime, I’m trying to get us registered for the BMST. I spoke to Drew Gatewood and then Delvene Manning. All is going to be sorted out.
I’ve made more progress on the trike with additional toe-in recommended by Dennis Manning and bolted down the seat. The trailer is labeled and our logos changed to South Dakota. Just two more items on the list plus the registration.
My VL, XA, FL Knucklehead project isn’t going to make it for the rally. The primary drive I choose from Cycle Tech has issues. Nothing seems to line up. I think it’s the transmission configuration and Billy from Cycle Tech or Tech Cycle has been most helpful.
Irish Rich and I worked on rear chain alignment. I had three PBI sprockets with varying offsets. We ended up reversing the deep sprocket and I was forced to machine it, exciting shit.
I also ordered shims and longer mounting studs for the bottom of the trans from McMaster Carr. They should be here today.
Since luscious fruit is available, here’s my breakfast. I can make it quick and return to work with a cup of coffee.
Catherine Palmer reminded me of our 5-Ball trophies and shot glasses, which were hand blown in San Pedro.
That’s Gearhead, the famous Bikernet fiction writer in the Chowderbarge in Wilmington having some delicious Chowder, natch.
Paul Davis sent me this shot of Joe Giovanni who was a leader in the women’s motorcycle movement and unfortunately passed too early. Great shot.
THE STRANGE BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for May 11, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
Get this. I thought it was the 12th today, my computer said it was the 10th and my calendar called it the 11th. Strange times.
Hell, look at the news. Wait, you better not. It’s not good. Biden Energy Secretary is cracking down on dishwashers to save the planet from climate doom.
I can’t look at the news anymore, it’s nuts.
Let’s hit the news:
The Bikernet Weekly News is sponsored in part by companies who also dig Freedom including: Cycle Source Magazine, the MRF, Las Vegas Bikefest, Iron Trader News, ChopperTown, BorntoRide.com and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.
DENNIS KIRK HAS ALL YOUR EVO NEEDS COVERED—From engines to replacement parts.
They have carbureted and injected engines.
Here’s an example:
S&S Cycle Polished V124Ei Assembled Engine – 310-0665
Certified for “new build” bikes, S&S offers the 124 for 49-state EPA engine packages.
FITMENT: Aftermarket frames with motor mounts for 1984–’99 big twins
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
49-state emissions legal
S&S Delphi style EFI with Classic Teardrop air cleaner cover
Chrome gearcover, tappet covers, and rocker covers
Includes all required certification, documentation and labels
Two-year warranty
OLD ROYAL ENFIELD DISCOVERED—
I wish I could send it to you. Enfield India started assembling these motorcycles in 1955. When the UK company went defunct in 1970s, Enfield India was already manufacturing them under license. Soon they owned the British company because we wanted these — the economy was closed and Japanese and other companies including CocaCola were not allowed entry to protect the closed market. After liberalisation in economy, it meant cool Japanese bikes and cars for all. Enfield was forced to either reinvent themselves or become extinct like its colonial ancestor.
Yup, they reinvented themselves alright! Enfield is now again a global player in motorcycle industry.
The 1955 chassis was more or less the same as in this one (and same as my 2007 Bullet). Even the engine had seen very little changes since 1955 model Std Bullet.
I don’t know if it’s mid-life crisis wanting to own this old technology, but it’s a carburetor based mechanical machine — unlike modern motorcycles full of technology that won’t work in a dystopian future (as in the novel Sam Chopper Orwell by Keith ‘Bandit’ Ball).
I will send you some photos after they do some polishing and buffing and minor repairs on it. In all it cost me $1100 to make it look younger, register it as a new owner and get mandatory insurance. After 2026, I will have to again apply to the transport department for “Fitness Test” where they will decide if this vehicle is road-worthy.
Meanwhile, here is a blast from my youthful past –photos of my first Enfield from 2007.
–UD
International News Desk
SPEAKING OF BOOKS—We are revisiting my second book Outlaw Justice and I ran across this quote:
When he was a younger man, John had cared for the bike like it was his Rolls Royce. But his nature was changing. The scoot still meant more to John than any other material possession, but drugs, violence, and cheap thrills were getting in the way. What once had been his ticket to women, the key to his unbridled mobility, and his vehicle on the freeway to freedom, now shared the limelight with whiskey and white powder. His patch and the bike were John’s only property, his brothers, his sole companions.
We hope to have new model available in the near future. The last version was sold out. There is a version available in Bandit’s Cantina.
–Bandit
THE LATEST FROM LINDBY–
Adjustable Footrest for the FLH Models
Chrome Black FLH Model
$449.99
The Lindby Custom Adjustable Footrest for the FLH Models
High-tensile, triple chrome-plated 1-1/4? steel tubing construction with the Lindby Custom unique look and protection that’s unparalleled.
Features:
Front bars are made from 1 1/4? high-strength steel for long-lasting durability.
Replaceable Bonded Rubber Footrests provide traction and added comfort and traction in all climates.
Available in triple-chrome-plated or gloss black powder-coat finish.
BRAND – HARLEY DAVIDSON
AVAILABILITY – IN-STOCK
“The Lindby organization is moving into a new facility.” –Bandit
TEXAS WEATHER REPORT–
Went up to MC Creations today, the humidity from just that short trip about 11 and I’m back hiding in the garage today.
Is it a 68/69(?) Sportster, 1970 original Shovelhead & mine has 2 tanks and bags back on her!
–RFR
NEWS FROM THE TIP OF THE CLIMATE WEATHER STATION–What a bunch of losers.
It is the knowledge they are losing the battle for hearts and minds which is what is driving radical greens to ever more frantic attempts to grab public attention. In the very near future they will be completely isolated – attention is already shifting to the next great fake crisis, the threat of malevolent AI.
One day soon, in the not too distant future, we will look on green radicals as just another kind of quirky survivalist, just another bunch of frightened people holed up in their bunkers, wasting their lives away waiting for the apocalypse which never arrives.
–WUWT
5-BALL RACING NEW SHOP—Frankie is setting it up in Venice, California, in an alley behind the coolest area in town.
I took the Dicey Knuckle out for a ride after the winter. I was wearing a 5/8 Jak shirt.
I’m wearing a light speedway vest in this shot.
Check our line-up online.
–Bandit
SPEAKING OF CLIMATE DOOM—
A local company runs and operates billboards around the Sturgis, SD area. If they don’t have a customer, they have free billboard art to post from non-profits. Unfortunately, this supposedly non-profit provides them with political messages like the one above.
Last year I posted an opposing view regarding CO2 and stoves. I’ve come up with another notion. A photo of a beached whale against a shot of an ocean mounted wind generator with the line: A WHALE OF A MISTAKE
What do you think?
–Bandit
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NEWS FROM THE LAW TIGER TEAM—American Flat Track Sacramento Mile, May 13, 2023, Gates Open at 2:00 pm
Get ready for a heart-pumping, adrenaline-fueled motorcycle racing experience at the American Flat Track Sacramento Mile, presented by Law Tigers! Held on May 13 in Sacramento, California, this event is the pinnacle of professional flat track racing, featuring top riders and teams from around the world.
Watch as competitors navigate the challenging one-mile dirt track at speeds of over 100 miles per hour, battling it out for supremacy in multiple race categories, including the AFT Twins, AFT Singles, and AFT Production Twins.
But the excitement doesn’t stop there. With Law Tigers as the proud sponsor of the event, you can also expect a fun-filled atmosphere, complete with live music, delicious food and drink vendors, and plenty of other entertainment options.
525 Fentress Blvd. Ste B Daytona Beach, FL 32114
THE BIKER MOVIE RELEASED—
I will send you the packaged set of the dvds for you. If you don’t have a dvd player I’ll get you one if you like.
It’s been going really good…just getting things off the ground. Giving some copies away to people who are in the movie or support it.
Building an arsenal of really good reviews and quotes from people to launch on my other pages.
I’ve got one hell of a movie. You won’t be disappointed!
–Pete Alva
DYNA SEATS FROM LE PERA—
The world is your playground… shred it! This is the seat that every adventurous rider would be stoked to own. The maximized back support and ample seating area offer plenty of options for riding – or showing off – at a moment’s notice.
Shown with TDV Brown Distressed Vinyl seating and sides with the Diamond Stitch. Also available with Basket Weave, Pleated Stitch and our new Gripp Tape material – for when traction is needed! Many other custom materials and stitch graphics are available as well!
Specs
Driver Seating: 11″ Wide
Passenger Seating: N/A
MSRP: $560.00
Part Number: LK-591DMBRNBK [’06-’17] Dyna
BIKERNET MEDICAL CENTER FINDINGS—
“Socialized medicine has only one way to guarantee its own survival: by killing its customers.
Normal medicine – meaning free-market medicine – has only one way to guarantee its own survival: by CURING its customers.
There actually IS a difference between socialized medicine and capitalist medicine And it’s the same difference that exists between life and death: meaning; it’s huge.
–J.J. Solari
WISDOM QUOTE FOR THE WEEK:
“In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories, and steps, be a rebel and count your blessings instead.” ~ Lisa Heckman
BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment!–Bon Ami King Charles
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/Bon_Ami_King_Charles.aspx
Good analysis of the new king. He’s been waiting so long. With any luck William will ascend soon. Diana got royally screwed again. She would’ve made a much more pleasing queen than dogface, but then there was a price to pay.
–Rhys
Florida
WEEKLY DOSE OF INSPIRATION–
Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Half a life is a life you didn’t live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life.
~ Khalil Gibran
JIMS HOT PRODUCT OF THE WEEK—
Part No. 6021, 6023 – JIMS Milwaukee Eight Low Profile Billet Tappet Covers & Pushrod Cover Kits
Part No. 6021, 6023 – JIMS® Milwaukee Eight Low Profile Billet Tappet Covers & Pushrod Cover Kits
The tappet covers on the Milwaukee Eight engine have grown substantially in height compared to Twin Cam engines. This additional height not only makes it challenging to adjust pushrods, but the covers have lost a bit of styling in their redesign. Make way for the new JIMS billet “low profile” Milwaukee Eight tappet covers.
Not only do the JIMS tappet covers have a sleek new look, but they are approximately 1/2? lower then stock – making pushrod adjustment easy to do. Made from 6061 billet aluminum, these covers have JIMS “DNA” embedded in their design & work with stock and aftermarket alignment guides.
To achieve this height difference, the covers were designed to be installed with Twin Cam pushrod covers, they will NOT work with standard Milwaukee Eight pushrod covers. JIMS also offers these tappet covers with JIMS billet pushrod covers for the ultimate valve train cover upgrade for your Milwaukee Eight engine.
MSRP for the tappet cover kits, available in black and chrome range from $251.00 to $321.00. MSRP for the tappet cover AND pushrod cover kits, also available in black and chrome, range from $656.00 to $795.00.
For more information, please contact us at (805) 482-6913, email us at sales@jimsusa.com, or visit www.jimsusa.com.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK—Billy Cune
I believe we featured Billy before, but if we didn’t here’s the master.
–Sam Burns
Official Art Curator
Bikernet.com™
NEW FROM NASH–THE KNUCKLE BUCKLE WITH STRIPE BELT–Limited Quantities
The Knuckle Buckle is the latest collaboration between Nash Motorcycle Co and Jason Momoa’s On The Roam.
Jason and Taber Nash both have a passion for Harley’s first OHV motor, the iconic Knucklehead. First developed in 1936 this motor transcended the 2nd World War and developed a cult following from Harley enthusiasts and custom bike builders around the globe.
To commemorate the unique design of this motor, Jason and Taber have designed The Knuckle Buckle. Cast in bronze with an antique finish and polished Knuckle Nuts. A prodigy that is built to last a lifetime just like the venerable Knucklehead engine.
These buckles are a limited run and once they’re gone, they’re history!
The Knucklehead belt is crafted from 100% high-grade thick 8-10oz leather that is guaranteed to hold your pants up for years of hard work. These belts are natural tanned and burned leather for a unique striped look and stamped with KNUCKLEHEAD across the back as well as the On The Roam and Nash Motor Co. logos.
These belts do not have a slot for a traditional frame & prong style belt buckle.
LG Buckle – 5″ x 2.25″
Regular Buckle – 3.75″ x 1.75″
LG Buckle Belt – 1.75″ Wide
Regular Buckle Belt – 1.5″ Wide
Belt Sizing:
SM (WAIST SIZE 28-30)
MD (WAIST SIZE 32 – 34)
LG (WAIST SIZE 36 – 38)
XL (WAIST SIZE 40-42)
2XL (WAIST SIZE 44-46)
Nicolas Serrazin works at The Forge de la grenouillère in Bizanet, France. Ironwork, sculptures, stair rails, knives, almost anything iron.
They make their hammers and tools for sale.
WORDS FROM THE EMERALD TEMPLE—
There are four very important words in life:
Love, honesty, truth, respect.
Without these in your life, you have nothing.
–Ray Russell
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BLACK HILLS MOTORCYCLE SHOW SPONSORED BY LAW TIGERS–Black Hills Motorcycle Show
May 27. 2023
Noon – 8:00 pm
Join Law Tigers for a thrilling day of motorcycle excitement at the Black Hills Motorcycle Show on May 27! Located in Rapid City, South Dakota, this event is a celebration of all things motorcycle, featuring an impressive lineup of bikes, vendors, and entertainment.
Get up close and personal with some of the most stunning motorcycles in the country, from classic vintage models to sleek modern machines. And with a range of vendors on site, you can also check out the latest gear and accessories, grab a bite to eat, and enjoy a range of other fun activities.
You can even Register To Win –
$2,500 worth of Paul Yaffe original/bagger nation products installed by Deadwood custom cycles!
Enter email on their website to register to win!
** must be present at Black Hills Motorcycle Show to WIN **
Black Hills Motorcycle Show
Deadwood, South Dakota 57732, United States
NEW WindVest Windshields–The 14×14-inch Gun Smoke screen with Black Hardware for 2010-2017 HD Fatboy Lo
The Gun Smoke tint is available in most sizes and can mount to any of our hardware.
The design of our windshields gives you the ability to look over the top of the screen and yet getting the wind protection of a larger windshield.
Take the fatigue out of your ride and keep that cool blacked-out look
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Also available in clear and light smoke. Hardware finish in chrome or powder coat black.
NEW FROM INDIAN—
Indian Motorcycle today continues its ‘Forged’ custom Sport Chief video series, releasing the second of its three-bike build series (video here). For this build, Indian Motorcycle tapped Jake Cutler from Barnstorm Cycles to create a one-of-a-kind custom Sport Chief for highly decorated MMA fighter T.J. Dillashaw.
When designing the bike, Cutler wanted to create a locked-in riding position. To achieve this, Cutler narrowed the tank and added knee cutouts to allow T.J. to tuck into the bike for a more comfortable and secure riding position.
For the seat, Cutler used custom upholstery with gripper fabric. The handlebars are raised two inches with a slight pull back, while the front end was lifted an inch. With color-matched wheels, the bike’s high-finish paint was completed by Blue Moon Kustoms in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
“The end result of the bike is pretty much how I mapped it out,” said Cutler. “The colors are where I wanted them to be, the design is what I was hoping it would be.”
The Indian Motorcycle ‘Forged’ series will conclude with the final build by Carey Hart, set to debut May 18.
Episode 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKSFgKKP8A&t=33s
Episode 2:
https://youtu.be/lptE_xv5vmg
Parts List: 2023 Indian Motorcycle Sport Chief
- Beringer Brake Master and Clutch Cable Control
- Barnstorm Hand Control Transition adapters
- Barnett +2″ Clutch and Brake Cables
- Barnstorm “Lane Splitter” +2″ Pullback
- Handlebar Risers for Chief Models
- Indian Motorcycle Stock Sport Chief Moto style Handlebars
- Joker machine Left Side Bar end Mirror
- Hart Luck ODI Grips
- Front end lifted 1″ with Bareknuckle Performance INDIAN CHALLENGER FORK EXTENSION
- Kuryakn Bullet Atto Amber front turns
- LED Headlight with custom extension mount.
- Joker Machine Pegs “Race” Foot Pegs
- RSD Traction Shift and Brake Pegs
- Barnstorm Chief/Chieftain Final drive chain conversion
- Barnstorm + Audette Motorcycles Complete Thunderstroke Engine cover set:
- Revere cam cover
- Renegade horn cover
- Revere outer valve covers
- “BBolt” Sprocket Cover
- Barnstorm + Audette Motorcycle Moto Hi-Flo air Intake
Barnstorm Chief “Slim Subframe Strut and Fender Conversion” with
- Barnstorm “BBolt” Primary Cover medallion
- Barnstorm signature modified gas tank with hand fabricated “Knee cuts.”
- Custom seat upholstery stitched by Seamless Custom in Leicester, Massachusetts
- Custom Powder coating done by C.A.S. Services in Oxford Massachusetts
- Custom paint sprayed Blue Moon Kustoms is Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Photo credits: Sean MacD,
Drew Ruiz
THIS JUST IN, New Bikernet Reader Comment!—
THE WHACKY BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for Cinco de Mayo, 2023
(Click here to read the Whacky News)
I’m REALLY interested in learning MORE about that Paul Cox Primary Drive set-up. It might look GREAT in the Indian Board Track re-creation I’m build right now….
Get in touch with me Bandit….or I’ll be huntin’ YOU down…
–El Waggs
airstreamstudio@live.com
Oceanside, CA
THE BIKER LOVE POME– Saved Las Vegas
I dreamt that we were at the Bellagio
lookin’ at the fountain
Your hand went down my pantage front
You said my balls they needed countin’
And while you were takin’ inventory
My semen count was mountin’.
Your hand felt like a lotus
On my scrotal baggage
You said “I cannot help but notice
You’ve got a lotta saggage”
I said “You should not talk of scrotes
A-dragging on the ground
Because, my dear, between your legs
Are the ears of a basset hound
Dangling far below your crotch
Like two large theater curtains
That you must think are coy enticements
In your arsenal of flirtins
But let me tell you something toots
That you might find surprising
When it gets cold my sagging balls
They start into a-rising
No longer do they scrape the ground
Unlike your groinal dewlaps
You’d trip and fall a thousand times
Were you to run a few laps
No matter what the weather was
You’d walk on your dragging labs
You’d also trip and fall a lot
From slipping on your crabs
That even now are in cascading
Downpours of disgust
At having spent their miserable lives
Meandering through your crust
And all the other things between your legs
That do not have a name
That even HR Giger
Could not draw and frame”
You then said “This is poetry!
Your words ignite my crotch!
Let’s fuck here on the sidewalk
and kick Las Vegas up a notch!”
And so, we fucked there on the street
Me with my sagging balls
And you with your two slabs of meat
Like dangling overalls
We inspired the crowds of passersby
They applauded and threw coins
That we had elevated Las Vegas
With the union of our groins
To Sin City status once again
As it had been in the past
Now statues of us fucking
Line the streets of sin at last
We saved Las Vegas from the kids
that once had owned the town
They fled my sagging stench-filled balls
And your crusty crotch-slabs hanging down
Burma shave.
–J.J. Solari
THE GUN NUT FIND OF THE WEEK– NOW AVAILABLE IN 9MM
For those that demand a no-nonsense approach to their defensive grade pistol, the new Operator® 1911 in 9mm stands ready to deliver. Crafted on the solid foundation of a forged frame, slide and barrel, the Operator 1911 builds on the century-plus of service behind the gun and adds the benefit of the ever-popular 9mm round.
Tactical Rack rear/tritium front sights, G10 grips, ambi safety, two 9-round magazines with bumper pads, forward cocking serrations, and more combine to make the Operator 1911 from Springfield Armory a must-have tool for self-defense.
OPERATOR 1911
—www.springfield-armory.com
PANHEAD DEAL OF THE WEEK— $23,500.00 from Clint Landry. Greg at MC Creations in Houston can help.
I wonder how original it actually is?
–Sam Burns
BETCHA DIDN’T KNOW …
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
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No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
Oh, go ahead.. I’ll wait…
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks.
(So, watch your Ass)
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
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Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age, or older.
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
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The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MUSTACHE
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive
From each salad served in first-class.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
(Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you?)
(Those women are going in the ‘right’ direction…?)
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first ‘Marlboro Man’.
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Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
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PEARLS DISSOLVE IN VINEGAR!
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The ten most valuable brand names on earth: Apple, Coca Cola, Google, IBM, Microsoft, GE, McDonalds, Samsung, Intel, and Toyota,
in that order.
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A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
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Turtles can breathe through their butts
(I know some people like that; don’t YOU?)
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Remember, knowledge is everything, so pass it on…..
Now go move your toothbrush!
–DR. Feel Good
LAW TIGERS SPONSORED EVENT–Tennessee Motorcycles & Music Revival
Rev up your engines and get ready to rock out at the Tennessee Motorcycles & Music Revival, sponsored by Law Tigers! From May 18-21, Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, will be the place to be for an unforgettable celebration of motorcycles and music.
Experience the thrill of the open road with guided rides, motorcycle demos, and a vintage bike show. And when the sun goes down, the party heats up with a lineup of legendary musical acts, including Whey Jennings, Nikki Lane, Paul Cauthen and many more.
But that’s not all – with Law Tigers as the proud sponsor of the event, you can also expect a range of exciting entertainment options, delicious food and drink vendors, and an atmosphere of camaraderie and community among fellow motorcycle enthusiasts.
Loretta Lynn’s Ranch
8000 Tennessee Highway 13, Hurricane Mills, Tennessee 37078
THE 5-SPEED FILES–
I’ve run several stock Softail 5-speeds on old 4-speed frames. No problem at all. I ran the whole Softail primary assembly from about 1990 on the last chopper I built.
I find them on eBay for under $500. None of that cutting is necessary if you can space out your knucklehead engine sprocket enough to match the clutch you are running. I get that you might be running an original knucklehead bottom end with the old tapered keyed output shaft.
I have had great luck with Ultima 2-inch belt drive kit. But was always running a cone motor so I could run the inner brace.
You got me thinking now. I love the transmissions with splined main shaft so you can run a modern clutch but with those old motors you could run an engine pulley for a 3-inch belt and run a 2-inch or 1 ½-inch on it and make it run straight that way.
–Bill May
New TECH Bikernet Reader Comment!–
WIRE PLUS Wiring System for the Bikernet/Cycle Source 15th Sweeps Bike
(click here to read the Wire Plus Article)
Can you help me? I am searching for wireplus light module it’s on an OCC CHOPPER 2009.
–Normand de Chantal
Djnorm@sympatico.ca
Qu?bec city , QC, Canada
“Wire Plus is missed. But fortunately NAMZ has most everything anyone needs regarding wiring and electronics.”
THE ENERGY SECTOR–
Bill Gates had referred to Terrapower, his unique modern power generation company in the documentary about him titled “Inside Bill’s Brain” on Netflix.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10837476/
He hired a guy who holds the maximum patents, all of which are critical to US Armed Forces. With his input they realized no research has been done on nuclear power for over 50 decades — so they did the research to build a prototype of a nuclear power plant that’s safe and generates far less nuclear waste.
In the documentary he explains how the Japan Fukushima reactor accident happened, and why it can easily be avoided.
Now, here is the working real world nuclear power plant of Bill Gates and his key Terrapower people.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Wyoming-TerraPower
TerraPower is partly funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Los Alamos National Laboratory. TerraPower chose traveling wave reactors (TWRs) as its primary technology. Their major benefit is high fuel utilization that does not require nuclear reprocessing and could eliminate the need to enrich uranium.
ELECTRIC Bikernet Reader comment
It would seem that these people humping the electric bandwagon are overlooking the cost of these batteries in the elements used to make them and most of them are not recycle friendly and hard to put out when they burn. I will stick with my fossil fuel.
I guess future generation just won’t be able to listen to the sound of a big block and 4-speed, and I sure as hell do not want my Harley to hum.
–A.J.
TRADITIONAL BIKERNET Reader Comment—Speed Meets Style
Kool bike (chopper) BUT, I do NOT understand why, what in my day, the ’70s, THIS was a ‘Chopper’. This one is certainly a much more elaborate one than the ones in the ’60 & ’70’s, but NOT a Bobber’.
SO my question is; why NOW is that style being referred to as a Bobber and not a chopper??? It doesn’t look anything like what I remember and know to be a Bobber.
HOW about doing an article or feature on Traditional Bobbers. The bikes that inspired chopper. Let’s educate these young’ns
Just say’n
–El Waggs
BOB AND WEAVE FOR FREEDOM—
I feel like I’m bobbin’ and weavin’ to dodge restrictions and keep riding free. Sometimes, I feel like a broken record. I only want the truth, goddammit.
This week was jammed with projects from yard art to the Knucklehead. I had to switch-up the goofy pond art for an antique wheel. Crazy
Finished our ¾ base road to the shop the other day and arranged for more parking. May start to look into an enclosed trailer for the Salt Torpedo.
Waiting on a call from Airhart’s customs regarding the ’58 Chevy. Took the Redhead a dozen calls and two dozen photos and documents to get the damn thing insured.
Got the parts to build a flag pole but needed to coat them with metal paint. Almost there, and then I want to test the fit before we attempt to put them in position… Hang on.
We used this jack for the Torpedo trailer operation, but in the end it failed. I ordered another jack, but when I opened the instructions, it mentioned the oil level and how to check it. I did, it was down. Bada bing, fixed. I serviced it and we’ll see.
New shop art from Buck Lovell. It’s an Indian Prince from 1926. Note the noisy kicker on left and low tires. He seriously worked over the original sepia print to create this master.
I jammed to Lonnie Sr’s shop to discuss a 1913 twin engine and he and Rob were cleaning the shop and needed to move a lift. I told them about this puppy.
The Redhead escaped to visit her folks, so I’m on the lamb and back to top Ramen with chicken and vegetables and avocado toast. Not bad.
I’ll bring you an update on Dan’s projects next week including these pocket valves. You could carry a spare in your tool box.
I’m hoping to spend the weekend working on the Knucklehead. Let’s see.
Ride free, forever!
–Bandit
THE GROUP BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for May 18, 2023
By Bandit |
Hey,
This is turning into an interesting week. With the twitter and FBI resolutions, maybe truth and honesty will take center stage again.
I was going to call this the apathetic news, but that’s not true. The Group stands for the emergence of small but powerful groups in our society. As the population grows, we see small groups expand.
It goes along with our industry adage. Over the years folks claimed doom for motorcycling. We’ve had ups and downs, but the population continues to grow and more motorcyclists are born. But look at the industry as a whole. It’s made up of way more groups. There’s the bagger crowd, the touring guys, the chopper builders, the antique industry, the dirt racers, the drag racers and the Bonneville crew.
So, our society has also expanded. Some have been good and some groups very bad. We need to learn how to deal with both. Can’t be complacent or apathetic now.
Let’s hit the news:
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THE TWITTER REPORT-– There has been another sighting of the regular complaint that climate scientists are being subject to hury comments on Twitter.
The Guardian reports a “huge” rise in abuse since Elon Musk took over the platform last year. “It’s mostly just people saying you are talking rubbish,” admits Professor Richard Betts from the Met Office, although the Guardian headlines its story with a “vicious abuse” charge. This would appear to be the same Guardian that apologized in 2019 for saying David Cameron felt only “privileged pain” upon the death of his handicapped young son.
The same newspaper that recently published George Monbiot’s belief that “taking out” pipelines, refineries, abattoirs, coal plants and SUVs is “morally justified“, and the same publication that has taken to printing racist cartoons aimed at its political opponents that would not have looked out of place in a Third Reich newspaper.
The Guardian reports that some of the U.K.’s top scientists are struggling to deal with this rise in abuse from “climate deniers”. They are fighting to make themselves heard over what is described as a “barrage of hostile comments”. Twitter employees who ensured ‘trusted’ content was prioritised have been sacked, while Right-wing culture warriors such as Jordan Peterson have been reinstated. The newspaper cites a recent survey from Global Witness which suggested prominent scientists were the most likely to face abuse.
One of those prominent scientists is UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, who received an ‘abusive’ tweet that referred to “a fairy tale about the big bad weather”. Another correspondent replied: “Great stories about BS science Mark. But I am tired of sci-fi.” Dr. Helen Muri, a Norwegian researcher, was sent a graph of Greenland ice core temperatures over the last 10,000 years suggesting current temperatures were at an all-time low. The writer asked in polite terms, “Any luck finding the climate crisis yet?”
Of course, there is abuse across social media, some of it not very pleasant. Nobody condones threats of violence, or indeed support for violent acts, and it should be removed from public discourse. But anyone who takes an inquiring view on the current mainstream narrative on issues such as climate change and Covid gets enormous amounts of abuse on a daily basis. Slightly less concern seems to be in evidence for all the hurty feelings this may be causing us (not that it is something that really fusses us).
What is happening of course is that the horrors of the collectivist Net Zero project are becoming increasingly apparent, as a widespread attack on almost all human activity is launched under the suggestion that the climate is breaking down. Until recently the ‘settled’ science promoting this view had a safe, largely uncontested space to prosper. But skepticism about the unproven hypothesis that humans operate the climate thermostat by burning fossil fuels is growing, with two recent polls showing that over 40% of people surveyed worldwide believe climate change is mainly due to natural causes. Far from coughing up the huge sums required to hit Net Zero, 4 in 10 Americans are not even prepared to pay more than two dimes a week to combat climate change…
The loss of Twitter as a ‘safe’ space for climate alarmists has been a bitter blow. It is not seemingly enough to exert considerable control over most other public platforms including social and mainstream media. Global Witness is of the view that if climate scientists are unable to do their work because of “stress and fear caused by harassment”, the critical evidence that undergirds climate action and solutions is put at risk. For his part, Maslin seems particularly disappointed, since he discloses that he held regular meetings with the platform’s Head of Sustainability to ensure ‘trusted’ information was pushed to the top. But the sustainability chief was sacked and Twitter “became the Wild West”, he laments.
It is reasonable for social media users to tell delicate activists like Maslin that there is really nothing to worry about from our climate. It’s just free speech, and it applies – in fact it is vital – in science and geography, as elsewhere. But it’s not just about science anymore. It is becoming apparent that Net Zero is being used as an attack on almost all human activity. Everything humans do to survive, from keeping warm to growing food, is being cast as an attack on Mother Earth.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
–WUWT
MOTODOFFO WINES NAMED— Named the Official Wine of The Sturgis Buffalo Chip
Rallygoers will be able to meet the Doffo family and try the moto-inspired wines during the 2023 Sturgis Rally.
MotoDoffo Wines, a division of family-owned Doffo Winery located in Temecula, California, is proud to announce its partnership with the world-renowned Sturgis Buffalo Chip as its official wine provider. This marks the first ever partnership of its kind and will bring the wine tasting experience to the thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts that flock to South Dakota each year for the legendary motorcycle rally.
A selection of MotoDoffo wines: 2020 Gran Tinto, 2020 Super Tinto and 2020 Sixty Six
The Sturgis Buffalo Chip is the premier attraction during the world’s largest motorcycle rally that draws an estimated attendance of over 500,000 people annually. It is known for its impressive lineup of musical acts and special events that take place during its ten-day run each summer. MotoDoffo Wines will be offering tastings to patrons at Crossroads during the rally, and several wines will be available for purchase in the Buffalo Chip’s various bars and restaurants.
In addition to providing signature wines through the event, winery founder Marcelo Doffo, his daughters Samantha and Brigitte and son Damian, will be participating in the Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s Legends Ride and Biker Belles, and will be sharing tastings at its Motorcycles as Art Exhibit as well as its Industry Party.
Several of MotoDoffo’s lineup of wines inspired by American v-twin motorcycles are already available for purchase on their website, including the Super Tinto, Gran Tinto and Sixty Six. More unique wines are on the way, including a special edition wine created in conjunction with The Sturgis Buffalo Chip.
For more information and to order online, visit www.motodoffo.com/wine. To learn more about MotoDoffo Wines, lifestyle apparel and motorcycle collection, or to make plans to visit the Temecula, California winery, visit www.motodoffo.com.
SEMA CEO’S EDITORIAL OPPOSING EPA GREENHOUSE GAS RULE–
We need your help to protect the automotive aftermarket industry and small businesses from the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas rule. SEMA CEO Mike Spagnola has written an editorial in the Washington Examiner opposing this rule, which would prioritize electric vehicles and put our industry at risk.
We urge you to share this important editorial with your network and on social media to help spread the word and raise awareness. Together, we can make our voices heard and protect the industry and small businesses in Virginia and across the country.
Please share this link to Mike Spagnola’s editorial in the Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/new-epa-emissions-proposal-puts-automotive-supply-chains-and-small-businesses-at-risk
–SEMA
THIS JUST IN FROM THE NAMZ ELECTRIC IVORY TOWER—
Let’s get that back end more visible with our Perfect Plate Light illuminated license plate frames!
Sure, the name “Perfect Plate Light” is pretty bold and the only way you should ever feel confident to make such a statement is if it’s true… and we feel it is. These are “the perfect” license plate frame, they not only secure your plate but they give you all the benefits LED lighting has to offer. An red running light, brake light, turn signals, white tag illumination and most importantly, SAFETY!
LLC-PPL-G: Our illuminated Perfect Plate Light™ License Plate Frame, Gloss Black, features RED running light, RED brake light, WHITE license plate light & RED turn signals. (Includes mounting hardware.)
(flat Perfect Plate Lights) When we came out with these in 2019, we knew we had a game changer. These little additions to the backside of your ride will definitely let everyone behind you know that you are there! Ultra-bright SMD LED’s and completely sealed from the elements for a lifetime of worry-free operation. Will bolt onto any flat 7″ x 4″ flat backing plate and installs in minutes.
We offer fitments for virtually every Harley Davidson Model, to include Indian Models as well! Our flat Perfect Plate Lights also will work with our Turn Signal Eliminators to really clean up the back end yet still provide you with bright visibility you need to feel safe!
VERGE MOTORCYCLES LAUNCHES— NEW LIMITED EDITION $87,000 ELECTRIC SIGNATURE SUPERBIKE DESIGNED BY TWO-TIME F1 CHAMPION MIKA HÄKKINEN
Finnish Superbike Manufacturer Creates ‘Signature’ Model Designed by Finnish Racing Legend Mika Häkkinen Limited to Just 100 Bikes
World-famous F1 legend and two-time World Champion Mika Häkkinen has designed the signature model of a new electric superbike in collaboration with Finnish electric superbike pioneer, Verge Motorcycles. Just one hundred Signature bikes will be manufactured.
“I know from experience what it takes to develop a vehicle that embodies speed, precision and elegance. I wanted to design the bike right down to the smallest detail rather than just picking the color. Each bike is numbered and features an exclusive signature. This electric superbike represents the future of riding and is a testament to a life lived to the fullest,” says Mika Häkkinen.
The luxury superbike designed with Mika Häkkinen combines a stylish and bold design with Verge’s unique technologies. Perfected down to the last detail, the model represents the most powerful and advanced electric superbike on the market with a range of 350 kilometers and a fast-charging time of just 35 minutes. In addition, it features an integrated rim motor inside the rear wheel, which is a patented and internationally awarded innovation developed by Verge.
This means that all of the power is transferred straight to the road and creates more space in the middle of the bike for the battery pack, while also lowering the bike’s center of gravity. This allows for low weight distribution, making handling the bike feel more nimble and light. The hubless design allows Verge to remove all moving parts like chains and cogwheels, leading to a streamlined design.
Based on the innovative Verge TS Pro performance platform, this new superbike embodies the same spirit of innovation, performance, and excellence that defined Häkkinen’s legendary career in motorsports. With sophisticated features like a hubless motor, instant torque, and fast charging capabilities, this platform represents the future of motorcycling technology. Capable of producing a 0-60 time of 3.5 seconds, the special edition Verge Signature bikes also can reach a top speed of 200 km/hour, nearly 125 miles per hour. Offering an incredible 1000 nm of torque (more than 730 lb-ft), the special-edition Verge bike is balanced out by the company’s traction control system, ABS and customizable riding modes to keep the rider entirely in control at all times. Custom Brembo brakes help to increase stopping power, to further balance the incredible power harnessed within each superbike.
The Verge Signature is engineered from the highest quality materials in the world, incorporating carbon fiber fairings and a unique ceramic surface treatment that protects against scratches. A completely custom midnight suspension and pitch black shock absorbers combine with dark gray and silver surfaces to complete the exclusive livery detailing.
Mika Häkkinen and Verge Motorcycles teamed up at the beginning of 2023, when Häkkinen was appointed to the company’s Advisory Board. Häkkinen is also one of the investors in Verge Motorcycles. The Verge Signature model that Häkkinen and the company have designed represents two leaders in their respective fields joining to create something extraordinary.
The unique superbike designed by Häkkinen is available for purchase via the Verge Motorcycles online store. It can also be purchased from the new Verge Motorcycles flagship store in Monaco, which will open in connection with the Monaco Grand Prix and is the superbike manufacturer’s first physical shop and showroom. With a U.S. base of operations in San Francisco, California, Verge Motorcycles plans to open the company’s first U.S. dealership in the near future.
The retail price of the bike without taxes is 80,000 euros or around $87,000. For more information, please visit www.vergemotorcycles.com.
MRF REPORT—Traveling back from DC.
I am traveling back from our National Bikers Inside the Beltway lobbying event in Washington D.C.
We had constituents, from both MC’s and ABATEs from right at 40 states, hit all 535 offices over the 3 days.
Pretty good response on RPM act being re-introduced, expect over 100 co-sponsors fairly quickly.
Excellent response on our 3rd round of right to repair, farmers are hand in hand with us fighting John Deere, while we battle Harley and Polaris, interesting that they don’t want to modify our bikes or service anything a few years old, so it’s about forcing people to buy new bikes that will never run right.
The Preservation of Choice bill (ICE) has massive Republican support, zero democratic support.
Much follow up in coming couple of weeks.
Looking for the Independent Motorcycle Aftermarket Council launch.
–Kirk Willard
President
QUANTUM DEAL OF THE WEEK— I have a 200 American Quantum with 1950 miles. He suggests it might be valuable to a collector and that you might know a Buyer. I just had the 3-hole service done and bike runs like a rocket.
I just turned 66 and can no longer ride for physical reasons and would like to sell the bike. Would you be able to suggest a good place/way to sell it? Thanks for any information you can provide.
–Michael Palmer
Madison, AL. 35758
T: 757-348-3677
“I suggested Bring a Trailer, online auction site.” –Bandit
COMPETITION DISTRIBUTING BRINGS YOU THE– *PRE-ORDER* Mad Scientist 8 Valve Hooded Sweatshirt
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MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING–and South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks, Team Up for Boating BUI and ATV DUI Prevention Campaign to Kick Off Summer Recreation Season
SOUTH DAKOTA — Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) South Dakota volunteers and staff are teaming up with the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks to promote safe boating and ATV seasons and to educate about the dangers of operating a boat, watercraft, and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) while impaired by alcohol or other drugs.
“Recreational Vehicle impaired crashes affect families the same way as road vehicle impaired crashes do,” said MADD South Dakota Regional Executive Director Veronica Hawman. “Unfortunately, there is not always the same mindset for Recreational Vehicle drivers in terms of choosing to operate them sober.”
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, alcohol is a leading known contributing factor in fatal boating incidents. Where the primary cause was known, alcohol was listed as the leading contributing factor in 18% of deaths in 2020.
Additionally, a boater is likely to become impaired more quickly than an automobile driver, and even moderate drinking can cause significant impairment on a boat. The environmental stressors of the marine environment – motion, vibration, engine noise, sun, wind, and spray – accelerate the impairing effect of alcohol. These stressors cause fatigue, making a boater’s coordination, judgment, and reaction time decline even faster when using alcohol.
Operating a boat with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .08 or higher is against federal law and most state laws.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety created a Fatality Facts 2020: Motorcycles and ATVs report. Where the primary cause of ATV crash was known there were 111 estimated ATV deaths with BACs greater or equal to 0.08, and 73 estimated ATV deaths with BACs greater or equal to 0.15.
“It’s important to remember that operating any type of vehicle under the influence on the water or on land can cause traumatic injuries and tragic loss of life,” said MADD South Dakota Regional Executive Director Veronica Hawman. “If your plans include alcohol, consider doing so onshore AFTER you are finished boating for the day and have a non-drinking driver to get you to your next destination on land.”
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks remind all recreation explorers to take the following safety precautions this summer:
Boats
- Take a boating safety course
- Boat responsibly on the water
- Wear a life jacket
- Attach the engine cut-off switch
- Get a free vessel safety check
- Never drink or use drugs and operate a boat
- Find more information at madd.org/bui
ATVs
- Take an ATV safety course
- Always wear appropriate gear (helmets, goggles, clothing)
- Never ride on paved roads except to cross safely
- Ride an ATV that’s right for your age
- Never carry a passenger on a single-rider ATV
- Supervise riders younger than 16
- Never drink or use drugs and operate an ATV or UTV
“I’m not a big supporter of MADD. They did turn into a group against any drinking, anytime. Sort of a control freak effort to stymie fun. I could be wrong.” –Bandit
BIKERNET MOVIE OF THE WEEK— I finally got to see the movie Big George Foreman.
https://www.taijutsu.art/2023/02/life-of-george-foreman.html
It seems there was something called “Job Corps” back then in USA. I was wondering if it’s still there.
Hey, the good news is, it’s still there and people need to know about its success story.
I wonder how many other nations have woken up to the need of such an organization. Of course, developing nations need it more than the G8 nations, but they imagine the priority is basic survival — food, medication, literacy.
The movie illustrates how engaging the youth can easily change the destiny of a nation or at least a community / town / neighborhood. Education is ridiculously expensive even in developing nations and the governments let the public school infrastructure rot for no valid reason.
While the movie proves faith can move mountains and it certainly moved that mountain of a man to new heights — it doesn’t really build much trust in organized religions and private sector educational institutions.
–Wayfarer
Editor
Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
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THIS JUST IN FROM THE DOWN UNDER TEMPLE OF THOUGHT–
Not everyone is going to understand your life journey.
Not everyone is going to believe in what you believe in.
You are your own path so never change who you are.
“Stay true, be you.”
–Ray Russell
Senior Monk
Bikernet.com Thought University
Australia
LIFESTYLE CYCLES DEAL OF THE WEEK- Here is the bike of the week.
URL: https://www.lifestylecycles.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=13783956
STOCK #13803
2015 Harley Davidson FLSTN Softail Deluxe
Only 9490 Miles!
This bike is so clean it looks like it was sealed in an air tight bag in someone’s garage! This is the ultimate “Gangsta” bike!
* ABS Antilock brakes
* 16-inch radiused 1 1/2-inch Chrome Ape hanger handlebars
* Wide White wall tires
* Vance Hines dual exhaust
* Stage 1 high flow air cleaner
* LED head and spot lights
* Black Stainless Steel cables
* Tuner
* Super clean
This bike is only $18,995
Plus license, $85.00 documentation fee, and local sales tax. NO HIDDEN FEES like some dealers. And we have no reconditioning or prep fees. This bike has passed Lifestyle Cycles rigorous 92-point safety/mechanical/structural inspection.This motorcycle has not been refurbished and does not come with any warranty expressed or implied! EXTENDED WARRANTIES are available!
Fill out an online application today. We have EZ FINANCING
Lifestyle Cycles is located at 1510 State College Blvd,Anaheim,CA,92806. Open 7 days a week.
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Huge selection of Street Glides, Road Glides, Road Kings, Ultras, Sportsters, Softails, Dynas, and much more!
We are California’s pre-owned Harley Mega-Store with over 200 Pre-Owned Harley-Davidsons in stock! To view our current inventory,
Please visit www.LifestyleCycles.com or www.facebook.com/LifestyleCyclesUsedHarleys/
–Richard Allstun
Marketing Director
Lifestyle Cycles
714.490.0155
FERRARI FOR FREEDOM— resists pressure to phase out combustion engine
Ferrari will continue to build cars with internal combustion engines into the late 2030s, despite efforts by governments around the world to phase out the technology.
The boss of the Italian manufacturer said it would be “arrogant” to dictate to customers what they can buy.
For Ferrari, as for many other premium brands, the move towards electric cars presents a steep marketing challenge.
But the company is due to introduce its first electric supercar in 2025.
In a BBC interview, Ferrari boss Benedetto Vigna pointed to this decision as a sign that technology was evolving, and denied doing so would undermine the company’s environmental credentials.
“I don’t want to be arrogant and impose a choice on our clients,” he said.
“It is the client who must choose if they want an ICE (internal combustion engine), a hybrid or an electric car.”
–By Theo Leggett
Business correspondent, BBC News
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/65539880
“What can I say – Ferrari we love you. I’d buy one of your cars if I could afford it.”
–WUWT
SECRET PAINT FINISH TIP OF THE WEEK—from Irish Rich of Shamrock Fabrication and Kirk Taylor designs.
Rich had a frame powder-coated gloss black. As soon as he started to work on it, he noticed minute scratches. He reached out to Kirk, an expert with paint. Kirk recommended building the bike then polishing any scratches with McGuire’s #7 detailing compound. He also suggested a final coat of Mother’s paste wax or McGuire’s California Gold paste wax.
There you have it.
–Bandit
EMILY’S HOPE POKER RUN–
I am reaching out on behalf of Emily’s Hope, a non-profit organization dedicated to removing the stigma of substance use disorder through awareness, education, and prevention.
We are hosting our 5th Emily’s Hope Poker Run on June 24th and are currently seeking donations for our silent auction. Last year, with the help of generous donors like you, we raised $15,000 through our silent auction alone. These funds were used to provide much-needed support to those in need in our community.
–Anna Fey
annafey@emilyshope.charity
605-940-3504
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE—
California Advances Bill to Legalize Cruising; Encourage support from lawmakers on this proposal:
California has introduced SAN-supported legislation (AB 436) to allow automobile cruising activities to return statewide. Currently, local authorities are authorized to pass ordinances that regulate or prohibit cruising. This effort follows a resolution approved by the legislature last year celebrating the history and culture associated with automobile cruising, as well as encouraging local officials and law enforcement to work with local car clubs to conduct safe cruising events. Having passed the Assembly, the bill now awaits consideration in the Senate Committee on Transportation.
Lawmakers Must Hear from You Right Away!
Use the SEMA website link for an overview and lawmaker contact.
ACT NOW
–SEMA
SALT TORPEDO UPDATE—
We are starting to roll through our list regarding the run to the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials in August. One line on the list covers procuring an enclosed trailer. A brother in Pasadena offered to give me the perfect trailer, just drive to L.A. and pick it up…
This week we started a local hunt and spoke to a Hamster who owned a Trailer sales company. We discussed EZ hauler aluminum trailers, which weigh half of what a steel and plywood trailer weighs.
I spoke to Irish Rich of Shamrocks Fabrication who has owned the same enclosed trailer for almost 20 years. He made me a check-off list.
- Make sure to get a spare tire.
- Two axle trailers are safer with independent, torsion-bar suspension over leaf springs
- Have E-tracks installed for versatile tie-down locations.
- Make sure to carry wheel chocks
- He recommends E-brakes.
- Make sure you get a jack with the trailer.
–Irish Rich and Bandit
Ps. If your trailer sits around for a year between trips, jack it up and relieve the pressure on the wheels. Have it checked and serviced before you use it again.
–Bandit
NEWS FROM THE DICE TEAM— Motorville Festival –
Brothers and sisters of UK and Europe, have you heard about the big show happening next week in Germany?
It’s set to be a jolly old knees up with a bunch of killer bands, pre ‘84 vehicles and plenty of beverages.
Find out more on the DicE Blog
–DicE Blog
New EPA emissions proposal puts automotive supply chains and small businesses at risk
By Mike Spagnola
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal last month for strict new federal multipollutant emissions standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles. The proposal would decisively tilt the U.S. car and truck market toward electric vehicles over the next decade. The new standards would initiate for the 2027 model year and gradually increase through the 2032 model year.
If the EPA draft standards are implemented by 2032 as proposed, the agency anticipates that two-thirds of all new-car sales in the U.S. would be electric vehicles . This large-scale shift would significantly disrupt automotive industry supply chains and potentially eliminate large numbers of jobs in vehicle manufacturing, parts production, and repair shops. Ford alone estimates a 30% labor reduction in its transition to electric vehicles.
Likewise, much of the specialty automotive aftermarket — the parts and modifications you make to your vehicle once it leaves the car lot — is built around the internal combustion engine. The $51 billion aftermarket industry supports more than 1 million jobs in U.S. automotive manufacturing. The specialty automotive aftermarket has also led the way in alternative fuel innovations such as hydrogen, replacing older engine technologies with newer, cleaner versions and even conversions of older internal combustion engine-based cars to new electric, hydrogen, and other alternative fuels. Yet none of that is considered part of the broader plan to reduce greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants from automobiles.
Small businesses would be the most vulnerable to the disruptions caused by a seismic shift to battery-electric vehicles. According to the most recent Census Bureau tally of the almost 1,200 auto engine and transmission parts suppliers in the U.S., more than 60% had 20 or fewer employees. These companies often make specialized components, operate on tight margins, and rely on long-term contracts. They employ American workers with technical skills and create the often politically celebrated blue-collar jobs.
Large automakers are losing billions a year in their electric-vehicle programs, despite the massive financial infusion of taxpayer dollars they are receiving from the government and subsidies to purchase EVs. If they are struggling, how are small businesses expected to survive?
Clean air and the reduction of greenhouse gases are goals everyone can acknowledge. That said, when governments arbitrarily pick technology winners and losers, the marketplace is deprived of choices, and the public suffers. Instead of forcing this transition, the EPA should put in place incentives to support a diversified zero-emissions approach that takes advantage of breakthrough technologies across the spectrum.
Hydrogen, for example, is already being used as a power source in buildings, cars, trucks, forklifts, ships, and trains. Hydrogen-powered cars have greater range and faster refueling times compared to electric vehicles and reduce the need for limited-supply materials used in EV battery packs. And clean hydrogen generation is already feasible: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory website identifies five different methods to produce hydrogen economically from sustainable resources.
Other renewable fuels, including synthetic eFuels that allow legacy vehicles to operate in a carbon-neutral manner, should also be part of the equation. Where are the government-backed financial incentives for these alternate technologies?
The market is rightly skeptical of new EV technology, and right now, it simply does not have the infrastructure ready to support EVs. Yet by using multipollutant emissions regulations to force-feed EVs to the market, the government is effectively putting all its eggs into one technology basket.
The Biden administration should realize that the market’s hesitation to adopt EV technology in the first place proves that putting the government’s thumb on the scale is not an effective means of persuasion. But instead of adjusting course to let the market forge the transition, the administration is effectively doubling down on a flailing policy.
Meanwhile, a dozen states have recently introduced or passed legislation or resolutions affirming support for the internal combustion engine and for the government to remain technology-neutral in the debate to reduce automotive emissions. In Virginia, for example, it was only the state’s slim Democratic Senate majority that stymied Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s campaign platform issue to repeal Virginia’s internal combustion engine ban.
The EPA’s emissions proposal is misguided and counterproductive. Instead of trying to force a clean energy transition, the Biden administration should support the work of innovators and protect the small-business owners and those they employ by letting the market and innovation drive solutions to the environmental challenges we all seek to solve.
Mike Spagnola is the president/CEO of the Specialty Equipment Market Association, which represents more than 7,000 member companies that provide appearance, performance, comfort, convenience, and technology products for passenger and recreational vehicles.
–SEMA
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Indian Motorcycle today revealed the final custom Sport Chief build within its ‘Forged’ video series.
Featuring long-time friends renowned freestyle motocross riders Carey Hart and Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg, the final custom bike takes the stock performance of the Indian Sport Chief to an entirely new level.
When speaking to Twitch about his build plans, Hart said, “It’s already a great base. The components on the production Sport Chief are great, but for what you’re going to be doing, I’m going to really focus on the chassis, handling, and braking. You’re going to ride the wheels off this thing, so it has to perform. It’s not just a trophy bike.”
Hart started off by stripping the bike down to its motor and frame. He reengineered the brakes with race-spec Beringer components and tapped Trac Dynamics to develop a billet aluminum swingarm for increased rigidity and to minimize flex. He also called upon Barnstorm Cycles to add knee cuts to help slim the tank. The bike also features Hart & ODI bars and grips, super sticky Dunlop tires, machine wheels, a chain conversion and a Bassani 2-into-1 exhaust. Hart also raised the front end an inch and added a Beringer clutch perch to deliver a more moto-like feel that Twitch is accustomed to. To finish the bike off, Hart pulled in Schultz Design to deliver a paint scheme that was flashy, but classic, and truly represented Twitch’s personality.
For more information on the Indian Sport Chief, visit IndianMotorcycle.com. To watch the entire ‘Forged’ Series, visit Indian Motorcycle’s YouTube Playlist.
We thought the longtime friendship between Carey Hart and Twitch along with the build and the presentation of this kickass custom Sport Chief would be of interest to you and your audience.
–Zac
BIKERNET READER COMMENT—Bikernet Weekly News
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I appreciate the fine words from Ray Russel, and we owe him a vegemite sandwich at the very least. If I may quote a truly wise man,
“Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.”
So this tells me that honesty, truth, and respect first require the love of our fellow man. I know there’s nothing earth-shaking about this point of view, but it seems a whole lot like the biker brotherhood and the Code of the West. Just sayin’
–Sam Burns
FROM BIKERNET BLOG — this week
Rocketman builds beer powered motorcycle
Ky, is nicknamed ‘Rocketman’ for being the first civilian to launch a rocket into space. His past accomplishments include a rocket-powered toilet and a jet-powered coffee pot.
Now his latest invention is: a beer-powered motorcycle. The motorcycle could reach speeds up to 150 miles per hour. He hopes to take the bike to a drag strip soon to test its capabilities.
See the video and other details at Bikernet Blog:
https://blog.bikernet.com/american-creates-beer-powered-motorcycle/
–Wayfarer
Editor
Bikernet Blog & Facebook Page
LATEST REPORT FROM THE PRISM GANG–
Introducing the Prism Supply Sling Shot Shift Control. This foot shifter is designed to bolt onto Harley-Davidson Big Twin frames and will accommodate OEM kickstands.
BIKE FEATURE OF THE WEEK–Queen Lekha Choppers
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–Sam Burns
Feature Bike Editor
AMA Announces New Government Relations Director Nick Haris
Restructures and evolves its Government Relations Department to better serve members across the nation
PICKERINGTON, Ohio — The American Motorcyclist Association has appointed Nick Haris as Government Relations Director, while also restructuring and evolving its Government Relations Department to better serve members and support its mission: to promote the motorcycle lifestyle and protect the future of motorcycling.
“The AMA Government Relations Department stands on the front lines in the defense of motorcyclists’ rights, and we are committed to continuing our investment in a team that ensures the effectiveness of these efforts,” said AMA Present and CEO Rob Dingman. “Nick has a long record of success working in our Government Relations Department and will bring skilled leadership to his new role as the Government Relations Director.”
Nick Haris, previously the Western States Representative in the Government Relations Department, has held an advocacy role with the AMA since 2001. Haris also serves on the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme Commission for Mobility, is a member of the California Motorcycle Safety Program advisory committee and sits on the California Outdoor Recreation Foundation board of directors.
As Haris steps into his new role as Director, the Government Relations Department will also have a new structure that refocuses the team’s efforts to better represent motorcyclists at all levels of government: federal, regional, state and local.
As part of this evolution, the team will bring on board an experienced Washington Representative to monitor and influence policies and programs at the federal level. To increase representation at the regional and state level, the AMA is adding Central States and Eastern States Representatives to the team, while Haris will concurrently work as the Western States Representative along with his director duties. At the local level, the AMA will hire a Grassroots Specialist to coordinate and support government relations activities of local members, clubs and affiliates across the country.
Haris expressed his enthusiasm for leading the newly restructured department.
“I’m encouraged that we are adjusting the way we do government relations,” Haris said, “structuring it to better meet the needs of our members and engage with elected officials. Regionalization of the department allows our team to better establish and cultivate relationships with legislators and State Motorcyclist Rights Organizations. This restructure allows our team to be more responsive and agile when it comes to taking action on behalf of our members in a timely manner.”
The AMA is the largest and most influential motorcycling organization in the nation, with more than 214,000 members who ride for fun, sport, travel work or adventure. Its members are part of a diverse and passionate community of riders who love the freedom and thrill of riding and racing. The AMA Government Relations Department makes sure that motorcyclists can enjoy riding without unnecessary hassles or restrictions from the government, while advocating for laws and funding that expand riding opportunities.
“Unfortunately, the AMA shut down their DC office and Haris is a dirt bike rider. As I’m sure you noticed above, ICE engines or choice was never mentioned. Let’s watch closely.” –Bandit
BIKERNET BOOK OF THE WEEK CLUB—
Legendary Motorcycle Designer Willie G. Davidson Shares Stories of Motorcycles, Racing and Art in “Ride Free”
Motorcycle enthusiasts and fans of the legendary Willie G. Davidson have something to look forward to this August with the release of his new memoir, “Ride Free.” The book is a must-read for anyone who loves motorcycles or admires Willie’s incredible contributions to motorcycle culture.
“Ride Free” is a passionate commentary about some of Harley-Davidson’s most popular motorcycles and the changes in the motorcycle industry, from the post-WW II resurgence of riders, to the growing number of competitors from around the world in the ‘60s and ‘70s. But at the heart of the book is Davidson’s personal story, from his childhood growing up in the shadow of the Harley-Davidson factory to his decades-long career designing some of the most iconic motorcycles in history.
As a third-generation H-D employee, a part of the group that resurrected the company from the AMF-years and an avid supporter of non-profits, especially the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Willie G. Davidson has been at the heart of motorcycling culture for decades. In “Ride Free,” he shares an intimate look into his life and work, and shares his passion for motorcycle racing and art.
“I started competing in enduros during high school, and Nancy would cheer me on,” Davidson shared. “I was just extending the family tradition: both my father and my great-uncle Walter had been endurance-run champions. I competed in local events, never in a national, but I won a few trophies. When I traded up to a 165cc bike my senior year, I became more of a threat in those competitions.”
What sets the book apart from other memoirs is the fact that it will also feature Davidson’s own artwork, including drawings and watercolor paintings. “I wanted to share my story with fans of Harley-Davidson and anyone who loves motorcycles,” Davidson explains. “But I also wanted to share my artwork, which has always been a big part of my life.”
“I always describe my relation to the Motor Company as a love affair,” said Davidson. “And that’s really what it was, a lifetime love affair with (wife) Nancy by my side.”
Harley-Davidson fans can pre-order “Ride Free” on Willie’s website and be among the first to receive their copy when the book launches on August 1. Pre-orders also come with a bonus: a free download of one of the chapters in the book that can be read immediately.
“Ride Free” is a book that is sure to be a hit with anyone who loves motorcycles or is fascinated by the life and work of Willie G. Davidson.
“Ride Free” is published in partnership with Forefront Books and distributed globally by Simon & Schuster. For more information about, or to order “Ride Free” visit www.williegdavidson.com.
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OPERATION GRATITUDE FOR VETERANS AND ACTIVE SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN—Giving Back This Military Appreciation Month
Are you looking for ways to support troops like CPT Donais this Military Appreciation Month? Consider making a donation to Operation Gratitude.
$25 sponsors a Care Package for a Service Member or Veteran or provides a Battalion Buddy for a child with a deploying parent. By donating today, you join us on the journey, alongside thousands of Americans, in saying “thank you” to those who serve us.
Because of your support, Donais’ husband and his unit have already received Care Packages. With your help, Operation Gratitude will send Care Packages to CPT Donais and her unit in Eastern Europe.
OPERATION GRATITUDE VOLUNTEER–
Name: Myles Brown
Hometown: Reston, Virginia
Years volunteering with Operation Gratitude: 1 year
Favorite thing about volunteering: My favorite thing about volunteering is the positive impact I can have on those in need.
What is your “why” for volunteering with Operation Gratitude: l have always wanted to support the men and women who serve our nation in the armed services. My Eagle Scout project involves assembling 800 comfort kits and 800 hygiene kits for distribution through Operation Gratitude.
I am excited about and grateful for the opportunity to supply active-duty military personnel with these comforts and reminders from home.
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NEXT—I feel like I’m scrambling constantly from project to project, which in most cases I like. Progress is a good thing. Unfortunately, the stress our government puts on me and everyone can’t be avoided.
If you follow any of the reports I publish, you must wonder like I do—What the fuck? They all beg for the truth. I don’t understand how they can roll from day to day without making an effort to find the truth through open debate and laying all the data on the table. WTF?
Me and a handful of bikers are trying to force that to happen. Wish us luck.
Meanwhile, I am looking for a cool muffler for my Knucklehead project. Charlie gave me one, but it’s attached to a pipe. Something tells me the rider backed into something and jammed the pipe inside the muffler. It won’t come out. I’m going to try heat next.
I finally made a stab at building my own oil bag with a 19th century copper foot warmer. I machined brass fittings and soldered them like a plumber would. It worked like a champ. Cleaning all the debris out of the tank will be the next challenge.
This shift linkage was a trick. I’m still not sure about it, but it’s a start.
I’m working on an article about dealing with rust and running into an issues. I tried a rust removal product, but it did and didn’t work. I need to clean the rust out of the old unused, but pristine Paughco oil bag. I’m trying sanding it with a jar full of nuts. I didn’t like the notion of filling it with sand or gravel.
The article is coming up. I’ll keep you posted.
I’m a stickler for oil filters on my bikes. I’m cheap and want shit to last. I’m putting an old traditional oil filter on the ’46 Dicey Knuck. Cutting that braided oil line will be fun.
The ’58 Chevy made it home. It looks terrific, but mechanically it’s rough around the edges. Still working on that.
I stumbled into the deep and dark, Deadwood Historic Preservation archives and discovered more finds from the original Deadwood Chinatown.
Our Bandit Spirit bells are on their way.
I’m working with Paul Cox on this Cycle Tech primary drive.
I gave my son this supposedly solid silver, miniature springer, made by a jeweler in Greece. Don’t ask me how I ended up in Greece. He had it dipped and now we don’t know.
